Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is reported to have criticized institutions run even by Christian managements as business centres. As was to be expected, his statement seems to have irked the Church. But no claim, even by the highest religious authority, can by itself guarantee the truth. After the Gujarat violence, then Fr (now Bishop) Alex J. Vadakumthala met with some Catholics and their friends at St Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, “for evaluating the Church’s contribution in the field of education… [They realised] that in a moment of crisis they [former students of Catholic institutions] acted in partisan manner and started fighting with each other…We have succeeded in giving them information but failed in imparting real life changing values” (“We are pilgrims to the humanity of love,” Light of Truth, 16-31 March 2014, pp.3 & 15, here p.15a).
Subhash Anand, Bhupalpura, Udaipur, 313001
