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“Ryanites strongly believe champions are not born butthey are made.”

Ryan Minithon 2015 is the 119th race among theschool students in the country under the aegis of Ryangroup of Institutions and the leadership of Dr. A.F.Pinto

Ryan Minithon 2015“Awakening The Spirit Of

Sports Manship”

Chairman of St. Xavier’s and Ryan International Group ofInstitutions – India, who has been organizing such racesin Banglore, Delhi, Chandigarh, Nagpur, Surat, Jalna,Jaipur and Navi Mumbai since 1998 to develop a sportsculture in the country conductive for grooming youngstudents for National and International sporting events.Dr. A.F. Pinto believes the minithon is a ‘Tribute to allathlete throughout India.’ Such minithons promote aninterest in sports in the youth.

Around 10,135 sporty and enthusiastic studentsfrom over 41 different schools in Mumbai will participatedin the Grand Ryan Minithon 2015 the held at St. Lawrencehigh School, Eksar Rd., Borivli (W) on 11th January,2015.The group allotted as per the age groups. (Ronida)

Pope Francis said Catholics, who make up about sevenpercent of the population of Sri Lanka, should follow theexample of Vaz in building peace, justice and reconcilia-tion in the country, which has retained deep divisionsfollowing the bloody 2009 conclusion of an almost threedecades long civil war.

Vaz, who was born in the seaside town of Benaulim insouthern Goa in 1651 when it was under Portuguese rule,came to Sri Lanka as a missionary priest in 1686.

He spent five years preaching in secret in the low-lands before going up into the Kingdom of Kandy in thehighlands where he was arrested and accused of espio-nage for Portugal.

After spending a year in detention, Vaz came underthe protection of Buddhist King Vimaladharmasuriya II whowas convinced that the priest had no ill intentions againstthe kingdom.

St. Joseph Vaz

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An Open Letter To World LeadersBy 30 Global Influencers

Dear World Leaders,There are moments in history that become turning points. In our view, 2015 willbe such a moment. It is the most important year for global decision-making sincethe start of the new millennium.

We believe it’s just possible that we could end 2015 with a new globalcompact – an agreed pathway to a better, safer future for people and planet thatwill inspire all the citizens of the world. We can choose the path of sustainabledevelopment. Or we might not – and regret it for generations to come. Which sideof history will you be on?

There are millions of voices you can’t afford to ignore – the voices of thepeople you represent. They are voices of all ages from every corner of the planet– the voice of a young girl currently deprived an education… of a pregnantmother deprived healthcare… of young people deprived decent work… of afamily from a minority group fearful of discrimination from corrupt officials… offarmers forced to migrate to cities as climate refugees… and of billions of otherpeople. Their voices will roar ever louder against the inequality and injustice thatkeep people poor. They – and all who stand with them – are calling on you tocome up with a grand new global contract for our one human family – and thendeliver on it together. The great news is that in 2015 you have a historic chanceto do just that.

Two critical United Nations summits will take place this year. The first inSeptember, where the world must agree new goals to eradicate extreme poverty,tackle inequality and ensure a more sustainable planet. The second is theclimate summit in December where we must ensure the wellbeing of peopletoday doesn’t come at the expense of our children’s futures.

Together with critical discussions on financing, these opportunities are thebiggest of our lifetime. We know from past efforts against AIDS, malaria,preventable diseases and saving the ozone layer that when we come together,so much can be achieved. Yet, with just months to go before these summits, fewleaders are playing the leadership roles we need. We see climate progress butnot yet of the scale that is needed, and a set of goals that are hugely ambitiousbut will be meaningless without brave financing and implementation agree-ments led from the very top.

If this does not change, we fear you and your fellow leaders could be sleep-walking the world towards one of the greatest failures of recent history. It’s nottoo late to rise to the occasion. We’re asking you to help lead that change.

Let’s be clear: the actions we take in 2015 will decide which way the worldturns for decades to come. Please take the right path.

Contentspg. 3 - An Open Letter To ...pg. 5 - Big Problem With Modi's

'Make In India' ...pg. 7 - Reader's Viewspg 8 - Why You Should Drink More

Teapg 9 - Too Old to Contributepg. 10 - Pope Francis Stirs contro-

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Choosepg 14 - BJP Or AAP: Nobody Has An

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Kochi – Preparations are on for the visitof Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II, head ofthe Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church,to India beginning February 7.

The Patriarch will lead a 35-mem-ber delegation, including seven bish-ops, to India on his first visit. The Patri-arch will be in Kerala as a State guest,and address public gatherings atKottayam, Puthenkurisu, andManjanikkara, said a spokesman forthe committee which is making arrange-ments for the visit.

He said various committees hadbeen constituted to oversee prepara-tions for the visit. Invitations had beensent out to dignitaries to attend thePatriarch’s functions, reportedthehindu.com.

On his first day in Kerala, the Pa-triarch would attend the synod of thebishops at the Puthenkurisu Patriar-chal Centre and later addressmediapersons at the same venue, saidthe spokesman.

On the following day he would beat Manarkadu to offer mass at St. Mary’sJacobite Syrian Church.

Later in the day, he would ad-dress a public meeting at the NehruStadium in Kottayam.

The Patriarch would also lead themass at the Manjanikkara church at thememorial feast of former Patriarch ofAntioch and All the East St. IgnatiusElias III.

He would consecrate the newchurch at Malekkurisu Dayara, nearPuthenkurisu, and inaugurate a new

home for the aged at Malekkurisu.The Patriarch would address the

Maramon convention, scheduled tobegin on February 9. The organisers ofthe programmes said the Patriarch hadalso set aside a day to be spent at theKnanaya diocese at Chingavanam.

Among the places the Patriarchwould visit in Kerala areKothamangalam, Piravom,Kunnamkulam, North Paravoor,Pallikkara, Kandanad, andMulamthuruthy. He is scheduled toleave for Delhi on February 16.Ignatius Aphrem II

Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II is thepatriarch of the Syriac OrthodoxChurch. He became the 123rd SyriacOrthodox Patriarch of Antioch whenhe was enthroned as patriarch inDamascus on May 29, 2014. Beforehis election to the patriarchate, hewas Archbishop for the EasternUnited States of America, and knownas Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim in thatpost. In that role, he established 11new parishes, introduced a numberof new programs for the youth, andworked for inter-church unity.

Sa'id Karim was born in Qamishli,north-eastern Syria, on May 3, 1965,the youngest son of Issa andKhanema Karim. His family areSyriacs who originally came fromthe village Ëhwo (Turkish: Güzelsu)in the Tur Abdin region of MardinProvince, Turkey.

