CHRISTIAN CHURCH CLAIMS CREDIT FOR CONGRESS CROWN
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Church claims credit for Congress crown
But when it comes to their war against the Hindus, they will align
with the communists. After all they believe in the dictum "The enemy
of my enemy is my friend, and I will deal with this 'friend' when I
have defeated the enemy."
Namaste
Ashok Chowgule
Church claims credit for Congress crown
Don Sebastian
May 20, 2009
Tiruvananthapuram: The Left is yet to come to terms with its
humiliating defeat in Kerala. If the CPI(M) politburo wants any
answers, the Catholic Church has it. Kerala Catholic Bishops'
Conference, which openly campaigned for the Congress in the run-up to
the elections, claims it is their victory."This is an answer to those
who said the faithful would not follow the advice of priests and
bishops in political affairs. The Church has worked that hard against
the LDF government," said Dr Stephen Alathara, spokesmen of KCBC, the
apex body of Catholic bishops in Kerala.
A pastoral letter by the KCBC, read out amid Sunday Mass in Kerala's
churches a fortnight ahead of the polls, exhorted the flock to steer
clear of the CPI(M) and the BJP, a negligible presence in the bipolar
state. "Constitutional crises are frequent nowadays. The violations
of minority rights in education sector should be assessed in this
context."
Ever since the LDF government came to power in 2006, the Church was
in the warpath against the reforms in primary education and
regulations in professional education.
Alathara also termed the victory of the Congress and its allies as a
"liberation struggle through the ballot", invoking memories of the
communal agitations which eventually resulted in the dismissal of the
first communist government in 1959. Interestingly, chief minister VS
Achuthanandan had claimed that his government was a continuation of
the EMS government.
Ties between the CPI(M) and the Church strained irreparably when
party secretary Pinarayi Vijayan publicly abused a bishop, who
claimed he had given the last sacrament to a party legislator on his
death bed. The Syro-Malabar Church even called out to the flock to
walk away from the "materialists".
With hardly a week to the polls, priests were using Easter Mass to
equate Satan with the government, which was trying to "kill all aged
people".
The Law Reforms' Commission, appointed by the LDF government, had
recommended the legalisation of mercy killing.
The government, which appointed the commission as soon as it came to
power in 2006, has been soft-pedalling its recommendations, which
include the formation of a trust to man the Church's riches.
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