For the past several years, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, which is based in Southern India, has been riven over a liturgical reform. In one of the nastiest and most intractable intra-Catholic disputes in the world, the church’s general synod has...
A reflection on the Sunday Readings for January 22, 2023 — the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time I am in India as I write this homily. I am in the state of Kerala, which is the center of the Eastern Rite Syro-Malabar...
O King, the woods are ashes, No spots remain at crematoria, O King, there are no carers, Nor any pall-bearers, No mourners left And we are bereft With our wordless dirges of dysphoria — from the poem ‘Shabvahini Ganga’ (‘A...
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