Vellicode,
27 -1-2014.
From
V.
Sabarimuthu
26-3
Thattamkonam
Vellicode
Mulagumoodu
P.O. PIN : 629167
INDIA
To
The
Pope
Vatican
Italy.
Holy
Father,
Sub: The abuse of the confessional- request
for its removal –regarding.
I am a Catholic Christian living at
Vellicode Parish in the Kottar Diocese in India.
My son wanted to marry a 24 year old girl brought up as a Hindu.
During the negotiations, I gave an
assurance to the bride’s father that marriage would not be used for the
conversion of the faith of his daughter.
But the Parish Priest imposed confession as
a mandatory requisite for solemnizing the marriage.
Accordingly, the bride had to sit in a
confessional against her own will and the Parish Priest gave the confession.
Therefore, the Holy Father is humbly
requested to kindly consider the question of removing the confessionals from
the churches, so that no girl anywhere in the world would be a victim of a
barbaric act of this kind.
Incidentally, a positive action might
pave the way for the unification of the church.
I beg
to remain,
Yours
obediently,
(V.
Sabarimuthu)
