NEW DELHI, Nov. 28 -- We know the importance of family in our day-to-day life. We call it the Church in miniature. For we believe that the quality of the Church, the spiritual vitality of the Church, depends upon the quality/the Evangelical Spirit prevailing in the families where the children are born and brought up. The love, care, and attention that they receive in the family context, and the faith-formation and value-system that they imbibe from the teaching and life-pattern of the parents and the elders set the foundation for their life so that they become solid pillars of their families, and firm and faithful members of the Church.

As we have reflected upon, the All-Loving Father had blessed Fr. Alfred Roche (Peter John) with lovin...