Vatican officials meet with Indian theologians
The CDF first participated in such a meeting in 2011.
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The meeting took place to better understand the specific situation of the Church in India and the challenges to which bishops and theologians need to respond, said a press release from Indian bishops’ conference.
The Jan. 21-24 theological symposium, organized by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was attended by 44 bishops and theologians from India.
The symposium in Bangalore addressed some of the challenges facing the Indian Church today such as evangelization and interreligious interactions and living the Christian Faith in an inter-religious and multi-cultural context.
The Vatican delegation was headed by CDF prefect, Jesuit Cardinal Luis Ladaria, and the Indian side had representatives from the ritual Churches of India – the Latin, the Syro-Malabar and the Syro-Malankara – that together comprise the Catholic Church in India.
The idea for an annual meeting between Bishops and Theologians in India was initiated in 1996. Later, during a CBCI delegation meeting with various Vatican dicasteries in Rome, a proposal was made for the participation of the CDF in the Indian theological meetings.
The CDF first participated in such a meeting in 2011.
Prior to the Bangalore meeting, the CDF held a similar symposium, Jan. 15-18, in Bangkok, Thailand, with heads of the doctrinal commissions and representatives of Asia's bishops' conferences.
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