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Voting is a must: Cardinal Gracias
Camil Parkhe
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 AT 11:10 AM
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Mumbai Cardinal Oswald Gracias
PUNE: If you are good citizens and good Christians, then it is your duty and responsibility to vote on October 13, a circular issued by Mumbai Cardinal Oswald Gracias to Maharashtrian Christians has said.
Gracias, whose ecclesiastical jurisdiction runs over Mumbai archdiocese and suffragan dioceses of Pune, Nashik, Kalyan (Syro-Malabarese rite) and Vasai, said that exercising franchise is everyone’s responsibility in the temporal field. He stressed that the Second Vatican Council, the last epoch-making conclave held by the Church in 1960s, insisted on this.
Gracias is among the six Indian cardinals, two of whom are posted in Rome while one has retired after completion of 80 years.
Gracias, vice-president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, has urged the faithful to pray at home and at Sunday masses so that the state gets good leaders. The cardinal’s circular outlined three duties of Christians as to pray for a good government, to vote and to vote wisely. On the issue of ‘wise’ voting, he asked people to vote for those who are clean and have a record of working selflessly for people. Vote for people who are not divisive and will work for uplift of the poor and underprivileged, he said.
There are at least 16 Christians in Mumbai and Thane district, who have entered the poll fray. Congress is the only major party to nominate two Christians - sitting MLA Annie Shekhar in Colaba and Janet D’Souza in Ghatkopar West.
Published in Sakaal Times
Voting is a must: Cardinal Gracias
Camil Parkhe
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 AT 11:10 AM
Tags: Pune, Maharashtra, Mumbai Cardinal, Oswald Gracias
Close...
Mumbai Cardinal Oswald Gracias
PUNE: If you are good citizens and good Christians, then it is your duty and responsibility to vote on October 13, a circular issued by Mumbai Cardinal Oswald Gracias to Maharashtrian Christians has said.
Gracias, whose ecclesiastical jurisdiction runs over Mumbai archdiocese and suffragan dioceses of Pune, Nashik, Kalyan (Syro-Malabarese rite) and Vasai, said that exercising franchise is everyone’s responsibility in the temporal field. He stressed that the Second Vatican Council, the last epoch-making conclave held by the Church in 1960s, insisted on this.
Gracias is among the six Indian cardinals, two of whom are posted in Rome while one has retired after completion of 80 years.
Gracias, vice-president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, has urged the faithful to pray at home and at Sunday masses so that the state gets good leaders. The cardinal’s circular outlined three duties of Christians as to pray for a good government, to vote and to vote wisely. On the issue of ‘wise’ voting, he asked people to vote for those who are clean and have a record of working selflessly for people. Vote for people who are not divisive and will work for uplift of the poor and underprivileged, he said.
There are at least 16 Christians in Mumbai and Thane district, who have entered the poll fray. Congress is the only major party to nominate two Christians - sitting MLA Annie Shekhar in Colaba and Janet D’Souza in Ghatkopar West.
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