Preparations for Patriarch’s visit begin

Syriac OrthodoxChurch

The Syriac Orthodox Church ofAntioch is an autocephalous Ori-ental Orthodox church based inthe Eastern Mediterranean, withmembers spread throughout theworld. It employs the oldest sur-viving liturgy in Christianity, theLiturgy of St. James the Apostle,and uses Syriac as its official andliturgical language. The church isled by the Syriac Orthodox Patri-arch of Antioch. The Syriac Ortho-dox Church traces its history toone of the first Christian communi-ties in Antioch, described in theActs of the Apostles (New Testa-ment, Acts 11:26) and establishedby the Apostle St. Peter in AD 37.

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by IndiaSpend Team:

As Prime Minister Narendra Modipushes his Make-in-India manufacturing plan and factory out-

put rebounds, new data indicate twodisquieting trends.

One, there is a slowdown in em-ployment in the formal, organised sec-tor (which in any case employs only12% of India’s labour force), the primestaging ground of Modi’s programme.Data released by the Ministry of Statis-tics and Programme Implementation onIndian factories show that more than400,000 people lost their jobs duringthe financial year 2012-13.

Two, this slowdown hides a larger,long-term trend: India Inc is automatingand squeezing more output from itsworkers and so, needs fewer of them.

While India had 222,120 opera-tional industrial units during 2012-13,according to the Annual Survey of In-dustries (ASI), an increase of 2% percent from 217,554 units in 2011-2012;people engaged in factories declinedfrom 13.43 million to 12.95 million – adrop of 3.6% (480,000).

This cannot be a welcome de-velopment, given that the focus ofModi’s Make in India programme ison employment, under which thePrime Minister wants manufacturingto account for at least 25% of GDP.

While the number of industrieshas increased 73% during the de-cade (2002-03 to 2012-13), total per-sons engaged in industrial activities hasgone up by only 63%. But taken from1994-95, the growth of jobs in propor-tion to capital employed and value ofoutput shows a much stronger down-ward trend.

Over nearly two decades up to2012-13, this is what happened in India’sorganised-sector factories:

• The number of industries increased80%.

• Capital employed multiplied nearly700%

• The value of output is up 1066%• Total employment increased only

40%.

Indeed, more people were em-ployed in Indian factories during 1994-95 than a decade later in 2005-06.Clearly, industrial India is getting moreoutput per person engaged in its indus-trial activities. In other words, it needsfewer workers to do the same work.Capital employed has been going upsimultaneously across industries, whichimplies more automation and efficiency,thus reducing the need for workers.

Capital employed across 123,010industries was Rs 3,87,534.59 crore in1994-1995, which has increased to Rs31,39,028.07 crore across 222,120 in-dustries during 2012-13.

India’s Employment Conun-drum

“The unorganised sector, in par-ticular the household sector, accountsfor a disproportionately large share ofemployment but a very small share ofvalue added in manufacturing,” a work-

ing paper released recently by IndianCouncil for Research on InternationalEconomic Relations (ICRIER) has said.

Employment estimates indicatethat between 1999-2000 and 2011-12,Indian manufacturing (organised andotherwise) added 1.4 million jobs eachyear, against the 12 million now needed.The sector now employs more than 60million people.

The organised manufacturing sec-tor for the same period increased jobsby 4.5%, employing 12.2 million in 2011-12, according to ASI’s results, whichrecord formal employment.

“While this was certainly not a pe-riod of jobless growth in the organisedmanufacturing sector, the rate of jobcreation falls severely short of the re-

quirements of productive jobs for the 7-8 million youth expected to enter the jobmarket each year in the next ten years,”the ICRIER paper said.

The study goes on to mention thatmuch of the action for improving thebusiness environment needs to be takenat the state level. “We find that stateswith more inflexible labour regulationshave witnessed slower growth in em-ployment in manufacturing than stateswith more flexible labour market regula-tions,” the study said.

However, the “dismal perfor-mance” of the manufacturing sector onlabour regulations, the study noted,could not be blamed on labour regula-tions because these laws affect onlypermanent workers and companies,which are bypassing them by hiringcontract workers.

“Moreover, factors such as cum-bersome product market regulationsand infrastructural bottlenecks have alsoadversely affected the growth of the

manufacturing sector,” the studysaid. “The two new factors whichhave become increasingly impor-tant in constraining the growth oforganised manufacturing are thedifficulties in securing environmen-tal clearances and acquiring land.”Globally, India is the 3rd largest

employer in manufacturing, afterChina and the United States, ac-cording to this report by United

Nations Industrial DevelopmentOrganisation (UNIDO). That’s an im-provement from the 8th position in 1970and 5th in 1990.

Clearly, while employment is stag-nant across industries–a cause of con-cern for those joining the labour forceand the job-creation hopes of the Makein India programme – Indian industry isdoing reasonably well, thanks to capi-tal-intensive production methods andby moving labour from full-time employ-ment to contracts.

This is the dilemma the govern-ment will need to address. As yet, it hasrevealed no such plans.

This article was originally published byIndiaSpend.

The Big Problem With Modi’s ‘Make In India’That No One Is Talking About

6 26 January 2015

There appears to be some confusion in the minds of the faithful whether the newly canonised

Goan saint in Sri Lanka by PopeFrancis on January 14, is saint PadreJose Vaz or saint Joseph Vaz. Confu-sion is worse confounded when somepeople keep referring to the feast dayof the saint on January 16 as the feastof St Joseph. Some of the descen-dants of the Vaz family have recentlycome out in protest saying that thefirst name of the saint is Jose and notJoseph. According to them there isalso documentary evidence in theGoan and Portugese archives to provethat the first name of the saint is Joseand not Joseph. It is therefore notknown how and why the name of thesaint has been changed to Joseph.Probably the Anglicised are morecomfortable with Joseph than Jose,while Jose is for the Portugese -speak-ing. If this is so, then why is the feastof St John Baptist celebrated in Goa

Jose, not Joseph Vaz

as Sao Joao festival instead of StJohn the Baptist festival. It is there-fore important for the church in Goato release an ‘Official’ declaring thatthe Goan saint in question is saintPadre Jose Vaz and not saint JosephVaz before there are further distor-tions of the saint’s holy name.

—A. F. Nazareth,Alto Porvorim

Thanksgiving Novena to St. Jude

special patronage in time of need,to you I have recourse from thedepth of my heart and humblybeg to whom God has givensuch great power to come to myassistance. Help me in mypresent and urgent petition. Inreturn I promise to make yourname known and cause you to beinvoked.St. Jude pray for us and all who

invoke your aid. Amen.Say three Our Fathers, three Hail

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Holy Father'sAddress to the Curia

In his Annual Christmas Greeting tothe Curia (the powerful administrativewing of the Vatican) the Holy Father didnot mince words while giving the bu-reaucracy a full scale dressing down. The Holy Father, assisted by his nineadvisers (C-9), including our own Car-dinal Oswald Gracias , is in the processof drawing up plans to restructure theCuria . The Holy Father listed 15sicknesses or sins of the Curia. Listedbelow are some of them:1. The sickness of feeling 'immortal',

'immune' or 'indispensable' whicharises from the 'pathology of power'.It is the sickness of the rich fool (in theBible) who thinks he will live for eter-nity. The Holy Father suggested awalk in the cemetery and a look at thenames of those who 'thought theywere indispensable'.

