Hi Gilbert
I do not expect you to accept what I have to say re the Catholic Church and
its co-existence with caste in Goa. This will be spelt out fully (as said
before) in a substantial paper in the international press. I have much of
the evidence I need already so please do not worry on this count.
On another point, you seem to find nothing wrong (or worth commenting on)
about some of the failings of the Catholic Church when the papers are full
of recent accounts among priests and the need to compensate those abused to
the tune of billions of dollars. Paradoxically, the Catholic Church has
helped a lot of poor people very considerably in the USA.
Re Eric Pinto, he may well have contributed to the poor (and also the
Church) as you say but I have his views (written by himself) on his caste
position deriding other Goans, in clearly, an unguarded moment of his on
Goanet. Perhaps you and he might throw more light on this matter that
interests me particularly. And yes, I did have a close relation who was a
priest. He was most critical of caste in the priesthood and in the Church in
Goa. My interest on this matter began with my long conversations and record
of what he said were authenticated with dates etc. What he said was echoed
by one other priest who was also an academic. Further, I have a substantial
file of papers from a Goan priest who was harassed by the Church for being
strongly anti-caste and had to leave his calling. He gave me the file of
official correspondence hoping I would write about what had happened in his
case. Clearly, I won't tell you what else I have! You can do your utmost to
distract me from my objective of drawing from my evidence but it just isn't
working. Is it?
I hope this will not be your last post on these issues---you too have a long
way to go to renounce and denounce the evil of caste among Catholic Goans.
But it seems clear to me why you want me to stop pressing home this point.
You must find the implicit hypocrisy therein incredibly embarrassing and is
only just seeing the light of day.
Regards
Cornel
PS re Fascism, one does not see much about this concept going back 5000
years. By and large it has been studied as a modern day phenomenon of the
twentieth century. I suggest you check your facts before displaying so much
ignorance to Goanetters on this topic. Further, you confuse the concepts of
authoritarianism and fundamentalism in the RSS as Fascism. It is fascistic
in orientation but has yet to be labelled by scholars as Fascist on par
with Hitler, Mussolini and Franco. Mosley in the UK was a small scale
fascist in the UK. I hope this is not too complicated for you when dabbling
with issues that are well out of your depth!
Gilbert Lawrence wrote:
Hi Cornel,
You have good essay-writing skills. Yet that is not the criteria to be a
"practicing scholar". (a bit presumptuous - would you not say?). In fact
this thought-precess is one that I would say, is similar to a Goan casteist.
Do you think you behaved as a scholar in accusing the church of casteism,
when you had no evidence to support that charge?
