[Goanet] Joao da Veiga Coutinho RIP

[eric pinto]

               Joao's book, A Kind of Absence, was published twenty years ago.  
I took twenty copies off him and remember mailing     a couple to two of you 
who had asked.  He loved the place of his birth, and passed away in the US two 
days 
ago.-


                   Thanks to Helga do Rosario Gomes for the note.
I am sharing his son Ravi's memories from Facebook which touched all those of 
us who were charmed by this fine man.

"Yesterday, my friend, mentor, and father, Joao V. Coutinho passed away at the 
age of 97. He died as he had hoped: at home, surrounded by those who loved him. 
While my heart is broken, my chief consolation is that his near-century on this 
Earth was full of life. Over the course of his lifetime he was a priest, WWII 
POW camp translator, foreign correspondent, humanitarian aid worker, professor, 
published author, loving husband to my mom, Barbara K. Webber and, finally, a 
father. He spoke 13 languages and left a lasting academic impact on the fields 
of sociology, education, and theology. He is, unquestionably, the smartest man 
I will ever have the privilege of meeting, and I was fortunate to have him 
shape my life. He was a great fan of Tagore, after whom my name was chosen, who 
wrote: “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp 
because the dawn has come.” His light will never be extinguished, and he will 
live on through the lives of those he loved, taught, and befriended. I love 
you, Dad."




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[Goanet] A tribute to Joao da Veiga-Coutinho (1918-2015)

[Goanet Reader]

  Scientist Helga do Rosario Gomes announced on the
  GoaResearchNet the death of Joao da Veiga Coutinho, and
  shared this note from his son Ravi: "Yesterday, my friend,
  mentor, and father, Joao V. Coutinho passed away at
  the age of 97. He died as he had hoped: at home,
  surrounded by those who loved him. While my heart
  is broken, my chief consolation is that his
  near-century on this Earth was full of life. Over
  the course of his lifetime he was a priest, WWII
  POW camp translator, foreign correspondent,
  humanitarian aid worker, professor, published
  author, loving husband to my mom, Barbara K. Webber
  and, finally, a father. He spoke 13 languages and
  left a lasting academic impact on the fields of
  sociology, education, and theology. He is,
  unquestionably, the smartest man I will ever have
  the privilege of meeting, and I was fortunate to
  have him shape my life. He was a great fan of
  Tagore, after whom my name was chosen, who wrote:
  'Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only
  putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.'
  His light will never be extinguished, and he will
  live on through the lives of those he loved,
  taught, and befriended. I love you, Dad."

Below is a review of Joao da Viega-Coutinho's *A Kind of
Absence*, reviewed by the late Dr George Coelho in the Goan
Overseas Digest (Oct-Dec 1998), a magazine that was edited by
statistician Dr Eddie Fernandes. Dr Coelho was an early
Goanetter, and was pleased by the new forms of networking
younger generations (then) of Goans were taking to. He saw it
as the precursor of a Goan Renaissance.

GO DIGEST WRITES: Born in Bombay, Dr Coelho graduated from St
Xavier's College in Latin and English. He served in the
Indian Armed Forces in World war II, rising to the rank kof
Major. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from
Harvard University in 1956. He was Health Science
Administrator and International Health Officer at the
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland until
his retirement in 1996.  George has published  in
professional journals and edited several books on mental
health issues. In the last 10 years, he has been drawn to his
first love, literature and poetry, attending international
conferences in portugal and Goa an dpublished essays on Goan
poetry in Portuguese.
--

Book review by Dr George Coelho

THE FULL TITLE is *A Kind of Absence: Life in the Shadow of
History* (Yuganta Press, USA). It is a beautifully crafted
volume of essays, edited and published by Ralph Nazareth,
poet, professor of literature and President of Yuganta Press,
Stamford, Connecticut.

A timely and significant work, it is conversational in tone,
in the mode of Socratic dialogue. Neither didactic nor
dogmatic, theessays are written in a lucid and elegant style:
they flow with the cadence and imagery of a prose poem. They
invite reflection and meditation.

In his Preliminary Remarks, the author speaks of his essays
as "musings fragmentary in part, explorationsThere are
more questions than answers, not because answers that are
widely satisfying are few (this is, after all, a search
undertaken on one's own behalf) but because questions must be
asked and multiplied and lived with, before there can be
answers."

The book cover displays a faint silhouette of the facade of
the Santo Espirito Church of Margao, around which the author
remembers playing as a child in his grandmother's home.

There is history there, the author muses: "Our churches in
Goa are built upon the ruins of destroyed Hindu temples (III,
p42). In the middle of the square facing the Church of the
Santo Espirito, Margao, Salcete, next to the cruzeiro, the
white stuccoed monument surmounted by a black cross, stands a
tree. It is said to have been there since before the church,
a silent witness to the sacredness of the site, and
ceremonies once performed in honour of the exiled divinity
(III, p43).

Part I: Thinking about History is the first essay, sounding
the major theme of Absence: "There has been no Goan
history... our story remains untold. What is it and where is
it to be found? What are its outlines and what are its
salient features? What are its sources? What should it cover?
What should it show and explain? Our history was largely made
by others. We were caught in it, almost in spite of
ourselves. We have to salvage what is ourse; see how much of
it belongs to us (I, p8,9).

This theme of Absence recurs in the following motifs:
i) The loss of a vital connection with an ancestral land.
ii) The lack of a history of one's own, a proper universe.
For "The Portuguese wrote their own story in these parts..."

Part II: Conversations with th eDead discusses several
versions of Goan history written by Goans (prior to Indian
Independence in 1947). The cr

[Goanet] Goa(Mapuca): 17-yr-old girl, knocked down by Remo’s son on Mapusa-Panjim highway

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 


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17-yr-old girl, knocked down by Remo’s son on Mapusa-Panjim 
highway
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Poor victim from Malwan to undergo plastic surgery in GMC today, recovery to 
take up to 6 months; Singer Remo Fernandes hasn’t inquired or visited victim




Poor victim from Malwan to undergo plastic surgery in GMC today, recovery to 
take up to 6 months; Singer Remo Fernandes hasn’t inquired or visited victim

By Team Herald | 18 Dec, 2015, 04:54PM IST

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PANJIM: She was almost close to reaching the Basilica of Bom Jesus at Old Goa 
when a recklessly driven Hyundai i-20, driven by the son of Goa’s most iconic 
singer Remo Fernandes, knocked her down near Bodgini Temple, Mapusa.
The 17-year-old accident survivor will undergo plastic surgery at Goa Medical 
College and Hospital on Friday after going through an immediate surgery and a 
number of treatments since the ill-fated day on December 1.
The car driver, Remo’s son Jonah Fernandes, is only charged under sections 279 
(rash driving) and 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or 
personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code.
No member of the famed-family has bothered to either visit the victim, who lies 
on bed number 29 in ward number 105 of the GMC or offer her any assistance.
The victim along with her sister Loyalina had walked from their hometown in 
Malvan to visit the Old Goa feast ahead of St Francis Xavier feast on December 
3. But fate had something else in store for the two sisters.
“On reaching Vancio Wado, the victim was knocked down by the car at about 
4:40pm. She was hurt on the left side, her foot and forehead was bleeding,” a 
witness told Herald, confirming that Jonah was driving the car bearing 
registration number GA-03-P-9546. According to police records, Jonah was 
driving from Mapusa towards Porvorim and the sisters too were walking towards 
Porvorim.
It is learnt that the father-son duo waited at the crime spot till the 108 
ambulance was called and she was rushed to the GMC for medical help. Mapusa 
police registered an offence against the 26-year-old driver and seized his car 
but he has still not faced arrest for the offense.
According to the initial complaint the impact of the crash was such that an 
electricity pole was uprooted.
The girl, according to orthopedic doctors, had her ankle displaced and soft 
tissue damaged. “She had first undergone surgery for crash injury soon after 
the accident. Since the skin is peeled off, plastic surgery will be carried out 
on her on Friday,” Dr S M Bandekar, Professor and Head of Orthopedic Surgery 
said.

Another doctor, treating the patient said she had a fracture of the tibia with 
crush injury of the foot and ankle. “We have put external fixation so that the 
wound settles down. Now, we will conduct plastic surgery. The portion of the 
leg has to be covered,” he said.
Even after the surgery, doctor say, it will take three-to-six months for the 
recovery and she may be advised complete bed rest too during this period.
The Malvan sisters are reportedly from a poor financial background and the 
victim had to drop her schooling after her father passed away some years ago. 
With her mother next to the hospital bed, the distraught family is demanding 
justice.

WHAT HAPPENED?
Victim and sister were walking from Malwan to the Old Goa feast on Dec 1, when 
Remo’s son’s speeding car hit her
Remo was in the car, his son at the wheel
Waited till the 108 ambulance arrived and then left; haven’t asked about or 
visited victim’s family at hospital to offer any assistance
Case of rash driving and causing grievous hurt against Remo’s son Jonah, but 
not detained

[Goanet] Slain missionary’s widow receives Mother Teresa award

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 




Slain missionary’s widow receives Mother Teresa award
She was honoured for her work among people with leprosy.
Posted on December 18, 2015, 8:25 AM
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Mumbai:

Gladys Staines, whose husband and children were burned alive by Hindu 
nationalists in Odisha, has been given the Mother Teresa award for her charity 
work.

Staines opted to stay in India with their 13-year-old daughter Esther and 
continues to work among people with leprosy. She publicly forgave the attackers.

Australian Graham Staines and his two young sons died in 1999 when their car 
was set on fire by a mob.

Gladys was honored with the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice by 
the Harmony Foundation, a Mumbai-based charity that grants the only award 
endorsed by the famous nun's Missionaries of Charity.

"I thank God for his help in enabling me to carry out the work in caring for 
people with leprosy, even after my husband was killed," Staines said after 
being named the year's winner.

The citation reads: "Awarded for helping in the eradication of leprosy and 
helping remove the stigma from the minds of people and uplifting the cured 
leprosy patients to join the mainstream of society from where they were 
declared as outcaste."

Gladys Staines returned to Australia in 2004 but continued her work with the 
Evangelical Missionary Society. She was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri 
medal for Social Service by the Indian government the following year and used 
the money from the award to upgrade a home for people with leprosy to a 
hospital.


Source: Christian 
today

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Widow of slain missionary receives Mother Teresa 
award
www.christiantoday.com
Gladys Staines has been honoured with the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for 
Social Justice.

[Goanet] Panjim Modern (National Geographic Traveller India)

[V M]

http://www.natgeotraveller.in/magazine/month/december-2015/the-other-goa-an-insiders-guide-to-panjims-old-charms-and-new-stars/

Ten years ago, I fulfilled a boyhood dream by moving to my native Goa,
to live in Panaji (Panjim) with my wife and two sons (our third son
was born in the city) after a lifetime cleaved between giant
metropolises: Bombay, New York, London, Paris.

We bought an apartment just footsteps from the beach at Miramar, and,
as with every previous home, I began to explore our new surroundings
with camera and notebook in hand. I ventured out again and again, to
try and peel back the dense overlays of social and cultural history
that make India’s smallest state’s pocket-sized capital feel so
instantly, palpably different from any other city in the country.

>From our first days as new residents, Panjim’s effect was eerily
transcendent. Where I once raced feckless from point A to B, now my
pace blurred to a languid, circuitous stroll. Instead of ducking my
head to issue curt nods of recognition, I found myself almost
involuntarily engaged in gracious, elaborately mannered exchanges,
often with total strangers. All of us became inveterate ramblers. My
kids clamour for long walks in town like other children in other parts
of the country beg for mall visits.

We grew utterly devoted to the abiding joys that have always made
Panjim special. There are routinely breathtaking sunsets on the beach
near our home at Miramar, where fishermen still wade waist-high into
the water to pull in huge perch and mullets. The lingering
hundred-year-old café courtesies at Tato and Bhonsle. Bacchanalian
revelry at the Carnival, and languid people watching on the
criss-crossed steps of the church square. Frugal magic and pure
exhilaration of a free monsoon ferryboat ride across the Mandovi
River, and the welcoming outdoor midnight mass on Christmas Eve in
historic Fontainhas, where residents of the neighbourhood hospitably
lay out coffee and cake for all visitors.

But at roughly the same time that we arrived in the city, Panjim began
to undergo a remarkable metamorphosis, which continues to polish its
architectural heritage to a 21st-century sheen. The trigger was the
International Film Festival of India, which made the city its
permanent home in 2004. The splendid old Goa Medical College
precinct—it housed the first medical college in Asia—was beautifully
restored for this purpose. The following decade has seen an impressive
range of art galleries, restaurants, hotels, boutiques, and start-ups
decanting sparkling new fizz into the gorgeous, vintage 19th- and
early 20th-century localities.

All that new energy fits particularly well with this decorous little
riverside city, because of the little-known paradox that underlies its
considerable charms. All of the sun-dappled, seemingly quaint Latinate
architecture and old-fashioned atmosphere is deceptive. Goa’s capital
is actually the first rigorously modern city of India. Panjim was
originally constructed with great care by technocratic, highly
globalised natives of the 19th century, who travelled back and forth
between Europe, North and South America, and sought to build a city
back home that articulated their ambitions and unique world view.

Thus, the fundamental reason for Panjim’s difference from other Indian
cities lies in the profound dissimilarity of the Goan experience of
Portuguese colonialism and the rest of India under the British.
Briefly, the 450-year-old Estado da India’s (State of India) heyday
was in the 16th century, when it was the richest trading port in the
world, but Portugal’s ability to protect power within its own empire
crashed soon thereafter. It only managed to retain nominal control
through a set of compromises with increasingly assertive Hindu and
Catholic Goan elites. By the 19th century, a full-scale internal rout
was underway, signalled by the abrupt shifting of administrative power
from priest-dominated “Old Goa” to the native-built “New Goa” in
Panjim.

You can feel the contrast in the course of a half-hour walk. This is
the first city in India built on a grid, with pavements constructed
along all of its main roads. Shade trees were imported from South
America, engineering blueprints for drainage and sewerage from
Germany, and concepts for park gazebos and bandstands from England.
Panjim is where the first non-Western “world citizens” asserted
themselves, self-confidently brought Hinduism back into the public
sphere, created a range of modern institutions for their own use, and
sought what the passionate historian of Panjim, Vasco Pinho, describes
as “freedom from fear the like of which has existed perhaps nowhere
else.”

This is why I like to begin the impromptu Panjim walking tours I
conduct for culture-minded visitors at the entrance to the Institute
Menezes Braganza. Situated in a corner of the Quartel—the imposing
compound facing the riverfront opposite the ferry wharf—this is where
the first public library in Asia was inaugur

[Goanet] Fwd: Goan killed in USA.

[Gabe Menezes]

http://www.click2houston.com/news/clerk-shot-killed-during-gas-station-robbery#
-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.





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Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] My All Time Favorite Christmas Song

[Jim Fernandes]

/* This was sent a couple of days ago. But as per FN it got inadventently 
zapped. Re-sending now */

Most folks have their all time favorite Christmas song.

Here's mine (and just this one particular rendition - out of the hundreds of 
thousands of Christmas songs out there):

Vince Vance & the Valiants - All I Want For Christmas Is You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1VkMBi9vvw

Besides having a wonderful voice, the lady is easier on the eyes too! Would you 
not agree?

And while I am at it, I also have my all time favorite New Year's song too.

If you want to check out:
Song by U2 - one of my favorite bands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcVO6mJrJrM

I promised my wife that 2016 would be 'Year of Concerts' for us. We are going 
to attend at least one concert every month. For starters I am taking her to see 
Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden in early Jan. 

Tomorrow I am booking tickets to see Adele - the concert is sometime in 
September 2016 in NYC, but we've got to be there (hopefully with all my kids) - 
we all love her - including the 5 year old!

Cheers,

Jim Fernandes
Colva / New York.

[Goanet] Goanetters' meet: Dec 28, 2015 11 am at Fundacao Oriente

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

Thanks to those who have confirmed early. Looking forward to seeing you
there too!

* Carlos Noronha and family. Visiting Goa (Porvorim).
   noronha_car...@hotmail.com

*  Domnic Fernandes, long time Goanetter, writer of many articles (some of
   which subsequently became books like *Domnic's Goa*, *Village Anjuna*
etc)
   domval...@hotmail.com

* Fatima Pais, long time Goanetter, based in Delhi, active in community
affairs
  fatimap...@gmail.com

* David Lobo, prominent coconut entrepreneur and technologist at
  http://deejayfarm.com writes: "Thank you for the invitation.
  Unfortunately I will not be able to come to Goa and attend
  the year end meet." davidl...@deejayfarm.com

* Mike Ali writes: "About 40-50 Goans are leaving Karachi on Dec. 21
   for Goa on their annual pilgrimage. I, however, do not know how
   many are Goanetters." Just to say they're welcome, Mike! There are
   two kinds of people in this world -- Goanetters and to-be-Goanetters!
   mike.a...@yahoo.com

* Victor Carneiro of Edmund, OK writes: "(We) will be in Goa next
   week. We arrive on the 22nd and will be there until the 8th of Jan.
   Let me know if there is a GoaNet gathering during that time."
   (From the way he spells Goanet, I'd guess my old
  schoolmate has been part of it for a lon time!)
vicisonl...@hotmail.com

* Tried to rope in Bardroy Barretto, who SMSed to say: "Got a prior
   engagement which I can't wriggle out of, but will be in Panjim by
   4.30 pm for Alexyz's exhibition." Bardroy is the man behind
   Nachom-ia Kumpasar, the film which told the story of Goan music
   so charmingly in the past year... and getting shortlisted for the Oscars.
   bard...@gmail.com

* Get a chance to meet the new Delegate in India of Fundacao Oriente,
   a lady with a Goan connection: Inês Figueira 

Goanet is what it is because of all of you!

Pls RSVP by posting on goa...@goanet.org Looking forward to seeing you
there. FN
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[Goanet] Request to repost your recent posting

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

Apologies all. There was some error at our end, and some messages for
moderation got accidentally deleted. The following posters are requested to
kindly repost their messages to goa...@goanet.org:

* airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Remo Fernandes...
* amigo...@runbox.com My All Time Favorite Christmas Song
* another...@gmail.com Christmas Carols... A video to bring you...
* apanji...@gmail.com

... Press note (pls post in plain text only)
* camillofernan...@hotmail.com ... Coolie's son
* cmene...@tpg.com.au ... Johnny Mathis... Your doctor...
* gabe.mene...@gmail.com... Goan killed in the USA
* goacomnewscl...@yahoo.in ... Newsclips, Dec 17 and 18
* goasura...@gmail.com... Slow and steady...
* joaobarrospere...@gmail.com... Never on a Sunday
* nellope...@gmail.com ... Wedding bells
* parri...@gmail.com... Musings
* preserve...@gmail.com... Delivery status notification [???]
* robinvie...@hotmail.com ... Any Goa-related posts pending
* steve.dia...@gmail.com Any Goa-related posts pending
  [Pls note, we can't delete a post once it is circulated.]
* vmin...@gmail.com... Panjim Modern

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[Goanet] Mother Teresa Set for Sainthood After Vatican Approves Second Miracle

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Mother Teresa Set for Sainthood After Vatican Approves Second Miracle Kolkata
archbishop calls move ‘like a Christmas gift to us’
Pope Francis has approved the second miracle of Mother Teresa of Kolkata,
clearing the way for the late missionary to become a saint, the Vatican
announced Friday. Photo: AP
By
Francis X. Rocca in Rome and
Joanna Sugden in New Delhi
Updated Dec. 18, 2015 8:51 a.m. ET
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Pope Francis  has
approved the second miracle of Mother Teresa of Kolkata, clearing the way
for the late missionary to become a saint, the Vatican announced Friday.

