[Goanet] GoaNet - a premier list. WHY??

[Eddie D'Sa]

High time for an African or Asian Pope to be elected.
But do we need one at all?
Let a bunch of African & Asian leaders make the decisions.
Keep the Euros out for a change.

Why is GoaNet a premier list? What has it achieved so far?
Better to abolish it.

Eddie
-- Original Message --
From: "Roland Francis" 
To: "GoaNet" 
Sent: Wednesday, 15 Nov, 23 At 00:41
Subject: [Goanet] Cancel The Pope & The UNO
The Pope wants to make changes but either he is opposed tooth and nail 
at consultative time or a clique of cardinals and bishops with their own 
agenda, ignore those changes when implementation time comes.
The UN is on a similar track. The majority of members vote to make the 
Body perform in line with charter ideals to force peace in violent 
situations, but a couple of countries veto common sense solutions, 
imagining they are still in victory flush of the WWII era. Some even 
have the temerity of making the UN do their bidding because they finance 
it.

So why does the world need either of them?
As for Gilbert’s suggestion to send no-nonsense Suella Braverman to 
Rwanda to set up a British Refugee Welcome Centre, I think she would be 
more effective cleaning up the drug addicts and homeless who have taken 
over many once-prosperous towns and cities in the US while Washington 
unlimited funds to Israel and Ukraine.
The times they are a changing. Moody’s now rates the credit outlook for 
the US for the first time as negative, mentioning it can no longer rely 
on their Sovereign Currency strength to finance their bottomless expense 
pit.

Roland.
Toronto

Roland Francis
416-453-3371

Re: [Goanet] Your message to Goanet awaits moderator approval

[Eddie D'Sa]

ISN'T IT TIME TO CLOSE THIS THNG CALLED GOANET WHICH NO LONGER SEEMS TO 
FUNCTION??

Else I'll report GoaNet to the Pope sitting idly in Rome.
 Eddie D'Sa
-- Original Message --
From: "Eddie D'Sa" 
To: goanet-ow...@lists.goanet.org
Cc: "shirley D'Sa" ; "Ken Dias" 
; "Ayres DCosta" ; "Eddie Ray" 


Sent: Friday, 10 Nov, 23 At 18:15
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Sent: Thursday, 9 Nov, 23 At 21:19
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Your mail to 'Goanet' with the subject

 Re: Is the Pope dead?

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 Who is this great moderator needing so much time
 The reason it is being held:
 Too many recipients to the message
THIS ROUTINE REASON SEEMS TO  BE SENT  TO EVERYBODYDoes nobody who can 
think independently work at GoaNet??

I  Who are those in charge on GoaNet?
   Will they have the guts to come clean ???
Eddie
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Re: [Goanet] Schedule for Friday 10th November 2023

[Eddie D'Sa]

A lot of NONSENSE to me.
Sorry, Eddie
-- Original Message --
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Sent: Thursday, 9 Nov, 23 At 16:00
Subject: [Goanet] Schedule for Friday 10th November 2023
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Schedule for Friday 10th November 2023
12:00 AM
Rosary - Sorrowful Mysteries

12:27 AM
Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 20

12:30 AM
Velma Fernands interviews Ashley Do Rego

12:57 AM
Blessed words of the Holy Ones -St Augustine of Hippo - Quote

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for Thursday

1:45 AM
Psalm 84 - Read by Alfwold Silveira

1:51 AM
Our Father - Santhali

1:55 AM
Poem - Sant Juze Vaz - Goyche Noketr - Sandhya Fernandes

2:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Dukhiche Mister

2:26 AM
Devachem Utor - Zannvaichem Avesor 11 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

2:36 AM
Khursachi Vatt - Br Caron Cardozo

3:02 AM
Agree or Disagree - Enemy Property hosted by Ashley do Rosario

3:49 AM
Hymn - Mary Immaculate Girl's H.S. Panjim

3:52 AM
Bible Project - Day of the Lord

4:00 AM
Role of St Luke's Medical Guild doctors in the Covid crisis

4:33 AM
Hymn - Rochnar Otmea denvun ie - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

4:35 AM
Heads Held High - Our Lady of Snow High School, Raia

4:53 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 119 - Futtkeponn - Fr Pratap Naik sj

5:00 AM
Abundant Life -Sin is worth leaving - Prof Nicholas D'Souza

5:22 AM
Song - Ek Katha - Anthem of Unity - Samuel Afonso

5:27 AM
Poem - True Development - Larissa Rodrigues

5:30 AM
Talk on Satyagraha- Fr Subash Anand

5:54 AM
Song - Appovnem

6:00 AM
Marie Sodanch Adar Tuzo by Bazilla Vaz and Pius Rodrigues

6:04 AM
Saint Robert Bellarmine - Quote

6:05 AM
Our Father Prayer Part II - Thy Kingdom Come - Fr Aaron Magalhaes SJVRC

6:46 AM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 14

6:52 AM
Magnificat (English)

6:54 AM
Prayer over Childless Couples - St Joseph Vaz

6:55 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem Sunkrar - Week 1 & 3

7:00 AM
Praise and Worship - Stella Pinto

7:25 AM
Morning Prayer - Friday Wk 1 & 3

7:28 AM
Devachem Utor - Zannvaichem Avesor 12 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

7:37 AM
Word of God - Talk by Orlando D'Souza

8:00 AM
Love, Marriage, Sex - Talk by Colin Calmiano

9:05 AM
Our Father Prayer Part 1 - Hallowed be Thy name - Fr Onasis D'Cruz

10:00 AM
Jesuk Porgottcho (Proclaiming Jesus - talk by Cassino D'Costa

10:37 AM
53rd Mando Festival - Merxechim Sobit Fullam - Children

10:47 AM
Bhajan - Tu Sakshat Parmeshvaru - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx

10:58 AM
Bhagevont Zuze Vazacho Ters

11:20 AM
Intercessions - English

11:27 AM
Angelus - English

11:30 AM
Mass in English

12:15 PM
Daily Flash

12:18 PM
Hymn - You are my all in all - Flute cover - Fr Seville Antao - OFM(Cap)

12:20 PM
Atmik Vadd - Talk by Peregrino Fernandes

12:49 PM
Bhajans 3

1:18 PM
Jose Rod interviewed by Jovito Lopes

1:46 PM
Our Father - Malayalam

1:50 PM
Literally Goa - Interview of Shivangi Reja by Alfie

2:17 PM
Saint Robert Bellarmine - Quote

2:20 PM
Wisdom Reflections -10 - Rachol Professors

2:43 PM
Hymn - You are my all in all - Flute cover - Fr Seville Antao - OFM(Cap)

2:45 PM
The Golden Brigade - Jose and Genevieve Marques

3:22 PM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 288 - XISTICHI TTICHOR - Fr Pratap Naik sj

3:30 PM
Divine Mercy - English 3

3:50 PM
Hymn : Rochnar Atmea - Winston Colaco

3:55 PM
Pope's Intention in Konkani

4:00 PM
Rosary - Sorrowful Mysteries

4:27 PM
Kids Programme Eps 1 - The right way - Do not litter

4:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - 15

4:42 PM
Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 2

4:44 PM
Krav Maga - Ep 4 - Oscar Viana interviewed by Chriselle Fernandes

5:00 PM
Promising Talent of Goa - Charlaine Heredia by Merchita D'Souza

5:15 PM
Bible Project - Acts of the Apostle - Ch 13 - 20

5:20 PM
Youthopia - Edmer Barreto - Author interviewed by Jessica Sharma

5:49 PM
Prayer for Healing from Cancer

5:54 PM
Poem - Khuris Zoitivont Kortam - Tancia Pires

5:56 PM
Aimorechen Magnnem

6:00 PM
Mass in Konkani

6:45 PM
Pastoral Letter 2023-2024 - Fr Henry Falcao in English

6:56 PM
National Anthem - Goa University Choir

7:00 PM
Talk on Christian Witnessing - Glenn Nunes

7:27 PM
Kids Programme Eps 1 - The right way - Do not litter

7:30 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Dukhiche Mister

7:56 PM
Prayer to the Holy Trinity - Prof. Nicholas D'Souza

8:00 PM
Don't be Lukewarm - Talk by Lenny Soares

8:50 PM
Saint Gregory Nazianzen - Quote

8:51 PM
Devachem Utor - Zannvaichem Avesor 13 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

9:00 PM
Adoration - Fr Saturnino Colaco

9:35 PM
Ratchem Magnem

9:50 PM
Tell Me a Story - Eps 110 - Solomon builds the first Temple in Jerusalem

10:00 PM
Breaking Barriers through Dialogue - Pollution in Cuncolim Industrial
Estate - by Jovito

10:45 PM
Prayer for India 4

10:50 PM
Health, Food and Bible -Episode 2

11:21 PM
Special Prayer 

Re: [Goanet] Schedule for Friday 10th November 2023

[Eddie D'Sa]

I happened to be looking at the output in GoaNet  of 9th Nov 2023 and 
was amazed to find a hotch potch of items displayed with no particular 
order or apparent purpose.
Could a seasoned Goa Net writer like Fred Noronha kindly explain what 
GoaNet or this concoction is all about?
What is "ccrtv" all about and is there some coherent program they are 
calling attention to?


It reads like a lot of muddled nonsense to me; so could some kindly 
person explain what is the message being communicated?


I'd be most grateful.

With all the horrors being inflicted by the Israelis on the 
Palestinians, I find no mention of Palestine in GoaNet features.

Doesn't Palestine matter to GoaNet  OR have I missed something?

I'd be most grateful for any illumination on the subject.

Eddie D'Sa
-- Original Message --
From: "CCR TV" 
To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
Sent: Thursday, 9 Nov, 23 At 16:00
Subject: [Goanet] Schedule for Friday 10th November 2023
CCR TV GOA
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You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone via the CCR TV App
Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform.
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Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 2
Bible Project - Acts of the Apostle - Ch 13 - 20
Youthopia - Edmer Barreto - Author interviewed by Jessica Sharma
Prayer for Healing from Cancer
Poem - Khuris Zoitivont Kortam - Tancia Pires
etc  etc  etc

Re: [Goanet] Is the Pope dead?

[Eddie D'Sa]

This english King with nothing better to do decides to leave boring 
Britain & hop across to former colony KENYA.

What should he be doing there?
Mere verbal apologies in fancy prose won't do.
The king should initiate massive reparations to the Kenyans to make up 
for the racist insults they had to suffer and the privileges the Brits 
enjoyed during their Kenyan rule. Instead the king seems to be dishing 
out silly medals and making meaningless speeches to the current Kenyans 
to wipe out the memory of those evil colonial years, when the natives 
were treated like dirt.


Eddie


-- Original Message --
From: "Gilbert Lawrence" 
To: "Shirley D'Sa" ; "Eddie D'Sa" 

Cc: "Ayres DCosta" ; "Ken Dias" 
; "Catholic HERALD" 
; "Jeremy Corbyn" 
; "GoaNet" 

Sent: Thursday, 9 Nov, 23 At 20:52
Subject: Re: Is the Pope dead?



How about sharing information on current social and economic justice 
closer to home?
I am referring to the HRH visit to Kenya and the issue of colonial 
atrocities in their country.
British parliament and cabinet of both parties have quite a collection 
of children of former colonial subjects.

Do they feel the pain?  Do they know their recent history?
Are you reminding them about it.
Or are we in a "coma or virtually dead" about our recent history?
Or rather we feel more comfortable to rant about some esoteric issue?


GL




 On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 12:51:58 PM EST, 
Eddie D'Sa  wrote:







Thanks for the correction, Shirl.
Amazing how the Christian Euros have been wondering about in alien lands 
and renaming them - with no thought to the natives or their history.
Returning to our great Pope, he has been silent for so long amidst 
global turmoil that he might as well be dead.

Dead or alive, what purpose does he serve?

Mr Jeremy Corbyn, you raised your voice recently. It always creates a 
stir.

Please do it again - thoughtful people do take note.

Shirl, hoping to make contact again tomorrow Friday as promised.

Eddie
-- Original Message --
From: "Shirley D'Sa" 
To: "Eddie D'Sa" 
Sent: Thursday, 9 Nov, 23 At 13:48
Subject: Re: Is the Pope dead?
 Hi Dad


I’m at the airport due to take off for Amsterdam. If you recall- I’m 
going there to examine a PhD candidate.




You should amend your papal rant- Pope Francis is Argentinian not 
Irish!!




I think you are thinking of the other  doddering guy- Biden!



Love

Shirley

 On 9 Nov 2023, at 13:35, Eddie D'Sa  wrote:





The most terrible things have been happening, mostly involving the 
heartless Israelis but their acts (and crimes) are fully supported by 
the Christians of the West.

So are there any Christian leaders left to respond?
And what of our good old Pope - that old doddering Irish guy who seems 
to spend his days staying dumb in the midst of so much turmoil?
One cannot help concluding that he must be in some terminal coma or 
virtually dead.


Will anyone reveal whta's going on or we living in a reign of cowardice 
and apathy??


Eddie Ray

Re: [Goanet] Is the Pope dead?

[Eddie D'Sa]

Thanks for the correction, Shirl.
Amazing how the Christian Euros have been wondering about in alien lands 
and renaming them - with no thought to the natives or their history.
Returning to our great Pope, he has been silent for so long amidst 
global turmoil that he might as well be dead.

Dead or alive, what purpose does he serve?

Mr Jeremy Corbyn, you raised your voice recently. It always creates a 
stir.

Please do it again - thoughtful people do take note.

Shirl, hoping to make contact again tomorrow Friday as promised.

Eddie
-- Original Message --
From: "Shirley D'Sa" 
To: "Eddie D'Sa" 
Sent: Thursday, 9 Nov, 23 At 13:48
Subject: Re: Is the Pope dead?
 Hi Dad


I’m at the airport due to take off for Amsterdam. If you recall- I’m 
going there to examine a PhD candidate.




You should amend your papal rant- Pope Francis is Argentinian not 
Irish!!




I think you are thinking of the other  doddering guy- Biden!



Love

Shirley

 On 9 Nov 2023, at 13:35, Eddie D'Sa  wrote:





The most terrible things have been happening, mostly involving the 
heartless Israelis but their acts (and crimes) are fully supported by 
the Christians of the West.

So are there any Christian leaders left to respond?
And what of our good old Pope - that old doddering Irish guy who seems 
to spend his days staying dumb in the midst of so much turmoil?
One cannot help concluding that he must be in some terminal coma or 
virtually dead.


Will anyone reveal whta's going on or we living in a reign of cowardice 
and apathy??


Eddie Ray

[Goanet] Saving India

[Eddie D'Sa]

This message is meant for Arundati Roy, one of the few hopes left to 
save India.

I am writing this via Goanet because I don't know Arundati's email.
I'd be grateful if someone would kindly send her email to me.

It was wonderful to hear the views of Arundhati after the moronic 
ramblings of that Guju font of wisdom called Narendra MODI now running 
India.


I'd like to invite  Arundati to devise a strategy to save India from 
intellectual zeroes like of Modi to whom the height of discourse is 
about whether to call India Bharat.


Eddie

Re: [Goanet] INDIA OR BHARAT?

[Eddie D'Sa]

I heartily agree with Stephen that we should continue with the name 
INDIA.

Trust these Modi led Gujus to focus on trivial issues like name changes.
Hindus  remain culturally drenched in their many gods & meaningless 
rituals and have no time for anything more intellectually challenging or 
philosophical.


I'd like to suggest that a semi-literate Hindu like Modi be kicked out 
from the governing hierarchy and be replaced by a true intellectual, 
preferably Christian or Muslim to deal with the more serious national & 
international issues

 so that India is able to earn more respect and attention.

Eddie Ray




-- Original Message --
From: "Stephen Dias" 
To: editorinch...@nizgoenkar.com
Cc: "Goan Observer" ; "Times of India" 
; "Aam Aadmi Party, Goa" ; 
"SECY GOV" ; "SECY CM" ; 
"Secretary GHRC" ; "GBA office" 
; "Goanet" ; "Goa's 
premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" 

Sent: Friday, 8 Sep, 23 At 04:38
Subject: [Goanet] PROUD INDIA OR PROUD BHARAT?
Lots of controversy has erupted in the print media in these days in 
regards

to proud India or proud Bharat for no reason at all.
Foreigners abroad knows our country as India and not Bharat. It gives a
negative impact as foreigners knows the word Bharat as CHEAP which is a
translation from Portuguese language as SOVAI . If anybody wants to 
modify

their name there is a procedure which takes time to be implemented with
several formalities and approvals. I repeat we are not cheap Bharat in
India. Please lets us keep this word India which is in the map of the 
world

and not Bharat.
Stephen Dias
Social Activist
9422443110
Date 8th November 2023

Re: [Goanet] The BRICS Have Changed the Balance of Forces Newsletter Thirty-Three (2023)

[Eddie D'Sa]

Always a refreshing and inspiring read.
I always look forward to your commentaries.

Eddie Ray

[Goanet] Pope going to MONGOLIA

[Eddie D'Sa]

This Italian old man called Francis, aged 86, is determined not to step 
down.
He wants to parade his authority to all and sundry and is ever ready to 
pronounce on tricky subjects like the Environment.

But how much does he understand?
Shouldn't he be quietly retiring in some Italian village and preparing 
for his death?


Instead, he has decided to visit an exotic, little known country like 
Mongolia.
How will the people of Mongolia benefit? What special wisdom does Pope 
Francis possess to share with the Mongolians?
HAs he considered the expenses for the trip, including the costs for 
those going with him?
Euros in high positions don't have to bother with costs. The attendants 
will no doubt get all costs paid and ensure he has a comfy stay.
Shouldn't he have set an example by joining the lowest of workers such 
as street sweepers and addressing other such lowly folks?
But no. A Euro Pope will insist on acting pompous & authoritarian 
wherever he goes and he is no doubt convinced that he is guided by this 
fellow called the Holy Spirit which is a handy fiction invented by Euro 
Catholics.


The crucial question for the Church is: when will there be a Black Pope 
and an end to the Euro papacy and the Euro doctrines??
Why can't Francis just announce his resignation with immediate effect 
and let a Black or Asian Pope take over??


Surely the Black and Asian Catholics have had enough of the Euros and 
insist on having one of their own at last.


Francis, you are just too old and not too bright.
JUST LEAVE THE VATICAN AND RETIRE TO SOME QUITE ITALIAN VILLAGE.
PLEASE !!

Eddie Ray, London.

Re: [Goanet] Watch "Shivaji Maharaj statue vandalised at Mapusa, police at the spot" on YouTube

[Eddie D'Sa]

Statue vandalised. WHO CARES??
How is Shivaji relevant today?

Eddie


-- Original Message --
From: "Gabe Menezes" 
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" 
Sent: Monday, 14 Aug, 23 At 18:39
Subject: [Goanet] Watch "Shivaji Maharaj statue vandalised at Mapusa, 
police at the spot" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/JpjWCKOx4x0 

Re: [Goanet] Manipur

[Eddie D'Sa]

Agree.
This Guju fanatic called Modi must be kept out of any Manipur 
discussions


Eddie

-- Original Message --
From: "john menezes" 
To: "goanet@lists.goanet.org" ; 
"lopednelson...@gmail.com" 

Sent: Saturday, 12 Aug, 23 At 03:59
Subject: [Goanet] Manipur
Manipur is an alongside colony and no longer a part of Índia and should 
be taken charge of by the United Nations Trusteeship Council unless, 
constitutional, administrative and security parity with other states can 
be restored immediately. JM

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Rosary in Portuguese * Sunday, Aug 13, 2023 at 9.30 pm IST

[Eddie D'Sa]

Will someone please explain the point of this Euro devotion called the 
Rosary?

