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MOST REV. PEDRO LOPEZ QUINTANA

APOSTOLIC NUNCIO IN INDIA

WEARS A HINDU MARK IN THE CENTER OF HIS FOREHEAD

THIS MARK, CALLED “TILAK” IS OF RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE TO HINDUS.

IT IS NEVER APPLIED BY MUSLIMS OR CHRISTIANS [ESPECIALLY PROTESTANTS].

MANY CATHOLIC WOMEN HOWEVER COMMONLY FLAUNT A STYLISED “BINDI”.

NOW THERE IS AN ALARMING TREND OF THE MARK’S INCREASING USE BY NUNS

AND BY CATHOLIC MEN – NOT AMONG THE LAITY,

BUT AMONG PRIESTS, BISHOPS, CARDINALS, AND EVEN THE APOSTOLIC NUNCIO

Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana’s Visit to Vasai

http://storage.paxchristi.net/AP53E05.pdf

Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana, the apostolic Nuncio to India visited the Diocese of Vasai on the 1^st to 4th of October 2005. On this occasion, an Interreligious Dialogue meeting was organized at Jeevan Darshan Kendra – the Pastoral Centre of

Diocese of Vasai… Ladies of the Hindu Swadhyaya movement accorded the Archbishop a traditional welcome.

A photograph by Amey Mansabdar in the DNA news agency story, Mumbai, October 3, 2005, shows the prelate sporting a “tilak” on his forehead, apparently the outcome of the “traditional [Hindu] welcome” accorded him by the “Ladies of the Hindu Swadhyaya movement”.

I have scoured the internet and my research library seeking information, any information which says that the bindi or tilak is a purely Indian cultural phenomenon. While I didn’t find a shred of evidence that says that, I found tons of evidence to the contrary. My findings are compiled in a separate article titled, “BINDI OR TILAK MARK ON THE FOREHEAD-INDIAN OR HINDU?”

http://ephesians-511.net/docs/BINDI_OR_TILAK_MARK_ON_THE_FOREHEAD-INDIAN_OR_HINDU.doc

MAY 15, 2012

Categories: Hinduisation of the Catholic Church in India