Wrestling with Indian Casteism

Jesuit Contribution to Dalit Theologies [auth] The Jesuit contribution to Dalit Theologies must be seen against the backdrop of their wrestling with Indian casteism. The endless struggles of one-fifth of the Indian population reduced to…

Jesuit Mission in the field of Ethnophilosophy

In the context of post-colonialism, the concept of ‘ethno’/ ‘ethnic’ is becoming popular. Especially in ‘third’ world countries, researches are done on ‘ethno-medicine’, ‘ethno-chemistry’, ‘ethno-botany’, ‘ethno-history’, ‘ethno-economics’ and so on. But unfortunately, ‘ethno-philosophy’ is an…

St. Joseph: model of faith, hope and love

St. Joseph is one of the very few Saints who has two feast days to honour him. The scriptures don’t say much about this silent saint. In fact, St. Joseph does not speak in the…

Transforming Ashes into Fire

Age old symbols and practices characterise the season of Lent.  Among the symbols ash, desert and fire stand out and the triad of practices drawn from the Gospels that the church recommends are prayer, penance-fasting…

Digital Jesuits: The #Hashtag Ministry

Fr. Stan Swamy, an octogenarian Jesuit priest, hailing from Jamshedpur Province, was arrested by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) on 8 October 2020. 15 January 2021 marks 100 days since his illegal arrest.  [auth] The…

Wiring the Universal Apostolic Body

Jesuit Strategic communications and networking in the COVID era. [auth] W e may be experiencing one of the key global turning points of our time. This juncture, despite the serious impact it has on so…

Jesuit communications during Covid-19

An overnight nationwide lockdown announced on the 24th day of March, 2019 set off a series of events that confused, confounded, and challenged each one of us. That night, a maverick virus that flew into…