Dear NYer,
I am the Guy who sent this email to the webmaster of cathcon.blogspot.com because I am truly concerned about what has been happening in the Catholic Church in India for the past 2.5 decades.
I am not a raving and ranting 80 or 90 year old who sent this email to Chris Gillibrand of Catholic Church Conservation. I am a 34 year old Orthodox Catholic Guy born and raised in Bombay who has known about this "Paganism" in the Catholic Church for the last 15 years.
My only desire is to inform and create awareness among Orthodox and Traditional Catholics in North America and Europe who it seems are completely oblivious with regard to these happenings in the Catholic Church in India.
Lastly, I wish to make a correction to something that you have said in your last post. Syro- Malabar Catholics do not form the majority of Catholics in India. In India, there are officially 18 million Catholics out of which Syro-Malabar Catholics would at the maximum be 5-6 million at the most. To me that does not constitute a majority.
By the way, I am a Saint Francis Xavier Catholic. My ancestors were evangelized to Catholicism in the late 15th or early 16th Century by Portuguese Catholic Missionaries when Goa was a colony of the Portuguese.
In Jesus and Mary,
Sir
There are 2 sections of catholics in india.one is the latin catholics which i believe is the majority and the syro-malabar catholics.
The syro-malbar catholics follow the syrian rites whereas the latin catholics follow the latin rites.The syro-malabar catholics are called as syrian catholics here.There are not more than 5 million syrian catholics almost all of them is concentrated in the state of Kerala in southern india.Syrian catholics are conservative and traditional.Many of them (i would use the word us) were converted by st Thomas and the rest were converted by monks of syrian descent.AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT OUR CHURCHES HAVE GOT 99 PERCENT ATTENDENCE.