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From: "floriano"
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Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Secular Goa] Goa: Communal harmony in state needs to be preserved, says Kamat
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> I have always wondered if Fr. Conceicao Mariano Chagas D'Silva is a
> politician or a priest.
> Look at the list of eminent guests at his function at Kesarval Gardens,
> Verna. Except for Dr. Francisco Colaco and Cristavao Caldeira, all are
> politicians.
>
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> Maybe Digamber Kamat should make Fr. Conceicao the 'liaison Officer' in his
> cabinet, and I am sure, Fr. Conceicao will do well to increase their
> vote-banks and at the same time protect the fortunes of the Congress party.
> BTW did not Fr. Conceicao actively campaign for Mauvin Godinho to defeat
> Matanhy Saldanha?
>
> On second thought the Church in Goa should, by and large, be given the
> 'liaison' charge to see that the congress rule in Goa is perpetuated to see
> the destruction of entire Goa at its hands as has been displayed by 'Rajan
> Parrikar's 'Wrecking Salcete' series on the net.
>
> Is my thinking misplaced?
>
> If that be so, then someone must tell me what the Church in Goa has done or
> is doing for its flock in Salcete, when it is literally being displaced by
> high-ended Non-Goan barons concretising anything and everything. Has the
> Church in Goa any moral right to intervene in favour of the material
> destruction of its faithfuls? If so, I need to know about it. Or is it only
> interested to heal its faithful spiritually irrespective of whether they are
> being done to slow death by having their environment being snatched away
> from under their very feet by out of state land sharks?
>
> I have asked a question before if the Church in Goa still retains the moral
> right to preach 'morality' when the ministers of the church are openly
> conniving with the moral degraders of Goa's political well-being.
>
> The more I see what is happening in and around Goa's Church, the institution
> which can guarantee, to the most extent, the moral functioning of Goa's
> government, the more I am convinced that the Church has a hand in what is
> going on, the out-right loot and plunder of Goa, the selling of Goa to the
> highest bidder et al. Otherwise ministers of the Church would not be
> pussy-footing with the known corrupt people, branded as such for their acts
> of omission and commission by being part of Goa's government for long.
>
> In the Aldona constituency, during the last assembly elections, I have had
> the first hand experience to see how the Church has openly aided and
> abetted with the corrupt, without exception, by taking fat donations in the
> name of the Church, so much so, that even basic responsibily that the
> Church has to see to it that corruption is rooted out, was sacrificed at
> the altar of hypocrisy.
>
> And having seen all this, the planning and conniving with the corrupted by
> the in-charges of all the Churches in Aldona Constituency, it becomes amply
> clear that the Church in Goa is just giving lip-service to and/or the go-by
> for the life of CHRIST, but for His name, to capitalise on the weaknesses
> of the gullible faithfull to think that all that is done is done for Christ
> and in the name of Christ.
>
> I for one cannot, and will not, entertain the split-image of Christ which is
> more and more sought to be associated with the 'Catholic Church' on the one
> side and with CHRISTIANITY on the other. I prefer to stick to the latter,
> finding solace that the former is just 'hog-wash' and that the later is the
> way of life that the Church is founded on and must follow in the foot-steps
> of CHRIST in order to deliver its faithfuls from tragedies like what is
> going to overwhelm Goa and Goans in the immediate future. For that to
> happen, there needs to be a radical change of heart where it
> counts ------------- just what Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has been
> talking about, by giving up the comfort and safety of sanctimonious
> preaching of morality from the pulpit, but by going out t here on the road
> to show and lead the people in their fight for survival just like how Christ
> would have done if he was well and alive.
>
> floriano
> goasuraj
>
>
> From: Vidyadhar Gadgil
> To: Secular Goa
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:14 PM
> Subject: [Secular Goa] Goa: Communal harmony in state needs to be preserved,
> says Kamat
>
>
> Communal harmony in state needs to be preserved, says Kamat
> NT NETWORK
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> PANAJI
>
> The Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat has lauded the yeoman services
> rendered by Fr Conceicao Mariano Chagas D'Silva in religious and
> social fields.
>
> Fr Conceicao remained adhered to social obligation to serve humanity,
> Mr Kamat said.
>
> He was speaking at a function organised to mark the completion of 25
> years of Fr Conceicao priesthood at the Kesarval Garden at Verna.
>
> The Chief Minister said the congregation of large number of people to
> celebrate the silver jubilee ordination of Fr Conceicao indicated the
> popularity of this well-known priest of Goa.
>
> This is the eloquent testimony to the splendid work done by him for
> the betterment of all strata of the society, Mr Kamat noted.
>
> The Minister for Home, Mr Ravi Naik, The Deputy Speaker, Mr Mauvin
> Godinho, Mr Francis Silveira, MLA and Mr Luizinho Faleiro, former
> minister were present on the occasion.
>
> The Chief Minister said Goa is known for communal harmony, which needs
> to be preserved to maintain the state's identity.
>
> He recalled his association with Fr Conceicao and said he has seen the
> good work of the priest since last many years. Mr Kamat hoped that
> this noted priest will continue with his good services for the
> development of the state.
>
> On the occasion, the Chief Minister released a book titled 'The Fisher
> of Men' authored by Michael Gracias on the life and work of Fr
> Conceicao. Dr Francisco Culaso and Cristavao Caldeira spoke on the
> occasion
>
> Question everything -- Karl Marx
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