Category: Christanity

A passive headline turns the rape narrative on its head. It tells us that women get raped, not that it is men who rape women. The National Commission for Women (NCW) has kicked up a storm by recommending that the practice of ‘confessions’ in churches should be abolished as it can apparently lead to women […]

In trying to serve the establishment, some priests have shown the church in darkest light. The only silver lining comes from brave nuns and honest parishioners. Fr Stephen, named after the martyr for truth in the calendar of the church, the priest-in-charge of a Catholic congregation in Wynand, Kerala, announces to the world that Sister […]

The Kerala police on Monday registered a case of rape and molestation against four priests in connection with the Church sex scandal. The victim, in her statement to police, confirms she was raped & blackmailed.  In June, a man from Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district accused five priests of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of using his […]

Sister Jesme was in her twenties and new to convent life when she found herself alone in a room with a priest. He told her to undress, then he did the same. She was so shocked she did not know what to do, so she complied. She had never seen a naked man before. “I […]

A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan was informed by Kerala government that two of the accused have surrendered, while two are before the court seeking anticipatory bail in the case. The Supreme Court today asked the Kerala police not to arrest two clergymen in connection with the sex scandal till July […]

The recent acquittal of Catholic Bishop Franco Mulakkal in the infamous nun rape case has drawn more flak than praise as it brings no hope to nuns who are sexually abused.  It has left many disappointed, and the outrage is strong particularly from women’s groups as the verdict questioned the victim’s conduct; in this case, […]

Job Mathew surrenders a day after his anticipatory bail plea was dismissed by HC A day after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected by the Kerala high Court, one of the four priests accused in a rape case has surrendered before the police on Thursday. Job Mathew surrendered at the office of  Kollam DSP on […]

Church must be an ‘institution that supports justice for the victim’, write Indian women theologians Members of the Indian Women Theologians Forum (IWTF), the Conference of Religious India (CRI) Women’s Section, and “other individuals who are deeply concerned about the integrity and mission of the Indian Church” have written to Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, President of […]

India Abroad (New York)May 24, 2002 The ongoing sex abuse controversy rocking the Catholic Church got a desi touch when Father Sleeva Raju Policetti fled to India. Chicago Archbishop Francis George has asked the priest, ordained in Hyderabad, to return to the US for questioning by the police. Policetti, assistant pastor at the St. Tarcissus […]

Syro-Malabar bishops’ synod threatens canonical action against nuns and priests who speak to media Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church addressing a session of the Jan. 7-18 bishops’ synod. (Photo provided) By Saji Thomas,Kerala | IndiaThe motley crowd of some 200 Indian Catholics clapped and cheered as they set fire to some […]