2. The sickness of 'Martha-ism' or be-ing immersed in excessive workwhich makes one lose focus of thereal work. The Holy Father suggestedspending a little time with relativesand respecting the holidays as a timeof spiritual and physical replenish-ment,. He referred to the Book ofecclesiastics : 'there is a time foreverything'.

3. The sickness of 'mental and spiritualpetrification' leading to loss of inter-nal peace making persons hide un-der papers ,turning them into 'proce-dural machines'.

4 The sickness of 'Spiritual Alzheimer's'or the progressive degeneration ofspiritual faculties making a persondependent on his own imaginedviews. Such persons lose memory oftheir encounter with the Lord and thehistory of salvation and build wallsaround them making them slaves ofthe idols they have fashioned withtheir own hands.

5 The sickness of schizophrenia orleading a double life of hypocrisyand spiritual emptiness.

6. The sickness of gossip and grum-bling that can murder the reputationof a person in cold blood, The HolyFather warned against this kind ofsickness calling it the 'terrorism of

gossip'.7 The sickness of putting on a funeral

face .Such persons exhibit sterilepessimism and believe that to beserious they must put on a severeface and treat others, especially thoseregarded as inferior – with rigidity,harshness and arrogance.

Needless to say that at the end theaddress was met with muted applause.But the Holy Fathers is firm in his re-solve and will be meeting the C-9 fromFeb 9-11 to push forward his reforms ofthe Curia

—Prof Robert CastellinoCalangute

Educate theGirl Child

We all love the embrace of a mother,the devotion of a wife, the cuddle of agirlfriend … But not the caress of adaughter! In India, every minute fourinnocent girls are eliminated beforebirth; and 10 million murdered in 20years, resulting in a skewed sex ratio of927 girls to 1,000 boys.

‘Just because I am a Girl’! by Sr VidyaPathare (The Examiner, Jan 17-23,2015), brought tears to my eyes, as sheexposed the agony of a girl, right fromthe womb to the tomb! But there is a rayof confidence; for in the same issueBishop Agnelo, Chairperson of the Fam-ily Commission released the Hand-book, ‘Creating Hope and Health for

the Girl Child’. This should be read byevery couple undergoing the MarriagePreparation Course.

But a women’s destiny is not fulfilleduntil she holds in her arm her own littlebook. Note, 35% of women are illiter-ate. So education is key to their em-powerment. Studies have shown thateducation curbs child marriage. Fe-males invest 90% of income in thehousehold as opposed to men’s 30-40%; resulting in overall family pros-perity. Besideseducating girls is good for the economy.When 10% or more girls go to school,the country’s GDP increases by 3%.

So let us educate the girl child. Shespins the wheel of awakening progressfor the family, society, nation and theworld; in accordance with Jesus wholifts her up: “Talitha cum, which means,Little girl arise” (Mark, 5:41).

—Dr Trevor Colaso,

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8 26 January 2015

It’s safe to say that most people youask will say that if they had to choosebetween tea and coffee, they would

choose coffee hands down. This maybe because its rich taste and high caf-feine content gives us a boost thatkeeps us going. However, most of thetime you should drop that cup of Joeand pick up a cup of hot and fragranttea and we’ll tell you why!1. Tea Hydrates the BodyAlthough coffee is also considered ahydrating liquid, tea has the added ben-efit of being hot water with tea flavoring.This means that it is much more benefi-cial to sit down and have a cup of teabecause the beverage hydrates yourbody immediately. With coffee, it takestime for the water to be absorbed be-cause it so well mixed.

2. Serious Health BenefitsIn a number of scientific studies it hasbeen shown that tea can reduce thechances of certain kinds of cancers anddiseases. This fact mostly applies forgreen tea, which has been glorified inmany areas of Asia as the reason fortheir lean figure and better bill of health.Coffee does have some beneficial anti-oxidants, but not any more than a cup oftea can provide.

3. Tea Keeps You Going LongerThe adamant coffee drinker will interjecthere that tea may be healthier than cof-fee, but it can’t compare when it comesto caffeine levels. This it seems is actu-ally a myth. It has been shown that teahas the same amount of caffeine ascoffee, but unlike coffee, tea does not

have such a drastic energy depressingeffect.

When you drink coffee, you get alarge and quick dose of caffeine thatcauses your energy levels to drop at thesame speed. Tea, however, has just asmuch caffeine, but because it is ab-sorbed slower, energy depression willtake place over a longer period of time.If you need a drink to keep goingthroughout the day, drink tea instead ofcoffee.

4. More Antioxidant PowerThe other thing an avid coffee drinkermight tell you is that coffee has moreand better antioxidants than tea. It ap-pears that this too is a myth. Companiesnow put good antioxidants into thingslike tea to improve their health benefits,so it is uncertain that coffee has moreantioxidants than tea.

5. Tea is a Great Weight loss ToolRecent Research has shown that greentea may be a tremendous aid in weightloss. This is due to the fact that green teahelps kick-start your metabolism, but

also that it is a much healthier substitutethan sugar soft drinks. In comparison toany drink with added sugar, even cof-fee, tea is less likely to remain on yourwaistline, especially if you drink it withhoney or a bit of sugar.

6. Dental HealthTo be honest, excessive amounts of teaand coffee aren’t good for your dentalhealth, especially not for the whitenessof your teeth. However, if you mustchoose the lesser of the two evils, it isbest to choose tea. Drinking a cup ortwo a day of tea will keep your levels offluoride normal without any discolora-tion, while a few cups of coffee meanseven less fluoride and more discolora-tion.

7. Aids Bone HealthIn a new Australian study it was foundthat people who drank tea on a regularbasis had stronger bones and were lesslikely to develop osteoporosis thanks tohigh levels of tea catechins. A separatestudy found that drinking tea could toopromote healthy bone formation. Therearen’t any positive things to say aboutcoffee and bones, in fact your grand-mother probably told you that drinkingcoffee too early could stunt your growth!

8. Helps Reduce StressAhhh...That’s the best word to describethe feeling of drinking a hot cup of tea.Unlike coffee that makes you jittery andputs you on high alert, tea soothes andrelaxes your brain. There must be areason why it is used by so many cul-tures as a bonding tool!

9. Give Your Immune System aBoost!Although tea will most likely not cureyou of the flu, it flushes the bug out ofyour system and will improve your im-mune system so you won’t get sick inthe future. This also depends on whatkind of tea you are drinking. One cup ofregular Earl Grey tea most likely won’tdo you much good, but a cup of gingeror honey and lemon tea will do the trick!

