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CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NAGALAND (1973-1997) MANIPUR (1973-1980) 1

Bishop Abraham Alangimattathil February 28, 2019
North East of India is fascinating corner of India. There are, of course, other places perhaps more captivating and even mesmerizing than the North East. However, just as one’s birthplace is incomparable with any other place, it was in the North East that I exercised the first years of my priesthood as a Salesian of Don Bosco (SDB) in India. Ordained in 1968...Read More

Culture and Don Bosco

January 26, 2018
Culture for Don Bosco was the world of the young. He breathed young, just as we breathe air. He was ready to give his life for their welfare. On the 14 of May 1862, 22 members of the newly-founded Society of St. Francis de Sales completed their novitiate year and formally pronounced their triennial vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, while Don Bosco...Read More

INCULTURATION

December 31, 2017
Introduction From a comprehensive understanding of culture we move on to focus our attention on Inculturation, a word not easily met with except in post-Vatican II documents. A similar word “enculturation” was familiar with cultural anthropologists. Enculturation was introduced into theology by Pierre Charles. But it was Fr. J. Masson who first coined the phrase inculturated Catholicism in 1962. I remember him using...Read More