Focus

Focus (December 2019)

Q: The Amazon Synod has suggested an Amazonian rite; your response? A: “It may be good, because every rite has got cultural significance suited to a particular situation. Every place can have a way of worship, which is close to the people, expresses their culture and helps them live according to it. Of course, it […]

Focus (November 2019)

Q: How do you respond to the Ayodhya verdict? A: “Every country, its rulers and its courts look for harmony and justice among its people. It is not easy to bring a balance bet-ween justice and harmony, especially when you deal with thorny communal issues. The present verdict tries its best to bring harmony and […]

Focus (November 2019)

Q: Cardinal Oswald Gracias said in the Amazon Synod that women could be put in charge of a parish. He further said, Catholic bishops are not giving women much role in decision making. Your opinion on that? A: “I would agree with the cardinal’s remarks on the role of women in the Church. It has […]

Focus (October 2019)

Q: The Christian minority says it is finding itself in an uncomfortable and persecuted situation. What do you think of it? There is also the case of 49 eminent citizens on whom criminal cases were registered for writing a letter to the Prime Minister criticizing instances of lynching in India. A: “In general, the minority […]

Focus (October 2019)

Q: We have many languages in India and a kind of multi-lingual situation. How does that play out with the attempt to impose one language, Hindi, on the nation? A: “The imposition of a language or the imposition of anything is actually not proper. It could also be considered a kind of violence. Hindi is […]

Focus (September 2019)

Q: What was your experience of the just concluded Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church? Was there some sincere sense of regret from the part of the Synod? Will this Synod mark a milestone for coming Synods? A: “It was really a pain-staking common search that was really Spirit filled. I really felt that there was […]

Focus (September 2019)

Q: A judge of the High Court of Tamil Nadu spoke against Christian conversion by missionaries and also against co-education. Co-education was also spoken against by an MP in the North. Does such remarks by educated people signal the slow setting of enlightenment in independent India? A: “Today I think there is a sort of […]

Focus (August 2019)

Q: It is reported that in the last six months 158 anti-Christian incidents have taken place and only 24 of them have been registered by an FIR. Do you suspect a condoning of violence? And above all, Bp Chacko, what do you think will be the future of democracy in India? A: “Well, that is […]

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