Editorial

Pope Benedict XVI: The Critical Grammarian of Tradition

It is true the Pope Benedict is being evaluated in the media after his death as a conservative theologian of the Catholic Church. He had a very long innings as the prefect of the Congregation for Faith with John Paul II. That role earned him the disparaging moniker “God’s Rottweiler” from the media for his […]

ETHICAL LAXITY IN ECONOMIC DEALINGS IN THE CHURCH

We are living in the Zeitgeist of the consumer market driven life. Money acquires the halo of God in our life and culture. Marx was a prophet who saw the capitalist culture that had a God who was nothing other than Money. “Why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a […]

An Incarnational Spirituality

We are all living in the world of materiality, and we can be caught up with the world. But ‘God took flesh and lived among us’ is the message of Christmas. Levinas says, “The incarnation of human subjectivity guarantees its spirituality.” He wrote again, “Only a subject that eats can be for-the-other, or can signify […]

Minority Rights in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference

The Indian Catholic Church is a communion of three ritual Churches, Latin, Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankara. There are 191 Latin rite bishops, 65 Syro-Malabar and 25 Syro-Malankara bishops. The president of the Conference of Catholic bishops’ is elected by the bishops. But the majority which evidently is of the Latin Church has concurred to the view […]

The Conspiracy of Pastors and Faithful

As the Council ratified the dogmatic Constitution on the church Lumem Gentium, Pope Paul VI said, “It was Newman’s Council.’ The Constitution clearly said: “The body of the faithful as a whole, anointed as they are by the Holy One, cannot err in matters of belief… thanks to a supernatural sense of faith which characterizes […]

Neither by Flattery nor by Fear

He chose Neclaudibusnectimore as his motto. Blessed Clemens August, Graf von Galen, Roman Catholic bishop of Münster, Germany, was noted for his public opposition to Nazism. Of the 10,000 Berlin Jews arrested in the Final Roundup, 8,000 were murdered at Auschwitz. The remaining 2,000 were to experience a different fate. These Jews, related by marriage […]

Is The Church A Community For Others?

Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, issued a pastoral letter bearing the name The Servant Church on December 1966, in which he reaffirmed and extended some of the ecclesiological insights of Vatican II. Building on the theme of Jesus as the Suffering Servant, Cardinal Cushing argued that, just as Jesus fulfilled His role by being […]

Re-reading Karl Marx

Michel Henry (1922-2002), French phenomenological thinker committed to Christ, in his two volume work on Marx wrote: “Marx is one of the most important Christian thinkers in the West.” It is perhaps a shocking statement, but he has reasons for his conclusion. We easily think that the whole of Marxian system is created by Marx. […]

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