Frederick FN Noronha wrote: > Dear Prof Borges, > (2) You comment: >>> All the Goan bishops, without exception, were bamons. > > A good rhetorical argument. But I think that there were just three Goan > bishops/archbishops/auxiliary bishops. All the rest were Portuguese. > (Correct me if I'm wrong, and I could be.)
Folks, English can be a difficult language. Perhaps Prof Borges and FN meant to say that all the Goan Bishops of Goa were bamons? I have met four Goan Bishops. One a relative, one from my dads village, one from my moms village and one who was our neighbour in Siolim. I estimate that there are/have been more than 25 Bishops of Goan origin in my lifetime. Lastly, it never occurred to me that these people became Bishops only because of the peculiar type of Catholicism practiced by Indians. Mervyn
