------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007
http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm For public viewing. Registration at The International Centre Goa. (Ph: +91-832-2452805 to 10) Online Media Partner: http://www.GOANET.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Fathers Ivo C da Souza and Loiola Pereira, I note both your reservations (as expressed below) about responding to the topic of Is Consensual Sex OK? Such a question for discussion purposes would not be problematic, in the least, in most broadly liberal societies in the world and I therefore wish it were not problematic for you two in Goa as well. Moreover, both your responses were incredibly vague, woolly and thoroughly unhelpful. Should not you both, charged as providers of moral guidance in Catholic matters, necessarily provide a coherent Catholic response to the above question? If this is the level of an intelligent response provided by members of the Goa clergy, I am surprised anyone can take such respondents seriously at all. Indeed, it echoes Fr Loiola's failure to respond, despite several reminders, to five genuinely inquisitive, and not terribly demanding moralistic questions of mine on caste and the Catholic Church in Goa. I respectfully have to ask what on earth you think your business is, if when choosing to engage on Goanet, you can't provide even elementary moral guidance on the question above, are haughtily but uninformatively dismissive of it, and fail to respond to my earlier moral query about caste and the Catholic Church? I also most respectfully suggest that, the Archbishop of Goa reflects on whether you both, as holders of senior offices in the Church, are fit for purpose. Dr Cornel DaCosta, London, UK. "Fr. Ivo C da Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Fr.Joaquim Loiola, Your answer has made an important point: controversy is an 'art'. Values cannot be sidetracked. Discussion on Internet can enlighten us or darken our relationship. Thanks! Ivo da C.Souza ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joaquim Loiola Pereira" > > Of course, opinions as many as there are heads there will always be. > Especially in 'juicy' topics like the present one. > But let the heads remain in their proper place > and not try to 'outhead' some head else, heading for a headless bunch. > To present one's point of view without torpedoing other viewpoints appears > to be a forgotten art. > Or may be we must snobbishly call ours a 'contemporary' art of discussing.
