Editorial

The Dialogical Act of Liturgy

The decision to have the liturgy in vernacular was a very revolutionary idea that has not yet been properly understood. The conciliar intent of the reform of liturgy is to “express more clearly the holy things they signify.” When this expressive purpose is transposed into practical consequences for celebration by the Christian community, it suggests […]

Ethos before Logos is Nazism

The Gospel of John begins with, “In the beginning was the Word.” This sentence was always the methodological key to all the process of any and every decision making in the church. The will followed the reasoning of word. If it turns around and the ethos – which is the epochal understanding on any subject […]

Incarnation Is Going Down

Incarnation is going down; God descending. God withdrawing from Himself. He emptied himself of His transcendence. He went out of himself becoming the last and the lost. To live out of oneself, from one’s unique position, does not by a long way imply living only for oneself. Christ is introduced to illustrate this very point […]

The Failure of Synod

Pope Francis speaks of Synod as more than a parliament. The dialogic means of seeking truth is counter-posed to official monologism by those who pretend to possess a ready-made truths. This is where the synod fails. The relevant questions is what makes the Synod more than a parliament? The synod’s expression must carry the Galilean […]

God in Our Conversations

“The banal fact of conversation, in one sense, quits the order of violence. This banal fact is the marvel of marvels,” wrote E. Levinas. This is what takes place every day everywhere; the banal conversation. The face to face talking. The Other does not appear in the nominative, but in the vocative. I not only […]

The Face Signifies the Infinite

“The arche-writing is the origin of morality as of immorality. The non-ethical opening of ethics. A violent opening,” Wrote Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology. Are moral values merely our creations, or do they derive their authority from the very nature of things? Levinas formulates his moral phenomenology thus: “I have attempted a ‘phenomenology’ of sociality starting […]

The Plague of Hate

Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment has a dream during a grave illness that occurs just before his final change of heart and at the end of the novel. He dreams of a worldwide plague that affects people’s relationships with each other. “But never had men considered themselves so intellectual and so completely in possession […]

The Liturgy of the Neighbour

According to Levinas, it is in the face of the other person, and not in the face of God itself, that God “solicits and appeals to us.” Therefore to turn to God one has to turn to man. St. Augustine asks, who do you love when you say you love God? The answer implies man: […]

Hindus call off rally through Christian villages in eastern India

Dayal among three awarded for promoting religious freedom, civil liberties