1. Changing with the times.
My admiration for Pope Francis has gone up further by a few notches. He has shown a tremendous flexibility in attitude in providing effective and dignified leadership to the Catholic church ever since his ascension to the papacy. I am impressed with the news, "Vatican buries a debate: Cremate, don't scatter ashes".
The amplifying instructions from the Vatican makes it clear as to how the Church has come round to the present decision and I quote, "In circumstances when cremation is chosen because of sanitary, economic or social considerations, this choice must never violate the explicitly stated or the reasonably inferable wishes of the deceased faithful. The Church raises no doctrinal objections to this practice since the cremation of the deceased's body does not affect his or her soul nor does it prevent God, in his omnipotence, from raising up the deceased body to new life".
Lack of space and city life has made cremation a reality and this far reaching decision of the Church shows its progressive outlook - a must for a religion to sustain itself among its followers!
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2. The changing attitudes.
One frequently hears news, these days, about vigilance raids on the houses of bigwigs who hold haloed positions in society. Consider the recently conducted ones by the Vigilance and Anti Corruption Bureau(VACB) on the houses of the additional chief secretary, KM Abraham and principal labour secretary, Tom Jones. There's no smoke without a fire, so says an old proverb.
So, when a person goes through such ignominy, a good percentage of the accusations stick and the public comes to the inevitable conclusion that all these guys are rogues. To go up in life one needs to go against the rules and suck up to the superiors!
But what makes me wonder are about three things:-
(a) How do these people face their near and dear ones, once convicted?
(b) How did they manage to get into ignominy when during the childhood, their parents must
have ingrained into them about the importance of ethics and morality in one's life?
(c) How do they manage to cling on to their chairs despite taunts and a lowering of esteem among
their subordinates?
I suppose that the skin has thickened to such an extent that nothing matters. Who, the hell, cares about others' opinions seems to be the attitude!
Tailpiece.
Radhan chettan's left leg has to be amputated, says the surgeon. It's gonna be a blow on him, wonder how he takes it? Sad! Suresh has lesser problems after traversing 48 hrs from surgery. The stories about the lackadaisical attitude of the nursing staff, especially in the ICUs of hospitals, are appalling to say the least!
My admiration for Pope Francis has gone up further by a few notches. He has shown a tremendous flexibility in attitude in providing effective and dignified leadership to the Catholic church ever since his ascension to the papacy. I am impressed with the news, "Vatican buries a debate: Cremate, don't scatter ashes".
The amplifying instructions from the Vatican makes it clear as to how the Church has come round to the present decision and I quote, "In circumstances when cremation is chosen because of sanitary, economic or social considerations, this choice must never violate the explicitly stated or the reasonably inferable wishes of the deceased faithful. The Church raises no doctrinal objections to this practice since the cremation of the deceased's body does not affect his or her soul nor does it prevent God, in his omnipotence, from raising up the deceased body to new life".
Lack of space and city life has made cremation a reality and this far reaching decision of the Church shows its progressive outlook - a must for a religion to sustain itself among its followers!
* * *
2. The changing attitudes.
One frequently hears news, these days, about vigilance raids on the houses of bigwigs who hold haloed positions in society. Consider the recently conducted ones by the Vigilance and Anti Corruption Bureau(VACB) on the houses of the additional chief secretary, KM Abraham and principal labour secretary, Tom Jones. There's no smoke without a fire, so says an old proverb.
So, when a person goes through such ignominy, a good percentage of the accusations stick and the public comes to the inevitable conclusion that all these guys are rogues. To go up in life one needs to go against the rules and suck up to the superiors!
But what makes me wonder are about three things:-
(a) How do these people face their near and dear ones, once convicted?
(b) How did they manage to get into ignominy when during the childhood, their parents must
have ingrained into them about the importance of ethics and morality in one's life?
(c) How do they manage to cling on to their chairs despite taunts and a lowering of esteem among
their subordinates?
I suppose that the skin has thickened to such an extent that nothing matters. Who, the hell, cares about others' opinions seems to be the attitude!
Tailpiece.
Radhan chettan's left leg has to be amputated, says the surgeon. It's gonna be a blow on him, wonder how he takes it? Sad! Suresh has lesser problems after traversing 48 hrs from surgery. The stories about the lackadaisical attitude of the nursing staff, especially in the ICUs of hospitals, are appalling to say the least!
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