എന്നെ തൊടാന്‍ ആര്‍ക്കും പറ്റില്ല - VG

ചിക്കാഗോയിലെ കുറേ പേര്‍ ചേര്‍ന്ന് മുതോലത്തിന് എതിരെ  തയ്യാറാക്കി പിതാക്കന്മാര്‍ക്ക് കൊടുത്ത  സുദീര്‍ക്കമായ പരാതി  രണ്ട് ദിവസം മുന്‍പ് ചിക്കാഗോ ക്നാ പുറത്ത് വിട്ടിരുന്നു. ചിക്കാഗോയിലെ ആവറേജ്  ക്നാനായക്കാരുടെ വികാരമാണ് അതില്‍ പ്രതിഫലിച്ച് കണ്ടത്.  വഞ്ചിക്കപ്പെട്ട  ഒരു ജനതയുടെ ആല്‍മരോക്ഷം അതായിരുന്നു  അത്. കഷ്ടം എന്ന് പറയട്ടെ മൂലക്കാടന്‍ എന്‍റെ കൂടെയുള്ള കാലം വരെ എന്നെ ഒരുത്തനും തൊടാന്‍ പറ്റില്ലായെന്ന് മാത്രമല്ല ഒരു നൂറ് ജന്മം ഉണ്ടായാല്‍ പോലും മൂലക്കാടന്‍ എന്നെ കൈവിടാതിരിക്കാനുള്ള പണി ഞാന്‍ ചെയിതു വച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട് എന്ന്  മെയ്‌വുഡ് പള്ളിയില്‍ മരിച്ചടക്ക്‌  കര്‍മ്മം ആരംഭിക്കും മുന്‍പ് ചിലരോട് വീമ്പിളക്കിയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇനി വഞ്ചിതരായ ചിക്കാഗോയിലെ  ക്നാനായ മക്കള്‍ തന്നെ വിധിയെഴുതുക. മുതോലം പറയുന്ന  മറുപടികള്‍ എത്രത്തോളം ശരിയെന്ന് ഒരിക്കല്‍ക്കൂടി പരാതിയുടെ പൂര്‍ണ്ണരൂപം വായിച്ച് വിലയിരുത്തുക.  തന്‍റെ (മുത്തോലത്ത് അച്ഛന്‍റെ) മുന്‍കൂട്ടിയുള്ള അനുവാതം വാങ്ങാതെ ആരോട് ചോതിച്ചിട്ടാണ് ഈ ധിക്കാരം കാട്ടിയത് എന്ന് മുതോലം തന്‍റെ നോര്‍ത്ത് അമേരിക്കന്‍ ബ്ലോഗിലൂടെ ചോതിച്ചതായി കണ്ടു. അനുസ്സരണ നഷ്ടപ്പെട്ട ഒരു ജനതയായി ചിക്കാഗോയിലെ ക്നാനായക്കാര്‍ മാറിയിരിക്കുന്നു. സദയം ക്ഷമിക്കുക മുത്തോലത്ത് കത്തനാരെ.

Memorandum

To:  His Excellency Mar Bishop Jacob Angadiath

From:  Parishioners of St. Mary’s Church, Morton Grove and Sacred Heart Church, Maywood

Date:  December 28, 2012

Subject:  Petition For Removal of Fr. Abraham Mutholam as Vicar General, Fr. Abraham Mutholam of Knanaya people in U.S.A

The Vicar General, Fr. Mutholath (“VG”), has betrayed the people of the Knanaya Community in North America, especially the people of the Knanaya Community in Chicago. Rev.Fr. Abraham Mutholath is failed to do his duty as a Parish priest as well as “VG” of Knanaya Region. His primary duty is to lead the faith community towards our Lord God and his every action is proving that he is a crooked Politian.    As such, the Parishioners of St. Mary’s Church in Morton Grove and Sacred Heart Church in Maywood petition Your Excellency to remove Fr. Abraham Mutholam as Vicar General and Parish Priest.  We believe that many Knanaya people become political pawns in the hands of  the VG.  We have lost confidence in our Vicar General who has been cheating ordinary people in the name of God.  We believe he engaged in intentionally mislead the Knanaya people just to get donations and secure his positions and personal gains. In support of this request, the Parishioners state:

