Franco Mulakkal is the
bishop of the Jalandhar diocese of the Catholic Church. He has been accused of
raping quite many nuns. Many nuns chose to leave their religious calling
because they didn’t want to live the duplicitous life that their ‘good shepherd’
wanted them to live. It is too obvious that this bishop is nothing less than a
rapist. But it is necessary to protect him and eventually declare him a saint.
Why?
I have been following the
comments on many Whatsapp groups which I belong to by the necessity of wanting
to belong somewhere. Yeah, we all want to belong. Imagine the millions of
believers whose sense of belonging is threatened by the sins of a villain like
Franco Mulakkal.
It’s terrible, if you can
understand that threat. I am not a believer and hence not shaken in any way. But
I’m concerned about the people who mean a lot to me and whose lives are shaken
by Mulakkal’s sins.
It’s not possible, they
tell me. The Fathers are holy. These simple, humble, loyal believers refuse to accept the naked truth
that the priests and other religious leaders are as fallible as they are. They
want role models. They want saints. They want meaning in life.
The Church is the meaning
of life for a lot of believers. Our Father in Heaven and the Holy Mary by his
side are the succour and sustenance for the faithful. Their priests are the
mediators here on this miserable earth. Life is unbearable without the Father
up there and the Reverend Father down here.
What the Church should do
immediately is to get the best lawyers who will get Mulakkal acquitted of all
his crimes. Sooner than later, the Church should start the process of Mulakkal’s
canonisation. He should be another Sahanadasan,
like that Reverend Father Benedict who killed a woman whom he was using for
sexual gratification for years. No religion should have villains. Religions
should only have saints. The faithful require that for keeping their lives
going.
Just imagine the entire
edifice of your life collapsing because you suddenly discover that all that you’ve
been believing so far was utterly wrong. I was faced with that situation once.
So I know what that means. I don’t want more people to face a similar
situation. Let good things happen to people. That’s my wish. Hence the Catholic
Church should start the canonisation process of Saint Mulakkal immediately.
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