Church warns against Marxists in Kerala

While the CPI–M meeting in Kerala is underway, the Catholic Church has strongly come out against Marxist ideals and the LDF government policies, alleging that the Marxists were trying to divide Christians and destroy their religious symbols to serve their political interest.

Last week, in a Sunday Mass, a pastoral letter prepared by the senior bishops were read out to the Christians, urging the community to resist at all costs, the attempts to take away the guaranteed constitutional rights and to annihilate the minority run institutions.

The pastoral letter was signed by the prelates of Syro Malabar, Syro Malankara and Latin Catholic hierarchies.

Criticising the poor quality of education imparted by government–run educational institutions and the huge, disproportionate resources spent by the state, the CBCI spokesperson Fr Babu Joseph demanded a “social audit of these government schools and colleges that drain the nation’s resources while awfully under–performing”.

Joseph said the Marxists were trying to wipe out any references to religion. “They don’t want us to teach even catechism to our children, then why we invest in our institutions. There is no compromise on it. They want to inject more Marxian and atheist ideology in school curriculum.”

“The move to exercise greater control and even to the point of taking over educational institutions belonging to the Christian minority is a step in the wrong direction because the community has established the institutions with scarce resources primarily for the development of its own members and also for others. Our institutions played a significant role in raising the level of literacy and education in Kerala,” said Joseph.

Church fearing lose of control over its institutions and organisations, have sent several pastoral letters over the last one year, protesting the LDF government policies, especially those in the education field.