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926 January 2015

The DRDO chief, Dr. AvinashChander, was unceremoniously removed on 14th January

2015. Justifying this sudden sacking,Defense Minister, Manohar Parriker,said that a younger person shouldhold this position. As the self-ap-pointed spokes-person of senior citi-zens I must object to this attitude toelders. Peter Drucker, the renownedmanagement guru, who died in hisnineties, rubbished the idea that Agereduces one’s ability to THINK. In facthe cited a number of instances whereimportant, path-breaking work wasdone by people after they were 80.Drucker had stated we are in the Ageof the Knowledge Worker and hadforecast that the 21st Century will bethe Knowledge Era. In fact progres-sive thinkers must think up ways ofhow to use the knowledge and expe-rience of Age. In fact ageing will beone of the big challenges in the daysahead when the life span of the hu-man is expected to cross 120 years. Ifpeople retire at 58 / 60 years, what dothey do for the next 60 years? The oldand unemployed will be a big burdenon the economy and a source oftension with those who are servingand paying the taxes The answerneeds to be found now.

As I keep reading more and moreon how to manage in your old age, Iam being continuously advised tokeep working as long as I can. Adviceeasy to give, like Keep India Clean,but where are the jobs in India? Manycountries have abolished a compul-sory retirement age — people can bein employment as long as they areable. Shorter working and flexiblehours are provided to ageing butskilled and experienced employees.Even on ships age is not a barrier tosailing if one is physically fit and haspassed the on-going tests to keep upto date on developments and newrequirements.

Justifying the action of the De-fense Ministerthe BJP spokes-personon TV made some comments, which

I would like to comment upon. Onewas that a large number of youngscientists leave because promotion isblocked. In a knowledge-based orga-nization people join to leave. In factworking in such organizations en-hances their abilities so fast that theirtransfer value accelerates so that theycan take quantum leaps to seniorpositions in other companies or evenbranch out on their own. I have workedin such organizations and we couldcount the persons from our organiza-tion who now headed other organiza-tions across the country. DRDOshould be the TRAINING SCHOOL todevelop TALENT for other organiza-tions across the country.

Another point made was by aScientist “C” grumbling about super-annuated persons getting extensions.In a knowledge-based organizationlike DRDO promotions should not bean issue if one is capable and cancreate a niche for oneself throughinnovative and creative work. The De-fense Minister is certainly not going tobuild morale if he thinks that by put-ting persons in their 30s in charge ofdepartments and laboratories. Olderemployees have a lot to contribute. Infact there is a Body of Knowledgeknown as “Experience” Experience iswhat one gains through Age. As timemoves on one experiences the con-sequences of decisions and learnswhat can and cannot be done andwhy. All this is not taught in the insti-tutes of higher education. After all theuniverse is 14 billion years old and isevolving every day —At 30 one can-not be expected to know whateverthere is to be known.

In defense in the field fitness andstrength are required. Here it is un-derstandable to put young blood inpositions. But to think that a youngperson, possibly just out of collegewould be more innovative and cre-ative than an older person, flies in the

face of reality.The BJP Government boasts that

it knows how to develop India. In factit came to power on this promise.Propaganda was built around “TheGujarat Development Model” drillinginto the electorate that the whole ofIndia could be another Gujarat.. Un-fortunately the opposition failed toexpose this myth and use the RBIGovernor’s Report on assessment ofdevelopment in various states whichput Gujarat at No. 12. What innova-tions and developments has Parrikarbrought to Goa? Goa’s only boast istourism attracted by the beaches. Yetthere are more small tourists spotsaround the world that attract moretourists than Goa which is naturallyendowed and the charm of its interi-ors and hills has not been exploited.Illegal mining has destroyed the ecol-ogy and agriculture, manufacturingand fishing are far behind of what ispossible. So the Defense Ministerbelieves that by surrounding himselfwith young, bright people he can doin Defense what he couldn’t achievein Goa?

In India we have the capabilitywith premium industrial units span-ning the entire range from electronicsto heavy earth moving machinery topower plants to ship building yards toatomic research. To give Make in In-dia a boost why not load these under-utilized organizations with work in-stead of expecting foreigners to giveus money, ideas and technology.

This is a time for all Indians tostand together to eradicate poverty,corruption disease. We must chal-lenge the rhetoric and sound biteslike “Change”, “Clean Up”, “Reforms”and demand to know what they meanin terms of objective, quantifiable endresults and how they will be achieved.We must regularly assess progressagainst understandable measures ofperformance. We must not create afurther divide of Old v/s Young. Or isthere more to the change in the DRDOChief than meets the eye?

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Pope Francis has stirredfresh controversy in thedebate over freedom

of speech and individual re-sponsibility with a remark thatsuggested that a violent reac-tion to insults should be ex-pected.

In an on-board newsconference with journaliststraveling with him to the Phil-ippines from Sri Lanka, thepontiff was asked for his viewsafter last week’s terror attacksin Paris on the appropriatebalance between freedom ofexpression and respect forothers’ religious beliefs.

Francis had said after theJan. 7 attacks incited by sa-tirical magazine CharlieHebdo’s lampooning of theMuslim prophet Muhammadthat freedom of expression isa fundamental human rightbut that ridiculing another’sdeity was disrespectful.

Asked by a French journalistThursday “up to what point can one goin freedom of expression?” Francis re-plied that both religious liberty andliberty of expression are fundamentalhuman rights.

“Everyone has the right to prac-tice one’s religion, one’s own religionwithout giving offense,” the pope re-plied, according to a transcript of hiscomments published by Vatican Ra-dio. But he added that “one cannotoffend, make war, kill in the name ofone’s own religion, that is, in the nameof God.”

In an apparent attempt at makinglight of the consequences of insultingothers, the pontiff turned to AlbertoGasbarri, the Vatican travel organizerstanding beside him.

“If Dr. Gasbarri, a good friend,says a bad word against my mother,then a punch awaits him,” Francis said,dealing a mock blow in the direction ofthe aide’s face. “It’s normal, it’s normal.

One cannot provoke, one cannot insultother people’s faith, one cannot makefun of faith.”

While the pope had made clearhis condemnation of violence in earlierremarks on the recent terror strikes, hissuggestion that violent responses tooffensive statements or gestures shouldbe expected enflamed the emotionaldebate over whether free speech hasboundaries in a free society, reportagencies.

Pope Francis stirs controversy indebate about freedom of speech

In response to a flurryof media requests for clari-fication, Vatican spokesmanThomas Rosica issued astatement asserting that thepope’s comments and ges-ture were “in no way in-tended to be interpreted asa justification for the vio-lence and terror that tookplace in Paris last week.”

The pope’s exchangewith Gasbarri was “in afriendly, intimate matteramong colleagues andfriends on the journey,”Rosica said.