How does it help Goans??

Eddie
-- Original Message --
From: "Frederick Noronha" 
To: "Goanet" 
Sent: Saturday, 12 Aug, 23 At 21:32
Subject: [Goanet-News] Rosary in Portuguese * Sunday, Aug 13, 2023 at 
9.30 pm IST
*Graca Costa (a Goan from Mozambique, now in Portugal) sent in this 
invite.

Just sharing it with anyone interested. It might not be a big thing, but
for old timers Goans in Goa (and other non-Portuguese speaking parts of 
the
globe), this is an opportunity to pray in the language they once used. 
If

not of interest, kindly overlook*
Join the Rosary in Portuguese (online)
--
Invitation: Rosário Agosto 2023 @ Sun 13 Aug 2023 9:30pm - 10:30pm (IST)
Aug 13, 2023 Sun
Rosário Agosto 2023
When Sun 13 Aug 2023 9:30pm - 10:30pm (IST)
Join with Google Meet
Meeting link
meet.google.com/fwm-bkvp-ygo

Envio este convite para nos juntarmos na recitação do rosário. Aqui vai 
a

sequência das dezenas:
Sending you this invitation for the recitation of the rosary. Here is 
the

decade sequence:
1 - Paula Fernandes
2 - Susan Fernandes
3 - Marçal + Viola
4 - Mervyn Maciel
5 - Claudio Cardozo

Further details from: gpfco...@gmail.com
NOTE: Timing above is IST (India time).
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[Goanet] Ash please act firm to reform India as it now stands

[Eddie D'Sa]

Dear Ash,
You can be reputedly firm and resolute when it comes to the antics of 
the BJP and their Guju boss MODI.
Only you, Ash, can discipline this Guju clown called Modi and get him 
thrown him out of office.
India is tragically ruled by semi-literate & superstitious clowns  like 
Modi, Shah, Adiyanath and such.
India needs to be rid of this Hindu riff-raff and replaced by 
intellectuals and scholars.
Only thoughtful people like you, Ash, can accomplish this 
transformation.

Can you please seriously undertake this task and modernise India?

Eddie
-- Original Message --
From: "Ash Sarkar" 
To: gdig...@btinternet.com
Sent: Friday, 14 Jul, 23 At 09:43
Subject: The small print
  The Cortado | Analysis from Ash Sarkar, plus a round 
up of the week’s content.
Morning all. Is that the faint sound of rejoicing I can hear in the air? 
Yesterday, Rishi Sunak moved to bring an end to the waves of industrial 
action paralysing the public sector, by offering workers pay rises of 5% 
- 7%. While these figures do not come anywhere close to an 
inflation-matching pay rise (which means, in real terms, people are 
still finding their wages falling), they bring the public sector in line 
with bumps in the private sector’s pay packets. It’s now up to the 
unions to decide whether they’ll accept.


 All good news, yes? Well, if you want to end on a high I advise you to 
stop reading now. 
YOU KNOW WHO WOULD LIKE A PAY RISE AS WELL  
 
The Small Print
If you found yourself tickled by the urge to look a gift horse in the 
mouth, you’d be right. Though the 6.5% pay rise for teachers isn’t 
something to be sniffed at (and unions are recommending that their 
memberships accept it) there is some significant small print. £1.4bn 
will have to be found over two years from existing Department of 
Education budgets.


 So far, the government is keeping pim on what’s going to get cut in 
order to pay for the proposed wage increase. For school staff who’ve 
been fighting for classroom resources, this will come as something of a 
kick in the teeth – and it’s a crafty bit of politicking from the 
Tories, pitting the interests of pupils against the needs of those who 
teach them.


 There’s a few snags in the pay offer for doctors too. 6% (plus a 
£1,200 sweetener for junior doctors) is nowhere near the junior docs’ 
demand for full pay restoration, who are on day two of a five-day 
walkout. What’s more, the Royal College of Nursing had already accepted 
a pay offer of 5% – which will no doubt stick in the craw of members who 
wanted to hold out for something better.


 And, once more,  it looks like the Tories are robbing Peter to pay 
Paul. The Department of Health and Social Care are being instructed 
 
to find £700m in savings to cover the cost of the floated pay rise, 
which would probably spell cuts to investments in diagnostics and NHS 
tech.


 This flies in the face of what striking NHS staff have been arguing 
for for months: that the health service needs both a pay increase for 
staff, to improve retention, and more investment to tackle capacity.


 It’s also been reported 
 
that the government want to pay for an NHS wage increase by sharply 
hiking visa costs and the NHS surcharge for migrants coming to the UK. 
Quick maths 
 
from Henry Anderson suggest that the NHS surcharge (currently £470 for 
under-18s and £624 for adults annually) will now go up to £776 for 
children and £1035 for adults – about a two-thirds increase.


 There’s always been a stinking unfairness at the heart of the NHS 
surcharge for migrants. Why should people coming to this country, who 
already pay into the system in the form of tax and National Insurance 
contributions, have to stump up money again when they’re unlikely to 
heavily rely on the NHS?


 This cash grab has traditionally been a function of the hostile 
environment: a cluster of policies aimed at dissuading people from 
immigrating to the UK and thus driving numbers down to appease the Daily 
Mail. But with the UK perilously close to recession, and struggling with 
the realities of an ageing population, pickpocketing would-be migrants 
at the border might have the opposite economic effect than the one the 
Treasury intends.


 The Tories hope that their newest (and supposedly final) public sector 
pay offer will either put strikes to bed for the foreseeable future, or 
at least shift the blame onto unions if they decline to accept. But when 
public services are crumbling all around us, there are few in this 
country who think a pay offer at the expense of investment adds up to 
smart finances. I doubt this will 

Re: [Goanet] Israel terrorising the Palestinians

[Eddie D'Sa]

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Editorial: Cluster bombs grab the headlines, but backtracking may be 
underway too 
 
 
Why is The Morning Star bothered about Israel's plans on its 
judiciary?The Star should be concerned about Israel's terrorism again 
the Palestinians.
These so called Israelis are just Euro-Jews who have never ceased 
terrorising the defenseless Palestine natives. These Euro-Jews had a 
rough time under the Nazis but now that they have their own state in the 
MidEast, they are playing hell on the Palestinians.
Please defend the poor Palestine natives who have no supporters whereas, 
Israel is backed by the powerful Christian nations of the US and EU.


Eddie Ray

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Re: [Goanet] Your message to Goanet awaits moderator approval

[Eddie D'Sa]

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Cc: "GoaNet" 
Sent: Tuesday, 4 Jul, 23 At 16:35
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Hey, you joker, what do you mean by repeating the phrase 'too many 
recipients'?

Can't you be more original??
Goanet probably needs a new owner, one who can think for himself.
Eddie
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Re: [Goanet] [Schedule for Thursday 6th July 2023

[Eddie D'Sa]

Please stop peddling this eternal Catholic humbug about Mass & Rosaries.
What's the point?
You are just peddling Euro beliefs & rituals.
Be original for a change.

Where will the Masses & rosaries get you??
Most people don't care for this religious crap today.
Where is your Catholic God to be found??

EddieSent: Wednesday, 5 Jul, 23 At 17:00
Subject: [Goanet] Schedule for Thursday 6th July 2023
CCR TV GOA
Channel of God's love
You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone via the CCR TV App
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4 


Email ID: ccrgoame...@gmail.com

Schedule for Thursday 6th July 2023
12:00 AM
Rosary - Luminous Mysterieswhat's luminous about the catholic rituals, 
all made in Europe?


Eddie

Re: [Goanet] Your message to Goanet awaits moderator approval

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hey, you joker, what do you mean by repeating the phrase 'too many 
recipients'?

Can't you be more original??
Goanet probably needs a new owner, one who can think for himself.

Eddie

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Re: [Goanet] Climate Change ‘Going Through The Roof’

[Eddie D'Sa]

The West is run by capitalists dedicated to making money at all costs - 
to hell with the earth & its climate.
So Medialens, why are you surprised? Profit making is the supreme goal, 
the only religion allowed.

The Jew God, Jesus Christ, has no role to play any more.
Just accept whatever the market thugs of Wall Street decree.

Eddie Ray

-- Original Message --
From: "Media Lens" 
To: gdig...@btinternet.com
Sent: Tuesday, 4 Jul, 23 At 16:09
Subject: ‘I Hope To God I Am Wrong’ – Climate Change ‘Going Through The 
Roof’


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‘I Hope To God I Am Wrong’ – Climate Change ‘Going Through The Roof’ 
4th July 2023


Why are we at Media Lens utterly terrified by climate collapse while 
other people we know are mildly concerned, blithely indifferent or 
cockily contrarian?
The simple answer is that we are doing this full-time and ‘doing this’ 
includes reading the unfiltered reports and thoughts of top climate 
scientists on social media all day, every day.
Whenever we take a break from social media, the tendrils of the 
corporate body-snatchers again start to insinuate themselves. We are 
soothed by entertainment, by infotainment, by presstitute 
prestidigitation normalising the unthinkable. Despite a mountain of 
evidence, we are assured that the crisis is under the management of 
fundamentally decent, rational leaders. Yes, dear reader, our sense of 
crisis also abates.

There are two key responses to news of the latest climate disasters:
‘It’s bad, but not that bad. It’s manageable and we can carry on pretty 
much as normal.’

An alternative take:
‘No, it is that bad. This is just the ball starting to roll – it will 
gather more and more and more momentum, and it won’t stop. We need 
drastic change now!‘
The second of these is inarguably correct. The first is the underlying 
message delivered by state-corporate media that have an existential 
vested interest in the status quo, in discouraging us from seeking 
serious change. And this is exactly why the level of public alarm does 
not yet reflect the terrifying, rollercoaster reality depicted in the 
soaring and crashing graphs measuring temperatures and ice coverage.
Professor Bill McGuire, Emeritus Professor of Geophysical and Climate 
Hazards at University College London, tweeted 
  last 
month:
‘I hope to God I am wrong, but to me, it is looking increasingly as if 
we have reached some sort of tipping point, with the global temperature, 
sea-surface temperature, ice loss, and other parameters, all going 
through the roof.’
McGuire was responding to reports headlined 
 
by CNN thus:
‘Four alarming charts that show just how extreme the climate is right 
now’

The report noted:
‘We’re only halfway through 2023 and so many climate records are being 
broken, some scientists are sounding the alarm, fearing it could be a 
sign of a planet warming much more rapidly than expected.’
The ‘four alarming charts’ showed that global air temperatures have 
risen to record levels in 2023. Oceans are also heating up to record 
levels and show no sign of stopping. Antarctic sea ice is at record 
lows. And atmospheric carbon dioxide levels hit a new record high in 
2023. But many of these records are not merely being broken, they are 
being obliterated. Brian McNoldy, an expert in hurricanes and sea level 
rise at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School, captured 
  it exactly:
‘I know there are a million people sharing temperature anomaly charts 
and maps lately, but there’s a good reason for that. This is totally 
bonkers and people who look at this stuff routinely can’t believe their 
eyes. Something very weird is happening.’
At around the same time, nearly 110 million Americans in the United 
States were reported 
 
to be living in an area the US weather service flagged as ‘experiencing 
extreme heat’, with at least 100 people having died as a result in 
Mexico where temperatures came close to 50C. So far this year, the 
overall heat-related deaths in Mexico are almost triple the figures in 
2022.
Professor McGuire tweeted 
  of 
this crisis:

‘Unfortunately, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.’
CNN notes that some scientists ‘have said while the records are 
alarming, they are not unexpected due to both the continued rise of 
planet-heating pollution and the arrival of the natural climate 
phenomenon El Niño, which has a global heating effect’.
Ryan Stauffer, a NASA scientist studying air pollution and ozone, 
tweeted 

Re: [Goanet] Fw: Recent Church appointments

[Eddie D'Sa]

Dear Eric,
You mean well no doubt but why tell us about these appointments?
What on earth do these bishops do? Is any part of the liturgy Indian or 
is the Indian church just peddling

Euro doctrine & rituals?
When will the Indians drop the Euro humbug and become truly Indian?
Why tag on to Europe?
Do the Indian Catholics feel inferior even in 2023??

Eddie Ray
-- Original Message --
From: "Eric PInto" 
To: "Goanet" 
Sent: Tuesday, 4 Jul, 23 At 01:48
Subject: [Goanet] Fw: Recent Church appointments
 Recent Church appointments.
 Rev. Elias Frank has been named the new Bishop of Asansol. He taught 
Canon Law at the Pontifical University of Rome. He was born in 
Mangalore.  Rev. Louis Mascarenhas is the new Bishop of Allahabad. He 
was born in Udupi, Mangalore.  Archbishop George Panamthundil is the new 
Nuncio to Kazakhasthan. He belongs to the Syro Malabar Rite of 
Trivandrum.

[Goanet] ANTICS of Gujuman MODI

[Eddie D'Sa]

This Modi fellow loves to lecture others on the problems of Pakistan or 
M

Re: [Goanet] Manipur violence | Catholic Church-BJP honeymoon ends in Kerala

[Eddie D'Sa]

Why are the Modi-led BJP lot so sick and deluded?All they want is for 
the Hindus (with their cows and assorted gods) to run India and 
terrorise the Muslims. This Guju guy just wants to take over India but 
has no other coherent programme - no scientific plans nor intellectual 
challenges.Should a semi-literate like him be Indian leader?He was 
invited to the US because Biden wanted to sell arms to India and make 
money.Shouldn't this Modi fellow just resign and go into indefinite 
meditation & cow worship in some forest?

   Why are Indian Hindu leaders so inadequate?

   Eddie Ray

From: "Frederick Noronha" 
Subject:  Manipur violence | Catholic Church-BJP honeymoon ends in 
Kerala
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/catholic-church-bjp-honeymoon-ends-over-manipur-violence/article67023861.ece 


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Re: [Goanet] US Expects Greater Indian Role in South China Sea; Modi in White House and Cairo Mosque Illustrates His Muslim Pro…

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hi India Cable,
Why keep telling us what the US thinks on this or that?
What of the rest of the world? Don't it count? To India Cable, India has 
a Muslim problem.

Are you sure it has no US or Euro problem too?
The US fussed over Modi for 2 reasons: they want to sell weapons to 
India and make money for itself (as usual) & trouble for the others.
The other reason is the US fear of China's growing clout. Whereas India 
keeps buying weapons & other devices, China makes them & lots of other 
things too.
The problem is that India (and Guju MODI in particular) have not much 
real standing before the world, certainly no intellectual standing. They 
are not inventive or innovative. Just busy with their gods and cows, and 
love bullying Muslims and weaker peoples.
Hindus are cowards at heart; they can't deal with criticism, and worship 
Whites generally, especially the Anglos (English speakers).
The British having ruled them them for centuries know the Hindus well, 
very well.

So, India Cable, do present a more balanced  viewpoint.

-- Original Message --
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To: gdig...@btinternet.com
Sent: Thursday, 29 Jun, 23 At 14:41
Subject: US Expects Greater Indian Role in South China Sea; Modi in 
White House and Cairo Mosque Illustrates His Muslim Pro…


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Snapshot of the day
June 29, 2023
Pratik Kanjilal
After PM Modi popped the question in Bhopal, two of the 15 parties which 
attended the Opposition meet in Patna have said yes to a universal civil 
code 
 
, but not without reservations ― the Shiv Sena (Uddhav) and the Aam 
Aadmi Party. AAP says it is a constitutional requirement but since the 
move would involve all faiths, more discussion is necessary. Sanjay Raut 
said the Sena had always supported the UCC, but “Prime Minister Narendra 
Modi’s latest campaign is a political stunt aimed at the next general 
elections and not a sincere exercise to bring the UCC. In view of his 
remarks, we will have to deliberate on the issue.”
Rahul Gandhi’s convoy in Manipur, en route from Imphal to Churachandpur, 
was stopped by police at Bishnupur 
 
due to ‘security concerns’ over a possible ‘grenade attack’. “I do not 
know why the police are not allowing us. Rahul Gandhi's visit is to meet 
the affected people only. We travelled around 20-25 km but there was no 
road blockage anywhere… I do not know who has instructed the local 
police,” Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal told ANI. Gandhi was 
travelling to meet people displaced by the ethnic strife. He will now go 
to Churachandpur by helicopter.

The government’s action has attracted the attention of memesters:

 
‘I won’t go [to Manipur] and I won’t allow anyone else to go either’. 
Doing the rounds on social media, this play on Modi’s silence on Manipur 
and his anti-corruption slogan ‘Na khaooonga, na khane doonga’ (tr: I 
won’t eat (a metaphor for corruption) and won’t allow anyone else to eat 
either)
Hearing a PIL filed by NGOs Lok Adhikar Sangh and Minority Coordination 
Committee seeking action against police personnel who 

Re: [Goanet] [Indian CEOs

[Eddie D'Sa]

-- Original Message --
From: "Antonio de Quadros" 
To: "Goanet Org" ; "Goans" 
Sent: Tuesday, 27 Jun, 23 At 00:31
Subject: [Goanet] Indian CEOs
Biden, Putin and Xi were arguing about who's in charge of the world. 
US,

Russia or China?
What we know is:
1.Google's CEO is an Indian.
2.Microsoft CEO is an Indian.
3.Adobe CEO is an Indian.
4.Net App CEO is an Indian.
5.MasterCard CEO is an Indian.
6.DBS CEO is an Indian.
7.Novartis CEO is an Indian.
8.Diageo CEO is an Indian.
9.SanDisk CEO is an Indian.
10.Harman CEO is an Indian.
11.Micron's CEO is an Indian.
12.Palo Alto Networks CEO is an Indian.
13. Reckitt Benckiser CEO is an Indian.
14. IBM CEO is an Indian.
15. Britain's Chancellor is an Indian.
16. Britain's Home Secretary is an Indian.
17. Ireland’s Prime Minister is an Indian.
18. Suriname's President is an Indian
19. Guyana's President is an Indian.
20. The Mayor of London is an Indian
And the British Prime Minister and American Vice President are Indian. 
So who is running the world?"

[Goanet] NEWS of the Day

[Eddie D'Sa]

-- Original Message --
From: "The India Cable" 
To: gdig...@btinternet.com
Sent: Monday, 26 Jun, 23 At 14:43

India won’t surpass China as superpower, Karnataka minister wants cow 
vigilantism dead, misspelt names deny access to MGNREGA, Kuki refugees 
not welcome in Shillong, the secret cant of hijras  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 
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News of the day:
   --   China has been helping the Pakistan Army build its defence 
infrastructure 
 
, setting up communication towers and laying underground cables


--  Hand to hand fighting and the use of firearms marked a BJP rally in 
Madhepura, Bihar.


--  unidentified army personnel forced locals in Pulwama 
district, south Kashmir, to recite the Jai Shri Ram 
 
slogan in a mosque. The incident, which occurred while Union Home 
Minister Amit Shah was in J to assess the security situation, caused a 
great deal of outrage.


-- Thanks to its long tradition of sending professional 
soldiers to serve in the armies of other nations, Nepal finds that its 
people are fighting on both sides 
 
of the Ukraine invasion.


