Editorial

Why Monstrosity?

The letter of a bishop to the Pope has become a monstrous issue. A text brought out by any person is an undying witness to his/her interior life. And when someone of high stature writes a letter that is full of lies to his superior, it shows to what unfathomable depth he has descended. When […]

Focus on Details

Pope Francis warns the Syro-Malabar Church of the dangerous temptation to focus on one detail, and an unwillingness to let it go, even to the detriment of the good of the Church. The Church has to honestly confront the warning. It can happen in life when certain detail concerns something which is of paramount importance […]

Pope Francis’ Message to the Syro-Malabar Church

Pope Francis has given a message to the Syro-Malabar Church on May 13 of 2024.There are significant hermeneutic dimensions in the message. Why did the Pope address it to a group of Syro-Malabar Catholics? The Message was not addressed to a group of bishops or priests. 1. It was a message to a particular church. […]

Why the Jews Have Attracted This Undying Hatred

Why were the Jews hated and killed by the Nazis? It was none of their actions in history which was the reason for their mass murder, George Steiner himself a Jew wrote in his novel on Hitler. Hitler argues himself for his defence. “When I turned on the Jew,” Hitler states vigorously, “no one came […]

The Pagan Temptation

Paganism is a term repeatedly used by Emmanuel Levinas in his ethical thinking, which was for him the first philosophy. After Kant, Levinas is the only thinker who considers first philosophy as ethics. His philosophy arises from his Nazi experience of the massacre of the Jews. Nazism was not atheistic nor was the philosophy of […]

The Turning Point

As in the Second World War the point of contention is the Aryan. What is the Aryan? “Who were the Aryans?’ is a less important question than what it meant to be ‘Aryan’?” says Romila Thapar. The concept of the Aryans has been a contentious historical subject as it has been used in various ways […]

Faith Can Become an Ideology

The disappearance of common sense, understood as sense common to all, is now in a clear crisis. Hannah Arendt, a political thinker facing this crisis, believes that, like Nazism, it is “… the surest sign of the present-day crisis. In every crisis a piece of the world, something common to us all, is destroyed. The […]

The Primacy of Ethics

A student of the Veterinary and Animal Sciences University at Pookode in Wayanad called Siddhartha met with a tragic end on February 29. He was stripped naked and paraded in public before fellow students beat him up repeatedly for two days, locked him up in his room, starving him of food and water. Neither any […]

Hindus call off rally through Christian villages in eastern India

Dayal among three awarded for promoting religious freedom, civil liberties