“The pope’s free styleof speech, especially in situ-ations like the press confer-ence must be taken at facevalue and not distorted ormanipulated,” the spokes-man said. “Violence begetsviolence. Pope Francis has

not advocated violence with his wordson the flight.”

The pope is in Manila for a five-day visit that will be the final leg of hisAsian tour. He was greeted by Presi-dent Benigno Aquino III. As he emergedfrom his plane, church bells tolledacross the country and children greetedhim with dance performances andwaving of Philippine and Vatican flags.

—Matters India

1126 January 2015 1126 January 2015

Filipinos "are called to be outstanding missionaries of the faithin Asia". This was what Pope

Francis said during the homily at Massin Manila's Rizal Park, overflowing withfaithful. The celebration closes thePope's seventh international pilgrim-age, a journey that took him to SriLanka and the Philippines: here hemet survivors of Typhoon Haiyan andthe youth of the country. But in the lastMass, after a missionary call to thelocal population, the Pope also spoketo the world.

Sadly today, said the Pope,"Sadly, in our day, the family all toooften needs to be protected againstinsidious attacks and programs con-trary to all that we hold true and sa-cred, all that is most beautiful andnoble in our culture. In the Gospel,Jesus welcomes children, he em-braces them and blesses them We tooneed to protect, guide and encourageour young people, helping them tobuild a society worthy of their greatspiritual and cultural heritage. Specifi-cally, we need to see each child as agift to be welcomed, cherished andprotected. And we need to care for ouryoung people, not allowing them to berobbed of hope and condemned to lifeon the streets".

On the feast of the Santo Nino -that of the Child Jesus, deeply felt inthe Philippines - Francis spoke of hisown childhood: " he Santo Niño con-tinues to proclaim to us that the light ofGod's grace has shone upon a worlddwelling in darkness, bringing theGood News of our freedom from sla-very, and guiding us in the paths ofpeace, right and justice. The SantoNiño also reminds us of our call tospread the reign of Christ throughoutthe world. In these days, throughoutmy visit, I have listened to you sing thesong: "We are all God's children". Thatis what the Santo Niño tells us. Hereminds us of our deepest identity. Allof us are God's children, members ofGod's family".

We saw "a beautiful expressionof this when Filipinos rallied aroundour brothers and sisters affected by

the typhoon. The Apostle tells us thatbecause God chose us, we have beenrichly blessed! God "has blessed us inChrist with every spiritual blessing inthe heavens" (Eph 1:3)".

The Pope continued, "God choseand blessed us for a purpose: to beholy and blameless in his sight (Eph1:4). He chose us, each of us to bewitnesses of his truth and his justice inthis world. He created the world as abeautiful garden and asked us to carefor it. But through sin, man has disfig-ured that natural beauty; through sin,man has also destroyed the unity andbeauty of our human family, creatingsocial structures which perpetuate pov-erty, ignorance and corruption. Some-times, when we see the troubles, diffi-culties and wrongs all around us, weare tempted to give up. It seems thatthe promises of the Gospel do notapply; they are unreal. But the Bibletells us that the great threat to God'splan for us is, and always has been, thelie. The devil is the father of lies. Oftenhe hides his snares behind the appear-ance of sophistication, the allure ofbeing "modern", "like everyone else"".

The Pope said, "He distracts uswith the promise of ephemeral plea-sures, superficial pastimes. And so wesquander our God-given gifts by tink-ering with gadgets; we squander our

money on gambling and drink; weturn in on ourselves. We forget toremain focused on the things that re-ally matter. We forget to remain, atheart, children of God. That is sin: [to]forget at heart that we are children ofGod. For children, as the Lord tells us,have their own wisdom, which is notthe wisdom of the world. That is whythe message of the Santo Niño is soimportant. He speaks powerfully to allof us. He reminds us of our deepestidentity, of what we are called to be asGod's family".

Sadly, concluded Francis, ", inour day, the family all too often needsto be protected against insidious at-tacks and programs contrary to all thatwe hold true and sacred, all that ismost beautiful and noble in our cul-ture. In the Gospel, Jesus welcomeschildren, he embraces them andblesses them (Mk 10:16). We tooneed to protect, guide and encourageour young people, helping them tobuild a society worthy of their greatspiritual and cultural heritage. Specifi-cally, we need to see each child as agift to be welcomed, cherished andprotected. And we need to care for ouryoung people, not allowing them to berobbed of hope and condemned to lifeon the streets".

—AsiaNews

Pope: Help Young People To Build A Better Society

12 26 January 201512 26 January 2015

Sometimes it is important not tounderstand things. Everythinghappens for a reason, no doubt

and in usual circumstances, it is criti-cal to set things in context and to makesense of them as a part of a largerprocess. But at times, an event beginsto be looked at from a singular per-spective and evaluated for its ownsake as done by the Archbishop ofBombay.

The only action that can in theorybe debated is whether the silence ofthe Archbishop of Bombay is justifiedover the decreasing educational stan-dards in our educational institutions orthe decreased participation in theSCC’s, an issue which there is nearunanimity from the laity. The reallytroubling question is as to how longthe laity should look the other way.

Many of us have questions thattrouble us from time to time and weseek answers to them from significantpeople in our lives. Of course there aresuperficial questions and others thatsometimes are a matter of life anddeath. We have brought our questionsto our Archbishop of Bombay and ourclergy for an honest answer? Or wouldwe rather not ask them for fear of beingsnubbed or ignored or getting thewrong answer or being treated withthe usual silence?

Getting outraged serves little pur-pose for indeed generating outrage ispart of as we can see the Archbishopof Bombay’s plan. An absolute ideacan only be defended at its outer mar-gins and this is something that theredoesn’t seem to be stomach for. Thebelief in the freedom of expression isalready compromised. As an idea, ithas come close to exhausting itself somany are the exculpatory clauses.There was good response receivedfor our articles on “Let ChildrenChoose” and on “Let the sparkChoose” which reflected the same.

The response to our article on“Let Children Choose” which put upmany questions on what ails our edu-cational institutions for solutions arebeing summarized by this response –

QUOTE“Those were the days when our par-ents taught us to honor and respect. Ihope I am not being too candid, whenI say that all that you have mentioned isdue to the distancing away of the clergy,from the laity.

Yes teachers are the foundationand corner stone of the generations tocome, and we need to ensure that theyare paid a standard wage when teach-ing in our catholic schools. I have beeninformed by some teachers that theirwage bill has not been reviewed whencompared to teachers in non catholicschools. This is sad, and need the ABE(Archdiocese Board of Education) toreview the same. We just cannot takeour teachers for granted.

There are answers to each of theimportant questions that have beenraise, yet however the buck stops withthe Archbishop House administration.I stand by what I say.

Our catholic teachers do not havea platform to speak up, and ask for adecent wage, and I have seen goodcatholic teachers leaving our catholicschools to teach at Non catholic schoolshere at Mumbai. I am sure the samewould be around India.