-- Young Indian astronomer Aswin Shekhar now has a minor planet 
named after him 
 
. ​​The honour was bestowed on him at the Asteroids Comets Meteors 
Conference 2023 last week 
 
. The citation said that he “is the first professional meteor astronomer 
from India in modern times. He has made important contributions to the 
field of meteors in meteoroid stream dynamics, particularly in the 
effects of relativity and resonances in meteoroid streams.”...

Eddie Ray

Re: [Goanet] Expunging Goa’s 451-year History

[Eddie D'Sa]

-- Original Message --
From: "Gilbert Lawrence" 
To: "Goanet Org" ; "goa-book-c...@googlegroups.com" 


Sent: Sunday, 25 Jun, 23 At 17:43
Subject: [Goanet] Expunging Goa’s 451-year History
Goa’s Chief Minster (CM)suggested in his exuberance the purging of 451 
years of Goa’s history. Yet it is ironical that at the same time the BJP 
boss, Prime Minister Narender Modi was telling a joint session of 
Congress in Washington that India is a democracy and an all-inclusive 
society. Yet Modi must be also well aware that the Hindus discriminate 
strongly against Muslims and Christians & this was brought to BIDEN's 
attention.


   Eddie
What is the Konkani proverb for such situations?
Regards, GL

Re: [Goanet] Daily Brief | Modi in Washington: US media highlights democracy debate, Indian media focuses on pageantry, and more

[Eddie D'Sa]

The Americans & their stooge BIDEN are merely propping up this MODI 
fellow to sell him arms (jets, drones etc).
That's all the Americans are fit for, making money by creating 
destruction everywhere.
They know that while this Hindu leader MODI can be tough against Muslims 
and other Asians, he goes all limp & helpless before the Anglos (English 
speaking lot) and gives in to whatever they seek.

BIDEN has just to smile and MODI submits.

Best wishes... Eddie

-- Original Message --
From: "Scroll.in" 
To: notificati...@stck.me
Sent: Saturday, 24 Jun, 23 At 05:54
Subject: Daily Brief | Modi in Washington: US media highlights democracy 
debate, Indian media focuses on pageantry, and more




Scroll.in

Daily Brief | Modi in Washington: US media highlights democracy debate, 
Indian media focuses on pageantry, and more 






   Modi in Washington: US media highlights democracy debate, Indian 
media focuses on pageantry 

Indian media steered clear of reporting on alleged democratic 
backsliding in India being a possible hurdle in strengthening of the 
bilateral ties. 
 
scroll.in 






   Ahead of 2024, RSS has sent an important message – but neither 
the BJP nor Congress is listening 

The Sangh said relying only on the PM and Hindutva will not deliver 
a victory. But BJP is unlikely to change tack while Congress has opted 
for soft... 
 
scroll.in 






   Gambia tightens pharmaceutical quality checks for shipments from 
India 

At least 70 children died in the West African country last year due 
to acute kidney injury, which the doctors had linked to adulterated 
cough syrup... 
 
scroll.in 






   FIRs over Aurangzeb WhatsApp statuses reflect poorly on the 
police as hate speech faces no action 

Either the police cannot differentiate between free speech and hate 
speech, or believe that opinions contradicting the ruling establishment 
must be... 
 
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   ‘Soft Animal’: A rare novel about womanhood and the unmaking of 
a marriage during the lockdown 

In Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan’s new novel, the winds of Mallika’s 
personal tragedies rage on while we see how even her humane self is at 
risk of disa... 
 
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Re: [Goanet] Temples of Goa

[Eddie D'Sa]

wHAT DO YOU GET BY KNOWING THE TEMPLES OF GOA??
WILL THE GODS HELP & IF SO HOW??
HOW HAVE THE GODS HELPED THE COOMON MAN OF GOA??
DOES A GOD (HINDU OR CHRISTIAN)?
WHERE IS HE HIDING?

EDDIE

-- Original Message --
From: "Rajan Parrikar" 
To: goa...@goanet.org
Sent: Thursday, 1 Jun, 23 At 09:28
Subject: [Goanet] Temples of Goa
A cinematic journey through Goa's Hindu landscape. The story is told
through still images & video footage, a distillate of my photographic
exploration during the last 17 years. Although a large body of
material I have acquired over this period still awaits processing,
this brief presentation serves as a synopsis of Goa's uniquely
profound Hindu tradition.
https://blog.parrikar.com/2023/06/01/temples-of-goa/ 


Also available on YouTube & Vimeo -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3L1m4H59ks 


https://vimeo.com/831998551 
Best,
Rajan Parrikar

[Goanet] Vatican updates on old Pope's health

[Eddie D'Sa]

Dear Independent Editors,
I wonder why the the Euro-led Vatican keeps telling us of Pope Benedict 
health. He is an old man, close to death and he has done nothing for 
non-Euros. In fact, he was quite a racist. There is much persecution of 
Christians in India but not a word from the Vatican. It's mostly about 
white issues. The Popes are all white. Nearly all the saints are white.

Time for the Vatican to be closed down.

Eddie

[Goanet] Charles III is unfit to be King

[Eddie D'Sa]

George III is no King material. He is totally inadequate.
Novara media has probed him convincingly.
Read https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qElmEr8RrLg

The proposed coronation should be cancelled as a service to the people 
of Britain.


Eddie

Re: [Goanet] England And Wales No Longer Christian

[Eddie D'Sa]

Dear Roland,
You mean well no doubt but what on earth does it mean to be Christian?
We are told that Jesus is son of God. That's what a bunch fo Euros 
decided. DWhat on earth does this mean


-- Original Message --
From: "Roland Francis" 
To: "GOA2" 
Sent: Monday, 26 Dec, 22 At 21:46
Subject: [Goanet] England And Wales No Longer Christian
The results of the 2021 census were released by the Office for National 
Statistics (ONS), revealing a historically sharp decline in the number 
of people identifying as Christian in England and Wales (other regions 
of the United Kingdom, such as Northern Ireland and Scotland report 
their census data separately). According to the census, the number of 
people identifying as Christian in England and Wales fell from 33.3 
million (59.3%) in 2011 to 27.5 million (46.2%) in 2021, a shocking 17% 
decrease. On the other hand, those who identify as Muslim rose from 4.9% 
in 2011 to 6.5% in 2021, making it the fastest-growing religion in 
England and Wales. Meanwhile, the number of non-religious people 
increased from 25.2% to 37.2%.
Reacting to the latest data from the 2021 census, Archbishop of York 
Stephen Cottrell said that both regions "left behind the era when many 
people almost automatically identified as Christian." Stephen Evans, 
Head of the National Secular Society said, "It's official - we are no 
longer a Christian country.”

Roland.
Toronto.

[Goanet] Charley unfit to be King

[Eddie D'Sa]

Dear Michael Walker (Novara Media),
Hearty congrats on your history-making account on the state of Britain's 
monarchy and in particular the antics of King Charles III.
The lucid account should be a must-reading for all Brit citizens, who 
should be guarded against the trivia & titillations of the 'mainstream' 
(billionaire) media.

School children should be familiarised with what you have written.
The content can  be found on the site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qElmEr8RrLg

Eddie D'Sa

[Goanet] King Charles, a pathetic figure

[Eddie D'Sa]

Britain's King Charles III cuts a lonely, pathetic figure.
Why doesn't he resign in good grace, so that the state money wasted for 
his upkeep is better utilised for the less disadvantaged people?


Eddie

[Goanet] ASIAN CRITIQUE OF PAPAL ENCYCLICALS

[Eddie D'Sa]

The Popes (all Europeans) have written a number of Encyclicals on Social 
Teaching.
They are bound to show a degree of Eurocentric bias and discerning Asian 
theologians have not accepted them without reserve. In particular, a Sri 
Lankan theologian, Aloysius Pieris, has presented a detailed critique. 
He happens to be a founder member of the Ecumenical Association of Third 
World Theologians (EATWOT) set up in 1976. He is a force to reckon with 
in Asia and has lectured in the major institutions of the West.


Introduction
The critique has two aims:
1) to persuade the Vatican to listen and learn from concerned scholars 
and groups so that the papal encyclicals are truly catholic;
2) to persuade Asian church leaders to evolve a Catholic Social Teaching 
within Asia's own economic and cultural context.


Third world Perspective
Papal writings have failed to understand the authentic concept of a 
Third world. Thus to Pope John II, the Third World is just a 
geographical area where the poor are manufactured by a heartless 
Christian First World. Unfortunately, the West's developmental ideology 
in the 1960s neutralised the idea of a truly third way and reduced the 
phrase to a mere economic category. Sadly, the Vatican also uncritically 
accepted this ideology. Why didn't the Holy Ghost advise to Popes when 
needed?
It was in the 1970s that the Third World came to be regarded as a 
theological category and, EATWOT formed in this decade began to respond 
to the West's model of development.


The Euro Popes continue to believe that their social teaching is 
universally valid and needs merely adapting to local situations. Instead 
of dialoguing with Bishops, theologians and the basic communities, the 
Vatican has been issuing warnings and threats.


Asian Perspective
It is important to remember that Asia is almost totally (97%) 
non-Christian. Asia is largely polytheistic or Marxist while only Islam 
and Hinduism profess a theistic faith, together with a small minority of 
Christians.
Three principles can be extracted from the western Christian formula and 
re-formulated into an idiom acceptable to Asians:
(1) The theological basis of the papal social doctrine is the dignity of 
the human person and this is nearly all Asian religions. The idea of 
Image of God may be absent but the primacy of man and woman is affirmed 
in other ways.
(2) There is a parallel between the principle of Natural Law in the CST 
and the dharma/Tao or the principle of righteousness in some of Asia's 
gnostic religions. But whereas in the CST, duties are derived from 
rights rooted in the dignity of each person, Asian religions reverse the 
process: it is dharma (duty) that justifies rights. So the dignity of 
the human person is not the source of rights, rather one's 
responsibilities to others.
(3)Finally there is convergence between the ancient Christian belief in 
the Common Good over individual rights to private property, and Asia's 
traditional sense of reverential obligation towards the common natural 
resources.


The three aspects above (primacy of the human person, the human rights 
language and primacy of the common good) are woven into a Christian 
theory of commutative, distributive and social justice.
The papal doctrine seems tied to the West on whose colonial waves 
Christianity was carried to the shores of Asia. Nowhere does the Pope 
acknowledge the Christian sinfulness of colonialism so clearly stamped 
in Asian history. It is difficult for non-Christian Asians to 
disassociate the Pope's concern for Asia's social ills from the West's 
blatant expansion of its technocratic power in Asia today. At stake is 
the credibility of the CST, unlike Liberation theology, which draws from 
a grassroots Third World experience.


It is time for Rome to acknowledge and correct its own failings in the 
matter of social justice - silencing theologians it does to like, 
overreacting to criticism levelled against its bureaucracy and most of 
all its intransigent patriachalism.
Rome's unwillingness to confess its own sinfulness makes  its version of 
CST suspect from a biblical viewpoint. The Roman CST has been 
preoccupied with general principles but is unable to respond critically 
to the concrete situation.
The human rights theology of the West needs to be replaced by a 
co-responsibility model. The obligations of the strong towards the weak 
constitute the proper divine order priority of the needs of the poor 
over the greed of the rich.
An authentic CST must promote participatory (rather than merely a 
liberal) form of democracy.

[Goanet] Still resurrecting the long dead queen

[Eddie D'Sa]

Express editors, there you go again.
When hard up for news, just dig up yarns of the long dead Queen and her 
imaginary exchanges with Charles, Meghan & Harry.
What a pathetic state of the 'mainstream' media with their billionaire 
owners.


Eddie

Re: [Goanet] ENOUGH OF THE ROYALS PLEASE

[Eddie D'Sa]

-- Original Message --
From: "Eddie D'Sa" 
To: expresslett...@express.co.uk
Cc: "GoaNet" 
Sent: Tuesday, 6 Dec, 22 At 12:38
Subject: [Goanet] ENOUGH OF THE ROYALS PLEASE

Hi Express Editors,
The UK media seem lost without constant references to the Royals.
I guess that nothing really exciting is going on in the UK.
But why endless views on the Queen (long dead), the King who doesn't 
know what to do with his time and the lesser Royals?

Please cut out news on the boring Royals, including Meghan & Harry.
Eddie

[Goanet] Why focus on self-obsessed moron Musk?

[Eddie D'Sa]

Dear Ash,
Surely there must lots of topics to discuss apart from Musk & fellow 
billionaires.

UK billionaire media focuses on King Charley, Harry and Megan endlessly.

What has the western media been reduced to?
And nobody can do a thing about it because just a handful of people own 
most of the world's wealth and money defines you entirely in the West.


Eddie

Re: [Goanet] THE BJP’S GROSS ABUSE OF POWER

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hi Aires,
At fault is Modi, BJP King. He no doubt believes that as PM of India he 
is untouchable.
Don't forget he was involved in the killings of over a thousand Muslims, 
organised by his henchmen. He was then CM of Gujarat.

Has Modi been  punished for this crime??
The Hindu notion of justice and fair play is not well defined and Modi 
is ever ready to cut corners in securing whatever he wants.


Why won't he enroll in a basic English course that will enable him to 
speak in English for a change?
At the moment he seems fluent in Hindi and Guju. But what of other 
Indians who speak other languages?


The shame is that the other parties like the Congress is too timid to 
challenge the BJP.

So Modi can do what he likes, as nobody dares challenge him.

Eddie


-- Original Message --
From: "Aires Rodrigues" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Wednesday, 14 Dec, 22 At 19:32
Subject: [Goanet] THE BJP’S GROSS ABUSE OF POWER
Goa has witnessed Governments under various regimes but the abuse of 
Power

by the BJP is unparalleled. It extends to anything and everything. Every
rule and established protocol being brazenly breached.
The Goa Legislature Secretariat issues stickers to be used by MLAs on 
their
vehicles. But they have reportedly been doled out to all and sundry who 
are

chums of the party.
Noticed a car parked in the city bearing registration No GA07 P 7770 and
out of curiosity enquired with the Road Transport Office (RTO) about the
owner. This vehicle which had an MLA’s sticker belongs to Sidhesh Dessai 
a
resident of Taleigao who is NOT an MLA but prominently in event 
management
and happens to be also closely connected with Mandrem MLA Jit Arolkar. 
It
so reveals that even some history sheeters are flouting these MLA 
stickers

on their cars. What a disgrace. Another instance of Jungle Raj.
Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar should look into this serious breach of 
Protocol.

Stickers should be issued with the vehicle registration number on it and
only after verifying that the vehicle is in the name of the concerned 
MLA.
Those responsible for giving away these stickers in such a reckless 
manner

must be hauled up.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues
C/G-2, Shopping Complex
Ribandar Retreat
Ribandar – Goa – 403006
Mobile No: 9822684372
Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012
Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com

You can also reach me on
Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues
Twitter@rodrigues_aires
www.airesrodrigues.in
airesrodrigues1@instagram

[Goanet] ENOUGH OF THE ROYALS PLEASE

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hi Express Editors,
The UK media seem lost without constant references to the Royals.
I guess that nothing really exciting is going on in the UK.

But why endless views on the Queen (long dead), the King who doesn't 
know what to do with his time and the lesser Royals?


Please go easy on the boring Royals.

Eddie

Re: [Goanet] A Racist Conversation

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hi Roland,
These Brit Royals don't know what to do with their time and, and as a 
past time, enjoy questioning & boring normal people.

These Royals should be abolished. What purpose do they serve?
The immense sums of money given to them by state for their upkeep can be 
used for much needed services for poorer people.


Best wishes
Eddie

-- Original Message --
From: "Roland Francis" 
To: "GOA2" 
Sent: Thursday, 1 Dec, 22 At 20:06
Subject: [Goanet] A Racist Conversation
An interesting conversation showing overt racism by a British Royal 
Householder when taking to a born-in-Britain black woman (as reported by 
the BBC).
If you think it compares to a teeth pulling dental session, you wouldn’t 
be wrong.

Here is the full conversation, as recounted by Ms Fulani:
Lady SH: Where are you from?
Me: Sistah Space.
SH: No, where do you come from?
Me: We're based in Hackney.
SH: No, what part of Africa are you from?
Me: I don't know, they didn't leave any records.
SH: Well, you must know where you're from, I spent time in France. Where 
are you from?

Me: Here, the UK.
SH: No, but what nationality are you?
Me: I am born here and am British.
SH: No, but where do you really come from, where do your people come 
from?

Me: 'My people', lady, what is this?
SH: Oh I can see I am going to have a challenge getting you to say where 
you're from. When did you first come here?
Me: Lady! I am a British national, my parents came here in the 50s 
when...

SH: Oh, I knew we'd get there in the end, you're Caribbean!
Me: No lady, I am of African heritage, Caribbean descent and British 
nationality.

SH: Oh so you're from...
Roland.
Toronto.

Re: [Goanet] BASIC TENETS OF OUR CONSTITUTION in distress

[Eddie D'Sa]

Aires,
What do you expect from a semi-literate PM like MODI who can barely 
speak decent English?
Modi should take a break from duties and enroll in a 6-month's course in 
basic English.

He should also take a course in basic discussion techniques.
And henceforth he should stop dabbling repeatedly in religious issues 
only.

There are lots of other issues to attend to.

Time to act as a responsible leader for all, not just Hindus.

Eddie




-- Original Message --
From: "Aires Rodrigues" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Saturday, 26 Nov, 22 At 18:50
Subject: [Goanet] THE BASIC TENETS OF OUR CONSTITUTION ARE BEING ERODED
On 26th November we observed our Constitution Day which is also known as
National Law Day. We have a lot to reflect on what has been going wrong
with the very guiding principles of our Constitution being flouted with
impunity. On 26 November 1949, the Constituent Assembly adopted our
Constitution which was drafted by a committee headed by Babasaheb 
Ambedkar

who played a pivotal role in its drafting.
Perhaps the founding fathers never visualized or anticipated that Money 
and
Muscle Power would one day rule the roost in our country’s political 
arena

with persons lacking morals and ethics assuming Power. So now there is a
need for urgent amendments to our Constitution to safeguard those
fundamentals while leaving no grey areas for manipulation and towards 
this

the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary must look within.
The loopholes that have crept in the Anti-Defection law must be plugged.
The Autonomy of the Reserve Bank, Election Commission, Enforcement
Directorate and the CBI must be restored. And more importantly the very
vital Independence of the Judiciary can never ever be compromised. Let 
us

all sincerely commit to protect and ensure that the doctrine of our
Constitution is strictly adhered to in letter and spirit with no room 
for

fudging or fraud.  Only then will there be something to rejoice and
celebrate on our Constitution Day.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues
C/G-2, Shopping Complex
Ribandar Retreat
Ribandar – Goa – 403006
Mobile No: 9822684372
Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012
Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com

You can also reach me on
Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues
Twitter@rodrigues_aires
www.airesrodrigues.in
airesrodrigues1@instagram

[Goanet] GLIMPSES OF CHURCH HISTORY

[Eddie D'Sa]

Period 1200 - 1300 CE
Pope Innocent III was crowned in Jan 1198 with the words:
"Thou art Father of Princes, Ruler of the world, Vicar of Jesus 
Christ..."
He garments he wore shone with gold and jewels, and he rode on a 
scarlet-clad horse; his foot was kissed by Prelates and Princes alike.
Within two years, he and not the Emperor was virtual Ruler of Rome and 
Italy.
The Fourth Crusade was launched in 1201 and three years later, the 
Eastern Capital, Constantinople, was sacked, the cathedral desecrated, 
relics stolen and women, including nuns, raped. The Crusader chronicles 
openly refer to the cannibalism practised by the Frankish knights.Kiing 
John of England began taxing the clergy to help fund his wars and 
refused to recognise the Pope who in turn excommunicated John and placed 
all of England under an interdict. King John then confiscated church 
property, banned church services and closed 8000 churches. The Pope then 
asked King Philip of France to invade England. John then gave in and 
promised to pay 1000 marks as annual rent to the Pope in addition to 
Peter's pence.



