GL responds to Cornel: Just returned to read your post. Once again you seen to have a penchant for mis-stating all and sundry. The issue of Fr. D'Souza was not his existence or his role in the Indian Constituent Assembly. But it was his 'supposed quote' of caste practices in the Catholic Church; and especially in the Goa context which by the way is the context of this thread. (Just in case you have missed it). Baba ani Putta, you can internationalize all you want. It looks like it is pretty easy to get any paper presented on some third-rate 'international forum' on some sea-side resort. But you will not be the first or the last Goan who confuses the issues. Others are doing the same thing in other parts of the world. Some are doing it in pursuit of their own agenda. The recent one I discovered was the 'Goan expert' with a few western degrees, a former divorcee and now in a live-in relation. The individual condemned the Goan practice of institutional-Church marriage. I just laughed at this, especially in light of the fact that in this great country of US of A, the Gays and Lesbians are fighting to institutionalize their unions. Yes Cornel, Mario and others, Goans like everyone else are entitled to their own opinions. But they are not entitled to their own facts. Some of these may be based on fictional novels on Goa written by third parties, that are now given a fake stamp of legitimacy. As some of you may well know, DISTORTING the facts on purpose is a polite way of stating it is a LIE. And when this is done in an academic context, it is called a scientific FRAUD. I'm glad you've elected to move your discussion on Goa's caste discriminations to another, perhaps less educated forum. So far in spite of my repeated requests, there has been a lot of opinions based on anecdotal cases with very little factual documented data of current practices. Or as my beloved late grand-aunt, who was not bashful, would say, "There is a lot of F--T and no S--T" :=)). And the proverb sounds a lot better in amchi bhas. Regards > ---- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gilbert, > > > I have now come across two independent sources which indicate Fr Jerome > > D'Souza's role in the founding Constituent Assembly, as indicated by Mario. > > Your disparagement of Mario, on this count simply does not stand up I'm > > afraid. Will you therefore please apologise to Mario? > > > The Aldona camaraderie, including the Archbishop, will have nothing to worry > about either, when the issue of caste among Catholic Goans is > internationalised. All will have the opportunity to refute anything they like > in an international forum. > > > The next step-function on the caste issue is the international circuit for me. > > > > Cornel > > > >