Due to the lack of appreciationour catholic teachers presently taketheir line of duty as a 09 AM to 05 PMjob. I do recall during my time at Sa-cred Heart Boys' High School SantaCruz where our teachers took personalinterest in those from weaker section ofsociety or those "Thick Brain' studentslike me, who found it hard to grasp.This was way back in the 60's. Many ofthem are no more, May their souls restin peace, and bless those who areliving who would have crossed 75-80. Ido recall a Hindi Master from the UP,who knew we catholic boys were weakin the language; he held classes afterschool FREE OF COST.

I can go on and on, yet pleaseaccept my humble submission forwhich I am totally convinced that allthat plagues our Catholic schools stand

still at the Archbishop House ABE edu-cation board, and our very dear OurCardinal Oswald Gracias.

Give the teachers in our schoolsa decent wage packet and see thechange.”

Another response -“However the issue is simple, the clergyhas distanced itself from the laity. It’s adon’t care attitude that has set in, Oneof them was heard to have said.

QuoteDo it my way or take the highwayUnquote

I hope I do not sound brash whenI say, there needs to be a change rightfrom the top, Big Daddy is too busy asmiddle size daddies and small dad-dies do what they wish. Not that Bigdaddy would do any better.

More professional catholic edu-cationist needs to be inducted, as theprincipals we have today at our catho-lic schools may have the qualificationsbut totally lack experience.”UNQUOTE

There are possibilities that educationalinstitutes can lose money, but if ourailing educational institutions bleedscash unimaginatively it calls for a spe-cial mention. This honor goes to ourvery own Archdiocese Board of Edu-cation (ABE) who has under its wingsover a hundred Catholic educationalinstitutions whose official somehowforget that an educational instituteneeds good teachers, professionalcatholic educationists and administra-tors to take it forward like the noncatholic educational institutions havedone and who aim at promoting excel-lence rather than bow to governmentdiktat and finance and allow their edu-cational institutions to start ailing andthen come up with excuses of blaming

Let Two or More Wrongs Choose Don Aguiar The really troubling question is

as to how long the laity shouldlook the other way?

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the government for the sorry state ofaffairs.

Another excuse is that they haveto take care of the poor who will not beable to afford the high fees if they haveto promote excellence. One wonderswhy they have put all their educationalinstitutions in this bracket and havenot thought of upgrading sixty percentof their educational institutions. Thecommunity is not only made up of thepoor. Perhaps running over a hun-dred educational institutions by theABE for over half a decade may betaking its toll with lethargy and selfinterest taking precedence over theneed for promoting excellence as donein the past.

The response to our article on“Let the spark choose” for solutionswas excellent and are being summa-rized by this response –

QUOTE

“S C C 's or Small Christian Communi-ties as they are called,-- in my verypersonal opinion are just like the Par-ish Council / Finance Committee ---very good because they are a diktat --- but do they serve any real purpose ?

Both hinge / are dependent on -- the whims and fancies of the Parishpriest who, as I am told -- is by Canonlaw, the deciding factor / authority inall matters -- the main bone of conten-tion is usually finance / church / parishfunds and how they are spent / wastedor frittered away --- or just plainlyrobbed / stolen –

These well- intended bodies justwill not work if -- as is usual -- there isa pig-headed / dogmatic / stubbornParish priest in charge -- who thinksthat by virtue of his position can alwayscall the shots-- and have the final say inany matter --- And in his stupid littlehead imagines ONLY he knows whatis good and right for the parish. I haveseen this happen and the parishionersare just helpless and frustrated!!!!”

UNQUOTE

Most will agree that this is due tothe silence of the Archbishop ofBombay’s over the increasing confu-sion in our community which is no

mystery. Liberals for the Archbishopof Bombay know this deep down, butthey have nowhere to go now and areleft continuously scratching theirheads over the supposed contradic-tions in their man.

To err is human, but to keeperring is smart. This at least is the wayit works with the Archbishop ofBombay as well with the clergy andreligious in Mumbai, India. All knownclergy are in a scramble today to takecredit for their doings. But how didthese doings come up in the firstplace? As neither Rome nor thesetypes of doings come up when it suitsthem, our clergy and religious areobviously highly trained and fullygeared to look the other way.

Therefore another Indian Clergyjingle – to not err is downright foolish.Those who obeyed the law and didnothing illegal are crying and regret-ting. If only they had joined the pack ofrule breakers they could have been inself worth just like them. It doesn’tworry then if they are about to do some-thing against the rule, give it a little timeand the rule will obligingly self de-struct.

The tendency to reward the wrong-doers features in the corporate sectoras well. When a company declaresitself bankruptcy, its managers are thefirst to be restrained; in the UK they arefired. In India, where we reward thewrongdoers, it is the workers (laity)who face the brunt. Once again nolesson learnt. What then is the moral ofthe story? Simple, two or more wrongsalways make it right.

The Archbishop of Bombay hasthus far achieved quite little. His admin-istration is mired in the downwardgrowth trap. His reforms are fairly puny;mostly his predecessor would havedone anyway or had already begun.On his relations with the laity he is nobetter off, thanks to a series of blun-ders. His constant travelling threatensto become a joke.

What the Archbishop of Bombayhas achieved is in fooling a lot of thelaity, clergy and religious into thinkingthat he stands for good Catholic val-ues/virtues mostly spiritual against be-ing a fence sitter and blunderer. Noth-ing could be more further from thetruth. He will push either or both ped-als as it suits him.

What has gone wrong with theArchbishop of Bombay? Before he tookcharge everyone had high hopes thathe would do better than his predeces-sor, but now they feel that somethingmore is required to fulfill their dreams.The genesis of the problem is that thelaity failed to differentiate between hispredecessor and himself. The failurein recognizing this situation is the ba-sic cause of all the problems. Our mostpressing need is to discover this miss-ing element and replan our strategyaccordingly. This is the most urgentbefore us.

We the laity must be consistentin getting the Archbishop ofBombay to take the requiredsteps to reverse the decreasingeducational standards of oureducational institutions and thatthey once more be centers ofexcellence as is with the presentnon catholic educational institu-tions and ensure that our com-munity benefits from our educa-tional institutions just like theother communities do for theirrespective community with theireducational institutions. As faras the SCC’s are concerned thesuccess depends on the respec-tive Parish priest as well as thewillingness of the Archbishop ofBombay to support this causewholeheartedly and not payinglip service.

THINK ABOUT IT!!!