Having dealt with King John, the Pope authorised a special crusade 
against the Albigensians, a group considered heretical.. The pope 
offered a special indulgence for 40-day service. As a result, a vast mob 
of knights, clergy, peasants etc joined in. The crusaders marched to 
Bezier, looting and killing on the way. The people locked themselves 
into the two main churches. While requiem Mass was being chanted, the 
doors were being hammered down by axes and soon gave way. None were 
spared including babies. The last to go were the two celebrants, holding 
a crucifix and chalice. The invaders then set fire to the town and 
Bezier was turned to a heap of ashes.


Heretics were captured in the hundreds, their eyes gouged out, noses 
lopped off and most were burnt on mass pyres. Meanwhile John of England 
was forced to sign the Magna Carta . But Pope Innocent annulled the 
Charter "from the unlimited power given to me by God".
The Pope passed more laws than the preceding 50 popes. A successor, Pope 
Gregory IX (1227-41) set up the Inquisition to apprehend and punish 
heretics. In 1239, Bishop Moranis of Champagne was accused to allowing 
heretics in his diocese. He and 180 alleged heretics were burnt at the 
stake.


Pope Innocent IV allowed the Inquisition to use torture and decreed that 
disobedience even in thought was punishable. Entire families were 
tortured when a member informed on them. Sentences were also passed on 
the dead and their property confiscated.

--
Eddie Ray
-- Original Message --
From: "The Catholic Thing" 
To: gdig...@btinternet.com
Sent: Thursday, 24 Nov, 22 At 11:00
Subject: The Virtue of Gratitude
  Romano Guardini: Who knows – if we may speak in this 
way – what God feels when we not merely perform our duty toward Him, but 
give Him love. 

All of us at The Catholic Thing wish all of you and your families a 
Blessed Thanksgiving.



 The Virtue of Gratitude

 Romano Guardini: Who knows – if we may speak in this way – what God 
feels when we not merely perform our duty toward Him, but give Him love.


 Let us attempt to obtain a view of this gradually disappearing virtue 
– gratitude. Let us ask what is necessary so that gratitude may become 
possible.


   Above all there is this: We can be grateful only to a 
person. Gratitude and petition are possible only between an “I” and a 
“Thou.” We cannot thank a law, a board, or a company. We may do so out 
of mere politeness when the proper sum is handed to us, in order to keep 
everything in the domain of good manners, but real gratitude does not 
enter into the matter, for gratitude is the expression of a personal 
encounter in human need.


   But two persons, one of whom is situated so that he has 
something or can do something, while the other has not or cannot – these 
stand face to face. The one asks and the other is ready; the one gives 
and the other thanks; and the two are united by a human tie. Here 
gratitude is possible, and it becomes a basis for community.


   Furthermore, gratitude is possible only in the realm of 
freedom. For the fact that the sun rises in the morning or, to express 
it scientifically, that the earth comes into such a position in relation 
to the sun that it becomes visible: for this I am not grateful. It is 
certainly true that on a bright morning very lively sentiments of 
gratitude may arise because something so powerful and beautiful is 
taking place. But these are the responses of man to Him who has created 
all, or else they are the after-effects of a time in which the sun 
itself was revered as a divinity. . . . .


 Click here to read the rest of Servant of God Guardini’s message . . . 

Re: [Goanet] GOA RUN BY THUGS?

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hi Aires,
Your email was quite a revelation. It seems a bunch of thugs & criminals 
are running Goa.

And nobody dares do a thing to stop them.
The usual internet news & noise makers won't comment. The Christian & 
Hindu religious leaders have gone dumb.

Is everyone scared?
And Modi too has gone silent. The old fellow of course doesn't know 
English; so he could have commented in Hindi or Guju.

Or should the British return and resume charge?

Thanks, Aires, for giving us a taste of modern India.

Eddie



-- Original Message --
From: "Aires Rodrigues" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Wednesday, 16 Nov, 22 At 19:15
Subject: [Goanet] WITH LAWBREAKERS IN POWER OUR GOA IS DOOMED
Before making a sweeping statement that most crimes in Goa are committed 
by

‘outsiders’, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant should reflect and introspect
within his own cabinet and the MLAs supporting his Government.
One accused of raping a minor girl is a Minister and the same Minister 
is
also facing trial for a heinous crime against the State of having 
attacked
the Panaji Police Station. Pramod Sawant also has as his Minister the 
main

accused in the infamous Power Scam case, who ironically was booked on a
complaint filed by the BJP itself. It is no secret that some prominently
involved in land grabbing are now Cabinet Ministers and MLAs supporting
this government. Even some of the eight who recently joined the BJP also
have a gory criminal track record.
And if the Chief Minister knows that the ‘outsiders’ are indeed the 
cause

of most crimes in Goa, what policy measures has his government taken to
tackle the problem? When will the government open its eyes and realize 
that
the Casino trade it is patronizing is very much linked to the soaring 
crime
rate in our once peaceful state. So also is the drug trade and 
flourishing
prostitution which is merrily going on while the law enforcers 
conveniently

look the other way.
And is the Chief Minister not aware that politicians in Power depend on
muscle power and move around with bouncers to survive and carry on their
nefarious activities. So it's time that the political class takes
responsibility for the deteriorating law and order scenario rather than
blaming it on ‘outsiders’. And Mr. Chief Minister, if your very 
‘insiders’
stink of Crime, stop and think before you throw stones at others from 
the

safety of your glass house.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues
Ribandar – Goa – 403006
www.airesrodrigues.in

Re: [Goanet] The Anglos seem obsessed by Trump.

[Eddie D'Sa]

Why do the Anglo news outlets make such a big fuss about this Germanic 
fellow called TRUMP?

Isn't he just a trouble maker?
Is the US so hard up for news?

Eddie Ray


-- Original Message --
From: "Jacobin" 
To: "Friend" 
Sent: Thursday, 17 Nov, 22 At 22:59
Subject: Trump always seems to bounce back from adversity. This time, 
it’s hard to see how.
  Donald Trump’s speech announcing his 2024 
presidential campaign was lackluster after the “red tide” failed to 
materialize. 
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Trump always seems to bounce back from adversity. This time, it’s hard 
to see how.


 
When you announce a presidential run, you typically want to establish 
yourself as the front-runner by having some momentum behind you and 
demonstrating broad support from within your party. You certainly don’t 
want to do it off a stunning electoral failure you’re being widely 
blamed for, with members of your own party attacking you and people in 
your inner circle advising you to delay the announcement.


 But this is Donald Trump we’re talking about. Could it have gone any 
other way?


 Trump defiantly announced his 2024 presidential campaign Tuesday, a 
week after a disappointing GOP midterm election performance led his own 
advisers to urge him to delay the announcement. Having planned to take 
credit for what he thought would be a Republican landslide that never 
happened, Trump was in a bind: delay the event, looking weak and tacitly 
admitting the election didn’t go his way, or barrel ahead with it 
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 The speech was a relatively subdued one by Trump standards, heavy on 
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Re: [Goanet] Living Bread from Heaven

[Eddie D'Sa]

Sorry, Adolfo, but I couldn't follow your line of thought.
You didn't say a word about this thing called the Eucharist.
What's its purpose?  Eating a form of bread prepares you for heaven.
And where is this heaven that Catholics are aspiring to?
Eucharist is just a fictional notion cooked up by Jesus (so we are told) 
when he was in one his moods.

How has it helped mankind??
Let's abolish the Eucharist as some Jewish aberration.

Eddie
-- Original Message --
From: "Adolfo Mascarenhas" 
To: "Eddie D'Sa" 
Sent: Wednesday, 16 Nov, 22 At 14:01
Subject: Re: Living Bread from Heaven

You Eddie continue believing that the Number 13 does not exist ..All 
because an Apostle called Judas betrayed Jesus. So in Good Hotels in UK 
& America Room 13 or floor 13 don't exist.
Christ is not European The first Catholics were the products of the 
Apostle Thomas. it took another 500 years to get  Irish Catholics
There are thousands of Catholics Priest who have not molested boys or 
girls so do not generalize from the minority.
Since you are so British perhaps you should go to STONEHENGE or a 
similar place and then think of a sacrifice, a rabbit.,a fox or a priest 
or two. Meanwhile we can only for you.

Grandolfo
In Tanzania


On Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 3:45 PM Eddie D'Sa <mailto:gdig...@btinternet.com> > wrote:


We live in the 21st century in which a few countries like the US 
corporations dominate the rest and try to bend them to their will.
Do the wealthy CEOS know anything about this great Eucharist that you 
speak of or care if it won't make them richer?
How many Catholics (I am one in name) care for this thing called the 
Eucharist?
How does it transform them in their daily lives? How many Catholics 
today care for this thing called the Eucharist?
Isn't frankly just a pious Euro belief of early Christianity and has no 
meaning today? Thousands of Euro priests in the West receive the 
Eucharist at Mass but then go on to molest young children.


Why hasn't the Eucharist transformed them into saintly characters? Now 
don't tell me they don't have the right dispositions.
It is time that the Vatican & their friends banish these ancient 
'sacraments' that make no sense today. Which Catholic is prepared to 
defend the Eucharist today?

Best wishes.

Eddie Ray
-- Original Message --
From: "The Catholic Thing" <mailto:thecatholicth...@frinstitute.org> >

To: gdig...@btinternet.com <mailto:gdig...@btinternet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 16 Nov, 22 At 11:00
Subject: Living Bread Come Down from Heaven
  Thomas Weinandy OFM Cap.: The Eucharist is a 
foretaste of eternal life. Here on earth, we are taken up into the 
heavenly realm and participate in... 
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 Living Bread Come Down from Heaven

 Thomas Weinandy OFM Cap.: The Eucharist is a foretaste of eternal 
life. Here on earth, we are taken up into the heavenly realm and 
participate in the everlasting heavenly liturgy.


 The Bishops of the United States have initiated a Eucharistic Revival 
and will be discussing it today at their annual fall meeting in 
Baltimore.  It began on the Feast of Corpus Christi 2022 and will 
conclude on Pentecost of 2025.  The following is intended to be a modest 
theological contribution to their Spirit-filled endeavor.


   Chapter 6 of John’s Gospel contains Jesus’ Eucharistic 
discourse.  It begins with Jesus multiplying the five loaves and two 
fishes – resulting in an abundance that filled twelve baskets of 
leftovers.  Following this miracle-sign, Jesus withdrew to the hills to 
pray.


   The next day the crowd went seeking for Jesus, and when they 
found him, Jesus declared that they sought him not because they saw 
signs, but because of the loaves.  Jesus then said: “Do not labor for 
the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, 
which the Son of man will give you.”


   The crowd asks what they must do to possess eternal life; 
Jesus responds that they are to believe in him whom the Father sent. 
They ask Jesus for a sign – and offer the example of their fathers 
eating manna in the wilderness.  Ironically, Jesus just performed that 
very sign – a sign that they failed to recognize.


 Click here to read the rest of Father Weinandy’s column . . . 
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 Image: Christ with the Host by Pablo da San Leocadio (aka Paolo da 
Reggio), late 15th century [National Museum in Poznań, Poland]


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Re: [Goanet] Living Bread from Heaven

[Eddie D'Sa]

We live in the 21st century in which a few countries like the US 
corporations dominate the rest and try to bend them to their will.
Do the wealthy CEOS know anything about this great Eucharist that you 
speak of or care if it won't make them richer?
How many Catholics (I am one in name) care for this thing called the 
Eucharist?
How does it transform them in their daily lives? How many Catholics 
today care for this thing called the Eucharist?
Isn't frankly just a pious Euro belief of early Christianity and has no 
meaning today? Thousands of Euro priests in the West receive the 
Eucharist at Mass but then go on to molest young children.


Why hasn't the Eucharist transformed them into saintly characters? Now 
don't tell me they don't have the right dispositions.
It is time that the Vatican & their friends banish these ancient 
'sacraments' that make no sense today. Which Catholic is prepared to 
defend the Eucharist today?

Best wishes.

Eddie Ray
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  Thomas Weinandy OFM Cap.: The Eucharist is a 
foretaste of eternal life. Here on earth, we are taken up into the 
heavenly realm and participate in... 


 Living Bread Come Down from Heaven

 Thomas Weinandy OFM Cap.: The Eucharist is a foretaste of eternal 
life. Here on earth, we are taken up into the heavenly realm and 
participate in the everlasting heavenly liturgy.


 The Bishops of the United States have initiated a Eucharistic Revival 
and will be discussing it today at their annual fall meeting in 
Baltimore.  It began on the Feast of Corpus Christi 2022 and will 
conclude on Pentecost of 2025.  The following is intended to be a modest 
theological contribution to their Spirit-filled endeavor.


   Chapter 6 of John’s Gospel contains Jesus’ Eucharistic 
discourse.  It begins with Jesus multiplying the five loaves and two 
fishes – resulting in an abundance that filled twelve baskets of 
leftovers.  Following this miracle-sign, Jesus withdrew to the hills to 
pray.


   The next day the crowd went seeking for Jesus, and when they 
found him, Jesus declared that they sought him not because they saw 
signs, but because of the loaves.  Jesus then said: “Do not labor for 
the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, 
which the Son of man will give you.”


   The crowd asks what they must do to possess eternal life; 
Jesus responds that they are to believe in him whom the Father sent. 
They ask Jesus for a sign – and offer the example of their fathers 
eating manna in the wilderness.  Ironically, Jesus just performed that 
very sign – a sign that they failed to recognize.


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 Image: Christ with the Host by Pablo da San Leocadio (aka Paolo da 
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[Goanet] The INQUISTIION TODAY

[Eddie D'Sa]

It was pleasantly surprising that the fellows running the Catholic Thing 
decided to descend from their high perch and return to an old Bible 
story - the story of Mary Magdalene.

So they do believe in the Bible after all.

Last week I had written on the old malevolent institution loved by the 
Vatican called the Inquisition. But the Inquisition is not dead.
It has resurrected under a new name - Congregation for the Doctrine of 
the Faith (CDF) and its head in the late 1990s was a German Cardinal 
called Joseph Ratzinger in his 70s. He was soon on the lookout for a 
victim; and he soon found one in the person of Sri Lankan theologian Fr 
Tissa Balasuriya.
Tissa had written a book Mary and Human Liberation in which he had 
raised a number of questions and comments, such as
1. In what way is Jesus united with God?... In what way is the Bible 
inspired? Such issues were elaborated later in Christian history.
2. Who can know whether Mary was a virgin after the birth of Jesus? 
There has been a trend to attribute perpetual virginity to Mary but the 
scriptural evidence is weak.
3. Th usual perspective of original sin is not acceptable in other Asian 
religions. That whole generations of peoples died with a lesser chance 
of salvation is repugnant to the idea of a just and loving God.
The fact is that an Asian theologian had challenged the traditional 
portrayal of Mary by the 'capitalist, patriarchal and colonialist West'. 
Fr Tissa told the India media: "I have simply portrayed Mary as a role 
model for working class women."
The truth is that the Vatican is increasingly uncomfortable with the 
independent stand taken by South Asian theologians in recent years. Like 
all Euro institutions, the Vatican would be happy with a submissive 
posture from the Asians and Blacks.


Eddie Ray


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Mary the Great

 Brad Miner profiles a remarkable woman: Mary Magdalene. She has been a 
frequent subject in art, and Domenico Tintoretto painted a truly superb 
portrait of her.


 Who was she really? Can we even agree on what to call her? Is she Mary 
Magdalene or Mary Magdalen; Mary of Magdala or The Magdalene; maybe 
simply Madeleine?


   Her proper name aside (which would have been Miryam in 
Hebrew or Maryam in Aramaic), we know that she was very important among 
the Lord’s disciples – so much so that she’s mentioned in the Gospels 
more often than most of the apostles.


   Luke (8:2-3) tells us she “had been cured of evil spirits” 
and that “seven demons had gone out” of her, and Mark (16:19) says so 
too, a detail he adds to the story of her visit to the tomb and Christ’s 
appearance to her in the garden after His Resurrection. When she told 
the apostles of the Lord’s rising, they didn’t believe her. (Lk. 8:9-11)


   Matthew mentions her three times (27:56 and 61 and 28:1), 
again in the context of Easter. And John, witness to the Crucifixion, 
notes that Mary Magdalene was at the foot of the cross with Mary, the 
mother of Jesus, and Mary, wife Clopas. (Jn. 19:25)


   John also records her presence at the tomb (20:1) on that 
greatest of Sunday mornings. She – among all the other followers of 
Jesus – was first to see the empty tomb.


   But John also gives us the remarkable fact that she was the 
first to be in the presence of the risen Lord.


 Click here to read the rest of Mr. Miner’s column . . . 

 Image: Penitent Magdalene by Domenico Tintoretto, bet. 1598 and 1602 
[Capitoline Museums, Rome]


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Re: [Goanet] Build Then, Always

[Eddie D'Sa]

Who are these fellows at the Catholic Thing pontificating on unimportant 
& irrelevant issues? I don't see any spiritual content in their articles 
and no mention of Jesus Christ or black scholars.These fellows must be 
some retired academic folks idling away in their sunset years at some 
cosy retreats in the US.

Eddie Ray
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Subject: Build Then, Always
  Anthony Esolen: The baser passions sell: sex, fear, 
anger, hatred.  They sell the farm and all the stock before the farmer 
has gotten out of bed.



 Build Then, Always

 Anthony Esolen: The baser passions sell: sex, fear, anger, hatred. 
They sell the farm and all the stock before the farmer has gotten out of 
bed.


 I’m writing on November 9, one day after the “most significant 
election in American history,” as some people were saying, and I don’t 
dispute it, except I note that every big election since 1992 has been 
the “most significant in American history,” and we have meanwhile slid 
and slumped farther into moral confusion and madness.


   In the days of Bill Clinton, that fatherless non-entity with 
a taste for young women and, somewhere in his muddled soul, for America, 
it was a scandal that he took advantage of a young female aide as he 
did, though one journalist said, with almost eager physical description, 
that she’d have performed oral sex on him just to keep abortion “legal 
and safe.”  In our days, fourth-graders are given 
instructions on the same subject, and the only scandal is that some 
people think that’s still a little young for that. As for abortion, I’ve 
heard many women insist that men should have no say in it at all. And 
thereby they provide, unwittingly, a testimony to their own unfitness to 
belong to any civil society where people, as rational and social 
creatures and not millions of islands of desire, gather to discuss the 
common good and how to secure it.
Yesterday, I said to a small group of conservative and 
devout Catholics in Canada that my country, the United States, was a 
“banana republic without the bananas,” and that it still would be that 
way on November 9, even if a tide washed a few dozen new Republican 
congressmen into office.

[Goanet] The Catholic INQUISITION

[Eddie D'Sa]

he Catholic INQUISITION
The Inquisition was an ecclesiastical court and process of the Roman 
Catholic Church setup to discover and punish heresy. It wielded immense 
power and brutality in medieval and early modern times. The Inquisitions 
function was principally assembled to repress all heretics of rights, 
depriving them of their estate and assets which became subject to the 
ownership of the Catholic treasury, with each relentlessly sought to 
destroy anyone who spoke, or even thought differently to the Catholic 
Church. This system for close to over six centuries became the legal 
framework throughout most of Europe that orchestrated one of the most 
strict religious orders in the course of mankind.



Inquisition Procedure
At root the word Inquisition signifies as little of evil as the 
primitive “inquire,” or the adjective inquisitive, but as words, like 
persons, lose their characters by bad associations, so “Inquisition” has 
become infamous and hideous as the name of an executive department of 
the Roman Catholic Church.
All crimes and all vices are contained in this one word Inquisition. 
Murder, robbery, arson, outrage, torture, treachery, deceit, hypocrisy, 
cupidity, holiness. No other word in all languages is so hateful as this 
one that owes its abhorrent preeminence to its association with the 
Roman Church.
In the Dark Side of Christian History, Helen Ellerbe describes how the 
same men who had been both prosecutor and judge decided upon the 
sentence of heresy. Once an Inquisitor arrived to a heresy-ridden 
district, a 40 day period of grace was usually allowed to all who wished 
to confess by recanting their faith.

http://return2sanity.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-horrors-of-church-and-its-holy.html

After this period of grace had finished, the inhabitants were then 
summoned to appear before the Inquisitor. Citizens accused of heresy 
would be woken in the dead of night, ordered, if not gagged, and then 
escorted to the holy edifice, or Inquisition prison for closer 
examination.
In 1244, the Council of Harbonne ordered that in the sentencing of 
heretics, no husband should be spared because of his wife, nor wife 
because of her husband, and no parent spared from a helpless child. Once 
in custody victims waited before their judge anxiously, while he 
pondered through the document of their accusation. During the first 
examination, enough of their property was likewise confiscated to cover 
the expenses of the preliminary investigation.
The accused would then be implicated and asked incriminating and luring 
questions in a dexterous manner of trickery calculated to entangle most. 
Many manual’s used and promulgated were by the grand inquisitor 
Bernardus Guidonis, the Author of Practica Inquisitionis (Practice of 
the Inquisition) and the Directorium Inquisitorum (Guideline for 
Inquisitors) completed by Nicolaus Eymerich, grand inquisitor of Aragon. 
These were the authoritative text-books for the use of inquisitors until 
the issue of Torquemada’s instructions in 1483, which was an enlarged 
and revised Directorium.

---

Eddie Ray
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Sent: Sunday, 6 Nov, 22 At 11:00
Subject: Of Tattoos and Stigmata


 
Of Tattoos and Stigmata


 Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM Cap.: Not many receive the visible 
stigmata as did Sts. Paul, Francis, and Pio, yet all of us do bear the 
invisible stigmata, for we too have died and have risen with Christ.


 I recently saw a cartoon of a football coach exhorting his new 
recruits. After he had finished his pep talk, one young rookie asked: 
“When do we get our tattoos?” Which led me to reflect.


  For the past twenty or more years, tattoos have become very 
popular, both for men and women. Moreover, they have become much more 
elaborate and ubiquitous – on arms, legs, thighs, back, chest, belly, 
and neck – in various combinations. Likewise, there are various creative 
designs – swirling patterns in multiple colors interlaced with flowers, 
butterflies, or birds.


   Although some tattoos are hideous, macabre, and even 
demonic, many tattoos are “in good taste” and often quite appealing, and 
even sexy – that is, if one is young and, so, with still firm skin.


 Few things can be more unattractive than a tattoo on drooping, 
sagging, wrinkled, aging flesh. In the not-too-distant future, such 
withering tattoos will become common.


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[Goanet] GLIMPSES OF CHURCH HISTORY: period 1000-1100 CE (Part 2)

[Eddie D'Sa]

Are all Popes saints?
Pope Gregory VII believed that, as a successor of St Peter's, he had 
absolute power and he drew up a list of 27 Declarations of papal powers 
and privileges.

Among them:
- No one on earth can judge the Pope
- The Church has never erred and never will, until the end of time
- The Pope can depose bishops, emperors and kings
- All princes must kiss his feet
- a rightly elected Pope is a saint.

Forgers at work
Most of the Declarations were based on forged documents in the Roman 
archives. Gregory is said to have engaged a whole school of forgers to 
touch up ancient texts,
distorting or reversing their meaning as the occasion demanded. The best 
known forgeries were the 9th century of 115 documents, supposedly 
written by early Bishops.
Armed with this authority, Pope Gregory set about destabilising 
Kingdoms. The Greek emperor and Polish King were deposed. The Holy Roman 
Emperor Henry IV was ordered to stop interfering with Church 
appointments. Henry was furious and nullified Gregory's election. 
Gregory countered by excommunicating the emperor.


Oddly, Henry' mother backed the Pope. Princes began withdrawing their 
allegiance and Henry realised he had to make peace with the Pope. Making 
his way through snowdrifts, Henry's party reached Countess Mathilda's 
fortress. Henry was ordered to hand over his crown and royal regalia and 
publicly confess his unworthiness as emperor. He was left knee deep in 
snow, teeth chattering, begging for mercy. Only when Mathilda pleaded 
for Henry's life did the Pope relent. Henry had to swear to abide by the 
people's will and do penance.
On his return home, Henry appointed aother pope, Clement III. In 1085, 
Henry marched into Rome, forcing Pope Gregory to flee to Naples.


The next Pope, Victor III, was kept out of Rome by anti-Pope Clement 
III. So was his successor for the first six years of his reign. In 638 
Muslims had taken over the region but allowed pilgrims' visits. Then in 
1071, the Turks took control and reversed the policy. Pope Urban II 
called upon Christian Europe to wage a Holy War and recapture the Holy 
Land. He asked in a famous sermon in 1095: "We do not even share the 
inhabited earth equally with the Muslims. They have made Asia their 
homeland..."
500 years before, Mohamed had promised paradise to those slain in 
battle. Urban now promised forgiveness of sins to all those who joined 
to free the Holy Land. In 1099, a band of knights stormed into Asia 
Minor, massacring Muslims and Jews. They captured Jerusalem and set up a 
Latin kingdom there. More crusades were to follow.


---
Eddie Ray

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Subject: The Problem with “Recreational” Sex
  Anthony Esolen: Two young people passionately in love 
yield to their desires, though they are not married.  What they are 
doing is wrong by... 


 The Problem with
 “Recreational” Sex

 Anthony Esolen: Two young people passionately in love yield to their 
desires, though they are not married.  What they are doing is wrong by 
attendant circumstances, not wrong per se: were they married, it would 
be a good and glorious thing.


 I am grateful to the Catholic faith that has led me, often despite my 
hesitation, deeper into reality, when so much about us is aimed at our 
abstraction, our losing what slender grip we have on real things and not 
ideas about things, or worse, words passing for ideas about things.


   Recently, I was lectured by a woman defending the right to 
have an abortion, because, she said, “some people like to have 
recreational sex,” and they should not have to worry about pregnancy and 
childbirth in case the synthetic hormones fail, as they often do.


   I thought about that phrase, “recreational sex,” and how 
weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable it is, this pretense that a man and 
woman can unite in that unique act, and have it mean no more than if 
they were strips of Velcro stuck together for an afternoon.


   Their bodies are more honest.  They prepare themselves in 
countless ways we are still discovering, to beget and to bear the child 
that may be the fruit of that union.  But in the abstracted minds of the 
players, there is no child, there shall be no child, there is nothing 
but “recreation.”


   And that is an attempt to strain the act so thin, there is 
hardly any blood left in it, any real humanity. It’s nonsense.  In fact, 
many a thing ceases to be what it is as soon as you say it is merely 
recreational.


 Click here to read the rest of Professor Esolen’s column . . . 



 Image: La Surprise by Jean-Antoine Watteau, about 1718-1719 

[Goanet] Poor Biden

[Eddie D'Sa]

Dear US Vice-President Kamala,
You are a good lady, ever good humored.
But why on earth can't your party afford $3? That hard up?
To me, the US parties are all the same - all they want is to be the 
ruling party and wield power.


Please persuade that old dodderer Biden to quit and retire to Ireland or 
Iceland before he makes a terminal fool of himself.

In any case the giant Corporations take all the big decisions. Poor
Biden can only wander about helplessly, leaving his wife Jill to guide 
him to safety.


And good luck to you.

Eddie Ray




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[Goanet] GLIMPSES OF CHURCH HISTORY - Period 1000-1100 CE

[Eddie D'Sa]

Sylvester II (999-1003), noted for his learning, was followed by three 
undistinguished successors.
The influential Count Gregory of Tusculum then stepped in and got his 
son Theophylact, a layman, elected as Pope Benedict VIII. He was soon 
ousted by a rival claimant, Gregory, but was restored in 1014 by King 
Henry II of Saxony (Germany). The Pope rewarded the King by crowning him 
Holy Roman Emperor in 1022.


In 1032, Count Gergory's grandson became Pope Benedict IX. He was only 
14 (some say no more than 11). Six months later, a rival faction plotted 
to murder him but took fright by a solar eclipse that occurred that day. 
Young Benedict went through the motions of office: celebrating High 
Mass, appointing Bishops, presiding over Councils. But he led a 
dissolute life feasting on immorality until the end of his life, as St 
Peter Damian (1107-72) wrote. Eventually, a Roman faction expelled him 
as unfit to rule. A new Pope was installed as Pope Sylvester III. He 
ruled for some three uneasy months when Benedict was restored by a 
Tusculum group. He continued to be devoted to pleasure and plundered the 
church treasury.
He next decided to sell the papal office itself for 1500 pounds of gold 
in weight.
He sold it to his godfather, Gratian, head priest of St John's Gratian 
paid the price (his own money) and took over as Gregory VI in 1045.


Within a year, Sylvester III laid claim to the papacy supported by his 
tribal faction. Benedict also decided to return and in 1046, Rome had 
three Popes, each powerless to eject the other two. In 1046, King Henry 
III was persuaded to Rome. Benedict fled to Tusculum. Sylvester was 
imprisoned while Pope Gregory VI was exiled to Germany. King Henry II 
then appointed Clement II as the new Pope who in turn made Henry Holy 
Roman Emperor. On Clement's death in 1047, Benedict returned to reclaim 
the papal office for the second time but in July 1048, Emperor Henry III 
again returned, and this time Benedict fled for good. It is not clear 
how he died.

==

Eddie Ray
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Sent: Thursday, 3 Nov, 22 At 10:00
Subject: Listen to the Communion of Saints
  Stephen P. White: As the Barque of Peter shudders 
through choppy seas, we can practice being a “listening Church” by 
turning our attention to the... 
 
Listen to the Communion

 of Saints

 Stephen P. White: As the Barque of Peter shudders through choppy seas, 
we can practice being a “listening Church” by turning our attention to 
the witnesses who by their lives have proclaimed the Truth that saves.


 This week’s twin celebrations, All Saints and All Souls, provide an 
occasion to step back from our current circumstances in the Church and 
the world, and to view things against a broader horizon.


   More than a distant constellation of moral exemplars, more 
than even a host of intercessors pleading for us before the Throne of 
Grace, the Communion of Saints is what awaits each one of us whose 
salvation has been won through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The 
glorious diversity of saints is perfected in, even as it reflects, the 
splendor of the Triune God in whose life they now share in full.


   If beatitude is what we were made for, our ultimate 
destination and goal, the commemoration of All Souls is a reminder that 
the way is narrow. The souls in Purgatory will go to Heaven. But even as 
we pray for their purification and speedy welcome into beatitude, we 
cannot but be reminded of the urgent need for repentance and conversion 
in our own lives.


   And that brings us to where the rest of us are, this pilgrim 
Church on earth. And down here, we’re a bit of a mess.


   The Church is mired in another of her periodic bouts of 
self-reflection, which often seem more like navel-gazing than an 
examination of conscience – in recent months and years, particularly 
around the Synod on Synodality.


 Click here to read the rest of Mr. White’s column . . . 

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Re: [Goanet] Am I Mistaken?

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hi Mr Barros,
Do you believe in these Euro-yarns about All-Souls?
In which Goa villages are these Souls to be found?

Eddie

-- Original Message --
From: "Joao Barros-Pereira" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Wednesday, 2 Nov, 22 At 05:08
Subject: [Goanet] Am I Mistaken?
Today is All Souls Day, right? and i am expected to be prayerful and go 
to

church and visit the grave and all that.
On this day religionists tell us what to do and we become full of 
religious

fever but it is a one day celebration of our ancestors.
It happens once a year to remind us we have ancestors and did not fall 
off

the shelf - just like that?
Sometimes we are controlled by religionists and at other times by
politicians and society at large. What a joke!
We are told how great someone is and how we should support him by a
government which is elected every four or five years.
And then a new government arrives which chooses a new hero who we are 
told

again is the true hero and not the other - and we need to celebrate him!
Yes, him more often than not!
A man even after raping a woman is worth much more and the woman has to
compete with none other than a cow?
And, there are a lot of one day celebrations: Father’s Day, Mother’s 
Day,

Valentine’s Day, and the lists is long.
What is short is this: do as you are told!
Is this the freedom of expression we talk and take great pride in as
members of society? Is our freedom of expression an illusion?

[Goanet] Vicars of Christ: Comment2

[Eddie D'Sa]

-- Original Message --
From: "The Catholic Thing" 
To: gdig...@btinternet.com
Sent: Sunday, 30 Oct, 22 At 10:00


Glimpses of Church History: period 900-1000 CEIn our previous episode, 
we covered Pope Sergius III who became Pope in 904 after his supporters 
murdered Leo V and Cardinal Christopher. Marozia's first son (by Pope 
Sergius) became Pope John XI in 931. She married again and when her 
second husband died, she married King Hugo of Provence in 932. Her 
second son called Alberic came to know that Hugo planned to blind him. 
So he appealed to the Romans to rise against Hugo. The Romans agreed and 
when they got ready for battle, Hugo abandoned his wife and fled.


Alberic put the Pope, his half-brother, under permanent arrest and 
imprisoned his mother in Hadrian's mausoleum where she remained for over 
50 years. Alberic died in 954 at the age of 40. His son Octavian became 
Pope John XII about the age of 18. He turned out to be one of the most 
profligate popes known. He was a great gambler and kept a stud farm of 
2000 horses which were fed on almonds and figs soaked in wine.
He stole the offerings of pilgrims and violated female pilgrims in St 
Peter's. He kept a harem at the Lateran Palace and rewarded his 
paramours with golden chalices taken from St Peter's.


King Otto of Germany came to John's aid when the King of Italy occupied 
the papal states. John made him emperor of the Holy Roman empire in 962. 
Otto asked John to mend his ways, whereupon John fled to Tivoli after 
plundering the treasury of St Peter's. Otto then called a synod of 
cardinals and bishops who read a list of John's misdeeds (charging for 
ordinations, having sex with numerous women, castrating a cardinal, 
incest with relatives, etc). John was duly informed of the Synod 
decisions but John warned the Synod that he would excommunicate the 
Bishops. John was urged to return and when he didn't, he was deposed by 
the Synod and a new Pope, a German, was appointed as the next pope, Leo 
VIII. Thereupon, John returned and the Leo VIII fled home to Germany. 
John had his revenge on the plotters by maiming or executing them.
John then resumed his old ways. He was caught in bed with another's 
wife. The husband is reported to have taken a hammer and smashed John's 
skull. He was only 26 and it was his 8th year as Pope.


Eddie Ray

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Re: [Goanet] Giorgia Meloni: “We are the heirs of St. Benedict”

[Eddie D'Sa]

-- Original Message --
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Sent: Saturday, 29 Oct, 22 At 11:01
Subject: Giorgia Meloni: “We are the heirs of St. Benedict"
 Roberto de Mattei says that the mission of the Church and of the Vicar 
of Christ on earth is to recall the saving truths that the world ignores 
or despises.
But what are these 'saving truths'? Who are being saved and from what? 
Can your writers elaborate?

And does your 'world' include the non-Catholics and non-Christians?
And as for the Vicars of Christ, how many were holy & worthy leaders?
It may be worth going back in history. Be prepared to be surprised and 
even shocked.


Among the references consulted were the Catholic Encyclopedia and Peter 
de Rosa's Vicars of Christ (1994).
The 10th century Popes were in a class by themselves. The first pope of 
that century was Benedict IV (900-03. His successor, Leo V, reigned for 
just month when he was seized and imprisoned by a usurper, Cardinal 
Christopher. Meanwhile, Cardinal Sergius got both Leo and Christopher 
merdered and their leader became Pope Sergius III in 904.


Sergius had Pope Formosus, now dead 10 years, re-exhumed and condemned 
once again. The corpse was then beheaded, three more fingers cut off and 
thrown into the river Tiber. The headless body was caught in a 
fisherman's net and returned a second time to St Peter's.
At the time, Senator Theophylact, civic head of the city, had supported 
Sergius' party and the family (wife Theodora and daughters Marozia and 
Theodora came to know Pope Sergius well. He seduced Marozia and made her 
his mistress around 905 (the year after he became Pope when she was 15 
and he was 45.

He soon had a son by him who was later to become Pope.

Meanwhile, Theodora's influence had grown. One of her lovers was 
reportedly John, Bishop of Bolgna. Under her influence, he rose to 
become Bishop of Ravenna. The Bishop of Ravenna became Pope John X in 
914.

(more to follow).

Eddie Ray









 
 
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[Goanet] Pope Francis issues lame apology for abuse & murder of thousands of Canadian natives

[Eddie D'Sa]

Pope Francis decided to visit Canada to apologise for the massive abuse 
and killings of thousands of indigenous Canadians (including children) 
over decades.

And all he could do was issue a verbal apology for the damage done.
What sort of Catholic God would allow the natives to be abused and 
killed by the white clerics without inflicting punishment on the evil 
doers?
And was a plain verbal apology enough? Why was substantive financial and 
material reparations not dispensed over decades for the damage done?




It's disgraceful that the white Pope, ultimately responsible for the 
evil done to the Natives sat comfortably on a chair while he was wheeled 
about on open ground accompanied by Native leaders. Why didn't he have 
the good sense and humility to adopt a kneeling posture and move 
kneeling to indicate appreciation of the sufferings of the Natives? Such 
a posture would remind him of the pain inflicted on the Natives.
The apology as offered seems quite inadequate and suggests a lack of 
understanding of the sufferings meted out to the Natives by the holy 
white men.


Eddie Ray

Re: [Goanet] Ousting MODI

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hello WIRE,
Yours is the one media outlet that speaks fearlessly whereas most of the 
other media bow down to the uneducated PM of India.
Modi has taken control of nearly every elected member and institution in 
India.
So he and his equally uneducated Guju pal AMIT SHAH can do what they 
like with India with their Hindu primitive ways.


It is tragic that, with the uneducated Guju pair in charge, poor India 
cannot be open to a grander vision or higher degree of scholarship.
And it seems likely that Modi will strive to stay in charge until his 
death.


I hope the time doesn't come when Modi decides he can dispense with the 
Wire.

Then what media organ will be left to rescue India??

Eddie Ray

Re: [Goanet] How Britain’s Labour party turned criminal

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hi Jonathan Cook,
Al Jazeera has got it right. The same bogus issue of anti-semitism was 
used to get Jeremy Corbyn expelled as Leader.


Clearly Starmer's Labour Party is very right wing & will not tolerate 
Lefties and for that matter Asians or Africans. But Jews are OK. The 
Israelis may kill lots of Palestinians but they will not be rebuked, nor 
condemned. Starmer's party may well be backed by the US and Israel.
The one genuine Leader who would have created a people's Labour Party 
was removed.

