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"Today the concept of truth is viewed with suspicion, because truth is identified with violence. Over history there have, unfortunately, been episodes when people sought to defend the truth with violence. But they are two contrasting realities. Truth cannot be imposed with means other than itself! Truth can only come with its own light. Yet, we need truth. ... Without truth we are blind in the world, we have no path to follow. The great gift of Christ was that He enabled us to see the face of God".Pope Benedict xvi, February 24th, 2012

The Church is ecumenical, catholic, God-human, ageless, and it is therefore a blasphemy—an unpardonable blasphemy against Christ and against the Holy Ghost—to turn the Church into a national institution, to narrow her down to petty, transient, time-bound aspirations and ways of doing things. Her purpose is beyond nationality, ecumenical, all-embracing: to unite all men in Christ, all without exception to nation or race or social strata. - St Justin Popovitch

Tuesday 5 June 2012

THE TRADITIONAL CHRISTIANITY OF SOUTHERN INDIA: A SAD AND TERRIBLE STORY

Notice the lack of icons  Like the Assyrian Church of the East, they have nothing against icons, but they usually do not use them.  "It is not our custom."

THE TRADITIONAL CHRISTIANITY OF SOUTHERN INDIA
click above to listen to the mp3

This is a lecture given by Fr Seraphim, an American Franciscan Professor of History at the Franciscan University , and I borrowed it from a Franciscan blog called CATHOLIC UNDER THE HOOD (click) which may well be worth a visit.

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