The country has more serious issues to discuss than what people eat and controversies over beef-eating should not be blown out of proportion or sensationalised to create pressure on the society, said Cardinal George Alencherry here on Tuesday.
Every community can assert its claims. The larger society will decide whether the claims are acceptable or the courts of law should intervene, he said speaking to reporters here on Monday.
He convened a press conference here to explain the key themes discussed by the nearly a month-long synod of the Catholic Church in Rome that ended last week.
The Cardinal said that the lay organisations of the Syro-Malabar Church had been told to stay away from politics. He was reacting to a question on SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan’s intentions to form a political party.
The Cardinal described the current political situation as ‘complex’ and asked the voters to use their judgments to vote for the right candidate without compromising human values.
Those involved in the pastoral care of the church members should adopt a more humane and kind approach to people facing problems, said the Cardinal describing the general tone of the discussions at the Synod.
The church hierarchy will speak the language of power and not of authority, he said about the Pope’s and the synod’s desire to adopt a more inclusive policy when it came to issues such as divorces and homo sexuality.
