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Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm
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Archbishop calls for reflecting on Liberation
TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: “ Is Liberation limited to mere political self- determination
and does the fact that Goans gained freedom from foreign rule in 1961
make them automatically a free and self- determined people?” asked
Archbishop of Goa Filipe Neri Ferrão while speaking at the annual
Christmas reception Thursday.
Archbishop Ferrão said that we in Goa are still surfriding the wave of
the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of what has come to be known as
the Liberation of Goa.
“… Now that the celebrations are on the wane, it is perhaps pertinent to
do a little soul- searching and ask ourselves, in all sincerity-- at the
end of these 50 years, are we really a liberated people?,” he stated.
Archbishop Ferrao tried explaining that person- orientation is of prime
importance more than development which is limited to mere economic
growth, whether through flourishing tourism or the much talked about
Regional Plan. He said that development cannot consist only in the
indiscriminate possession of the products of human history.
“ True development, just as true liberation, is person- oriented, it
concerns and promotes the whole person in every single dimension. It is
only in the service of the human person that we can talk of wholesome
liberation as well as of social and economic development,” he said
adding that these are his personal thoughts and not an attempt to pull
up the government.
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