Hi Aloysius Thanks for your comments in 'Christians synonymous with Love'. I have not yet seen the response from Fr Ivo to which you responded but wish to clarify exactly where I stand. Often, some Catholic Goans, and especially those who are openly adherents of the evil of caste tend to portray me as anti-catholic because of some of my strong critiques of Catholicism in Goa and especially its undeniable co-existence with caste and nil criticism of it. This view of me being anti-catholic for my unyielding view about 'Catholics' and caste is truly paradoxical when it comes from the very folk who contaminate Catholicism with the evil of caste and actually teach their offspring to be casteist and racist. However, I genuinely believe that, I am ANTI-HYPOCRISY within Catholicism and I'm afraid there are too many examples of hypocrisy that are fudged over by the Catholic Church generally across worldwide Catholicism. If I am challenged on this point, I will have to raise the lid over this particular can of worms that I would rather not do so for now if I can help it. It is most important to be honest about the shortcomings of any religion by accident or design and those who genuinely do this with firm evidence are definitely not anti any religion. Likewise, in my experience, anything said against Zionist thought re Israel is immediately pounced upon as anti-Jewish when it isn't. This is also true, among other religions, by those who have a fundamentalist view about Islam, Hinduism and the extreme religious rightists in America. Sadly, and often, these are nothing but defence mechanisms when one cannot come clean over the exposures being made in all honesty. Above all, we should never be afraid to do so. Regards Cornel Aloysius D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Fr Ivo, To a large extent I agree with Cornel -- in my experience I have found: 1. Priests and Nuns have become very commercial and materialistic... 2. It is still a fact that we Goans (lay folks as well as Priests and Nuns) still consider the original Hindu Caste, to which our fore-fathers belonged four hundred years ago, very important particularly at the time of marriages... 3. In addition, I have personally seen the huge discriminations practised by Nuns and Priests in their own religious orders against others in their communities who belonged to what was seen as "backward groups" (tribals, from uneducated / non-social families -- or Goans against Mangaloreans, Anglo-Indians, Keralites)... 4. Do we CATHOLICS really consider other Christian sects -- Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Anglicans -- CSI or CNI, Jehova's Witnesses, Mar-Thomites, Syrian Christians, etc -- as fellow CHRISTIANS?
We of the Catholic Church (Roman rite) really need to evaluate our "FAITH"
