(New Delhi) The National Women's Commission, a government agency, recommends a nationwide ban on confession to the Indian government, thereby launching a direct attack on the Catholic Church.
The Women's Commission, which issued a press release on July 26, cites two alleged cases, one in Kerala, the other in Punjab, and sees its demand as a measure "to prevent extortion by priests." According to the Women's Commission, Catholic priests would force women to "divulge their secrets."
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay, protested vigorously in his capacity as President of the Indian Bishops' Conference. The cardinal spoke of an open violation of religious freedom: "This demand violates our religious freedom." However, religious freedom is protected by the Indian constitution. "I was shocked when I heard about the request," said the cardinal. "It proves a complete lack of understanding of the nature and meaning of the sacrament of penance." There are other questions that the Women's Commission should pay attention to.
The head of the National Women's Commission is Rekha Sharma, who was nominated in 2015 by the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP is known for its hostility to Christianity. Conversion bans have been introduced in some states where it is in majority.
The commission consists of the chairman and up to five members. At present, the Commission consists of only four members, three women and one man. The female members are all members of the BJP.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Picture: AsiaNews
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
AMDG
"For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils, but the Lord made the heavens" (Ps 95,5).
ReplyDeleteBut muh ecumenism.
Equality of women refuses to accept the authority of the male Church. Now with all of the gays in the hierarchy, you 'ain't" seen nothing yet. Scripture is a fulfillment of the Old Testament. The Christ stated clearly that He came to fulfill the old law and not to do away with it.---You have to see where this is going. It is perfect socialism and utopia on Earth with the closing of churches as an impediment to the new world order. Marx and Lenin said the same thing before they whacked the czar and his family.
ReplyDeleteFeminist movement reached the four corner of the World's. More prayers needed .
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ReplyDeleteIndia should be careful of chastisement to humble them. It's been a while since they had a disaster that brought them to their knees.
ReplyDeleteDon't fret about India being afflicted: Kapronymos the Elephant Boy is making a return visit.
ReplyDeleteI am Legion, for we are many.
ReplyDeleteCreepy stalker has a lot of time on his hands.
DeleteThe Hindu Fundamentalist groups collectively known as the Sangh Parivar has their agents deep inside the Christian denominations. They often rake up and inflame controversies within Christian communities so that the fundamentalist government can step in and interfere in the workings of those communities. While no one can deny that there are scandals in the Church, as there are in every religious group, every negative issue concerning Christianity in India has the Hindu hand deep in it.
ReplyDeleteThe most accurate article on Hinduism is unfortunately on an anti-Catholic website.
Hinduism - Satanic to the core
https://www.christiandoctrine.com/christian-doctrine/anti-god-beliefs/1513-hinduism-satanic-to-its-core
India, a dream that's dying......NWO slaves, nothing more, nothing less.
ReplyDeleteFear not, Modi will be reaching for the danger diapers when he learns that the messianic Mahatma 'Ganges' Kopronymos is on the way back to the old country to rescue the faithful Remnant ahead of the impending divine wrath on the infidels of the sub Continent.
ReplyDeleteThere are paid Hindu fundamentalist stalkers in India to troll non Hindu sites and to insert pro government comments whenever possible. Millions of Hindus seek fame and fortune in the West but once there put on their saffron (really should be turmeric) robes. All Christian sites are monitored. When it comes to e-voting for the best this, that or the other, they gang vote India/ns to victory.
ReplyDeleteProgress for Western Civilization huh?
They are trying their luck in education out here as well. See:
https://www.equip.org/article/have-your-textbooks-been-saffronized/
Not a peep out of the National Commission for Women concerning the 35 female children continuously raped in a so called shelter run by Hindus in the state of Bihar. The Mother Teresa nuns in India and other clergy can barely sneeze without having the whole state and media machinery jumping on them.
Uriah Heepistanis. Bullies who can only hunt in large packs. The land of the longest and ongoing persecution in human history, that of the Dalits. What can you expect of any "commission" set up by such people?
ReplyDeleteFrom the beginning to the end of his life, Jesus was the equivalent of a Dalit in his own culture.
ReplyDeleteRead the Gospels. It'll be an amazing new experience for you, Drop Kick.
Yet He was wearing a seamless garment, something only rich people could afford.
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I am Legion, for we are many.
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ReplyDeleteFrom the beginning to the end of his life, Jesus was the equivalent of a Dalit in his own culture.
Read the Gospels. It'll be an amazing new experience for you, Drop Kick.
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A Dalit who has a billion and a half, perhaps even more, followers today? So people actually like Dalits! Go tell that to Modi. It may spell the end of paganism in that part of the world.
The post is about non-Catholics trying to deny Catholics one of the Seven Sacraments. I think that's a serious issue for Catholics.
ReplyDeleteThe sacraments are a serious issue for Catholics. We have to defend the sacraments. So why is this "Basil Fawlty/Basil F" being allowed to post his garbage?
Most of the Latin Rite Catholics in India are Dalits. These literally marginalized and despised social fringe dwellers have found Latin Catholicism to be a community of welcome, equality and justice. Almost no Dalits are to be found in the Syro-Malabar and related communities whose members pride themselves for the most part on being of a higher caste than the 'Untouchables.' A noisy representative of the pretentious Syro-Malabar brigade is the aimlessly-verbose Kopronymos who, on these pages, has boasted on his 'fair skinned', educated, socially mobile attributes compared with the dark skilled, illiterates gathered outside the gated communities of the elite.