How can he return?
Jonathan, you post interesting and intriguing issues. Please take a more 
active part and organise support to thrown out this Starmer guy and 
bring back a true Labour hero, Jeremy Corbyn or equivalent.


Eddie Ray
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To: gdig...@btinternet.com
Sent: Wednesday, 28 Sep, 22 At 20:41
Subject: How Britain’s Labour party became a criminal conspiracy against 
its members


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[Goanet] The Holy Ghost spoke to me last night

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hi, Joao, I couldn't follow what the Holy Ghost was saying because he 
chose to speak in Konkani and my Konkani is poor.

But he did ask me to give you his regards.

Eddie Ray

-- Original Message --
From: "Joao Barros-Pereira" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Thursday, 22 Sep, 22 At 15:25
Subject: [Goanet] God Spoke To Me Last Night!
Now, don’t get your jealousy up: God spoke to me last night.
I am the fourth person God has spoken to in history: Moses, Jeanne 
D’arc,

Digamber Kamat and me. What an honor!
He warned me to be careful of Diggu as he will become Chief Minister and
will say: I told you Goans that I did what God wanted me to do and now I 
am
Chief Minister. And, CM Sawant? He will be kicked up to heaven and 
become a

minister in Delhi.
Unlike Moses, God did not give me any new commandants as He says the 
people

think ten are more than enough.
God whispered in my ear.
The ten and now another eight Judases of the Congress Party should 
resign
immediately, and then they should contest the elections again or they 
and

their families will become garbage on top of the famous hill.
The MLAs won the election on the Congress Party ticket and made promises 
to
the voters who wanted the Congress Party to come to power. Forget the 
rest:

God, devil and el.
The voters must gather and protest in front of the successful MLAs 
houses,

says God.
If they don’t want to do it then they must share the bribery money of 40
crore per MLA with their voters in each constituency minus the 2000rs or
3000rs or 4000rs bribe given to each voter.
He mentioned the name of a Hindu which surprised me: Viswajit Rane. This
man God said has respect for the electoral process and walks the talk. 
He
first resigned from the Congress Party and was reelected on a BJP 
ticket.

Is he the exception to the rule?
I don’t know if it is true or not. I do know one rotten apple can 
destroy

all the other apples ….
If you don’t believe me ask Adam. You can call him on this number: 2 
(two)

8 (ate) 1 (apple)
Good luck!

[Goanet] The two lawless GUJUs can do what they like

[Eddie D'Sa]

Rahul has warned that the 2 Gujus  are seeking to crush Indian 
democracy.
But is there such thing as Indian democracy? Is there such a term in 
Hindi?
All that the Hindus have had over centuries is their many gods, some 
with weird shapes, festivals with crackers, silly rituals like immersing 
idols, sticking red dots on foreheads and white dashes on the forehead.


Apart from Nehru, educated in England, most of the later PMs were 
basically illiterates. One, Desai by name, proudly proclaimed his mania 
for drinking his own urine. The traditional Hindus love their cows and 
their dung. They are pretty poor at rational discourse. Is there 
rationality in Hinduism?


To return to the 2 Gujus, they feel free to do what they want and they 
can. NO laws constrain them.

All they want is power and more of it.

Eddie


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Re: [Goanet] CHIEF MINISTER PRAMOD SAWANT MUST BE MODEST AND TRUTHFUL

[Eddie D'Sa]

Dear Adv Aires Rodrigues,


Goans must be thankful for your letter on Goa's CM Sawant, showing a 
citizen's interest and concerns.
I guess that this Sawant chap behaves in that typical BJP fashion - full 
of himself like his master Modi.

Fancy using three jeeps for his personal protection.
Did he bother to ask permission from the other officials and how could 
the others restrain him?


Wonder what's his record of public works for Goa citizens. It is worth 
noting your comment:

"Such arrogance and abuse of authority was never ever witnessed in Goa."

Now that his office term is coming to an end, he may be considering all 
sorts of ways of getting a renewal

or may be he will just beg Modi and the Master will agree.
From comments, this Sawant chap needs to be replaced and what better 
successor than you, Aires,
who has enlightened us so much on Goa issues in GoaNet. You seem truly 
devoted to Goa.


But, given the BJP ethics, Modi might coolly plant a new CM of his own 
choice.


Thanks again for your letter in GoaNet.

Eddie

-- Original Message --
From: "Aires Rodrigues" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Thursday, 21 Oct, 21 At 22:38
Subject: [Goanet] CHIEF MINISTER PRAMOD SAWANT MUST BE MODEST AND 
TRUTHFUL

It was amusing to hear Goa’s accidental Chief Minister Pramod Sawant
claiming in the Legislative Assembly that the alleged rising Crime rate 
is

not at all an issue and that Goa is a very safe destination.
May we ask the Chief Minister, if that is the case, why he is moving 
around
with an unprecedented three security escort jeeps for his personal 
protection?
In fact the total fleet of police personnel entrusted with the Chief 
Minister’s security would be enough to man a Police Station.Needless to 
state one fails to understand as to how the Director General of
Police has been allowing such huge unwarranted and impermissible 
deployment

of security cover for the Chief Minister in a so claimed very safe Goa.
May we also know as to how Chief Minister Pramod Sawant manages to get 
the

traffic signal lights near the Panaji ferry jetty and at Campal on the
Dayanand Bandodkar Marg all switched off when his convoy of vehicles 
zooms through?

Our elected representatives should at all times act respectfully and
dutifully. Such arrogance and abuse of authority was never ever 
witnessed

in Goa.
As Pramod Sawant approaches the fag end of his tenure maybe he should 
start

getting used to acting as a common man, humble and honest.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues

[Goanet] GLIMPSES of CHURCH HISTORY: 1000 - 1100 CE

[Eddie D'Sa]

GLIMPSES OF CHURCH HISTORY:  Period:1000-1100 CE

"Times New Roman"">Count Gregory
SylvesterII(999-1003) was noted for his learning. He is said to have 
introduced Arabicnumerals into Europe. His next 3 successors, elected by 
dominant factions ofthe time, were undistinguished. The influential 
Count Gregory of Tusculum thenstepped in and got his son Theophylact, a 
layman,elected as Pope Benedict VIII. Hewas soon ousted by a rival 
claimant, Gregory but was restored in 1014 by KingHenry II of Saxony 
(Germany). The pope rewarded the King by crowning him HolyRoman emperor 
in 1022. Benedict was succeeded by his brother as Pope John XIX.About 
this time, King Canute of newly formed England visited Rome and 
wasimpressed. “A great assembly of nobles was present. I spoke with the 
Emperorhimself and the Sovereign Pope about the needs of my people, 
English andDanes…”


PopeBenedict IX
In 1032, Count Gregory’s grandson,another Theophylact, became Pope 
BenedictIX. He was 14 (some say no more than 11). Six months later, a 
rival factionplotted to murder him in St Peter’s basilica but took 
fright when an eclipse ofthe sun occurred on the day, turning the 
interior and all faces an eerie‘yellow and saffron’! The pope’s Tusculan 
supporters smuggled him out of Rome.


The young Benedict  went through the motions of office:celebrating high 
mass at St Peters, appointing bishops, presiding overcouncils. But he 
led a dissolute life. St Peter Damian (1007-72), doctor of thechurch, 
said: “The wretch, from thebeginning of his pontificate to the end of 
his life, has feasted on immorality.”
Eventually a Roman faction expelledhim after 12 years in office as unfit 
to rule. A Bishop John was installed asPope Sylvester III in 1045. He 
ruledfor some three uneasy months when Benedict was restored by a 
Tusculan group.Sylvester fled to his tribesmen in the Sabine Hills.


Papacysold
Opposition to Pope Benedict grew.He continued to be “devoted to 
pleasure” as Pope Victor II was to write and hadplundered the church 
treasury. About 1045, he had set his eyes on a beautifulcousin but her 
father, Girard de Saxo, insisted that Benedict must abdicate aspope 
before he could marry her. He agreed but first decided to sell the 
papaloffice itself to his godfather, John Gratian. The price: about 1500 
pounds ofgold in weight.  Gratian, a goodChristian and head priest of St 
John’s church, had received innumerablecomplaints about Benedict’s 
conduct. Gratian’s money was his own, meant for therepair of Rome’s 
great churches. He paid it to Benedict in a desperate bid tosave St 
Peters from total disrepute. His godson retired to the Alban Hills.


Gratian took over as Gregory VI in 1045. There was barelyenough to pay 
for the day-to-day running of the court. Anarchy prevailed inRome and 
the papal states, bandits thronged the roads and highways, 
clericalcelibacy was observed more in the breach. Within a year, 
Sylvester III again laidclaim to the papacy supported by his tribal 
faction. Benedict, rejected by hislady love, also decided to return. 
Late in 1046, Rome had three popes, eachpowerless to eject the other 
two.
In desperation, a group of Romancitizens and priests appealed to King 
Henry III to take over Romeand clear the mess. He arrived on 20 December 
1046. Benedict promptly fled toTusculum. Sylvester was imprisoned as an 
imposter while Pope Gregory VIadmitted: “Simony had entered into my 
election…I must be deposed.” He wasexiled to Germany.


Henry III appointed Clement II as the new pontiff who inturn obliged by 
making Henry Holy Roman Emperor. On Clement’s death in 1047,Benedict 
returned and reclaimed the papal office for the second time. In 
July1048, Emperor Henry III again returned to Rome and this time 
Benedict fled forgood and out of history. It is not clear how he died.

The Great Schism
Benedict IX’s successor, Damascus II, died within a year and 
wassucceeded by Pope Leo IX. The finalyear of Leo’s reign, 1054, is 
noted for the formal break between the Latin andOrthodox churches 
through mutual excommunications by the Pope in Rome and thePatriarch in 
Constantinople. The break or schism between East and West stillstands. 
[A major point at dispute (hold your breath) is whether the Holy Spirit 
proceeds from the Father or via his Son!]


PopeGregory VII
Hildebrand of Tuscany, chaplain toGregory VI, had witnessed Emperor 
Henry III depose and humiliate him. Theincident had etched deeply into 
his mind. He had accompanied Gregory into exileinto Germany and rose to 
be prior at the Benedictine abbey of Cluny. His famespread and he became 
advisor to four pontiffs, from Victor II to Alexander II(see Table). At 
the latter’s funeral in 1073, Hildebrand was publicly acclaimedas the 
new pope. He took the name GregoryVII. All papal appointments needed the 
Emperor’s approval and, much againsthis will, Gregory was forced to ask 
this of 17-year old Emperor Henry IV. Hedecided to end this prerogative 
of the 

[Goanet] Power of the Eucharist

[Eddie D'Sa]

Mr Camillo Fernandes has movingly told us the story of how his Mother's 
tumour was cured by the Eucharist.
And he is now promoting devotion to the Eucharist on the basis of his 
mother's cure. Ha, ha.


Has he read the recent Report about the hundreds of French priests who 
have celebrated Mass & received the Eucharist daily and followed these 
rituals by sexually abusing children for DECADES?
What has Camillo got to say?? The Mass & Eucharist (and other 
Sacraments) are just among many Catholic rituals (all created by the 
Europeans) to develop Catholic doctrine.
The Goans had no say in the matter - they just had to believe whatever 
the Euros cooked up.


LET CAMILLO compare his mother's cure (which he piously attributes to 
the Eucharist) with the horrors of sex abuse suffered by children from 
hundreds of Eucharist-fortified priests.


WHAT CONCLUSIONS DOES HE DRAW?

Eddie

[Goanet] India Ranks 101 Out of 116 Countries in Global Hunger Index

[Eddie D'Sa]

The GHI score is calculated on four indicators — undernourishment; child 
wasting (the share of children under the age of five who are wasted i.e. 
who have low weight for their height, reflecting acute undernutrition); 
child stunting (children under the age of five who have low height for 
their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition) and child mortality (the 
mortality rate of children under the age of five).


But, in the Hindu Rashtra, do people matter?
What matters is that the top three uneducated leaders (Modi, Shah & 
Yogi) are in good shape.


Eddie

Re: [Goanet] Pope launches global consultation forum

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hi Albert,

Thanks for the news about the papal consultation.
I don't think that the BBC is a reliable source for this sort of news 
item. It rarely gives up its imperial outlook.
There was no mention, for example, of brown or black people. And perhaps 
the Pope didn't either.

So I have made some changes in what you submitted.

 Pope Francis launches consultation on Church reform - perhaps the most 
ambitious attempt

 at reformation for 60 years.
 It is a two-year process that seeks to consult every Catholic parish 
around the world on the

 future direction of the Church.
 Controversial issues include women's ordination, married priests, 
child abuse by priests, Church exit by Catholics in the thousands.

 The consultation process will work in stages:
In the "listening phase", people in parishes and dioceses will be 
able
 to discuss a wide range of issues. Pope Francis said it was important 
to
 hear from those who were often on the fringes of local Church life 
such as
 women; we must hear about racism & discrimination against brown and 
black people.
 Return of the land stolen by Euro migrants from Brown people in the 
Americas and Australia.
 Reparations for the vast resources grabbed from brown people from 
their own land.


The "continental phase" will see bishops gather to discuss and 
formalise their findings.
 Pope Francis warned against the process becoming an intellectual 
exercise that fails to address the real-world

 issues faced by Catholics.

Eddie

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58862935

[Goanet] CHURCH HISTORY: how Christ's Teachings got Europeanised

[Eddie D'Sa]

The conquests of Alexander (two centuries after the Persian victory in 
Babylonia) led to a further Jewish dispersal to places like Alexandria 
in Egypt, Antioch, Rome and other cities of the Greco-Roman world.


Christ's doctrine was dressed up in an alien philosophy (2nd century)
Finding itself in the Greco-Roman civilisation, the early Christian 
church had to decide whether its doctrine and practices should remain 
within Judaism. The Jerusalem Christians regarded their faith as a 
variant of Judaism but Paul, a Roman, argued against it. His view was 
accepted and Christians were freed from the requirements of 
circumcision, food laws and Sabbath observance.


In the Roman world, the Christians encountered Greek philosophy and were 
not intellectually equipped to resist its influence. Their leaders (like 
Clement of Alexandria, Origen and Gregory of Nyssa) began to interpret 
the gospel in the categories of Greek thought. In particular, there 
strongly influenced by the Jewish philosopher, Philo Judaeus (20 BCE - 
50 BC) who loved Plato's thought and argued that the same God spoke 
through Greek philosophy and Jewish religion. For example, they 
appropriated his notion of Logos, a concept alien to Jesus and planted 
it into the very beginning of  the Gospel of John (chap 1, verse 1). 
[Ref 3]


Black US theologian, James Cone, The gospel of Jesus can never be 
identified with the power of the state... This was the error of the 
early church. By becoming the religion of the Roman state, Christianity 
became the opposite of what Jesus intended." (from God of the Oppressed, 
Seabury Press, NY 1975))


Asian Jesuit theologian, Aloysius Pieris, put it this way:
“Greek culture was so pervasive …(and) Christianity allowed itself to be 
Hellenised…After the persecutions, links with Judaism were severed and 
those with Greco-Roman culture were strengthened…The Church Fathers were 
interested in non-Christian philosophy as intellectual equipment to 
grasp revelation and formulate it in a manner intelligible to the 
‘pagan’ culture in which they lived. Thus began the tradition in which 
Christian ‘religion’ learned to use philosophy…there developed a sort of 
academic tradition which revolved around the system of thought to the 
exclusion of the experiential dimension…” (Ref 4, p 21-25).


Among the influential early Church Fathers were:
 - St Irenaeus (c.130-200), a Greek theologian and later Bishop of Lyon 
(178-200). He was the disciple of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna - himself 
of John the Apostle. He attacked Gnosticism and helped define the Books 
of the Bible (Digest 4.2).
 - St Clement, head of a theology school at Alexandria and thoroughly 
Greek in his outlook. He injected ideas from Greek philosophy into the 
Christian faith.
 - Tertullian (c. 160-240) of Carthage, a prominent Latin Father, 
introduced the Roman legal idiom into Christian theology.


 Appropriating Greek ideas - Logos, Mind & Spirit

Debate raged on the Logos concept and its identification with Christ. 
Justin Martyr, influenced by Philo, held that the Logos was a kind of 
second God incarnated in a historical person, Jesus for the salvation of 
humans. Irenaeus, on the other hand, held that the Logos, incarnate in 
Jesus, was the divine revelation. He said: "Jesus Christ was both man 
and God, fully man and the incarnation of the Logos..."


Tertullian declared that although God in substance is one, God has three 
persona, a trinity of manifestations. Logos or reason is in God and 
expresses itself in word. Quoting the Gospel of John, he said the Word 
became incarnate.


Clement held that God is knowable only through the Logos, the mind of 
God. He was convinced that Jesus is the Logos, the guide to humanity. 
His successor at the theology school, Origen, theorised that 1) there is 
one God, the Father, creator of all things, 2) Jesus Christ, God-man, 
was the incarnation of the Logos and co-eternal with the Father, and 3) 
the uncreated Holy Spirit is associated with the Father and the Son.


The Council of Nicaea 325 CE
The Emperor Constantine claimed the sole right to convoke religious 
assemblies. Though not a Christian, the bishops  remained under his 
jurisdiction while he called himself ‘Bishop of Bishops’. In 314, he 
called the Council of Arles. and in 321, the First General Council of 
the Church.
Sylvester I who was Pope at the time had no part in calling the Council. 
The aim was to resolve the Arian heresy (that the Son was inferior to 
the Father) raging at the time. The Council was held in 325 in Bithynia 
at  a place called Nicaea in today's Turkey. Some 300 bishops attended, 
all but six from the East. The Pope did not even attend and sent two 
representatives instead. Athanasius (c. 296-373) was a staunch opponent 
of Arianism, itself derived from the neo-Platonist belief in the Logos, 
a term which came to be used to designate Christ. Most of the bishops 
were in favour of Arianism (named after Arius, a priest from 

Re: [Goanet] SHADY ELECTIONEERING - A NEW LOW FOR GOA'S LEGAL FRATERNITY

[Eddie D'Sa]

Sorry to hear that the Goa Court function didn't go well.
With the BJP clowns in power, does anything go well?
As long as the Guju duo run the country, India will continue going 
downhill.


Eddie.
-- Original Message --
From: "Aires Rodrigues" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Sunday, 26 Sep, 21 At 21:34
Subject: [Goanet] SHADY ELECTIONEERING - A NEW LOW FOR GOA'S LEGAL 
FRATERNITY
The 24th of September 2021 may remain as a historical marker -- albeit 
of a
dishonorable type -- in the annals of history for the legal fraternity 
of
Goa, on account of the alleged shady electioneering at the elections of 
our

Goa High Court Bar Association.

The entire process was not insulated against extraneous considerations 
of

unethical nature.  As members of legal fraternity we are duty-bound to
uphold the Rule of Law in our deeds and actions, howsoever strong be our
desire to win elections.  Sadly, Goa’s highest Court of Justice 
helplessly

witnessed an atrocious tragedy of sorts.

For the first time ever these elections to our Bar Association witnessed 
a
huge flow of cash and considerations in kind. Our profession was no 
longer
noble when we fell prey to such temptations, throwing the sacrosanct 
Code

of ethics to the winds.

It is an extremely sad precedent that has been set. If we as
lawyers lose our right to think independently, act appropriately and 
speak

out fearlessly the future is bleak. Can we, then, expect anything better
from other sections of the community? Winning elections by making 
unlawful
and immoral inducements is a crying shame more so within the precincts 
of a

Court of Justice.

