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Thanks, Helga. Antonio Mascarenhas has also provided a detailed thesis that I am in the process of studying. Regardless of the history, I find the continuation of the caste system among Catholics, so many decades after conversion, to be disgusting and abhorrent. The Hindus can speak for themselves, but their culture invented the caste system and Christianity officially has no such segmentation. I know several very fine individuals, Hindus as well as Catholics, who have suffered untold psychological abuse and heartbreak by their own families when they either married or wanted to marry "outside their caste". --- Helga do Rosario Gomes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ########################################################################## > # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # > # Want to check the archives? > http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/ # > # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to > reflect respect to others # > ########################################################################## > > > Mario, > Check the October 2004 archives - you missed a long > and heated discussion on > castes with excellent and analytic postings by Fred, > Alito Siqueira and > Basilio Monteiro. > -Helga > > > > > > I am surprised that no Goan Catholics who live in > > India have commented on this issue so I am > repeating > > my original posting. I would seriously like to get > > some informed opinions from people who may have > some > > insights or opinions on this festering atrocity > among > > Indian Catholics that has caused so much > heartbreak > > over the years. > > >
