Carlos wrote quoting Gupta: The Vatican has apologised for the agony inflicted on Galileo Galilei. But the terrible agony inflicted on the Hindus of India during the Goa Inquisition remain buried in the carefully crafted history of the Church as a benign institution. It is time India demanded and secured an apology from the Vatican for the Goa Inquisition. In fact, we should go a step further and demand reparation from Portugal.
.............................. There was no apology for the Inquisition. Is one due? Was not Admiral Timmaji who brought Afonso de Albuquerque to Goa not a HINDY BRAHMIN? Was not Mhal Pai Vernekar the same? Did they not trade with the Portuguese upto 1545 from the day of Vasco da Gama? Did they not identify the muslims to be put to the sword in November-December 1510 that Albuquerque gloated over? Do their successors need an apology from the Pope for what the Portuguese did as a nation..not as a religion? Who should apologise to the NON-BRAHMIN Hindu and NON-HINDU Goans for bring the Portuguese to rule over them,rape them and convert them. Let the successors to Timmaji and Mhal Pai apologise to their fellow Goans first and then ask for an apology from the Pope. Viva Goa. Miguel