Editorial

The Papal Delegate’s Conundrum

Archbishops Cyril Vasil has given an interview in Slovak on his appointment as the Papal Delegate on Unified Holy Qurbana in the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archeparchy. It is apparently an exposition of his post as Papal Delegate. He says that his role as Papal Delegate gives “me moral authority and does not authorize me to perform administrative […]

Facing the People and Use of the Vernacular

The last chapter of Romano Guardini’s The Spirit of Liturgy is titled “The Primacy of The Logos Before Ethos.” He affirmed, “What ultimately matters is not activity, but development. The roots of and the perfection of everything lie, not in time, but in eternity. Finally, not the moral, but the metaphysical conception of the world […]

New Risks of Infection

The Tin Drum, a novel by Guenter Grass, is about the Nazi past of Germany, which brought more destruction than creation: In it we read of twenty-three deaths as against three births in war time. Through this novel Gunter Grass succeeded in making the German society confront their past. An injury that causes dwarfism in […]

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 […]

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

No action taken against police who assaulted Catholic priests in India