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Responsibility of the Christian View in the Objectification of Nature

QESTION: Job C.T. The Catholic Church makes a lot of interventions for the protection of nature or environment at present. Is it not the Christian vision of the world and nature which objectified and abused it that eventually led to the present ecological crisis? ANSWER: Saji Mathew Kanayankal CST The role and responsibility of Christianity […]

Is Christian love ethical? Or is it against ethics?

QUESTION: Is Christian love a matter of ethics or love goes against ethics? – Job C.K. ANSWER: Jacob Parappally MSFS It is universally accepted that it is innate in human beings to think and do what is good and avoid evil or to do what is right and avoid what is wrong. It is possible […]

Synod- The Dreams Yet To Be Realised!

QUESTION: The Synod on synodality is going to take place shortly. How will the voice of the Church in India be reflected in the Synod? Did the voice of the faithful address properly in the synodal process in our country? Will it have enough space in the forthcoming synod? – Job C.T. ANSWER : Saji […]

The Church Must Preach Solidarity with All Humans of Good Will

QUESTION: What must the Church do in the wake of communal and fascist tendencies in India? – Paul T A ANSWER: Jacob Parappally MSFS There were always communal forces raising their ugly heads in India. Fortunately, they were only a few fundamentalist groups and the incidents of communal violence were only a few in different […]

Silent Spectators 0f Evil

QUESTION: I wonder about the silence of many of us, especially our leaders in the face of evil around us. Don’t we have a responsibility to speak out at these critical moments of history? If we don’t speak now, when will it be possible? – Job C.T. ANSWER: Saji Mathew Kanayankal CST In the present […]

Three Times Jews Defined Humanity

QUESTION: Three times, a Jew was at the centre: Moses, Jesus, Marx. George Steiner tells us, “Nothing is crueller than the blackmail of perfection. We come to hate, to fear most those who demand of us a self-transcendence, a surpassing of our natural and common limits of being. Our hate and fear are the most intense […]

ETHICAL UPRIGHTNESS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE

QUESTION: It seems that nowadays our public sphere is hectically malicious with hate speech, false accusations and contemptuous behaviour. Do we have any way out? Joy Palathara ANSWER: Saji Mathew Kanayankal CST I was stunned to see a news that appeared last week, after the death of Mr Oommen Chandy, the former Chief Minister of […]

These Signs of the Times Are Divine Revelation in Our Times

QUESTION: What do you mean by Signs of the times? Is it a source of Divine revelation? – Paul M P ANSWER: Jacob Parappally MSFS The Biblical revelation narrates primarily about God’s relationship with human beings from the beginning of human history fulfilled in Jesus Christ. With the coming of Jesus the world has entered […]

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