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Q: The people of Kerala have displayed rare generosity and sense of community during the disastrous flood. How do you explain this, considering that we were thought of as a divided people? A: In the whole of Kerala, irrespective of religious and political differences, people rallied together to face this tragic situation. That is what […]

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Q: The state of Assam now has this big problem of a lot of people being disenfranchised; what is your position on it and what do you think will happen to them? Would you see it as the BJP playing electoral politics? A: Well, foreigners coming to Assam has been major issue since the 1971 […]

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Q: How should Catholics and the general public receive the kind of scandals erupting in the community and in the society? A: Scandal is only scandal, and it should be avoided; that’s all I can say. I cannot justify or question it. Its veracity needs to be verified, and once it has been found to […]

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Q: We are facing scandals after scandals; what would you tell the agonized ordinary faithful? A: God is correcting the Church. He is purifying the Church. When the Israelites failed, they had to go to Babylon and then get corrected. God later brought them back. We will also have to correct our ways. The more […]

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Q: Is there a proposal in Jharkhand to end reservation for converted tribals? If there is one, does it not pose a problem for the church in the future? A:: There is no such move in Madhya Pradesh so far. The government may come up with it, but it is wrong, because tribals are tribals, converted or not, whichever religion they may belong to or whatever faith […]

Q: Kummanam Rajasekharan, who earlier served as the chief of BJP’s Kerala unit, is now the governor of Mizoram. Reports have appeared about some pro- test in Mizoram against him. What have you to say about it? A: I don’t think that there is any protest as such. It was a kind of political move. […]

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Q: Men out-number women in China and India; 34 million in China and 37 million in India. The ratio of boys to girls is so lopsided that economists project there may be as many as 30 to 40 million more men than women of marriageable age in both countries by 2020. That means so many millions of people are not going to get a wife. Is […]

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Q: What have you to say about Abp Bernard Moras of Bangalore exhorting the faithful to elect worthy candidates and political parties that have a clear secular dimension and safeguard the fundamental rights of one and all? Do you think the Hindutva ideology is poisoning our culture? Is there a real danger to the future […]