Dec 3, 2007 / 10:16 am
In an eight-paged tabloid-sized newspaper distributed on Sunday, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church has asked its members in the southwest state of Kerala to keep away from the state's ruling Communist Party of India.
The newspaper, titled 'Malabar Vision,' was published jointly by the dioceses of Thalassery, Thamarasseri, and Mananthavadi. Copies were distributed after Mass in all the churches of the dioceses.
The warnings were prompted by both the Communist Party's efforts to implement its education policy and a party leader's insult of a bishop.
At a meeting memorializing a legislator the state secretary of the Communist Party of India, Pinaryi Vijayan, referred to the Bishop of Thamarasseri, without naming him, as a "despicable creature."