KOCHI, Dec 12: Despite the KCBC (Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council) vowing to set up Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) in all institutions run by the Church, it. nonetheless, expressed the impracticality of setting up ICC in nunneries and priestly congregations.
“Convents are places where nuns live and therefore we cannot form an ICC in their homes. But we will direct all institutions under the Church to establish them,” Fr Varghese Vallikkatt, KCBC spokesperson told the presser at the POC in Palarivattom near Kochi on Dec 6.
A Christian mediation council comprising experts from various fields will be formed by the KCBC to resolve intra-Church disputes and those with the various other groups, the KCBC said.
Additionally, Archbishop Soosa Pakiam said the Thrissur Archdiocese calendar, which featured an image of rape-accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal, is not an official one. “I am unaware of this and it is likely the calendar is not an official one,” he said.
source: Indian Express