Dr. John Singarayar, SVD

Dr. John Singarayar, SVD, a priest of the Society of the Divine Word from the Mumbai Province in western India, holds a doctorate in Anthropology. He contributes regularly to journals and publications focusing on sociology, anthropology, tribal studies, spirituality, and mission.

By Dr. John Singarayar, SVD

Mission Unplugged

The Church’s Role in Making an Indian State Poverty-Free

Kerala’s victory over extreme poverty belongs to neither church nor state alone. It belongs to their convergence, five centuries of institution-building meeting four years of policy precision.
Feature Story

The Saints We Need Are Already Here

The Church does not need more programs or buildings; it needs more of us saying yes to God’s invitation, one ordinary day at a time
In The Spirit

Let us learn to Practice Presence

Everything, the joy and sorrow, the mundane and profound, has become part of a single, sacred journey
Feature Story

Saints Simon and Jude: Called, Beloved, Kept Safe

The Epistle of Jude, tucked near the end of our New Testament, feels urgent and tender at once. “Contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints,” he writes (Jude 1:3).
Commentaries

Dilexit Te and the Billionaire Raj

Pope Leo’s first encyclical Dilexit Te (He loved you) is a profound call for the Church to embody Christ’s love in a fractured world.
Saints

When the healer stopped to see

Luke hands us the healer’s heart and asks us to carry it into a world that is bleeding. So let us stop. Let us see. Let us act. Let us become the neighbours this broken, beautiful world desperately needs.
Commentaries

Mustard Seed Faith: Small, Real, and Enough

Jesus connects these two teachings because they are really the same truth. Faith is not about our adequacy. It is about God. And service is not about our worthiness.
Commentaries

Vocation to Religious Brotherhood

Brothers' lives will not make headlines, but they will change hearts. And perhaps that is the most important bridge of all, the one between despair and hope, loneliness and belonging, indifference and love.
Feature Story

St Devasahayam: India’s Laity Find Their Champion Saint

“We have a new patron saint,” he said, his voice carrying across the small congregation of shopkeepers, teachers, and daily wage workers. “Pope Leo has declared Saint Devasahayam the patron saint of all lay people in India.”
Commentaries

Screens and Silence at the Dinner Table

We can choose to look up and rediscover that the sacred has always been waiting in the faces of those we are called to love most deeply.