Father Paul Thelakat, spokesman, Syro-Malabar Church, dismisses such allegations while defending the Church and Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, head of the Syro-Malabar church. He says, “The Cardinal had said, ‘The question of how many children couples should have is a matter to be decided by them, not by governments or the pope or the Church. This is just my personal opinion. We forget that a child born to an Indian couple, though Indian, is also a citizen of the world. It is said that the Indo-Gangetic plain, if cultivated scientifically, can feed thrice the population of the world. So I don’t agree with a government or a country telling the parents, as China does, that they should only have a limited number of children’.”
Father Thelakat then talks about the issue of the Church asking Christians children to opt for Christian schools. “This was a statement of a bishop of the Church which unfortunately was communally interpreted. The Christian schools teach every one irrespective of caste, creed and economic status with a secular culture and a national spirit. The Christian schools will continue to follow that age-old tradition without doubt. However, Christians are given the minority right of ‘establishing and administering educational institutions’ to protect and nourish the Christian religious culture. We will impart that to Christian students in the Christian schools.”
He defends the Church’s stand against the government with respect to liquor sales and granting of bar licence to pubs – “Every thing in this world is good. Evil perhaps is good out of place or out of time. All that is good in the world may not be good for me. Liquors are dangerous intoxicants because of their addictive nature and the power to get one out of balance. Keralites spend more money on liquor than on rice. The government, which thrives on the huge revenues from this industry, is immoral and irresponsible about the welfare of the people. A western way of life is invading our culture. The boys and girls are attracted to pubs and start drinking alcohol at a very early age of 14. I am afraid to say that many young girls get into sex rackets.”
Father Thelakat then talks about the issue of the Church asking Christians children to opt for Christian schools. “This was a statement of a bishop of the Church which unfortunately was communally interpreted. The Christian schools teach every one irrespective of caste, creed and economic status with a secular culture and a national spirit. The Christian schools will continue to follow that age-old tradition without doubt. However, Christians are given the minority right of ‘establishing and administering educational institutions’ to protect and nourish the Christian religious culture. We will impart that to Christian students in the Christian schools.”
He defends the Church’s stand against the government with respect to liquor sales and granting of bar licence to pubs – “Every thing in this world is good. Evil perhaps is good out of place or out of time. All that is good in the world may not be good for me. Liquors are dangerous intoxicants because of their addictive nature and the power to get one out of balance. Keralites spend more money on liquor than on rice. The government, which thrives on the huge revenues from this industry, is immoral and irresponsible about the welfare of the people. A western way of life is invading our culture. The boys and girls are attracted to pubs and start drinking alcohol at a very early age of 14. I am afraid to say that many young girls get into sex rackets.”
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