Lissy Maruthanakuzhy

Lissy Maruthanakuzhy is a member of the worldwide Congregation of the Daughters of St. Paul, founded in Italy by Blessed James Alberione in 1915, and is committed to proclaiming Christ through social communications. She is a former editor of Pauline Publications in Mumbai. She was a correspondent for South Asian Religious News and Union of Catholic Asian News before becoming a correspondent of Matters India. She also contributes to local periodicals.

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Sr. Jyothi Kerketta and Sr. Celine Sebastian of the Daughters of St. Paul converse with a family in the Fontainhas neighborhood of Panjim India. (Lissy Maruthanakuzhy)

Apr 01, 2020

Family visits: entering the lives of our neighbors

We had found excuses, justifying our way of living in the midst of people yet away from them. Then, we began our new project in September, and every family welcomed us with much joy and spent time in conversation with us.

A young woman looks through the books at the Pauline Books and Media Center in Goa, India. (Lissy Maruthanakuzhy)

Feb 04, 2020

The Word meets the world at Pauline Books and Media Centers

Every person who walks in brings new experiences and realizations. Youth, consecrated persons, parents, wives, husbands, street vendors — all remind me of the value of a God-centered person's availability.

Sr. Rosita Gomes of the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Imaculate Conception in June at her convent in Bandra, Mumbai, western India (Lissy Maruthanakuzhy)

Dec 03, 2019

Q & A with Sr. Rosita Gomes, 88, working with those on India's periphery

"God leads me from one mission to another," says the Franciscan Hospitaller Sister of the Immaculate Conception. That path has included ministry to leprosy patients, drug addicts and prisoners.