September 24th will be remembered as a very dark day for Goa’s legal
fraternity when we advocates were sadly guided in breaching the law by
succumbing to acts which were absolutely unprincipled and horrendous to 
say
the least. We abdicated our responsibility as guardians of law that we 
had

so solemnly resolved to be.

As an officer of the Court, I have diligently complied with my bounden 
duty
by informing the above to the Chief Justice of India, the Bombay High 
Court
Chief Justice and the Administrative Judge of the High Court of Bombay 
at

Goa.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues
C/G-2, Shopping Complex
Ribandar Retreat
Ribandar – Goa – 403006
Mobile No: 9822684372
Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012
Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com

You can also reach me on
Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues
Twitter@rodrigues_aires
www.airesrodrigues.in

[Goanet] GLIMPSES OF CHURCH HISTORY

[Eddie D'Sa]

How did the Church come into being?
For an answer, we helpless Goans and other Asians have to depend on the 
wisdom of the Europeans & their institutions.

Here is what an American Archdiocese (of St Paul) has to say:
By his Cross, Jesus gave birth to the Church. The origin and growth of 
the Church are symbolized by the blood and water which flowed from the 
open side of the crucified Jesus.
The Holy Spirit revealed the Church at Pentecost, empowering the 
Apostles to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.


[So where is this mysterious Spirit to be found? Does he live in London 
or Mapusa? Such questions must not be asked.

We Asians must just believe whatever the wise ones of the West say.]

NOW FOR SOME HISTORY:
The New Testament began with the letters of St Paul from about 48 CE 
until his death by Roman Emperor Nero in 64 CE.
When Paul died, not a single Gospel had been written.  Paul was a 
controversial figure and a reading of Galatians shows that he clashed 
with Peter and the Jerusalem church  leaders. There are irreconcilable 
differences between Paul’s views and the account in the Book of Acts 
(supposedly about Paul’s work). Paul never mentions Jesus’ supernatural 
birth and has a different idea of his resurrection.
The official Church piously believes that Peter was Bishop of Rome but 
nobody has said so and there is no document as evidence.


Let's move a few centuries ahead.
Innocent I became Pope in 401. He was the son of the previous pope, 
Anastasius I (399-401).
The Church at the time preached that babies who died without baptism (a 
Catholic ritual) went to hell for all eternity.  But other Popes went 
further. They believed that if baptized  babies died without communion, 
they went straight to hell.


SOME WEIRD EVENTS
In the closing years of the 9th century, rival factions battling for the 
Chair of St Peter brought chaos to Rome. In 896 the deranged Pope 
Stephen VII (belonging to one faction) decided to unearth the 9-month 
old corpse of a Corsican predecessor, Pope Formosus (891-96) who had 
belonged to another faction. He had the corpse dressed in full papal 
robes and placed on the throne in the Lateran palace. He then proceeded 
to interrogate ‘him’ personally. Formosus was charged with becoming pope 
under false pretences.
After being found guilty by the Synod, the corpse was stripped of all 
but a hair-shirt clinging to the withered flesh. The two fingers used to 
give the apostolic blessing were hacked off. The body  was dragged 
through the palace and hurled on to the mob in the streets. They in turn 
dragged it  to the river Tiber and flung it in. The corpse held together 
by the hairshirt was recovered by Formosus’ supporters and given a 
decent burial. It was eventually returned to its tomb in St Peter’s.


Later in the same year 896 Stephen himself was siezed and strangled. His 
supporters elected a certain Cardinal Sergius as pope while the opposing 
party elected one of their own. In the violence that followed, Sergius 
and his supporters were chased out of the city. Over the next 12 months, 
four more popes (among them Romanus and Theodore II) scrambled onto the 
bloodstained Chair of St Peter, maintaining themselves precariously for 
a few weeks (or even days) before being hounded out.


The first pope of the 10th century was Benedict IV (900-03). His 
successor, Leo V, reigned for just one month when he was seized and 
imprisoned by a usurper, Cardinal Christopher. Meanwhile Cardinal 
Sergius who had tried for the papal office some seven years earlier now 
tried again. His supporters got both Leo and Christopher murdered and 
their leader became Pope Sergius III in 904.


Sergius decided to honour Pope Stephen VII with a handsome epitaph and 
to overturn the judgement that had re-instated Pope Formosus’ character. 
In fact, Sergius had Formosus, now ten years dead, re-exhumed and 
condemned once again. The corpse was then beheaded, three more fingers 
cut off and thrown into the river Tiber. The headless body was caught in 
a fisherman’s net  and returned a second time to St Peter’s.


[MORE PAPAL DRAMA TO COME]

Eddie

Re: [Goanet] Cows can be toilet-trained…

[Eddie D'Sa]

Interesting, Filo.
India's BJP fanatics should be up in arms - the cow is their god and 
their urine is claimed to be a health giving drink, which could replace 
coca-cola at restaurants. But of course, the Hindus won't rebuke or 
attack the Bloomberg researchers.

Most Hindus are plain cowards before whites ready to kiss their shoes.
Hindu malevolence only extends to Muslims & minorities who are brown or 
black.

@narendramodi @thewire_in


-- Original Message --
From: "Filomena Giese" 
To: "goanet@lists.goanet.org" 
Sent: Tuesday, 14 Sep, 21 At 12:55
Subject: [Goanet] Cows can be toilet-trained…

From Bloomberg Green:  Bloomberg.comScientists are Toilet-Training Baby 
Cows to Cut EmissionsBy Sybilla Gross; Sept. 13, 2021


Capturing even a fraction of their urine will help reduce greenhouse 
emissions and waterway pollution.

[Goanet] Paralympics

[Eddie D'Sa]

India is hardly a sporting nation except for cricket.
It did surprisingly well in the Paralympics but then Indians are not 
generally a healthy people.

The Chinese are way ahead.
Medal Tally in the Paralympics 2021
 gold silver  bronze
China  9660   51
UK   4138   45
USA 3736   31
Canada   5106   21
India   5  8 6

Eddie

[Goanet] Modi going to USA to see Biden?

[Eddie D'Sa]

It seems that PM Modi has decided to visit the USA.
Wonder why. With  his poor comprehension & articulacy of English, how 
will he be able to make his point?

He could take interpreters.
So why is he going there? He is perhaps going to make a case for his 
Guju pals Adani and Ambani.
And buy a few weapons with which to bash Pakistan and a new enemy, the 
Taliban.


In return, Modi may gift Biden
1) a copy of the latest adventures in the Ramayana
2) a couple of cows and possibly a gallon of a health drink like cow 
urine.


Eddie

Re: [Goanet] VVIP VISITS CANNOT BE CAUSE FOR TRAFFIC CHAOS

[Eddie D'Sa]

Mr Aires Rodrigues,
A very thoughtful comment. How right you are.
This Govind fellow doesn't seem very bright. Looks more like a peasant.
Can you point out any collection of intelligent speeches he has made??

Eddie




-- Original Message --
From: "Aires Rodrigues" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Sunday, 29 Aug, 21 At 20:09
Subject: [Goanet] VVIP VISITS CANNOT BE CAUSE FOR TRAFFIC CHAOS
While in the midst of the current pandemic and that statewide curfew (or
whatever it means) still in force, Goa braces for the visit of yet 
another
VVIP. This time President Ram Nath Kovind who will be here on a three 
day

visit from Sept 5th.
The authorities must ensure that the public do not have to endure the 
usual

traffic chaos during such visits by VVIPs.
As the Supreme Court has clearly ruled time and again that public roads
cannot be closed even for the movement of VVIP vehicles, the commuting
public should not face a traffic nightmare, while the convoy of the VVIP
merrily weaves its way through.
Every visitor to Goa must be given a warm welcome but not at the cost of
obstructing the vehicular traffic. Such disruption of normal life is
absolutely impermissible.
Closing down roads without making alternative arrangements is in 
violation
of the fundamental rights guaranteed to us under Article 14, 19 and 21 
of

our Constitution. This indiscriminately blocking of key roads should be
strongly deprecated with the message loud and clear to the VVIPs that 
they

are not welcome to Goa if it is to create traffic mayhem.
We are all entitled to lead our normal lives. Every citizen’s time and
respect is as important as that of any VVIP.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues
C/G-2, Shopping Complex
Ribandar Retreat
Ribandar – Goa – 403006
Mobile No: 9822684372
Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012
Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com

You can also reach me on
Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues
Twitter@rodrigues_aires
www.airesrodrigues.in

[Goanet] CATHOLIC CHURCH TODAY

[Eddie D'Sa]

s.


 Peter Bird had noted in Renew magazine (Sept 2001):
“Christianity has lost all vigour and purpose, and is hopelessly 
divided.

It has reduced largely to a Sunday morning affair.
The clergy are bound into an outdated system that suppresses initiative 
and innovation.
Top management, with jobs for life, is remote and inflexible. The laity 
are kept subservient.
Communication is top-down. We focus not on the living Lord but on the 
old figures of the early church.
The Christian Story – virgin birth, incarnation, original sin, miracles, 
transubstantiation etc no longer convince.

Christianity is terminally ill.”

We need radically new people, new theological perspectives, a new vision 
to save the church

(End of my letter to the Cardinal)

Eddie D'Sa

APPENDIX added:
1. The western church has always had a cosy relationship with the ruling 
classes. That ensures its survival. The establishment in turn feels safe 
knowing it will never be prophetically denounced by the Church for 
monumental state-made injustices at home & abroad.
When LIBERATION THEOLOGY was promoted by South American bishops in 1968, 
the Vatican was alarmed that the Pope's dictatorial approach was at 
risk. It promptly discouraged  its growth and even sought advice from US 
President Reagan.
2. The church authorities do not take racism seriously - even it has 
been declared it a mortal sin. They seemingly can only relate to 
minorities within Anglocentric structures of domination and control. The 
senior clerics remain aloof, secretive and inaccessible to ordinary 
parishioners, taking decisions behind closed doors.
3. Vatican documents are heavily Eurocentric and dryly academic but 
still deemed to have universal validity for all societies. The 
Rome-based leadership is determined to retain its stranglehold.
4. The Western World must urgently be re-evangelized...it has reverted 
to paganism and hedonism.


  END  










































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Re: [Goanet] Help a fellow Goan.....

[Eddie D'Sa]

own Brown people, instead of 
migrating to the capital of imperialism to fully enjoy the comforts and 
benefits of that imperialistic system.


 2. Where are the "Browns and Blacks" like Eddie?  Do they raise money, 
send Petitions and sign Petitions, and support prizes and competitions 
as paths to recognition and for preservation of the memory of those who 
gave extraordinary service for mankind?


 Why don't they make Saints and Patron Saints, give Nobel Prizes and 
Pulitzer Prizes, have the Olympics, and other honors and competitions?


 If Eddie can tell us where to apply for a similar high honor as 
"Patron Saint" to be given by Browns and Blacks, we'll be happy to apply 
for one for St. Joseph Vaz.




 3. Until he and other Browns and Blacks can do that, we are left to 
participate in a white establishment system of publishing, movies, 
competitions, and honors and get the Nobel Prize of Sainthood, the 
Patron Saint title, for one of the most outstanding and brilliant Goans 
- not just most saintly - that ever lived.


 My question to Eddie and those who think like him is:  would you also 
tell Goans not to support a fellow Goan who is nominated for the Nobel 
Prize, because it is established and funded by whites, or compete in the 
Olympic Games which was established by whites?


 We don't see any Browns and Blacks boycotting the Nobel Prize or the 
Olympic Games so far.  Why should we boycott the "Patron Saint" honor 
for one of our own?




 4. Another twist to this argument is that what we we're doing is 
getting the White Establishment to in effect honor and recognize the 
achievements of a Saint of Color:


 By forcing the whites to recognize him, we're highlighting that they 
did the exact opposite of what he did, USE FORCE and CRUEL EXPLOITATION 
to spread the Gospel.  He gave alms, he didn't touch or accept money 
even for Masses. Making him a "Patron Saint" brings to the world's 
attention that, unlike the whites, he came without arms and colonial 
power to plunder and kill, he recognized the high worth and civilization 
of us Browns and Blacks, our languages, our traditional names, our 
literature, our unique spiritual path of Yogic renunciation and 
Meditation, and integrated them into the Gospel message of unconditional 
love.




 5.  Thanks to Adolfo for saying that he cares for the memory of our 
Brown Saint Joseph Vaz and supports our initiative.  My sister and I 
have been working for the just recognition of our Brown St. Joseph Vaz, 
and asked for recognition of his Goan Oratorian Companions, some Sri 
Lankan lay Catholics who helped him, our Martyrs of Cuncolim since 1978. 
George has worked with us since the year 2000 when we petitioned for his 
Canonization for the Grand Jubilee of Christendom in its 2000th Year. 
Jesuit Fr. Olvin Veigas S.J. from Mangalore has given his wholehearted 
help since 2016.


 But there has been next to help and support from our fellow Brown 
Catholics.


 It is very difficult because the main job of our own local Church 
leadership  is to promote white saints.  St. Joseph Vaz takes a back 
seat in their thinking and not the front seat in the brainwashing of the 
faithful.


 It is very difficult to get a Brown saint recognized when the Goan 
faithful and other people of color are promoting white saints and models 
of sanctity and spirituality, celebrating their feasts with great gusto 
while ignoring our own Brown saints.




 6. Eddie may not realize that until someone in the white leadership 
recognizes St. Joseph Vaz and tells the Browns and Whites that it's O.K. 
to venerate him as a Saint and a Patron Saint, our own Browns and Blacks 
won't recognize him either.


 Eddie is blaming us, the only people trying to go against this system 
of brainwashing?


 If we stopped promoting our Brown and Black Saints, where would they 
be? Where would we Brown and Black people like you and me be?


 Completely in the dustbin of history?



 7.  We have powers of observation and common sense.  We observe that 
we can get recognition for St. Joseph Vaz only from the white system and 
establishment.


 We can't get any recognition for St. Joseph Vaz from any Brown and 
Black quarters because none exists.


 No Eddie d'Sa is going to stop us from getting that recognition and 
having his memory celebrated in the only system of world history we 
know.




 8.  Meanwhile we appeal to Goans to follow the response of Adolfo who 
gets the point, and support our Petition with Signatures from Goans 
worldwide.




 Filomena









 From: Eddie D'Sa 

 To: GOANET ; George Pinto 
; Adolfo Mascarenhas 


 Sent: Sunday, August 8, 2021, 10:54:17 AM PDT

 Subject: Re: Help a fellow Goan ...





 George wrote:

 Help a fellow Goan, Saint Joseph Vaz, become the "Patron Saint of 
First


 Responders" during this pandemic and Covid crisis.

 If you already signed the petition, thank you. If you have not, only 
15


 seconds of your tim

Re: [Goanet] Help a fellow Goan ...

[Eddie D'Sa]

George wrote:
Help a fellow Goan, Saint Joseph Vaz, become the "Patron Saint of First 
Responders" during this pandemic and Covid crisis.
If you already signed the petition, thank you. If you have not, only 15 
seconds of your time can help a fellow Goan. Please sign the petition to 
Pope Francis at this link https://josephnaikvaz.org/  (the petition is 
half-way down the page).
Your signature to our Petition - and your help in collecting signatures 
today by forwarding to others and posting on social media - can make the 
difference as to whether or not Saint Vaz is made Patron Saint.
We have petitioned Pope Francis, asking that St. Joseph Vaz be made 
"Patron Saint of First Responders" because of his care of the abandoned 
victims of the smallpox epidemic in seventeenth century.


I notice that Adolfo endorses your petition. I am afraid I don't.
This is 2021 and we (the Browns and Blacks) are still begging the (Holy) 
Whites for favours.
And what pathetic favours!  "Making Vaz Patron Saint of First 
Responders."
Who has cooked up this title? Hardly a Goan, I guess. Must be some Holy 
White guy.
We Goans still seem helpless to move forward without approval from the 
Whites - even in the spiritual realm.


George & Adolf - let's drop our self-imposed inferiority . I say again - 
it is 2021.
Why are Goans still cowering before the Whites? They have become used to 
our subservience over the ages and expect the same attitude.
Take this Pope Francis fellow.. He claims to come from Argentina. He is 
merely an Italian who  (or his ancestors) migrated to that region of 
South America for better prospects.
And what did these Euro migrants do when they encountered the Natives 
(Indians they called them):
They systematically slaughtered them, children and all - this is all 
recorded by scientist Charles Darwin who was travelling in the region at 
the time.
Pope Francis should publicly tell us about the origins of Argentina and 
apologise but will he? These holy White s rarely do.


For that matter, the US Anglos slaughtered some 50 million of the US 
Natives and then grabbed the entire land & turned it into Europe 2.
Please read the book "The New Age of Empire" by Prof K Andrews (2021) to 
learn more.
In Australia, the Anglos did the same thing: slaughtered the Natives and 
grabbed the whole continent.

The Whites have always been driven by Greed and Racism.
-
 May I move on to the main Catholic periodicals of the West?
They are the National Catholic Reporter, a US weekly and the Tablet, UK 
weekly.
I have been in touch with both and over the years I noticed that the 
Editorial Boards of both periodicals are entirely WHITE.

For both, Catholic means white and mostly IRISH.
I have requested the Editors to recognise black and brown Catholics and 
appoint non-white editors but they won't even respond !!
The Tablet even calls itself an "International Catholic Weekly" - there 
is little international news in the weekly and I pointed this out but 
they are not moved and won't answer.


And there is our George Pinto begging the Holy Whites in Rome to make 
our Fr Vaz a Patron Saint!!


==
In conclusion, I 'd like to propose that GoaNet be  re-structured into 
two Parts: Goa-based items (with the traditional nostalgic/historical 
Section) and a Section on items of interest to overseas Goans.


Eddie D'Sa





















.

Re: [Goanet] US bombing of Hiroshima: 75th Anniversary

[Eddie D'Sa]

Adolfo's account of the 75th Hiroshima Anniversary was disappointingly 
sketchy.


Of course, none of us were there at the time but a lot has been written.

Here are snippets from an essay written in 2005 (60th Anniversary):

file:///C:/Users/Eddie/Desktop/COUNTRIES%20&%20ISSUES/JAPAN/Hiroshima%20&%20Nagasaki%20(6-9%20Aug%2045)%2060th%20Anniversary.htm

At 8:15 a.m.  August 6, 1945, an American B-29 warplane, named the Enola 
Gay bombed Hiroshima, a Japanese city with a population of 255,000. The 
atomic bomb , killed 80,000 people—30 percent of the 
population—immediately or within hours of the explosion.
Three days later, on August 9, a similar plane carrying a more powerful 
weapon flew on to its second target, Nagasaki, a heavily industrialized 
city of about 270,000.  The bomb missed the city center and the effects 
were slightly less devastating. An estimated 40,000 people were killed 
outright.
Over the next several months, tens of thousands more died from their 
injuries, including radiation sickness caused by the nuclear devices. 
While exact figures involving such magnitudes are inherently difficult 
to come by, estimates of the total number of men, women and children 
killed within four months of the two blasts range from 200,000 to 
350,000. Never before had such devastation been wrought so quickly.

--

Notice that Truman decided to bomb the Japanese and not the Germans, 
fellow Europeans. It was surely a race-based decision.