The Deaf CatholicChurch Needsto be treated

14 26 January 201514 26 January 2015

by Bhupendra Sharma

Nobody in Delhi has forgotten what happened in andafter the 2013 elections. Delhi has seen a lot overthe past one year, and it seems like things are

headed towards becoming normal, finally. As per theannouncement made by the Election Commission on Mon-day, election in Delhi will be held on February 7, while theresults will come out on February 10. Amid the announce-ment of the date for 2015 As-sembly Elections, a few eventsthat took place on Mondayare as follows

Result announcement ofCantonment Board Elec-tions:Ahead of the Assembly Elec-tions, the Bharatiya JanataParty won five out of eightseats in Delhi CantonmentBoard Elections. Indian Na-tional Congress won twoseats, while AAP managed towin one seat. BJP has claimedthat it is the first choice of thepeople of Delhi. According toone of the spokesmen of theparty, “Last time, we won sixseats, while this year we havegrabbed five seats, whichclearly shows that we are thefirst choice of Delhi people.”The BJP did not miss this op-portunity to mock the AamAadmi Partywhich has declared itself the frontrunner andBJP’s only real competitor in the upcoming elections withthe Delhi BJP Chief, Satish Upadhyay saying, “Theseresults can be shocking for AAP, which declared itself thefirst choice of Delhi people”.

While the BJP won five seats in Delhi, the results in Varanasi,which is Prime Minister Modi’s home constituency, cameas an embarrassment for the BJP. BJP failed to garner asingle seat in the Varanasi and Lucknow CantonmentBoard Elections, whereas in Agra it won a hardly face-saving total of one seat. Commenting on this unanticipateddebacle, the BJP State Chief Laxmikant Bajpai said, “Mostof the candidates lost because they were not given officialBJP symbols by the party”.

AAP candidate is seen throwing money in the air:AAP is known to seek public support for donations, and hasorganized a national level campaign called “Dinner withKejariwal” for collecting funds to run operations for the

Delhi assembly elections. Kejariwal on numerous occa-sions has stated that his party does not solicit money frombusiness houses like the BJP and Congress; hence, itneeds support from the public. However, in the midst ofKejriwal’s #iFundHonestPolitics campaign, an incidentthat took place on Monday left his party rather embar-rassed. According to reports, after winning a seat in the

Cant Board Elections, AAP’s Nand Kishor Beniwal wasseen celebrating the lone victory. During the celebrations,one of his supporters threw wads of money in the air toexpress his joy. The incident has put AAP in trouble aheadof the assembly elections. When reporters contacted AAP,one of its spokeswomen told them that AAP would neversupport such behavior from any of its members and that theperson, who threw money in the air, was in fact suspendedwith immediate effect.

Even though AAP’s response to this vulgar display ofmoney has been an encouraging one, the incident hasnevertheless raised some pertinent questions about thecredibility of members of the party. Especially because theincident comes at a crucial juncture with less than onemonth left for the elections, and neither BJP nor AAP lookconfident of a decisive win. In a precarious situation likethis, how each party projects its image to the Dilliwalas(people of Delhi) is absolutely crucial in deciding who formsthe government in Delhi, and who sits in the opposition.

BJP Or AAP: Nobody Has An AnswerDelhi Assembly Election

1526 January 2015

Pope meets father of woman who died after Tacloban Mass

Manila: Pope Francis on Sunday metthe father of a woman who died in anaccident after the papal Mass for disas-ter victims in Tacloban the previousday.

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, arch-bishop of Manila, gave journalists anaccount of the meeting, which washeld at the Apostolic Nunciature inManila at midday.

"What struck the Holy Father wasthe statement of the father (of the vic-

tim)," Tagle said.The cardinal quoted Paulino

Padasas, the father of the victim, assaying, "I only have one daughter. Whydid God take her?"

Kristel Mae Padasas, 27, was killedwhen strong winds blew over a scaf-folding structure that was supporting aspeaker stack, which struck her on thehead. The accident took place whileshe was waiting for the papal convoyafter the Mass on Saturday in Tacloban.

"I have resigned myself to the factthat my daughter is no longer with me,I rejoice that she died serving otherpeople," Tagle quoted Mr Padasas assaying.

The young woman had been avolunteer for the Catholic Relief Ser-vices, a humanitarian aid agency of theUS Catholic Church.

"My daughter died, she arrangedthis meeting with the Holy Father," Tagleadded, quoting the father of the victim.

Tagle said Pope Francis onlyshook his head and said, "What faith!"

"I think the Holy Father was sur-prised in [a] pleasant way," Tagle toldthe media.

During a meeting with youth onSunday, Pope Francis opened his ad-dress by urging the audience to prayfor Padasas.

"She was 27 years old, young likeyourselves," the pope told the gather-ing.

Source: ucanews.com

16 26 January 2015

The God of Love, born to suffer for us,Always hears us when we call,He is The Way,When we falter through all trials in life.

He is THE TRUTH revealing to us,How we should think,How we should feel,And how we should act.

Let us call on Him when weighed down,With all the trials and troubles the world offers.He will restore THE LIFE to our broken self.The love of our healing God!

We need to submit ourselves each morning,To what the day offers us,Surrender to the Holy Spirit,Fear not, lean on faith

No matter our losses,It holds an Eternal reward,Remember, keep hopingEven when plans are shattered.

Always have a grateful heart,For all His overwhelming love,For gratitude for past favours,Are sure means of obtaining new ones.

Love JESUS in return.Every moment, every day,Extending gestures of Christian love,Coming from Heaven Above.

—Ella Almeida

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On January 26, 2015, India willcomplete 67 years as a republican country. But the land of

milk and honey has today turned outinto a democracy of corruption andscams. Corruption has reached thehighest level even after Narendra Modibecoming the Prime Minister of thecountry.

Prices of all commodities, includ-ing that of food grains, LPG (liquidpetroleum gas), bus fares, train fares,autorickshaw fares and taxi fares havesky-rocketed. As a result of this infla-tion, the common man has to bear thebrunt of the price rise as his/her salarydoes not increase in tandem with thesurging inflation.

Although India has achieved bothIndependence and republic, it is one ofthe most corrupted and polluted na-tions in the world. Unemployment is atan all-time high. Even the people whoare educated cannot get decent jobs;and even if they get one, they are paidvery little. Majority of the States in Indiatoday are fighting among themselvesand people, irrespective of caste, creed,colour and religion are being perse-cuted for no fault of theirs, while theministers and the politicians are misus-ing the common’s man hard-earnedmoney which they contribute to thenation in the form of Professional Tax,Income Tax, etc. for their own greed bydining in 5-star hotels and travelling byair-conditioned cars.

In most Western and developedcountries, people pay their taxes hon-estly to the government and in return,the government rewards them by tak-ing good care of them in their old age.But in India, the middle-class whichforms the backbone of economy aretaxed heavily and yet completely for-gotten after their retirement from ser-vice or when they turn old.

Unless and until we rise aboveour differences and petty squabbles,India will not become a prosperousnation like some of the countries in theWest. Take a look at the Arabian Gulfcountries and also America. Thesecountries are the most prosperous na-tions in the world because the Kings

and Queens and Prime Ministers therecare for their people, which is not thecase in India.

