This promises to be a long and deep controversy about the allegations of sale of babies by the staff and some nuns of the Missionaries of Charity.
Controversy because: A) Why This May Be True: 1. Scandals of all kinds have been erupting from within the Indian Catholic Church. Rapes, paedophilia, violence against nuns and financial irregularities being some of them, are increasingly being exposed by whistleblowers. 2. Witnesses to alleged baby-selling have come forth on the basis of which the scandal has erupted. 3. The Missionaries of Charity have become a powerful force due to international perception of their work and the reputation of their founder. They are a magnet for drawing large sums of money from all over. Add to this the secretive nature of the screens covering the Catholic Church’s finances and it was only a matter of time before something caved in. 4. Rather than putting up a stout and coherent defence based on facts, from the very start the big guns of the Church have been harping on the reputation and dedication of the Order and the Nuns. 5. There seems to be no proper figures of babies received and later given for adoption. B) Why this may be a ‘Set-Up’. 1. The money from the sale of a few hundred babies would be chicken feed and therefore not worth the risk to the Order. It is possible that a few nuns out of personal greed have resorted to this. 2. It is too tempting an opportunity for the BJP to miss to discredit the Catholic Church and get back at all the criticism that it has been receiving for faith based persecutions and other Catholic Church religious harassment. 3. Connection is being made by the BJP between these baby selling allegations and conversions. How are they connected no one is explaining. 4. Sane voices say a complete investigation of this scandal should be made by police and other agencies, but the situation in India is and always has been interference by those in power with the police and their finding and reporting of facts. This is a great opportunity for the Catholic Church in India to co-operate with an investigation, stand by the facts alone and to thus destroy the credibility of false accusers while the matter has the attention of the national and international stage. And if some of the nuns have been found culpable, to make a public Mea Culpa followed by a thorough cleaning of the Augean Stables that will in the end do it a look of good. I do not trust most Indian reporting since it has to go through the filters of biased caged-parrot editors and politically hog-tied media. I have a wee bit more trust in Indian investigative journalism specially by free-thinking independent reporters if there is such a species left. Call me a racist, bigot, ignoramus or anything else, but personally I shall have to rely on the BBC and other foreign coverage like Reuters, The Economist, Al Jazeera and The New York Times for proper, impartial coverage of this scandal. Roland Francis Scarborough. > On Jul 14, 2018, at 6:27 PM, Frederick Noronha <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Published on 11 Jul 2018 > It is the government vs the church in Jharkhand, amid reports of child > trafficking from the Ranchi branch of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of > Charity, or MoC, in Jharkhand.
