Pope and Us I recently read this in the news.
(Pope tells the Indian ambassador that efforts to stop religious conversion through legislation is unlawful and unconstitutional.)

I normally oppose legislative initiatives of these kinds for the reason that the Government should not have that much control on the lives of the people (The current mess in reservation is more than enough proof of me on what Government intervention will do).
But in this case, I believe he (The Pope) has exceeded his limits. He would have been correct had his audience been the members of his faith or other general people, but to use the offices of Vatican as a country for this is very inappropriate. When he deals with the ambassador of India, he acts as a head of state, and his actions and words should be interpreted in that scope.

It is same as that of say - Pakistan advising India on reservation -- it is an interference in the internal affairs of a country on which an external agent has absolutely no scope.

With that perspective, I would rather tell him off, than to give any serious hearing to whatever it is that his reasons are. I would have preferred the Government of India to do this, but with the current bunch of office holders I don't have any hope of that happening.  ¶ 7:35 PM 3 Comments