ReplyDeleteIt really is all about race, privilege, power. No wonder the powerless want to strip away the protections of their exploiters and expose them. That's exactly what Jesus did. Get it?
You are right Fawlty that the Syro-Malabaris have captured the Catholic Church in India and are allowed to run dioceses outside of their home base in Kerala. They have spread like wild fire throughout the world seeking space and eparchies for their clergy. This is Euro-Dollar Christianity. When the Portuguese arrived in Kerala circa late 5th early 16c they could not recognize the Syro-Malbari practices and liturgy as Christian!
ReplyDeleteIf you think the Latin Rite Catholics in India have much love for these graspers, well think again! The sexual misconduct case which set off the "Confession" controversy originated in a Confessional of the Syro-Malabar ORTHODOX group. Their priests can marry but they obviously want some crumpet on the side. The Hindu fundamentalists, right from the time of Nehru, have found Judases from these people, to work against Christianity in India.
I have asked priests concerning the Syro-Malabar dioceses in India:
If someone wants to become a Catholic in those dioceses does he become a Latin Rite or Syro-Malabar Catholic. If the latter then why? No one can answer. They are now all over India. BUT UPTO 50 YEARS AGO THEY DID NOT GO OUT AND EVANGELISE THE REST OF THE COUNTRY AS THE LORD COMMANDED! Try beating their Ghetto Mentality!
This dude who says that "the Syro-Malabar Catholics have captured the Catholic Church in India" is ignorant of facts and the rights of the various 'sui juirist' ( self governing) Churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome as well as the history of the Catholic Church. The Syro-Malabar diaspora in other parts of India and other countries have the right to have their liturgy, priests and in due time their Bishops and Eparchies as per the Canon Law. And we don't interfere in the administration or ministries of the majority Latin Church. It's nonsense !
DeleteThe world 'ghetto mentality' he has used in his comment is an example of his ignorance, mean spiritedness and narrow mindedness.The Catholic Church historically did not mean Latin Church and will not mean Latin Church in the future. I suspect in you a superiority complex to compensate for your unwanted inferiority complex you have for being a Latin Catholic. That would not change facts Bro Anonymous.
And more over he is jealous of the fact that Syro- Malabar Church have many missionaries inside and outside the country. We belong to a very dynamic and vibrant Church with strong lay participation, vibrant church communities and a very strong Charismatic Movement. It's true the Catholics in Kerala(of the two syriac Catholics churches and the Latin Church) are well educated and by God's grace financially well. That's not something to be jealous about. It's not a crime to be intelligent and enlightened. The Syrian Christian community in Kerala have been financially well for nearly a millennium due to business and trade monopoly they had under the kings in Kerala with the Middle East. It's also true Keralites( Hindus, Muslims, Christians) in general and Syro-Malabar Catholics in particular have migrated to Europe, U.S, Australia and the Middle East. That's not a bad thing. Earning Dollar or Pound and contributing to the Indian economy or Kerala Church is not a bad thing.
It's nonsense to say that when the Portuguese came to India in the 15th century they did not recognise the Chaldean Liturgy of Syrian Christians in Kerala and they considered it to be non-Christian. This is an example of 'half knowledge is worse than ignorance'. Or maybe wilful misinformation.
Now about Dalits. It's true that in many places outside Kerala the most of the Catholics are of the so called 'lower castes' or 'Dalit' communities. One shocking thing I have seen personally in some Christian communities outside Kerala is the very apparent discrimination even among the different so called 'lower caste'( also true among higher castes as well) as per the hen pecking order of their caste. I have seen missionaries from Kerala scandalised by how even priests of one lower caste community is discriminated by another so called lower caste communities. Also priests forming factions on the basis of which community(caste) they belong to.
We don't show such discrimination against priests or Catholics based on their castes they belonged to as Hindus in Kerala. It's true that many Syro-Malabar Catholics descent from the Jews and Upper caste Hindus. But not all. But we are don't discriminate each other. In Kerala we Syro-Malabar Catholics see all Priests even Latin Catholic Priests ( many come from lower caste communities) as priests and give due respect.
Bro Anonymous your words show an abundance of prejudice and ignorance, and a clear lack of Charity and humility. Charity and humility kills jealousy ! You are just a average wordily man not someone moved by the Spirit of God. Your words are proof for that.
Kyriakos, a Syro-Malabar Catholic
Perhaps both Rites should try Christianity. Obviously whatever is running at the moment isn't working.
ReplyDeleteThe reader will note that the loquacious Kopronymos has gone very quiet on the Syro-Malabar matter. The fairer skinned, privileged upper caste person of South Indian heritage is MIA. I wonder why?
ReplyDeleteAnd yet there are many "useful idiots" (Steve Bannon, for example) who call Modi a great leader and compare his victory to Ronald Reagan's.
ReplyDeleteThose of us who actually live in India know the score.
This man is an enemy of Christ and the true Faith. He wanted to replace Christmas Day with "Good Governance Day" so as to prevent the Catholic faithful from going to Mass.
Also, Kyriakos is full of kopros. The "Syro-Malabar" "Church" is a hotbed of adultery, incest, homosexuality, immoral relations between nuns and priests - and yet it presumes to lord it over what it considers the "inferior" Latin Catholics. Let's not also forget that they are Quislings who were the first to lick the boots of Hindu extremists and their idol Modi. If anyone is swayed by the words of Koprokos, I humbly urge them to google a book named "Amen" by a "Sister Jesme" and take what is colloquially called the red pill.
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