The Vatican didn’t provide further details, but according to a report in
Avvenire, the official newspaper of the Italian Catholic bishops’ conference
,
Mother Teresa’s canonization would probably occur on Sept, 4, 2016, the day
before her feast day.

That event would likely prove a highlight of the current Holy Year of
Mercy, which the pope inaugurated at the Vatican on Dec. 8. In April 2014, the
double canonization

of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII in Rome drew an estimated 800,000
pilgrims.

If Pope Francis chose to perform the canonization ceremony for Mother
Teresa in Kolkata, he would make the first papal trip to India since 1999.

A Vatican spokesman didn’t respond to a request for comment on the timing
of her canonization or the nature of the miracle.

According to Avvenire, Pope Francis approved the findings of the Vatican’s
Congregation for the Causes of Saints, which found the 2008 healing of a
Brazilian man with a brain infection and kidney disease had been due to the
intercession of Mother Teresa.

“For our people, even much before canonization, Mother [Teresa] was a
saint,” said Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of the Archdiocese of Calcutta, an
alternate name for Kolkata. “We are very, very happy. It’s like a Christmas
gift given to us.”

Mother Teresa, who spent much of her life helping the poor living in slums
in the eastern Indian city, died in 1997 at the age of 87. She was born
Anjëzë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu to an ethnic Albanian family in Skopje, in what is
today the Republic of Macedonia.

She founded the Missionaries of Charity, an order of nuns dedicated to care
of the “poorest of the poor,” in Kolkata, in 1950. She won the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1979 and received strong support from St. John Paul II, who gave
her permission to open a soup kitchen inside Vatican City.

The Catholic Church normally requires one so-called medical miracle before
a deceased Catholic can be declared “blessed,” and another such miracle,
occurring after that declaration, before he or she can be canonized as a
saint.

Mother Teresa will be Kolkata’s first Catholic saint, Archbishop D’Souza
said, but the third woman in India to be canonized, after St. Alphonsa and
St. Euphrasia, who were both from Kerala in southern India.
[image: Mother Teresa of Kolkata on a visit to St James' Church in London
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Mother Teresa of Kolkata on a visit to St James' Church in London in July
1981. Photo: Getty Images

St. John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa in 2003, after an expedited
process that began only 18 months after her death. The Vatican normally
waits a minimum of five years after someone’s death before considering
beatification.

Beatification is formally an honor restricted to someone’s home diocese,
whereas canonized saints are venerated by Catholics everywhere. But Mother
Teresa has been the object of world-wide devotion since her death. India
accorded her a state funeral.

By the time of her death, her order had more than 4,000 members, known by
their distinctive blue-bordered white saris, working on five continents.

The Missionaries of Charity now cares for the sick and destitute in more
than 130 countries. It runs soup kitchens, AIDS hospices, leprosy centers
and homes for women and orphaned children.

“It’s fantastic. All of us here knew she was a miracle herself through her
work,” said Sunita Kumar, a spokeswoman for the nuns in the order. “It’s
happened so quickly. All the sisters are very elated.”

Even during her lifetime, some in India criticized Mother Teresa’s good
work, saying she was just trying to convert Hindus to Christianity.

But she wrote that her missionaries should strive to “help a Hindu become a
better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim and a Catholic become a
better Catholic.”

“When you do any good, criticism will be there,” said Archbishop D’Souza.
“When she was asked what she thought about it, she said she prayed for
them.”

*Write to *Francis X. Rocca at francis.ro...@wsj.com and Joanna Sugden