After all my recent correspondence with the Archbishop he refused to meet me. How can the man face me when he knows that I have proof? Its said that truth is bitter and that’s the case with the Archbishop of Goa and Daman. I am proud to say that we are moving in the right direction at the moment. The ancient false belief of “you can’t oppose a Priest” is slowly dying out. The caste system issue highlighted in my CD Dogui Bodmas has taken centre stage. As was the normal practice, Brahmins took the centre stage in spite of being in the minority and inefficient. The ancient trend of caste discrimination had continued until now. Thanks to our efforts, it is going to end soon. Capable Priests will soon be occupying positions where difference can be made for the better.
Good Priests keep visiting me. When I question them as to whether Priests should be allowed to marry, they reply – “we are having enough problems with the present set up of rogue priests. Just imagine, if priests are allowed to marry, offspring’ of priests like Fr Diogo will stake claim to Church properties as heirs of the Church. This will create a bigger chaos”. Obviously genes of the rogue Priests are bound to be passed on to their children.
Post 28th December 2009 (the day my house was stoned), there have been several other revelations where other rogue priests have been exposed. That means people have mustered courage to oppose the wrong. Now our Archbishop is sick and out of action and has supposedly got a nervous break down. Its very doubtful that he will return to his chair as Archbishop. There is most certainly going to be a replacement & the present Archbishop will be elevated to a different position where he will not have to handle tension. Let’s hope that an able priest takes over as Archbishop.
Fr Jose Remedious who is in charge as Archbishop is also eying the chair. He is said to have created a lobby wherein he has inserted his favourite priests from his native village Cansaulim and the neighbouring villages to make his case strong. How long will even God tolerate such nonsense? The day is not far where able priests will rise and shameless priests will be trampled over. I feel disgusted that the persons holding charge today are even urinating in their trousers upon consuming excess of Jonny Walker black label whiskey.
Good priests and able priests who don’t belong to the Brahmin caste are frustrated in the manner in which the affairs of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman are being run. Until yesterday they had no voice but now they will be able to speak and function freely. Make no mistake – We are not short of young men wanting to be Priests…. Its just that these youngsters are shying away because of these monsters who are running the affairs of our Church.
Calvert Gonsalves,
Goa.
