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Visiting the Iniquity of the Fathers

Question : Mrs Saramma Mathew There are preachers who speak of the visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children quoting the Old Testament, “Our fathers have eaten sour grapes and our teeth are punt to edge’’ an adage in Jeremiah 31:29; Ezekiel 18:2; Job 21:19. How correct is this doctrine and its use? […]

Blend Environmental and Social Concerns

Question: Stephan John How important is Social Concern with respect to Ecological issues? Answer: Saji Mathew Kanayankal CST Though the questions concerning the ecological crisis are not very old, in recent years with the intensification of the crisis, the concern of ecology became more popular. In the beginning, it was a kind of scientific discourse […]

Journeying Together With Him

Question: Ajith Paul Synodality is a hot discussion today in the Church as decision making is done not by any solitary leader but by a team of leaders who dialogue and discuss and arrive at decisions. How is this shift going to change life in the Church? Answer: Jacob Parappally MSFS The community of the disciples of […]

INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND THE TRAITS OF FASCISM

Question: Justin Jacob Is our own society faced with the phenomenon that is fertile soil for the rise of Fascism anywhere: the insignificance and powerlessness of the individual? In the rise to Fascism is there a human problem which needs to be understood? Is there a return to middle ages, knowledge, spite or by the cunning schemes of deceitful kings […]

Danger of Fascism

Question: Martin P.V. The danger of fascism is real; perhaps everybody wants to be a fascist; the longing for submission and the lust for power is so real. Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for humans to bear, something they try to escape from? Answer: Jacob Parappally MSFS The revival of fascist thinking is on the […]

The Crisis of the Political Identity of the Minorities In India

Question: Daniel Joseph What do you think is the political identity of minorities in India? The good will of the minorities seems to ebb away in the context of intolerable cultural pride especially in the Hindi heartland of India? What should be my approach to the present situation as a Christian? Answer: Saji Mathew Kanayankal CST The […]

Simone Weil’s Refusal to Enter the Church

Question: Joe Mathew “What frightens me is the Church as a social structure… There were some saints who approved of the Crusades or the Inquisition. I cannot help thinking that they were in the wrong. I cannot go against the light of conscience.” Simone Weil, a young Jewish saintly woman, wanted to be a Catholic but […]

What Is Truth?

Question: Fr. Paul C. Ambookaran They say we are in post-truth era, what did Pilate mean when he asked Jesus, what is truth? Answer: Saji Mathew Kanayankal CST The question on truth, which had long agitated the world, is a perennial one, a very complicated, yet relevant query. It was a great subject of inquiry in all schools […]

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica