PANAJI: An afternoon ahead of Easter, the Church in a subtle message on Saturday mentioned it will possibly’t be gagged on talking on “social-political realities of the day” and advised its monks to “conscientise the laity” but inside the ambit of the regulation.
Saturday’s remark comes after the Church apologised for Fr Conceicao D’Silva’s statements against BJP and previous leader minister Manohar Parrikar closing Monday.
“It is standard and conventional in the Catholic Church to denounce evil and promote good values in society. Silence and reticence at the a part of the Church, in the mild of those restrictions, should now not be interpreted as endorsement of any wrongdoing and ought to not be taken benefit of through vested interests, to confuse the public,” Fr Savio Fernandes, executive secretary of the Church’s social work wing, the Council for Social Justice and Peace, mentioned.
He mentioned the monks are bound to make other people aware.
‘Religious heads should refrain from hate speech’
Fernandes mentioned, the monks have to “help them interpret the socio-political realities of the day, subject, of course to the restrictions laid down through the regulation”.
In a video that had gone viral, D’Silva was observed asking other people to reject BJP, calling its nationwide president Amit Shah “a demon” and Parrikar’s affliction of most cancers as a “wrath of God”.
The Diocesan Centre for Social Communications Media and the Catholic Bishops Conference of India had condemned the remark through D’Silva, the parish priest of Our Lady of Snows, Raia and mentioned the church didn't identify itself or facet with any political celebration.
The election commission had issued a realize to D’Silva, under Section 144, and directed him to desist from making any inflammatory statements that might vitiate communal unity of the state. D’Silva had tendered a written “unconditional apology”.
The South Goa returning officer Ajit Roy had also called upon all religious leaders, sects, monks, community leaders, heads of associations, leaders of political parties, candidates and the general public to “refrain from making any hate speech, and/or any aggressive statements which has attainable to inflame communal or caste emotions and/or making any attraction on caste or communal emotions and/or the usage of any places of religious worship like mosques, church buildings, temples, etc as a forum for election propaganda”.
Saturday’s remark comes after the Church apologised for Fr Conceicao D’Silva’s statements against BJP and previous leader minister Manohar Parrikar closing Monday.
“It is standard and conventional in the Catholic Church to denounce evil and promote good values in society. Silence and reticence at the a part of the Church, in the mild of those restrictions, should now not be interpreted as endorsement of any wrongdoing and ought to not be taken benefit of through vested interests, to confuse the public,” Fr Savio Fernandes, executive secretary of the Church’s social work wing, the Council for Social Justice and Peace, mentioned.
He mentioned the monks are bound to make other people aware.
‘Religious heads should refrain from hate speech’
Fernandes mentioned, the monks have to “help them interpret the socio-political realities of the day, subject, of course to the restrictions laid down through the regulation”.
In a video that had gone viral, D’Silva was observed asking other people to reject BJP, calling its nationwide president Amit Shah “a demon” and Parrikar’s affliction of most cancers as a “wrath of God”.
The Diocesan Centre for Social Communications Media and the Catholic Bishops Conference of India had condemned the remark through D’Silva, the parish priest of Our Lady of Snows, Raia and mentioned the church didn't identify itself or facet with any political celebration.
The election commission had issued a realize to D’Silva, under Section 144, and directed him to desist from making any inflammatory statements that might vitiate communal unity of the state. D’Silva had tendered a written “unconditional apology”.
The South Goa returning officer Ajit Roy had also called upon all religious leaders, sects, monks, community leaders, heads of associations, leaders of political parties, candidates and the general public to “refrain from making any hate speech, and/or any aggressive statements which has attainable to inflame communal or caste emotions and/or making any attraction on caste or communal emotions and/or the usage of any places of religious worship like mosques, church buildings, temples, etc as a forum for election propaganda”.
Make people aware of realities, but don’t break law: Church to priests
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