Editorial

Religious Discrimination in Hospitality

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill or CAB, was passed in the Lok Sabha at midnight on December 10, Tuesday, amid vehement objections from the Opposition. The Bill provides citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Apparently, there is nothing wrong in giving asylum to persecuted people from another country. Pope Francis considers it “a […]

The Word Calling to Be and Being Chosen

Thomas Aquinas in his theological language conceived God not as a noun but as a verb. In his Latin God is not an ens – being but esse – to be. This clearly means that for him God is not a being as other beings are. But God is acting or act of being. St […]

The Miracle of the Fall and After

For those in the former Soviet Bloc, 1989 has been called an annus mirabilis—a year of miracles. With astonishing speed, communist rule ended in Eastern Europe, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, and the nature of Europe was changed entirely. Two decades after the collapse of communism, many in those countries found themselves unsure of […]

I See Satan Fall like Lightning

Rene Girard presents Jesus crucified as an innocent scapegoat, thereby revealing the process by which mimetic desire eventually drives humans to mistreat innocent people. Jesus made it possible for humans to understand their fundamental nature, and, for the first time in human history, move constructively towards peace. The heart of the book is the consensus […]

Miracles Happen in History

A reading of the biography of Bp Louis Pazheparampil ( 1847-1919), the first bishop of Ernakulum, by I.C. Chacko, both from the parish of Pulinkunnu, tells us about the suffering and even the persecution that took place in the ecclesiastical landscape of the Kerala Church. A close reading of the story of the seven Carmelites, […]

The Gospel of Prosperity

In recent decades, the Indian Christian landscape has witnessed the emergence of preaching the Gospel of prosperity in Charismatic movements and retreat centres. The charismatic Christianity covertly advocates the Gospel of Prosperity whereas Pentecostal Christianity does it overtly. Our preachers usually abstain from explicit money mongering, but there is in their preaching the bitch, avarice, […]

God as the “Super-Word”

God is for Hans Urs von Balthasar the Super-Word: “Christians value the positive fullness of his silence, the breath of the Father in the Word.” For Balthasar, “everything depends on whether God has spoken to man or if the Absolute remains silence beyond all words.” literary men and women everywhere in the world tried to […]

An Epoch of the Unconscious and Its fatality

We live in an age of Freudean Psychoanalysis, which is dominated by the unconscious. It is a direct borrowing of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. Freud considers Oedipus’s incest fears as the statement of a psychological fact, and any man’s incestuous desires is common occurrence than rare. What then of that fateful riddle? Even the strongest […]

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica