How are we to theologize in a polarised India ? The binary framework that seems to have become main stream in our country constrains and narrows our imagination. It has marked out a space where only the story of the majority community can be legitimately told. There appears to be no room for the other stories of the minorities,...
Synodal Discipleship and Young Seminarians
His Eminence Filipe Neri Cardinal Ferrao, the Archbishop of Goa in his message during the inauguration of the formative year 2024-2025 at the mission seminary in Pilar had called seminary formation to prepare young seminarians to be synodal disciples and synodal priests. His eminence indicated that a synodal Church has three qualities: Listening, Being inclusive and Healing. Listening involves...
Living the Legacy of Fr. Felix Wilfred
The sudden death of a great luminary, mentor and a friend Fr. Felix Wilfred has sent feelings of shock , sadness and sheer inability to process the event in depths of our being. The loss a great Asian theologian has brought a feeling that time is out of joint. We seem to be pushed in a zone out time...
From the Cradle… to the Cross … to the Crown
Christmas is a time that opens us to the greatest gift ever given in human history. The story of this greatest gift ever given is a story of love peace, mercy and hope. It is also a story of humility and sacrifice. Cradle and the cross come to gather to give us Christ at Christmas. Usually, our eyes are...
The Power of the Empty Cradle
Christmas is coming. Christians are busy making cribs, stars, sweets, and goodies that light up the season. The festivities and decorations that adorn it come close to the festival of light of the Hindu community. We are still in the Advent season and are in a time of empty cradle. We are waiting for the cradle to be inhabited...
Jesus on the Margins
Margins are spaces on the edge of a page. They keep the words from spilling off. Every book has them. They make us think of marginal spaces in our society. There are people on the margins who marginalized. For most part the margins go unnoticed. Margins in the case of the book do not stand for the book. They...
Proclaiming the Word of God in World Driven By AI : Moving from Hermeneutics to Heuretics and Back
We as humans have become like Alice in the wonderland of AI . AI is the new kid on the block and is all set to transform our experience of being Human. The Catholic Church approaches the AI prophetically. It does not simply offer a blind admiration nor exhibit technophobic rejection. Pope Francis invites the Catholics to develop a...
Seeking the Synodal Way Between Self-absorbed ‘ I’ and Idolized ‘We’
French mystic and thinker Simone Weil’s thought can assist us in drawing inspiration for the synodal way of life that Pope Francis has called us to embrace as Catholics. Weil’s teachings show up as a challenge to draw a balance between a culture that valorises the ‘I’ on one hand and a misdirected longing of a human person to...
Beyond saying and unsaying theologies
There is the theology of unsaying. It is concerned with apophasis. It cannot describe or define God. It follows a neti neti logic, which we call via negativa. It is unsaying God. Derrida says that the fact that this unsaying of God regards every predicate that we can use to describe God as inadequate to portray the essence or...
At the Foot of the Cross
Forgiveness comes to us in two ways. First of all, we are told that we ought to forgive those who show some remorse, repentence, confess and do some sort of penance. While this flow of forgiveness is based on conditional logic, there is another way forgiveness embraces us. This form of forgiveness is a gift and is unconditional. Derrida...
