IN ATTACKS, SEEING DESIGNS WHERE NONE EXISTS
Sunday, 22 March 2015 | Kumar Chellappan | in Guest Column
There is something strange and even devious in the sudden escalation of allegations by the Catholic Church against the ruling political establishment in New Delhi. Scary but unsubstantiated theories are being merrily floated
In January, a friend of mine got a personal audience with Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church. He showed me the pictures of the Pope and him. I was attracted by the body language of the two protagonists in the picture. It looked as if two friends had met after a long time. Unable to hold back my curiosity, I asked my friend, what message did the Pope convey during the conversation.
“Oh, he just asked me to pray for him. All he said was, ‘Please pray for me; pray for me’. Nothing more than that”, said my friend. This was rather strange to me, who had heard that the Pope always blessed people who called on him with the words, “God bless you my dear son/daughter”. A Pope pleading his followers to pray for him is something abnormal, which gives the message that all is not well in Vatican.
My doubts were quenched when a news report appeared within weeks about the possible abdication of the throne by Pope Francis. “I do not know, even two or three. Two have already passed. It is somewhat a vague sensation”, the Pope told a Mexican TV channel recently, when asked how long he would continue to lead the Church. Since the immediate objective of the article is not to discuss about the sense of fear in the mind of Pope Francis, I am coming back to the happenings in India over the last couple of months.
Last Sunday saw Catholic churches all over the country reading out pastoral letters during the congregation. The letter expressed apprehensions, concerns and fears over the increasing number of attacks on churches, convents and institutions owned by the Church and of course the chosen representatives of the God. The ghar wapsi (re-conversion), vandalism on churches in New Delhi and rape of a nun at Nadia district in Bengal has estranged and upset the Catholic sect. These issues were highlighted in the letter.
Monday saw 86-year-old JF Ribeiro, former Punjab Director General of Police, coming out in the open and alleging that Christians are being selectively targeted in India following the change of Government in New Delhi in May 2014. The former super-cop says he finds himself a stranger in his own country. He claims that though he was demoted in 1985 from the post of Secretary in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to the post of DGP in Punjab, he did not have any reservation to take up the job, though it had been well below his stature.
A close scrutiny tells that Mr Ribeiro was a Special Secretary in the ministry and his posting as Punjab DGP was a promotion. It is interesting to note that the former Commissioner of Bombay City Police was not considered to be appointed as Maharashtra DGP though he had earned some name fighting the mobsters in the megapolis. Public memory being short, many people may not remember the fact that, no less a person than CaptainAmarinder Singh had questioned the appointment of Mr Ribeiro, who had no experience fighting terrorists, as the DGP of Punjab. It was the legendary KPS Gill, Mr Ribeiro’s successor, who wiped out terrorism from Punjab.
Following Mr Ribeiro’s outburst came the sharp criticism of Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India. He accused the Union Government of protecting cattle while the security of the Catholics was being ignored. His comment was based on the alleged rape of a nun in Nadia in West Bengal and the attacks on churches in New Delhi. Cardinal Cleemis (55) is the youngest member of the college of cardinals which elect the pope. It is an open secret that he has set his eyes on the papal chair.
Cardinal Cleemis was highly critical of the ghar wapsi (religious conversion ) programmes happening all over the country. The Catholics also got annoyed when RSS chief Mohan Bhagawat said the motive of Nobel Laureate Teresa was nothing but religious conversion. The Cardinal and the laity forgot the fact that Mother Teresa herself had declared that religious conversion was the basis behind all her charity works. She had staged a sit-in protest in 1978 against the Freedom of Religion Bill introduced by OP Tyagi, then a Member of Parliament.
The world may not know the fact that Christianity has been surviving and strengthening in India for the last 2,000 years since its arrival in the country in AD 52. Many a Hindu has been killed in riots by over-zealous proselytisers, but by and large India has been the safest place in the non-Christian world for the Christians. The immediate objective of the propaganda unleashed by the Church is to portray India as a country inimical to the Church. Why? The answer is embedded in recent history.
The year 1978 saw the passing away of Pope Paul VI (81) and the election of Italian Albino Luciani as the next Pope. His tenure began on August 26, 1978, and lasted till September 28, 1978, when he was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Vatican. Though the reason for his death was given as cardiac arrest, Pope Luciani never had any cardiac problems. No post-mortem was held and the funeral was conducted in a hasty manner, said Kunhanandan Nair, a veteran journalist based in Berlin, who covered the death of Pope John Paul 1 and the subsequent election of the next Pope. “Something was rotten in Vatican at that time. There were reports about misuse and misappropriation of $130 crore from the Bank of Vatican, dirty connection between certain cardinals and mafia members and of course the CIA”, said Nair. According to the journalist, the death of John Paul 1 was described by the Italian media as a Sacred murder in the Vatican.
He said there was enough evidence to suggest that Pope Luciani was murdered by a member of the mafia who was hired and brought in from Palermo. Pope Luciani had decided to oust the then president of the Bank of Vatican on charges of embezzlement and to throw out certain powerful Cardinals involved in paedophile, sexual controversies and drug trafficking. “He had prepared an action-plan to clean the Church but the powerful cartel with the help of the CIA and the mafia finished him off”, reminiscences Nair.
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- Ashutosh DubeRibero should first criticize his co-religionists for creating Hindu Mukta Bharat in North Eastern States. If he does not, all his profession of secularism will be farce. These people cannot see the plight of Hindus.6 days ago · (2) · (0) · reply (0) ·Points1350
- BittertruthVicious global "Missionary-Mullah" combo game of "pedagogy of SICKULARIM" is lingers on for this Hindu heathen land of "Darul HArab" to opt "sickularly" to be harvested as "Khistoos" or lop off dicks taking the name of Satan personified bastard satyric butcher-of-humanity diabolically moron Muhammad(PissBUH) who was the son of his own grandpa viz. Abdul Muttalib (& never Abdullah for his wife Amina gave birth to Muhammad-PissBUH four years, some hadiths quote six yrs, after Abdullah died - a fact admitted by bastard Muhammad-PissBUH). Just to repeat ad nauseam, two of the myriad Satanic "emulative""holy" Islamic deeds of Muhammad(PissBUH) are that (1) he routinely copulated his real maternal aunt viz. Khoula alongside other Arab "Mominas" willingly queuing up before his tent right in the morning to be "treated" as such, and (2) when denied bedding with his own paternal aunt Fatima with severe scolding by her when alive, he (i.e. Muhammad-PissBUH) diabolically copulated with dead Fatima in her grave to take the Islamic "revenge" with Satan Allah Mian's "divine" Islamic nod. Aameen6 days ago · (3) · (0) · reply (0) ·Points3010
- S.KurupThe church is an outstanding example of the success of propaganda.Design is seen as part of the strategy of maligning, defaminng, ridiculing. and heap caulumnies to further its agenda in India where substantial sections have been "persuaded" to suppport them there is foreign pressure on govts in india. right from the word 'go' congress began tarring the hindu society literally shouting that hindus were the cause o fpartition .Universities produced multitudes of historians to ealborate the idea and to erase the past so completely that even memories of events like partition have disapeared. Out rageous claims to convert but not to be converted is aggressively advanced. kurup