Editorial

The Poet in Man

G.K. Chesterton wrote in Orthodoxy: “I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its meat from God. But now I really was happy, for I had learnt that man is a monstrosity. I had been right in feeling all things as odd, for I […]

Not Ideology but Identity

The nature of global politics is shifting to an identity axis and away from the economic left-right axis of the 20th century that was defined largely by ideology. Did Jesus Christ have a purse? The global politics of the 20th century was poetically expressed by Eco beautifully. Today such questions more seem to capture. Religion […]

The Return to the Old Testament?

There is a wrong tendency of perceiving priesthood from Old Testament cult and sacrifice. Fr Aidan Nichols in his article “The Priesthood of Christ in Church and Ministry” wrote: “In the NT idea of priesthood there is a rupture, a change of level, of which Judaism had no idea before.” According to Raymond Brown, at […]

The Coming of the Messiah

The coming of the Messiah is deeply Jewish; for them the Messiah is yet to come. But his coming does not end in a historical event, he ever comes. They are always waiting and longing. Biblical faith has a response for such an honest longing, even when that longing is made tentative by fear. For […]

God as Gift

Nietzsche’s madman declared not only that God is dead but the Churches are now ‘tombs and sepulchres of God.’ The speculative impossibility of demonstrating God’s existence and the fact at least in the West that God is no longer widely believed compels a rethinking on the Divine. The cultural decay of the idea of God […]

A Taste for the Sacred

Spirituality is basically a taste for the holy. In the Judeo-Christian tradition the holy emanates in the face of the other. For Jawlensky, a Russian painter art is longing for God and a kind of “worship.” His paintings are “prayers with colours.” The beginning of language is in the face. In a certain way in […]

Suspension of the Ethical

‘Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God,’ this, as Martin Buber sees it, ‘is the character of the historical hour through which the world is passing.’ It is the human side of ‘the silence of God,’ of ‘God’s hiding His face.’ We are apparently living in very religious times with so many retreat […]

Humility through Humiliation!

“We are in… a country in which there is great economic distress and still greater spiritual distress… Do you not think that this divorce between a spirituality which retires into contemplation and a mass of people dominated by animal instincts is a source of all our ills? Do you not think that every living creature […]

Indian bishops slam terror attack on tourists in India’s Kashmir

No action taken against police who assaulted Catholic priests in India