Catholic On Line based on Asia News: “Murderer of Indian Nun Confesses, Converts, Proclaims Christians are India’s Hope”

By Nirmala Carvalho UDAYA NAGAR, India (AsiaNews) – “I accept full responsibility for my heinous murder of Sr Rani Maria. I cannot say that I was instigated, because my own hands stabbed her repeatedly and for this I will regret my actions till the day I die,” Samandar Singh told AsiaNews. He is the man [...]


Conversion of Hearts, the Only Way to Peace

VATICAN CITY, 28 MAR 2009 (VIS) – At midday today in the Vatican, the Holy Father received 7,000 young volunteers of the Italian “Servizio Civile”. The Pope thanked them for the generosity with which they carry out their mission of peace. Commenting then on the final part of the Vatican Council II Pastoral Constitution “Guadium [...]


Real Conversion Calls for Christ’s Life Within

(L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO) On Sunday, 25 January, the liturgical Feast of the Conversion of St Paul and the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Holy Father reflected on the significance of evangelical conversion with the faithful gathered in St Peter’s Square for the Angelus prayer. The following is a translation of the Pope’s Reflection, given in [...]