Smoking Priests..!

It is extraordinary to see that the Indian government went so far as to cut scenes of Catholic priests smoking in the film Angels and Demons.I can remember some landmark films where Hinduism was shown to be corrupt and vile — such as in Satyajit Ray’s Sadgati.We want more such films.It is ironic to see Indian Catholics getting all worked up about cigarettes at a time when the Catholic Church is being rocked with scandal after scandal.Last month yet another catalogue of systematic child abuse by priests and nuns was published in Ireland.