Pope Francis gave us a new Apostolic exhortation after eight years of his path breaking encyclical Laudato Si. The holy father , laments that not much action has followed the message of Laudato Si. Pope Francis has intimately tied together ecological concerns with the dignity of the human person in his message. The care of human life is bound...
Prompt Engineering for Consecrated Persons
AI can be put at the service of the Gospel. One has to use prompt engineering to set AI to serve the Church and the Gospel. Prompts are the right instructions or questions that a person gives or ask that guide a language model like Chat-GPT. AI like Chat-GPT can assist religious to draft a talk or sermon on...
AI and Priestly Ministry
AI is growing by leaps and bounds. It will change human destiny in the immediate future. This future is already present. It is capable of great promises as well as destruction. It is capable of taking us to new heights at the same time can destroy humanity as well as our planet earth. This is why we are in...
Can Priesthood be Outside Synodality?
Synodality invites us to understand priesthood in a new way. Perhaps, we have the Imperative to revist different layers of meanings that have come to attach it over time. In Greek , we have the word Presbyteros, which meant elder and which stood for a man of age in a social group. Gradually it acquired religious meaning that was...
After Theology
What will it require theology to de-theologize itself. How are we to approach this task. Perhaps, St. Paul’s kenotic Christology is already a form of de-theology. This effort of de-theologizing theology brings us to what we may call after theology . Kenosis is very close to deconstruction. Does theology needs to be de-theologized? The question is deep and difficult...
Pastoral Practices and Pastoral Innovation Lab
Pastoral Innovation Lab has both the challenge and opportunity to securitize how some pastoral practices inscribe themselves as forms of mediating grace and Christian life. Thus, for instance pastoral practices of novena as ways of preparing individually as well as collectively for the celebration of feast are looked upon as channels of grace that we hope will evangelize us...
Pastoral Innovation Lab
We are living in an age of Start Ups. One thought has been crossing my mind for a long time, being inspired by the signs of the time. Why not start a Pastoral Innovation Lab? Why not use the best resources of human sciences to enrich and enhance pastoral care in the Parish where I work as a Parish...
Synodality and the Christ Faithful
Synodality offers a new hope for several Catholics who are looking to revitalize their life in the Church. Guided by the Holy Spirit, several Catholics have been looking for horizon of change. It is the action of the Holy Spirit that makes us man and woman on the move hopeing for Church living it mande in accordance to changing...
Being a parish Priest in a Synodal Church
What would it mean to be a Parish Priest in a synodal Church? Will it require us to rethink the role and ministry of the Parish Priest and other ordain ministers? Maybe we have travel together in the spirit of synodality into the theology of synodality and try to relate the Hierarchical gifts and the Charismatic gifts in the...
Being Synodal Church in a Parish
Pope Francis, our holy father calls the entire Church to become a synodal Church. What would it mean for a parish to become a synodal Church? Synodality involves the participation of the entire people of God in the life and mission of the Church. How are we to be a synodal Church in a Parish? How are we to...
