All the major superiors of the Jesuit Conference of South Asia (JCSA), headed by Fr Stanislaus D’Souza, along with the General Assistants, Frs. Vernon D’Cunha and M K George gathered at Christ Hall, Calicut, Kerala…
Speaking Truth to Power
An 86-page book titled ‘It's High Time: Women Religious Speak Up on Gender Justice in the Indian Church’ is set to create a storm in the Indian Church. [auth] Read More
Women in Islamic Religious Thinking
The cover story in the March 2020 issue of Jivan entitled 'Will Women's Struggle for Dignity Ever End?' by Professor Shalini, focusing on the place of women in Christian faith and practice, made an interesting…
Exploring New Frontiers in Interreligious Dialogue
“To be religious is to be interreligious.” This inclusive, integral insight of General Congregation 34 (130) served to widen the frontiers of interreligious dialogue in Jesuit circles. While GCs 32 and 33 focused on the…
Zoom Masses Unite a Faith Community
“We all lost our hope as the fear of Corona surrounded us. I was the front-line caregiver in the Emergency Room of North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. I am the breadwinner of the family. Everyday awful thoughts, fearful…
O God, Where are You? – A Post-pandemic…
This pandemic has been a testing time for all. Every aspect of life is challenged. We are learning from experience that to live is to make many adjustments. No permanency for anything. Nothing as before!…
Remembering Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889)
What would the world be, once bereftOf wet and of wildness? Let them be left,O let them be left, wildness and wet;Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Inversnaid (1881) Read More
Eco-Storytelling: Sowing Seeds of Transformative Action
We are a fraction of the Earth. The Earth is a component of us. The pandemic has taught us that we are one of the tiniest miniscule beings on this planet trying to comprehend the…
Democracy to Defend, Not to Destroy
Democracy is rightly defined as “the government of the people, by the people and for the people.” Real power in a democracy is vested in the hands of its citizens by the exercise of their…