Dear readersThe catholic lay people are to be blamed for the mess in the
catholic church. I am refering to the assets and finances of the church. We are
always over generous while giving to the church. We want to make a big show and
many times open our purses to give donations which goes elsewhere. Every sunday
we pour money in the basket. I have never seen priests and nuns open their
purses. In Goa the church is registered as a society registered under the
society act 1860 but till today the church has remain so silent about this
society as what is the name of the society, how many ordinary members it has,
who are the governing body members, who are the minutes of the general body
meeting or governing body meeting. They are afraid that the other catholics may
want to get in this society. We are all left in the dark and we think that this
church is ours, this property of the church is ours and it is our duty to
repair the church etc.That means there is a scam and we are afraid. If tomorrow
our churches are closed the assets can be divided between members of that
society and we the philantrophist will get nothing. If you are allowed to be
burried in the cemetry this society is doing us a favour. Amchem kaim nam. In
Goa we are collecting lakhs of rupees towards mission. Do we have any mission
in Goa ? our missionaries go to foreign countries and when they come to Goa
they boast they are missionaries. it is the duty of Goa church o look after its
sheep who are running here and there for the word of God.The church does not
have obligation to send priests to Africa. When your own house is in disorder
what can you set right your neighbour's house ? Our catholics are loaded with
problems which the church has no time to solve. Divorce is increasing, drug
absuse by youngsters is also increasing. Alcoholism and poverty is increasing.
We have caritas which collects like mission sunday one collection. i have never
seen caritas coming to the help of the poor and the downtrodden. we have so
many under nourished christian families. We have alcoholic problems in our
families. we have unemployment in our families. Does the church feel the heart
beat or the low pulse beat of the poor ? No never. They will screw everyone
when times come for collections or repairs of the church but they will not
spend anything for us. Quo vadis Domino. Albert de souza
or> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:27:22 +0530
> From: [email protected]
> To:
> Subject: [Goanet] SELF DEFENCE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATIONS.
>
> The Catholic Clergy are not interested in utilizing Church assets,
> resources & vacant properties for the benefit of our poor catholics.
> The Catholic Schools are not prepared to reserve 25% seats in catholic
> schools for our poor catholics. The Catholic Hospitals are giving
> concessions to poor non-catholics but not to our poor catholics. The
> Catholic Missionaries are using their foreign funds to serve poor
> non-catholics but not our poor catholics. All in all nobody cares for
> poor catholics. No Wonder many of our poor catholics have left the
> catholic hurch. Where there is no life, there is no attraction. A
> dead person is still dead, no matter how good the undertaker makes him
> look. So also a church which does not care about the poor parishoners.
>
> The Bishops, Priests, Missionaries will not bother about the opinion
> of the lay catholics. The lay catholics should set up their local
> associations to help each other and train each other in Combat so that
> the lay catholics are prepared for self-defence as and when the enemy
> decides to replicate the anti-christian kandhmal experiment.
>
> Jorge D'souza
> Bombay.
