[newgeezer]

the Catholic Church in India ... faces a swelling tide of pagan behaviour at the hands of its own priests.

Well, some say that's also par for the course from the Rio Grande to the Antarctic Circle, and in the Caribbean, too.

[Dick Vomer]

what is with the Jesuits?

.... end times?

[kstewskis]

Well, some say that's also par for the course from the Rio Grande to the Antarctic Circle, and in the Caribbean, too.

Interesting you mention the Caribbean. Last June I was in Grand Cayman, and went to "mass" there. It was difficult to decipher it being a true, Catholic Church in communion w/ Rome. At one point, I felt that I was actually at a game show, when the priest decided to take care of business during his "homily."

Not to mention, some of the standard NO prayers being changed.

(interestingly enough, after Church, we went up to a little town on the north end of the island, no kidding, called "Hell.")

The next Saturday, I attended my first Tridentine Mass.

Talk about being on two opposite ends of the spectrum. I've never looked back since.

[muawiyah]

This is a tough one to comment on. However, Christianity has been in India since the First or Second Centuries. In recent times (e.g. since Vasco De Gama arrived in the 1400s) attempts have been made by Roman Catholic as well as later arriving Orthodox Catholic groups to "reform" the Indian "church" or "churches" so that it/they conformed to a more universal world standard.

They do have their differences over there. However, placing a "linga" inside the main worship area sounds totally out of place.

It's at this point that my eyes glaze over ~ having read enough of the propaganda put out by one group of reformers against another group of reformers, and vice versa, I doubt this has happened.

Now, about reading from the Koran in Christian churches in heavily Hindu India ~ I'd kind of wonder what the point of that would be? Do they want to get their building torched or something?