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Christianity Appears As a Self-Centred Organization

Fr Dr Jose Kuriedath CMI You have completed fifty years as a priest; as you look back how fulfilled and happy are you, and what makes you so happy? I am quite happy and content as a priest for the last fifty years; more so, since I am a religious priest in the CMI Congregation. […]

Persecution of Christians in China growing under Xi Jinping

Although the world knows that the Dalai Lama lives in exile and is the face of Chinese repression in Tibet, and the media has shone a light on the persecution suffered by the Uyghurs in the Muslim region of Xinjiang, the “relentless, albeit silent, control” Christians suffer in China also deserves attention, according to experts […]

Spanish Theologian on the synodal process: More Christians outside the Church than in the Pews

Cardinals wait for the start of Pope Francis’ celebration of Mass to open the process that will lead up to the assembly of the world Synod of Bishops in 2023, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 10, 2021. According to one of the theologians advising the Vatican office organizing the synod of bishops, […]

No Washing of Feet? No Eucharist

Shaji Karimplanil Capuchin As it is quite evident, there are any number of divergences among the Gospels. For e.g., the Christmas stories we read in Matthew and Luke are missing in Mark and John. Even as Matthew and Luke narrate Jesus’ birth account, they differ significantly in many details. The timeless parables like the Good […]

The Church Of Leadership Has Become Bland and Uninspiring

In this second part of a two-part interview, Indian theologian Father Felix Wilfred speaks about the problems challenging the Asian Church, its leadership, Asian theology and the Asian bishops’ federation. In the first part, Father Wilfred, a former secretary of the theological advisory committee of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), suggested serious structural […]

There Are No Ideals outside Christ

Jose Therattil You retired as the Assistant General Manager of SBI, how fulfilling is the job of a bank employee? I took up a job in a bank not for fulfilment, but merely for earning my bread. Personally, I would have preferred a teaching career, but it was difficult to come by. Having spent 7 […]

PILATE SAID TO HIM, “WHAT IS TRUTH?”

Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa preaches at the Good Friday liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica, April 15, 2022. “In his account of the Passion, the Evangelist John gives particular importance to the dialogue of Jesus with Pilate, and it is on this that we want to reflect for a few moments before proceeding further with our liturgy. […]

Finding faith at Harvard: These 5 Easter conversion stories

One convert’s journey to Catholicism began with an invitation to an ice-cream social. Another says he instantly believed in the Real Presence the moment someone explained what the round object was that everyone was staring at during Eucharistic adoration. For a third, the poems of T.S. Eliot — and a seemingly random encounter with a […]

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