Thank you JoeGoaUk for many genuine questions. I doubt, whether you will ever receive any reply from the Patriarch whose office was exclusively responsible for the casteist state of affairs within the Goa Catholic Church during the last four and half centuries ending in the year 1961.
I simply cannot understand the mentality of the bamon padri (the chaddi padri appeared on the scene much later ). A padri by profession is supposed to look after the spiritual welfare of his flock. Casteist for 'Les Miserables ' i.e. other than bamons and chaddis was a devilish scheme that endlessly tortured the mind of the lesser people. Was the bamon padri aware of this spiritual suffering ? Or was this a part of suffering that enabled a poor soul to approach directly the pearly gates of St Peter without post burial mortification called purgatory ? Joe, if you know a proper office address in the Vatican, please request them to obtain an answer from Patriarch's Office in Goa to the following two questions. May be Mr. Cornel da Costa could help you in this regard. Question No. 1 How come the Seminaries accepted young boys from bamon families to be trained as priest to the exclusion of all others Question No.2 Why were religious associations called confrarias formed on the basis of the Hindu caste system ? antonio