Tag: Sr Rani Maria
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FROM CATECHISM TO CATECHESIS
(Corollary to “From Catechism to Atheism“) The previous article was just a brief commentary on another person’s testimony, about the gross inadequacy of Sunday School/catechism classes that largely focused on stories about what happened, rather than why things happen. There was repetition but no reasoning, resulting in the inability to have “an answer for one’s…
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FILM REVIEW: MISSIONARIES, REVOLUTIONARIES, MACHINERIES?
On Good Friday I ask myself, was Jesus a missionary or a revolutionary? Blessed Rani Maria of the Franciscan Clarist Congregation (FCC) faced a similar dilemma when she began her service to the deprived adivasis in the Udaynagar region of Indore, M.P. This is a dangerous binary. Being a missionary and/ or a revolutionary are…