Monday, June 20, 2016
In the name of the Father
A national tabloid of India, The
Times of India, covers an article on its front page, on the shortage of
Catholic priests in Bombay, and last year they had just one ordination of a
priest. What a calamity as it gave an impression that with this shortage,
Catholicism would end. At the same time priests are sent from India to foreign
lands as missionaries. Why can’t they be retained back in India? Then another
news article was a claim that Christ was a Tamil Hindu. This is something that
should be welcomed as ‘Good News’ as now ‘Ghar Wapsi’ can have a real meaning
and Catholics like me who was contemplating the earlier ‘Ghar Wapsi’, can
loudly sing “I wandered far away from God, now I am coming home”Back to Indian priests being exported to foreign land to preach Jesus Christ, the confusion is which Jesus they should preach, should it be Jesus the Nazerene or Jesus the Tamilian? Since Christianity somehow projects Jesus as a white man, there are claims that he was black, and now Indians have proven that he was not ‘Black Black’, but Indian Black, something like how in America the Indians would claim to be Indian American, but that would mean the aborigines, and the Indians from India are Indian American. Unfortunately whatever American you are in America, may Jesus save them incase Donald Trump is going to be President. Donald Trump anyways messed up with Allah, as he has a problem with His followers.
Recently in India there was a
young man from a remote village who after going through his religious studies
was recently ordained as a Catholic priest. Should have been a proud moment for
the young man, for his family and Catholics from his remote village.
Unfortunately the ceremony was less an Ordination and more a ‘Financial
Crucifixion’. This is a man from a financially deprived background, who was
looking towards the metanoia of being a priest. His village being in a very
remote location in India, did not have a regular Church and was a ‘substation
Church’, with no regular services and a priest who would attend on some random
intervals. So this man wanted to have his ordination at his ‘substation
Church’, but to his surprise he was shocked to know that the Bishop who was
from the main parish far away, refused to ordain him at his ‘substation
Church’. Even worse was that this Bishop never once in his lifetime ever visited
this ‘substation Church’. Christ had to traverse fourteen stations carrying His
cross on which He was crucified and here is a Bishop who cannot travel to a
‘substation Church’ to ordain a priest. Ultimately the young man was ordained a
priest in the main parish, drained of his family’s meagre finances, and now
Allelulia he is groomed to evangelize in some distant foreign land. Maybe the
Indian Catholic Church is taking the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Modi seriously and ‘Making Priests in India’, and exporting them.
Then we have the Bishop of Bombay
who was ill and went to the US for treatment, and that was announced to the
news media. Is India not medically competent, that the Bishop has to travel to
the US for treatment? Do all the priests get this luxury of ‘religious medical
insurance’? Priests of some Catholic Congregations lead a real pathetic life
and thus you have a shortage of priests. Then you have the top brass of the
clergy cloistered in a life of luxury. Racism towards priests / nuns from India
and Africa that travel overseas as missionaries are never reported. The fact
after 2000 years there has never been a Pope of another color, besides white
says it all.
Pope Francis recently said the
"great majority" of Catholic marriages being celebrated today are
invalid because couples do not fully realize it is a lifetime commitment,
drawing sharp criticism from Church conservatives. On the contrary it is a
“great majority” of priestly ordination that are invalid, as priests do not
realize their lifetime commitment to their congregation and even to God. Catholic
priesthood is becoming another horse hooded cult of men, who refuses women to
be priests, but accepts a woman to be the Mother of God.
On the contrary there is no
shortage of priests in the Catholic religion, it is just that there is no more
Christ in the religion. This void can be either filled by the second coming, or
genuinely invoking “In the name of the Father”, and requesting His Mother to
intervene.
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