The Church and its court cases!

The Episcopal Elections in 2005, as most of the church members know had its fair share of issues and fiasco's. I was there in person to see the hilarious nature in which our Church administration handled the issue.

The story in short was that there were two achens shortlisted to become Episcopa and then one of them lost in the final count. What turned out to be an embarrassment, just before the elections was a court case filed against Rev. K.V. Varkey who was the Vicar of Maramon Parish. He was the same Achen who lost the elections. There was a case filed on his behalf by certain people. The case as usual was handled without serious thought.

Think about it the so called sacred consecration of Bishops are now no better than the Bush-Al Gore Elections in Florida.

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Hearing commenced on the court case filed by Jomini Mary Abraham seeking elevation of Rev. K.V. Varkey as a Bishop.

Rev. Varkey also filed an affidavit pointing out mistakes on the part of our Metropolitan and seeking "justice".

In the appeal filed by Jomini in the sub-court, there was some set back for the Church, as our lawyers did not defend the case properly.

There is an apprehension in peoples' mind whether the same thing will repeat.

Rev. Cherian Thomas appeared as part of the proceedings last Tuesday. If our lawyers do not handle tithe case properly or support Varkey achen's cause indirectly, there is every possibility that Mar Paulose's election may be reversed. That can create havoc in the Church.