British Prime Minister, Sir Win-ston Churchill when he learnt that Indiawas fighting for Independence hasrightly said, "Power will go into thehands of rascals, rogues and freeboo-ters, and all Indian leaders will be of lowcalibre and men of straw.They will have sweet tonguesand silly hearts. They will fightamong themselves for powerand India will be lost in politi-cal squabbles. A day wouldeven come when air and wa-ter would be taxed in India."

Babur, the founder ofthe Mughal Empire in India issaid to have left a will to hisson Humayun which is stillpreserved in the State Mu-seum of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.The contents of the will is that Baburinforms Humayun that India is the home-town of many religions and that he hasto be respectful and impartial towardsall of them and ought not to destroy,desecrate or burn any shrine of anyreligious order. But what is happeningtoday? Catholic churches are beingburnt, destroyed, demolished and des-ecrated. Our present-day politiciansdo not care for the people and theyhave no respect for the common man,especially the minority communities.In the name of religion, they burn/de-stroy/desecrate religious structures andkill people belonging to the Christianreligion.

I quote what our freedom fighter,Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan has said:“My religion is truth, love and service toGod and humanity. Every religion thathas come into this world has broughtthe message of love, peace and broth-erhood to humanity. Those who areindifferent to the welfare of their fellow-

men, whose hearts are empty of love,they do not know the meaning of reli-gion.”

Jesus Christ Himself has said, "Forjudgement I have come into this world,so that the blind will see and those whosee will become blind." (John, Chapter9, verse 39).

Republic Day represents the truespirit of independent India and marksthe patriotic fervour of all Indians acrossthe country who celebrates this eventwith great enthusiasm year after year.

On the occasion of Republic Day,we must remember the sacrifices madeby those Indians who fought bravely for

a liberated India. But it is apity that every year, after theIndependence Day and Re-public Day celebrations getover, our national flag isstrewn like rubbish on thestreets and people irrespec-tive of caste, creed, colour orreligion, blithely walk overthem. Even when the nationalanthem is played on radio orrelayed on television, peopleno longer stand up and sing

the song; they keep chatting with peopleon their mobile phones or are busycooking in their kitchens. As Indians,we must respect our country's cultureby showing due respect for ourcountry’s national flag, national anthemand national song. It is only because ofthe sacrifices made by our great free-dom fighters that we live in a liberatedcountry today. Otherwise, we wouldstill be living under the British leader-ship.

It seems that the Gandhian idealsthat inspired India’s independencestruggles are no longer followed by thecitizens today. Each and every one ofus respects Mahatma Gandhi andproudly addresses him as the ‘Fatherof the Nation’, but no one is prepared totread the path adopted by him.

Republic Day is a day for us tocelebrate with the hoisting of our na-tional flag, recitation of our nationalanthem, singing patriotic songs andorganising social and cultural events.

Issues affecting India’s development

BY JUBEL D'CRUZ

...in India, the middle-class whichforms the backbone of economyare taxed heavily and yet com-pletely forgotten after their re-tirement from service or whenthey turn old...

18 26 January 2015

by Hector Welgampola

People’s eyes of faith saw thesaint in Joseph Vaz during hislifetime. But he had to wait 303

years after death for official acclaim ofhis sanctity. And now, will his canoniza-tion just niche him away on churchwalls or inspire emulation of his pasto-ral courage?

For many years, Church historians, pi-ous groups in Goa and Sri Lanka’sJoseph Vaz National Secretariat keptthe Vaz saga of sanctity alive. As secre-tariat chair and ordinary of Vaz’ finalresting place, Bishop VianneyFernando of Kandy harnessed people’senthusiasm for the Vaz cause.

Soon after Vaz was beatified in 1995,nine Lankan dioceses built 23 churches/chapels in his honor. At some 10 ven-ues, devotees hold public prayer toseek his intercession.

Even before official approval of publicveneration for the country’s first saint,in 1983 Archbishop Nicholas MarcusFernando of Colombo pioneered aproject to focus laity attention on a vitalaspect of Vaz’ ministry. He foundedJoseph Vaz Deva Dharma Niketanayato teach theology in the Sinhala lan-guage. Now affiliated to Rome’s UrbanUniversity, the theologate has cam-puses in three other dioceses as well.

Up until now, this network has helpedtrain catechists and lay cadres forapostolates. Hopefully, theJanuary 14 canonizationshould enthuse thesecampuses to take a leadin deeper study and widersharing of hitherto unex-plored lessons of the Vazmission methods.

The life and mission of SriLanka’s first saint wasuniquely heroic and pro-phetic in many ways. Hisown priestly zeal led himthere in 1687 to serve

Catholics abandoned by Portuguesecolonizers and their clergy.

After the Apostles of Jesus, he is thefirst known Asian missioner to haveevangelized an Asian country. And hedid it with the help of a few fellow-Indianpriests. That is why Pope John Paul IInamed him the greatest missioner in

Asia since Francis Xavier.

From the ruins of a Lusitanized Churchdeserted by the Portuguese, the Brah-min priest began to build a truly nativeChurch. After studying the local lan-guage and culture, his pastoral teamintroduced indigenized para-liturgiesto meet people’s spiritual needs.

He set apart teams of writers to provideCatholic literature in Sinhala and Tamil.Though he led a minuscule religiouscommunity, Father Vaz intervened for

the public good when floods andplagues hit the country. If the essenceof his pastoral style became a guide tolater European missioners to Lanka, itfroze in a cultural winter. His vibrantwitness to interreligious harmony andinterethnic amity ended up fossilized.

Three centuries after Father Vaz’ death,the better method of celebrating hiscanonization would be to discern hismessage for today, not to blindly mimichis pastoral methods. Just as he setapart personnel for contextualapostolates such as writing and heal-ing, will today’s Church prioritize cur-rent apostolic needs and pastoral chal-lenges?

More importantly, will the example ofhis personal holiness and commitmentchallenge Catholics and their pastorsto holiness of prophetic witness, theessence of our Christian faith? Just theway the Vaz team ministered to small-pox victims, there is a need for pastoralteams to speak up for victims of today’sbigger-pox: injustice, oppression andcorruption.

Some Sri Lankan dioceses are soblessed with a glut of priests that se-niors may opt to make way for youngerclergy. In such a scenario, let volun-teers go on Vaz-style mission to needyregions and apostolates.

Maybe, the new Asian theological insti-tute to be blessed by Pope Francis inNegombo could be the nucleus for an

Asian program of reverse mis-sion of prophetic social minis-try.

Such emulation of the greatmissioner’s pastoral vision andstyle will be the better way ofbringing alive his canonization.It will also resonate the chal-lenge to “apostolic courage tocome out of itself” that CardinalBergoglio presented to theChurch, just before he waselected pope.

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