Monday, 24 March 2014

A church taken as hostage...

VETTUCAUD…
-      Have sent a mail for a discussion regarding this… No reply yet…
-      Hence this submission, knowing well that it is a matter ‘sub-judice’
-      My intervention should not be taken as an advocacy for multi-crore church complexes when people still live in huts, if not in slum like situations, besides having other pressing needs…
-      Am well aware of having no diocesan policy regarding church constructions in place, let alone demolishing the existing ones giving scant regard for the historicity and other existing civil requirements…
-      A huge structure with hectic investments is staring on all of us on our complacency in doing things within a time frame besides the sense of helplessness of the people concerned and the amount being wasted on avoidable litigations…
-      When the complainant seems to have no known gains out of this litigation and no real public interest is going to be served, one wonders why this litigation after litigations even after the parish priest was convicted for no fault of his…
-      Did the litigant ever had any dialogue or discussion with the parish prior to filing the suit? If so, does the diocesan leadership know of it and what is their stand, if at all they have any?
-      Even when the courts encourage ADR methods, why we fail to make use of such methods to resolve this and set an example for others to emulate?

-      Let us not wreak vengeance taking someone else, especially a parish in a hostage situation. It is not becoming of a priest, let alone any socially spirited person. Let us come across the discussion table and solve this scandalous dispute and set out framing some exemplary policies to be followed hereafter. [Thursday, August 22, 2013]

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