By Matters India Reporter
Tellicherry, September 6, 2019: The youth movement of Tellicherry Catholic archdiocese in Kerala plans to start a campaign to boycott a leading Malayalam newspaper and its television channel that allegedly defame priest and nuns.
The archdiocesan unit of the Kerala Catholic Youth Movement will launch the campaign “Ma Nishaada” (Don’t Savage) from September 8 against the “Mathrubhumi” (motherland), a widely circulated and multi-edition daily in Malayalam.
“We too want to live in peace in society. Our mothers and sisters want to walk with heads held high and live their faith with dignity,” the movement asserts in a press release to announce the campaign.
It says the campaign is against the Mathrubhumi’s obnoxious journalism that quotes the price for the Catholic religious women who it says are the embodiment of mercy.
“We were composed when you attacked our Church and its institutions and stabbed our faith. This was not because we don’t know how to react, but that is not what our faith has taught us,” the movement says.
It says “the yellow paper of Mathrubhumi” deserves no mercy after it attacked the religious women.
The youth are protesting an article on the Catholic women religion that Mathrubhumi published in a recent weekend edition. The article supported Sister Luchy Kalappura who was dismissed by the Franciscan Clarist Congregation for violating the vows of poverty and obedience.
“Oh you myopic yellow journal, do you know only one Lucy? There are 7,000 ‘Mother Teresas’ engaged in acts of mercy in many institutions. Don’t you see them? Did you intentionally ignore them When your black ink projected Lucy as the face of the religious?”
The Catholic youth also said they would not allow the newspapers to enter their homes and institutions. They also threatened to boycott a television channel managed by the newspaper.