Vivian Message: 3 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 09:56:17 +0000 (UTC) From: "Vivian A. DSouza" Message-ID: < [email protected]> on the Subject: of Re: [Goanet] GOAN CLUBS THE VIEW FROM MOSHI
You stated Professor Adolfo, the need of the hour is a Goan Catholic Truth Commission.? It could be in Cyberspace.We Goan Catholics? are guilty of a whole lot of discrimination, both within our community and without.We discriminated against each other because of Caste, although supposedly there is no room in the Catholic faith for Caste, as that was? a Hindu concoction.We discriminated against tailors mechanics and cooks, as supposedly they were not? of our social status, though our social status was that of lowly clerks n the colonial? administration..We discriminated against, non-Goans including Mangloreans even though they are of Goan ancestry,Hindus, Muslims, Anglo-Indians, Seychellois, Chinese etc. etc. In the African colonies, we discriminated against the indigenous Africans, mimicking the discrimination inflicted? on us by the white man.We need to bare our souls and cleanse ourselves of the baggage that is weighing us down.Who among us has the moral fibre and personal record to lead suc h a commission but thee ? That was in response of the message fro Tony on the Moshi Club Tony Thanks a million for your Message: 5? Date: Mon, 6 Apr 202022:46:48 +0530??Mge-ID:? <CAPsceg_UiEKtZQX8o_akrR4Xw6kekELZ2fcom>From: Tony de Sa < [email protected]> Sometime two years or so I purchased on Being A Goan Christian. The Politics of Identity, Rift and Synthesis. Catchy title and I have no idea how I forgot it in my room in Quepem. It is an easy to read book double spaced and all that. The author is Father Victor Ferrao. It is as if this Philosopher Priest was reading our minds The Preface was written by Dr Thedore Mascarenhas SFX, (Not a relative) What is very important was that he in in the Pontifical Council for Culture in the Vatican (the smallest and probably power ful State in the World. Please don’t, ask me like one of the Russian Presidents’, how big is his Army !! Why is patient Asolfo so excited. The Contents only 6 chapters cover 86 pages. Some are long some brief. From Page To Page 1) Being a Goan Christian 6 21 2) Towards a Christian Response to the Politics of “Outsiding” 22 37 3) The Colonizers and their Clones A Christian Response of Post Liberalism Histography 38 58 4) The Relationship of Colonization and the Coloniality Of Relationship: Seeking a Christian Response 59 76 5) Dealing With The Unfulfilled Future of the Past 77 91 6) Retellin the Story of Jesus In Goa 92 116 This book is not written by Catholic Priest with no reference to the laity. The reference stretches all the way from Toronto to Near and remote villages in Goa. Even our dear friend Frederick Noronoha is mention as is Hartman. If a new edition should come out it badly needs and *Index* . I could even volunteer to do it. I do read foot notes some of them are long. On page 55 the footnote is 30 lines approximately 450 words OK Vivian you were henind the move for me to head the Commission. I see Nyet because these fellows are incredibly good. There is room for hundreds of us to participate but lets not be enslaved that Christianity is a western religion. There is a footnote about St Thomas and Bartholomew . More to follow when I am rested
