Dear Mr. Meneses,
Here is my re-edited transcription of the article from the Times of India, Bombay, October 25, 2005:
"Church To Discuss Indianisation"
by Abhay Vaidhya for Times News Network
Pune: The Catholic Church would take up the study of Sanskrit, adapt to monastic life in an ashram and adopt the Hindu ritual of 'aarti' during mass if the movement towards 'Indianisation of the church' gets a nod form the 400 priests and five bishops convening in Pune.
Starting Tuesday, Pune's Papal Seminary which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of tis transfer from Kandy in Sri Lanka to Pune, will play host to the priests for three days.
Discussions will cover the state of the Church in India and the movement for its indianisation. The Catholic Church has already adopted a number of Indain traditions and practices and has come a long way four decades after the historic Second Vatican Counci (1962-1965) brought an epochal shift in the modern church through its declaration on religious liberty. Pune's Papal Seminary which has ordained over 1,250 priests during the past 50 years, has continued with its modernisation effort along with its associate institutions such as the Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth ("University of the Light of Knowledge") or JDV, formerly the Pontifical Athenaeum, and the De Nobili College.
Pune-based Catholic leaders like Jospeh Neuner, Kurien Kunnumpuram, Francis Xavier de Sa, John Vattanky and Subhash Anand have been demanding lesser control from the Vatican, to make the Church "truly Indian and genuinely Christian." As De Sa, an internationally acclaimed Sanskrit scholar noted in his paper published in 'Dreams & Visions: New Horizons For An Indian Church (2002)': "Today, the time has come for the Indian Church to shed its image of a multinational company and retrieve those characteristics which bring out its 'catholicity' in the best sense of the word."
Pandikattu Kuruvilla, teacher of philosophy at the JDV and the Papal Seminary's rector Ornellas Coutinho explained a number of Indian religious customs and practices have already been embraced by the Catholic Church to become truly Indian.
"A number of Christian priests strictly follow the ancient Indian ashram system of monastic life, such as those at the Bethany Vedavijnana Peeth in Pune, the Satchidananda Ashram in Trichy, the Kurusumala Ashram in Kerala and the Sameskshna Ashram in Kalady, Kerala," Kuruvilla said. "Practicing vegetarianism, organising satsanghs and readings from the Bhagawat Gita during Mass, reducing the use of cassocks, performing puja-style prayers are some examples of the changes that have taken place," he said.
Mr. Michael Prabhu's website is http://www.ephesians511.net
His personal life or biography is here: http://www.ephesians511.net/about.html
And this is the link to his report on Paganisation in the "Ashram Movement": http://www.ephesians511.net/images/CATHOLIC%20ASHRAMS.doc
Further, these two articles will also be of interest:
Mann opposes RSS chief's bid to redefine minorities
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1505007,000900010001.htm
Phagwara, September 30, 2005. Press Trust of India.
The attempt of RSS chief SK Sudarshan to "redefine" minorities by stating that only Parsis and Jews were minorities has stirred up a hornets nest.
SAD(A) president and a former Sangrur MP Simranjit Singh Mann on Thursday alleged that this statement smacked of sinister bid of RSS for the "Hinduisation" of religious minorities like Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists who were given minority status by the Constitution.
"By sermonising to the church to Indianise, RSS chief was trying to intimidate Christians and our party would not allow this to happen, Mann said.
"Indianisation of the church tantamount to Hinduisation of Christians," he said adding that it also meant that the RSS chief considered minorities like Christians, Muslims and Sikhs as Hindus and "we won't tolerate it", Mann said.
"Hindus had brutally assaulted members of Punjab Christian Movement when they were peacefully proceeding to the office of Jalandar DC for presenting a memorandum three days ago, he said.
Again:
Fundamentalist group urges Christians and Muslims to "return to being Hindu"
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4266
by Nirmala Carvalho, 5 October, 2005. India.
The RSS, a Hindu paramilitary movement, calls for the removal of minority status for Christians and Muslims, urging a return to "Indianisation". The Bishops' Conference is quick to respond.
New Delhi (AsiaNews) – "Christian and Muslim communities are religious minorities". Such was the response of Fr Babu Joseph, spokesperson of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India and director of communications, to comments made by the leader of a paramilitary movement of extremist Hindus.
K. S. Sudarshan, who heads the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), had declared that Christians and Muslims cannot renounce their minority status.
In an interview with AsiaNews, Fr Joseph said "Sudarshan's comments on Indians who are Christians and Muslims, that they are not minorities because they were all once Hindus, are unwarranted and uncalled for. The Constitution of India has recognised these two communities as religious minorities, and as such has granted them constitutional guarantees which must be respected by all, including Sudarshan.
"Sudarshan may have his personal beliefs and perspectives, but they are no substitute for the collective will of a nation that wants to protect the vulnerable sections of society particularly religious and linguistic minorities. Besides, the United Nations has recognised the existence of religious and linguistic minorities universally, and has put in place guidelines and parameters to protect their interests and create space for their growth and development."
The RSS leader had said Catholics and Muslims could not aspire to minority status because they were of Indian origin. "You can't call yourself a minority merely by changing the way of worship," Sudershan said in comments to the Press in the city of Jalandhar, (Punjab, northern India); the majority of the city's population adheres to the Sikh religion. He added that only the Parsis (followers of Zoroaster) and Jews could lay claim to minority status, because their ancestors had come to India from foreign countries.
Asked if he thought Sikhs were a minority, Sudarshan merely said Christians and Muslims did not fall into the minority category and he invited the church in the country to "indianise". He also touched upon conversion activities carried out by missionaries, saying his organization was always opposed to the use of force or enticement. And he said he had raised this matter in a meeting with Catholic bishops in Kerala.
All of this leads one to the inevitable conclusion that there is a COLLUSION between certain leaders of the Church in India and the Pagans, who wish to destroy Christianity in India, by reducing it to a paganized, apostate and domesticated sect!
Those "Christian leaders" — priests, nuns, bishops, "theologians", etc., who are organizing the Pune convention, evidently have as their final objective, the wholesale reversion of Christians in South Asia to Hinduism!
It is impossible to NOT conclude that the Pune Convention is meeting precisely to answer the "Call" by Sudarshan to re-Hinduize!
You will also remember the testimony of the seminarians who were expelled from St. Pius X Seminary, Bombay, by Ivan Dias because they refused to join their teachers and fellow-students from removing their crosses and entering a Hindu temple for a retreat over several days, worshipping the Hindu idols of their demons.
See statements of three of these four seminarians: Gregorio Noronha, Lourenço de Sousa & Antonio Rodrigues: http://www.sspxasia.com/Newsletters/2004/Jan-Jun/Indian_Seminaries.htm
Again, Brother Lourenço de Sousa's Hinduism at a Glance &
Scandalous Ecumenism with Hinduism.
See also SSPX editorial on Cardinal Kasper's statement setting out the objectives of Ecumenism: http://www.sspxasia.com/Newsletters/2003/Jul-Dec/Editorial.htm.
Lastly, see the 1953 article by Louis de Wohl on St. Francis Xavier's missions: Set All Afire!.
This testimony of Ronaldo Cardoso, who lost his faith in the seminary and has recently converted to the Charismatic Renewal, would be of interest: http://www.jcilm.org/index_files/Rony.htm
Please feel free to distribute.
Regards,
Lúcio
lucio.mascarenhas at gmail.com
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