QUESTION:

On April 16 a mob of activists assaulted a priest and vandalized the Mother Teresa English Medium School managed by the Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament in Telangana state after school administrators reprimanded students for wearing Hindu religious clothing instead of the school uniform. Was it a religiously motivated attack?

ANSWER:

What happened in Mother Theresa School made a mockery of the law-and-order system prevalent there. To claim that anybody can wear any sort of dress instead of uniform in the school without permission amounts to promoting absolute indiscipline and law-lessness. The rule of the uniform is respected in companies, hospitals, police department and military. It must be all the more respected in schools, where disci-pline and social res-ponsibility are taught.

Bishop Prince Antony Panengadan
Bishop of Adilabad