NEW DELHI, March 17 -- Does a Pontificate necessarily invoke philosophical accountability and reflection? When it comes to the Second Vatican Council and Pope John Twenty Third to Pope Francis, it indeed spawns a philosophical reckoning. The spirit and internal renewal of the Second Vatican Council negotiated ostensibly great philosophical traditions like Existentialism and philosophical Hermeneutics, thinkers like Soren Kierkegaard, Gabriel Marcel, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur, and great Philosophical Theologians like Von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Hans Kueng, and many more influential streams of Philosophers, Thinkers, and Theologians.

In the case of Pope Francis, the philosophical and epistemic tools of Methol Ferre, a Urygyan-Ar...