--
A more recent essay by J Hornberger on 06 Aug 2021 on precisely the 76th 
Anniversary: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56699.htmHere are 
snippets:Japan had expressed a willingness to surrender. The only 
condition was

that the Japanese emperor not be abused or executed.
President Truman refused to agree to that condition. Like his 
predecessor Franklin Roosevelt, Truman demanded “unconditional 
surrender.”

That was why Japan continued fighting. Japanese officials naturally
assumed that U.S. officials were going to do some very bad things to 
their
emperor, including torture and execution. In the minds of Japanese 
officials,
why else would the United States not be willing to agree to that one 
condition,
especially given that it would have meant the end of the war? The dark 
irony is that Truman ended up accepting the condition anyway,
only after he pulverized the people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with 
nuclear bombs.


===
The US FIREBOMBS TOKYO in 1945

Source: 05 March, 2013 Countercurrents.org
On the night of March 9-10, 1945, General Curtis LeMay, head of the 
Twenty-first U.S. Bomber Command, brought an all-American brand of hell 
into the Pacific theater as his bombardiers laid siege on Tokyo.
Tightly packed wooden buildings were assaulted by 1,665 tons of 
incendiaries. LeMay later recalled that a few explosives had been mixed 
in with the incendiaries to demoralize firefighters (96 fire engines 
burned to ashes, 88 firemen died).
One Japanese doctor recalled “countless bodies” floating in the Sumida 
River. These bodies were “as black as charcoal” and beyond 
identification. The total dead for one night was an estimated 85,000, 
with 40,000 injured and one million left homeless.
This was only the first strike in a firebombing campaign that dropped 
250 tons of bombs per square mile, destroying 40 percent of the surface 
area in 66 death-list cities (including Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
By design, the Tokyo attack area was 87.4 percent residential and it is 
believed that more people died from fire in a six-hour time period than 
ever before in the history of mankind.
Read that again: By design, the Tokyo attack area was 87.4 percent 
residential.
At ground zero, the temperature reached 1,800° Fahrenheit. Flames from 
the ensuing inferno were visible for 200 miles. Due to the intense heat, 
canals boiled over, metals melted, and human beings burst spontaneously 
into flames.
By May 1945, 75 percent of the bombs being dropped on Japan were 
incendiaries. Cheered on by the likes of Time magazine—who explained 
that “properly kindled, Japanese cities will burn like autumn 
leaves”—the U.S. bombing campaign took an estimated 672,000 lives, 
mostly civilians.
Read that again: The U.S. bombing campaign took an estimated 672,000 
lives, mostly civilians.
Radio Tokyo called such tactics “slaughter bombing” and the Japanese 
press declared that through the fire raids, “America has revealed her 
barbaric character… It was an attempt at mass murder of women and 
children… The action of the Americans is all the more despicable because 
of the noisy pretensions they constantly make about their humanity and 
idealism… No one expects war to be anything but a brutal business, but 
it remains for the Americans to make it systematically and unnecessarily 
a wholesale horror for innocent victims.”


===

[Goanet] Catholic Church in Canada failed to pay reparations to survivors of the native residential schools

[Eddie D'Sa]

Catholic church spent millions meant for Canada residential school 
victims on lawyers & expenses – court documents seen by media

https://www.rt.com/news/530584-catholic-church-millions-residential-school-victims/
Millions of dollars that were supposed to go to Canadian residential 
school survivors as part of a 2005 settlement were reportedly spent by 
the Catholic Church on lawyers, fundraising, administration costs and 
unapproved loans.


At least 150,000 indigenous children were forced to attend some 140 
residential schools across the country, which were funded by the federal 
government and run by churches. The children had been forcibly taken 
from their families in order to strip them of their cultural identity.
Under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) 
between the Canadian federal government, indigenous representatives and 
the various church bodies that operated the schools, more than Can$3 
billion (US$2.4 billion) has been paid to compensate survivors, as of 
March 2021.
While the other churches have apparently paid their amounts-due in full, 
the Catholic Church has failed to meet its quota. Besides being required 
to make a lump cash payment of Can$29 million (US$23.2 million) and 
provide Can$25 million (US$ 20 million) of “in-kind services,” the 
church was to give its “best efforts” to raise Can$25 million (US$20 
million) for survivors.
The church had claimed to have paid most of the cash amount and 
fulfilled its “in-kind services” commitment. In 2015, it invoked the 
“best efforts” clause in court where a judge absolved it of the legal 
obligation to pay the remaining unpaid sum of $21 million (US$16.8 
million) from that fundraising campaign.
In recent weeks, it has emerged that the church was able to raise around 
$300 million (US$240 million) for construction and renovation projects 
during the same time period that it claimed it could only raise a total 
of $3.9 million (US$3.1 million) for residential school survivors.
Now, court documents accessed by CBC news reportedly contradict the 
church’s claims. A federal government “factum” document that summarized 
the evidence from the 2015 court case pointed to “a large number of 
serious accounting discrepancies that are alarming to Canada.”
The church had also not filed its mandatory annual financial statements 
to the government until 2012 – five years after IRSSA went into effect 
in 2007, according to the documents seen by the CBC.
From the Can$29-million cash payment, some $2.7 million (US$2.1 
million) was reportedly paid to lawyers and an additional $2.3 million 
(US$1.84 million) was spent on administration expenses – something no 
other church group claimed.
As well, Can$1.6 million (US$1.28 million) was claimed as donations made 
to projects related to indigenous issues. These projects were not 
covered in the approval process and no explanation or invoices have 
reportedly been provided to back these claims.
ALSO ON RT.COMCanadian indigenous leaders call for ‘racist’ Manitoba 
province government to be TOPPLED if it doesn’t address community issues 

The church’s accountant testified that it had provided the Can$25 
million of “in-kind services” but he had admitted that he relied only on 
“minutes of meetings” supplied by church officials.
As for the Can$25-million fundraising campaign that eventually only 
raised $3.9 million, the accountant told the court that many donations 
came with a “string attached” that instructed him on where to put the 
money. This was, again, apparently contrary to the agreement.
Federal government lawyers had also asked the judge to declare the 
church had not fulfilled its obligations and order an independent review 
of the expenses, among other recommendations.
However, ahead of the 2015 hearing on the case, the judge approved a 
controversial $1.2 million (US$962,418) church buyout proposal and the 
case was closed without it having to justify any expenditure.


Court officials recently declined to make that 2015 court document 
public. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents 
First Nations communities in Saskatchewan province, claimed this refusal 
was an example of “systemic racism.”

---
Like most Euro institutions, the Catholic Church has been consistently 
racist when dealing with Brown & Black Catholics.
In India and Africa, the front pews were reserved for white 
parishioners, even though they were so few of them.
At the end of Sunday Mass, prayers were held for the conversion of 
Russia, not for the end of the racist colonialism practised by the 
Christians nations of the West.
Meanwhile, in 2021 the Euro high clerics in the EU (especially Germany) 
and the US continue to be lost in child sex abuse.
Where on earth is the Holy Ghost doing? He is  meant to protect the 
Church - is there such an entity at 

[Goanet] Native children in Catholic residential schools in Canada treated abominably

[Eddie D'Sa]

Hi Francis,

I see that you agree with the term 'cultural genocide', a term used by the 
white led Truth & Reconciliation Commission (Report 2015)
You say that the children died of loneliness, inadequate care, harsh discipline 
or disease but were not directly killed.
How would you know what really happened without proper investigation or 
testimony?
The Anglos are masters with their language English, at inventing categories 
that can absolve themselves from blame.

---
Children were separated from their families, some of them as young as three.
Can you imagine the trauma suffered by the children, deprived of the warmth and 
close contact with their parents? And what of teen girls in their menstrual 
years? Did they receive adequate comfort and protection?
In the schools, children were forbidden to speak their language or practice 
their own culture. Many children also suffered physical and sexual abuse. Over 
150,000 children passed through the school system and the last school was 
closed as recently as 1996.

Trudeau who is Catholic met the Pope in 2017 and said that he had a "deeply 
personal and wide-ranging, thoughtful conversation with the leader of my own 
faith".
“I told him how important it is for Canadians to move forward on real 
reconciliation with the indigenous peoples and I highlighted how he could help 
by issuing an apology,” Trudeau told reporters after meeting the pope in Rome.


PM Justin Trudeau admitted that that successive Canadian governments "have 
failed" indigenous people and promised to outline a "national action plan" to 
tackle the violence.

As for the holy man of the Europe, Pope Francis said he was pained but refused 
to apologise. Is there were legal implications, should a top religious leader 
fear and dodge them? After all, he has accepted the titles Supreme Pontiff and 
Vicar of Christ. How could Christ's Vicar be a weakling and coward?
In any case, do clerical or government apologies mean anything without return 
of vast stolen land and payment of trillions of dollars in reparations? Were 
any of the white priests and nuns punished?

Eddie




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[Goanet] Fury over Modi's visit to Bangladesh

[Eddie D'Sa]

https://youtu.be/AaSwjJqijxI

Eddie

[Goanet] All about the WORD

[Eddie D'Sa]

Mr Argham continues to regale and confuse us with gems from his Bible, the 
alleged inspired word of the Christian God.
Here are his recent quotes from John 1:1-4 & 14:

1 In the beginning was the Word,  and the Word was with God, and the Word was 
God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be.
4. What came to be through him was life,  and this life was the light of the 
human race;
14 And the Word became flesh and  dwelt among us,...
===
It reads like a lot of garbage and Mr Argham does not elucidate. When a message 
is posted, it is meant to educate, enlighten, edify.
But Mr Argham does not explain. Perhaps as a traditional Goan, he fears to 
offend the Euro clerics who composed & authorised the text.
So what to do? He could ask a knowledgeable person, perhaps a senior local 
cleric. How about Goa’s good Bishop? Will he engage with mere laymen?

More than once, I had tried to elicit some comment and had copied a post to the 
Bishop. HE never responded.
May be he fears he cannot offer his own views without consulting the Vatican.
I am trying again.

So dear Archbishop (or your assistant), could you kindly explain the four above 
verses?

Eddie


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[Goanet] Argham's verses from the Bible

[Eddie D'Sa]

Mr Argham, you do dig up some weird injunctions.

Phew. Sounds like a prescription to nourish a society of vampires and cannibals.

Eddie


-- Original Message --
From: Devak Argham
Sent: Sunday, 14 Jun, 20 At 09:43


John 6:54-56,  58 -Jesus the WORD of God, became flesh

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise 
him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
Whoever eats this bread will live forever.”

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[Goanet] Renaming India Bharat

[Eddie D'Sa]

I am not surprised that John Gomes was disturbed by some nationalist attempt to 
rename India Bharat.
This name ‘Bharat’  taken from the hero of a Hindu epic may appease the Hindu 
majority but mean nothing to the minorities (some 200m Muslims, Christians). 
This lack of sensitivity to non-Hindu sentiment is characteristic of the 
BJPwalas & their coarse leader Modi.
When Hindu nationalists want to demonstrate transformation, they can only do so 
at a crude level, typically by changing names of towns or streets or erecting 
tall statues to mediocrities. One such a statue was intended for Sardar Patel 
but the Hindus did not have the technical skills and had to call in the Chinese 
to build it.

To expand on this issue, it’s worth noting that historically Hindustan has 
never excelled in the  intellectual domain: high level discourse, critical 
thinking, innovation or invention. [What a difference Shashi Tharoor as PM 
would make.]
Way back in the 11th century (c.1020), Persian scholar Al-Biruni who 
accompanied the first major Muslim invader Mahmud of Ghazni, made a study of 
Hindu society and he was not impressed. He wrote: “The scientific ideas of the 
Hindus are utterly confused and devoid of any logical order...they do  not seem 
to understand the methods of a strictly scientific deduction.”
[See Islamic Civilisation in South Asia by Burjor Avari, Routledge 2013]
Some five centuries later, the first Mughal Emperor Babur revealed in his 
famous Memoirs c.1530 that he too found Hindustan backward in most respects.

Intellectual production remains poor to this day and more so under the BJP 
regime. In the absence of creativity, BJP officials have succumbed to the 
temptation to plagiarise even foreign material into Indian government documents 
& journals and pass it as one’s own. The brilliant watchdog site Altnews.in has 
discovered several BJP transgressions.
Examples:

  1.  The Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways website has been 
shamelessly using pictures of US and Canadian roadways!
  2.  The Home Ministry Annual Report 2016-17 copied the image of the 
Spain-Morocco floodlit border to pass off as the India-Pak border.
[Pity that images cannot be shown on GoaNet.]
Eddie
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[Goanet] US turmoil: Church clerics more concerned about the protests than race killing

[Eddie D'Sa]

According to the UK Catholic weekly Tablet, 
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/13005/pope-criticises-destructive-violence-of-floyd-protest
“we recognise the efforts by people of great power to divide us, opposed to the 
plan God has for this world...
“[Cardinal Tobin of New Jersey] the murder of George Floyd, the needless deaths 
of so many people of colour, the exploitation of social division for political 
gain simply take our breath away ...
“Cardinal Cupich of Chicago said he had spent the last few nights ‘in great 
personal pain, horrified at the violence...

https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/13005/pope-criticises-destructive-violence-of-floyd-protests
“Pope Francis spoke of his great concern at the disturbing social unrest 
following the tragic death of George Floyd.
“we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form
“At the same time, we recognize that the violence of recent nights is 
‘self-destructive and self-defeating’.
The Pope prayed for the repose of George’s soul and of others and through the 
sin of racism.

Note that the Pope or Bishops will not criticize western leaders like Trump or 
condemn police brutality. They never go through the specific horrors of racism 
experienced by brown & black people for centuries.
They always resort to banal or abstract terms in describing the crimes of the 
white authorities. For the clerics, racism is just a ‘sin’.
The Church itself has been openly racist in India and Africa. For example, 
white people were given seating preference at Wodehouse Church in Bombay or at 
the Holy Family Church in Nairobi.
Pope John Paul did not hesitate to call Saddam Hussein a terrorist but not US 
President Bush who destroyed  Iraq on fake evidence.
The fact is that the Western Church is part of the Western scheme of global 
control.
The former Jesuit scholar, Stan Lourdesamy explained neatly why the Vatican is 
lukewarm on social justice issues.
"The efforts of the Vatican to quench the cry of oppressed people must be 
historically situated in its true political context. From 1976, the Vatican has 
been trying to discredit Liberation Theology (which is about the struggles of 
the poor against the forces of oppression) and has been pressing bishops to 
condemn particular theologians… The hierarchical church of which the Vatican is 
the apex cannot tolerate any initiative (like Lib Theo) that bypasses its 
authoritarian power structure.
It is suspicious of anything that springs from the life experience of the 
people… Their struggles have to be ignored.

“The Vatican is much more at home with liberal capitalism.
It is a major shareholder in several national and multinational corporations of 
the West. The Catholic hierarchy, by way of properties owned and money at its 
disposal, is a rich church among poor people of the Third World. Given this 
economic base, it has to function according to the logic of capitalism… For 
this reason the Vatican can only point out general facts about mass poverty, 
injustice or inequality but cannot name those responsible.
It is ready to find fault with socialism but cannot censure the capitalists for 
exploiting the working classes… "

That says it all.
Eddie

[Goanet] Art of Headlning

[Eddie D'Sa]

Thoughtful of you, Roland, to bring up the question of  upgrading Goa Net.
FN has nursed his baby since 1994 and it has attracted a huge variety of Goans, 
local and overseas.
All sort of topics have been covered. Literature has perhaps been a special 
interest but there is also the popular Book Club.
Though the Book Club is focused on Literature, it is has one great advantage 
over GoaNet in that it accepts posts in a wide variety of formats whereas 
GoaNet, like a poor cousin, can only accept text.
That means, for example, that you cannot have  an image in GoaNet or bold text.
This is an odd unfortunate aberration and I hope it can be corrected.

Eddie

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[Goanet] The Lord's hand & ears; our sins & iniquities

[Eddie D'Sa]

More quotes from Mr Argham,
1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear 
dull, that it cannot hear;
2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your 
sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Mr Arghan, what language is this? Can you translate in today’s English please? 
Or ask the guys in frocks at the Vatican.
And why the constant focus on sins? Why is your God so easily offended?
And why do you hesitate to offer your own views, instead of hiding behind the 
printed word??

Eddie

From: Eddie D'Sa<mailto:edsa0...@outlook.com>
Sent: 27 May 2020 14:56
To: GoaNet<mailto:goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Cc: devakarg...@gmail.com<mailto:devakarg...@gmail.com>
Subject: "Rejoice", says the Lord

Dear Mr Argham:
In your latest quote, Your Lord advises his followers  to rejoice always, no 
matter what.
He seems unaware that the corona pandemic is raging and has killed thousands of 
people the world over.
Your Lord seems to be a pretty heartless fellow but you of course wouldn’t know.
You mechanically select passages from the Bible, constructed and  authorized by 
the holy white guys of the Vatican. And of course, as a good Catholic, you 
wouldn’t dare challenge any passage or make comments of your own.

Eddie


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[Goanet] "Rejoice", says the Lord

[Eddie D'Sa]

Dear Mr Argham:
In your latest quote, Your Lord advises his followers  to rejoice always, no 
matter what.
He seems unaware that the corona pandemic is raging and has killed thousands of 
people the world over.
Your Lord seems to be a pretty heartless fellow but you of course wouldn’t know.
You mechanically select passages from the Bible, constructed and  authorized by 
the holy white guys of the Vatican. And of course, as a good Catholic, you 
wouldn’t dare challenge any passage or make comments of your own.

Eddie


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[Goanet] Who is this Joao?

[Eddie D'Sa]

Who on earth is this Prakash fellow (sounds Hindu) posting unintelligible 
messages posing as Joao Barros?
And why does he prefer an unreadable format? To annoy readers? What’s his game??
Eddie

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Re: [Goanet] Mail from Anish

[Eddie D'Sa]

Kind of you to make contact. Don’t know why you picked on me. So I am copying 
this to Goanet which is made up of quite an assortment of members. Some may 
respond to you.
While I do feel attached to Goa, I live in the UK and so do several from GoaNet.
I’ll copy the next post to you with more news.

Regards.. Eddie

From: Anish Esteves
Sent: 05 May 2020 12:49
To: edsa0...@outlook.com
Subject: Mail from Anish


Dear Sir,
   My name is Anish Esteves. I'm an aspiring journalist and student of St. 
Xavier's College, Mumbai. I'm the grandson of late Dr. Sarto Esteves, the 
famous writer.
   I got your email ID from Goanet. Do tell me about yourself. I'm using this 
lockdown time to get to know more Goanetters!
   I'm originally from Solva, Raia.

Awaiting a reply!

Regards,
Anish Esteves

www.anishesteves.home.blog
Twitter : AEthejourno

[Goanet] MORE BIBLE CRAP

[Eddie D'Sa]

What’s the matter with this resident Bible scholar, Devak Argham, as he goes 
about splashing weird  quotes from his  Bible before  an unsuspecting audience?
Here are the latest passage are from: John 8:43-44

43  Why do you not understand what I am saying? Because you cannot bear to hear 
my word.

44 You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your 
father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in 
truth, because there is no truth in him.

These sound like the ravings of a madman.
It is only fair to ask what these verses mean. Does Devak himself understand? 
Not all of us are as bright as Devak Argham is. Who is the ‘I’ referred to? Is 
it Jesus and what is the context?
Then the speaker of  the passages goes berserk and talks of some devil. The 
father of his audience is identified as the devil and is vilified as ‘murderer’ 
and a liar.
Mr Argham, please explain this holy crap that you are spreading.

Eddie