So, what's it in the Catholic institutions that disallows them from
creating more liberal and forward-looking people, specially in a place
like Goa? (It might work differently in other parts of India, as my
friend Rahul Shrivastava was arguing the other day.)
Roland,
I am glad to see that your colleagues of yester-years from St. Xaviers
H.S. did manage to hold a reunion
celebrating their years of education together. Indeed, I did some of my
primary schooling at the same school. Whilst i admit the discipline in
those days was stern, I am thankful for it as it turned most of us
there, into God-fearing and law- abiding adults that we are today.
I also attended the Jesuit-run college St. Xaviers next door in later
years and have to dispute FN`s stance that ours was one such institution
that " disallowed them from creating more liberal and foward thinking
people "
At St . Xaviers College in those days we had priests like Fr. Macia
teaching us ethics who urged us to to question
the stances of the Church that we saw as unjust. Those were the days
when the R.C. Church acquiesced in the status -quo of the dominance of
the rich land-lords in South America riding rough -shod over the poor
landless peasants in South America. I now realise that was the
beginning of the " liberation theology " that caused so much concern in
the Church at that time.
The thrust to social justice, though enounced in the encyclical "
Rerum Novarum" of 1891, had fallen by the wayside.
I sometimes wonder if Fidel Castro was a student of the Jesuits at
some time .
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:59 AM
Subject: [Goanet] A Jesuit Education
FN,
Your friend Rahul Shrivastava was right!
My Class of '65 at St Xaxiers Bombay held it's second reunion at the
Ritz this month. The first was in 1987. Here is an article by Rajiv
Desai in the DNA news mazagine.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1146960
To see who Rajiv Desai is, please see
www.comma.in
Here is what Rajiv writes to me when I tell him I wish to post a link
to his article on Goanet:
hi roland,
thanks. i finally managed to join.
two things might be of interest:
one, my wife estelle (pereira) and i were married in the toronto suburb of
burlington. we lived in chicago thro 1988. our two daughters were born
there. theolder one works at comma, the consulting firm i set up in 2005.
the younger one lives in new york city.
two, we are part time residents of goa in that we own a house in
apicturesque little village called uccasaim, near mapsa. i've written a
lot
on goa and you will find the columns at www.dnaindia.com. just type rajiv
desai in the search panel. you may find some of them on goanet as well.
warm regards,
rajiv
Roland
416-453-3371
On Jan 26, 2008 1:58 PM, Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, what's it in the Catholic institutions that disallows them from
creating more liberal and forward-looking people, specially in a place
like Goa? (It might work differently in other parts of India, as my
friend Rahul Shrivastava was arguing the other day.)
