Books/POWER vs CONSCIENCE

POWER vs. CONSCIENCE studies the introduction and development of Vatican II teachings in Sri Lanka and the division of the Catholic Church that has occurred as a result. It deals with the work of Bishop Leo Nanayakkara, Fr. Michael Rodrigo and Fr. Tissa Balasuriya and compares their thinking with the teachings now promoted by a few bishops in the country, particularly Bishop Malcolm Ranjith, who categorically states the "He [Jesus] was not bothered about social oppression, injustice and the like [that were] strongly visible in His own times." The book further studies religious power from the point of view of human rights and democracy. Published in May, 1997, by the Asian Human Rights Commission, 142 pages, ISBN - 962-8161-04-0

Foreword

Introduction (A Man Faces Fundamentalism)

Chapter 1 (The Background to the Excommunication of Fr. Tissa Balasuriya)

Chapter 2 (Sri Lanka’s Spirituality of Solidarity under Attack)

Chapter 3 (The Spirituality of Divisiveness)

Chapter 4 (The Law of Manu, Socialist Law, Sharia Law and Canon Law)

Chapter 5 (Andrei Vyshinsky and Cardinal Ratzinger:Similarities in Style?)

Chapter 6 (The Insane Campaign That Failed)

Chapter 7 (The Heart of the Matter - Document M - and the Role of Bishop Malcolm Ranjith)

Chapter 8 (Responding to The Other Side)

Chapter 9 (Did the Pope Read Mary and Human Liberation?)

Chapter 10 (Baptizing Discrimination: The Church and the Poorest of the Fisherfolk)

Appendix 1 (An Excommunication without a Trial)

Appendix 2 (The Media Is the Messenger)

Appendix 3 (In-Communioned)

Appendix 5 (On the Prohibition of Books)

Epilogue (Themes for Healing)