Thiruvananthapuram: The Catholic Church in Kerala has decided to be “guarded” in official communication and religious sermons in the future, to ensure their words do not cause pain to other communities and their faith or create anxiety in the community, a top church official said Thursday.
Significant decision, trying to end the controversy over the comments of “love and jihad narcotics” made by a recent bishop, taken at the Kerala Catholic Bishop (KCBC) meeting held in Kochi on Wednesday.
In the interaction with the news agency, a church official also said the Church would continue to do “prophetic responsibility” fighting against all kinds of social crimes.
However, the statements, speeches and reactions of the church and their officials about such things will be presented before the public only after the study and the right discussion in the appropriate forum.
“In the future, our statements, speeches, and responses will be guarded.
We will be very careful because we do not want to hurt other community sentiments.
The Church always means openness and strengthening the secular fabric of the community by enriching communal harmony,” the official said in the interaction First after the bishop’s comments shook the country.
KCBC has observed that the recent controversy of the comments of “love and narcotics” made by the bishop of nutmeg diocese in the Syro-Malabar church is the “eye opener” for the church because “misinterpreted” by media parts and politicians to serve “political and business interests Their narrow “causes” pain and pain “among other members of the community, he said.
After their meeting on Wednesday, KCBC, which included the Bishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Syro-Malankara, Katolics Knanaya, has issued a statement that said the social crime shown by the church requires deeper research and serious investigation rather than giving this “hue different “and diverted in another direction.
Choosing not to use controversial terminology such as narcotics jihad or jihad love in his statement, the council said that he rejected simultaneously all forms of interpretation which weakened religious harmony and weakened healthy coexistence in the community by naughty twisting the priests from this church.
“KCBC does not approve a secret effort to show that there are divisions among churches.
The basic values ​​of truth, love and justice, which are upheld by the Catholic Church, are the basis of all dialogues and harmonies between religions,” he said in liberation.