I watched the teens running with friends along the riverFlowing from the snows of the Himalayas,They jumped into the water, they collected pebblesThat captivated their eyes and their senses.They ate, they drank, they made merry…
Shedding Light on Clerical Closets
Musings on Pope Francis’s Motu Proprio [auth] Need to relight our lives “In the Light of the Master” is the title of chapter three of Pope Francis’s March 2018 ‘Gaudete et Exsultate’– Rejoice and Be…
Cut-off Limbs and Cutting-edge Theology
Limb-cut Depths of Cutting-edge Jesuit Theology Jesuits have been trail-blazing theologians for ages. Amid Lutheran protestations, Ribera (1537-1591) and Bellarmine (1542-1621) devised Futurist Theology that made Protestant historian Wylie declare: “These new Jesuit-soldiers did more…
Dubious Dubia and a Discerning Pope
Whither Francis effect? After the March 2013 election of Pope Francis, many were ecstatic about the ‘Francis effect’. Some four years later, Francis’s defects seem to have eclipsed the ‘Francis effect’, as follows: A sugarcoated…