Dr. John Singarayar, SVD

Francis’s invitation is to consume less, notice more, protect what cannot defend itself, and build economies in which no community is treated as expendable.

Thérèse refuses the choice. Her “Little Way” is not effort-lite spirituality for people too tired for the real thing.

The Church dedicates this month to Mary, Queen of the Rosary, and this year the Season of Creation runs from September 1 to October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology.

On September 24, in St. Louis, USA, a man who once shared a network time slot with Milton Berle will be declared a ‘Blessed’.

Our Lady of Sorrows stands at the foot of a cross the world had already judged a failure. And yet this is the same woman who once sang that the proud would be scattered and the lowly lifted up. The Magnificat and the sorrow are not two different Marys.

Every September 8, the Church marks a feast that rarely makes headlines: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Institute of Indian Culture (IIC), run by the India Mumbai Province of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), organized a lecture on August 8 examining India’s anti-conversion laws from a sociological perspective.

God is not waiting only at the altar. He’s on the curb. He’s in the back pew, held together by routine and quiet desperation.

In the month of May, the Church places before us two powerful figures: Saint Joseph the Worker and Mother Mary. It is also a time when many in religious life experience transitions, new assignments, new responsibilities, and the challenge of letting go of what has become familiar.

The cross does not offer easy comfort. But it does offer company, the company of someone who looked at the full cost of love and chose it anyway, not in a single heroic moment, but across years of small, consistent, quietly radical choices.