Editorial

The protest against the Vizhinjam Seaport and Its lessons

The Archbishop of the Latin Archdiocese of Thiruvananthapuram, Thomas J. Netto, advised people not to fall into the trap of attempts from various corners to dissuade and divide the fisher folk over the issue of the seaport. Intensifying the protest against the Vizhinjam seaport, a pastoral letter was read out in all churches under the […]

Invisible is the Essence of Life

In the Capital Karl Marx calls the essence of life “vampire”. Vampire is a religious metaphor. A vampire is a creature from religious folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence, generally in the form of blood of the living. It gives a mythical form of visibility to something invisible. It is used as […]

The Access to Naked Recollection

Inward journey to the self is the only way to find myself and redeem myself. This journey is often missed and loses the way. One always feels that there is a great and present danger that the subject will slip away altogether, that it will vanish into thinnest air, leaving behind the perception that there […]

Think Well Is the Principle of Ethics

“My dear sirs, what we want to know from you as ethical teachers, is not how people use a word; it is not even what kind of actions they approve, which the use of this word ‘good’ may certainly imply: what we want to know is simply what is good…” wrote G.E. Moore. We in […]

The Body is no Private Property

For nearly 50 years, conservative Christians in US marched, strategized and prayed. And then, on an ordinary Friday morning in the last week of June, the day they had dreamed of finally came. Ending the constitutional right to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade took a decades-long campaign. The common argument for abortion is that […]

The God of Reason

India is a very religious country, it worships anything and everything except man. There are innumerable temples, churches and mosques. Gods are omnipresent. It is a corrupt country, but the God’s do not interfere in corruption, it is country of poverty but the Gods are seldom concerned. There is utter indiscipline in the public. It […]

Every Faith Question Begins With the Human Situation

Eminent German theologian Karl Rahner wrote, “A certain self-assertion and resistance proper to a given being and hence as its innate possibility of acting spontaneously, without the previous consent of another, to interfere with or change the actual constitution of that other… All beings simply because they exist… inevitably have power in a certain sense […]

The Sacramental Crisis

Henri de Lubac framed this claim in terms that arguably have become the most familiar mantra in sacramental theology: “If Christ is the sacrament of God, the Church is for us the sacrament of Christ.” Or, as Karl Rahner prefers: “Jesus Christ is the “primordial sacrament of salvation.” If we stretch the logic, every Christian […]

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