Thursday, March 09, 2023
Preaching the cock story?
Recent, regular and systematic destruction and vandalism of Catholic Church properties are increasing in India. Notices sent to Church owned graveyards and properties instructing them of portions that would be demolished for infrastructure development. Some of the instructions read more like a threat notice giving few days to a week for the demolition to be carried out.
Why is the current government hell bent on persecuting the Catholic Community? Just because they are a soft target and a minority therefore not a vote bank that need to be pleased? Vandalism is becoming a norm and two days ago that too in a city like Bombay and a prominent reputed suburb, Santacruz. The name Santacruz itself means Holy Cross and a part of the glorious history of East Indian Catholics, the aborigines of the city of Bombay and the real children of the soil. The East Indian community regaled to no recognition with no quota for jobs or subsidies and now being threatened of demolition of their religious structures.
A chapel was demolished by a builder. The level of sacrilege of destruction is shocking. Cross broken, Bible torn and strewn around. With so much destruction that too in broad daylight, where is the law and order. Just because the community is a peace loving community and protest peacefully and seek justice through legal recourse? What would have been the situation if this was a mosque or a temple destroyed?
Why is the government silent? Why is local Police not acting. Did the community need to come peacefully outside the local Police Station to beg for justice and then action promised? Why do they need to beg to return the holy statue taken from the chapel? Will the governance ensure confidence and conviction to the community of having the chapel built to its original structure as they know who are the culprits? Will the culprits be brought to book with stringent penalisation?
What is clergy and the head of the Catholic Church in Bombay doing? How long with His Emminence and Grace Cardinal Oswald Gracias be holed in his palatial abode the AB House? Is his stepping out only to fly to Rome and ignore the laity he is supposed to care for? Why were there no Parish Priests at the peaceful protest, of neighboring areas especially Bandra, another famous locality not just in Bombay but globally, not present?
Jesus's own and favorite disciple Peter betrayed him and Jesus had told him before being convicted, that he would betray Jesus thrice before the cock crows. Here the laity are moaning, crying and lamenting the atrocities meted out, and what are the clergy doing? That too in the season of Lent? Preaching the cock story?
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Were you there when the call was given at Bandra, Orlem,Vakola, St. Michael’s or at any of the 25 locations. Best regards Vinod Noronha.
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