It is heartening to know that India’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by some Dalit Catholics from Kumbakonam diocese in Tamil Nadu state in southern India. On the other hand, it is shocking that these poor Dalit Catholics had to approach the courts, as reported by UCA News, to give them their rights against caste discrimination, which is enshrined in the Indian Constitution and also goes against the very basic teaching of Catholicism. St. Paul, in his letter to the Galatians (3:27-28), points out, “You are baptized into union with Christ, and now you are clothed so to speak, with the life of Christ himself. So, there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slaves and free, between men and women; you are all one in union with Christ Jesus.” Once baptized in Christ, people join the family of the Church and become one with all the People of God. They can no longer be identified or discriminated against by their caste, colour, race, or gender.