In 2006, in order to form the “Knanaya” Church in Chicago, Fr. Abraham Mutholath announced during mass and many meeting that any Church purchased in Chicago by the Knanaya people shall be endogamous.  Using this same propaganda, the VG convinced Knanaya people in many other cities in the United States to build “Knanaya” Churches.   Many members of the Knanaya community, when deciding to donate money for Knanaya Churches, relied on VG’s assurance that the Knanaya Churches would be endogamous. 

Subsequently, just a few months ago in Chicago, the VG announces that a Knanaya person who marries someone outside of the community will continue his/her membership in the Knanaya Church and the spouse and children of this person shall not be members of the Knanaya Church.  This is referenced to by many in the Knanaya Community as the “Moolakattu Formula”.    This contradicts the propaganda the VG used in 2006 to convince people to donate money to build “Knanaya Churches.”

Consequently, many Knanaya people suffered great distress and harm when receiving Your Excellency’s pastoral letter, stating the Knanaya Churches are not strictly endogamous.  Essentially, this letter insinuates there is no difference between the Syro Malabar Church and Knanaya Mission.   This contradicts the propaganda the VG used in 2006 to convince people to donate money to build “Knanaya Churches.”

We, the undersigned, absolutely agree and believe that the practice of endogamy is mandatory to  future existence of the Knanaya people.  Basically, where there is Knanaya, there must be endogamy.  This is a tradition that is centuries old and must be maintained in our community.

Unfortunately, we believe that many Knanaya people become political pawns in the hands of  the VG.  We have lost confidence in our Vicar General who has been cheating ordinary people in the name of God.  We believe he engaged in intentionally mislead the Knanaya people just to get donations.

In supplement  to the foregoing, please find below additional acts of deception and fraud conducted by the VG:.

1. Through the Church bulletin and Sunday homely he stated several time our children will be lost if they continue going to Latin Church and their moral will be lost as American Community. This is the way he attack Latin Churches and Our nation’s dignity. He openly criticizes & discourage people attending mass at Latin churches, whereas during weekdays he offer Latin mass & lives in Latin church.
2. When he was a Parish priest in Maywood Sacred Heart Church, he collected and saved almost $650000-00 to build youth center and spent this whole money to renovate the Church without the proper permission from Diocese. This money has been collected through our kids piggy bank and other fund raising events to make our kids attached to our faith community. This been a big wound in our young people and still everybody is very much upset. He cheated our kids and young generation. He always proclaims that our Bishop Angadiath is not going to do anything and he have the command over him. What ever he says, Bishop going to approve in spending. There is a big financial mismanagement in both church.
3. Please do personal hearing from previous Maywood Church accountant about financial fraud he done before he left the church as a parish priest. He was very upset when accountant ask for some clarification regarding spending and that lead him to ask for volunteer step down due to mental torture. He always handle church money for his personal benefit and we request you to kindly  audit through your office and understand how he disobeyed your office.
4. Since “Family unity is our primary concern ’’ He is acted several times to destroy some families through making quarrels in between husband and wife. There are number of families have issues and those problems created through Fr. Mutholam when the guys are not listening to him, he went and threaten their wives through Bible Quote.
5.  Started a new practice of offering money to departed person’s body/soul in the name of spiritual flower and discouraged the offering of real flower. We can see a collection box near by coffin in the church during the wake and funeral Mass. Collected money go to his private limited Agape Movement.
6.  He collecting money through Religious store from both Chicago Churches and putting it in the Agape Account.
7.  He is taking all and unlimited religious offering money to Agape Movement and not paying the fair share of Diocese portion. Estimated monthly income religious offering is more than $ 10,000.00. This is excluding personal donation.
8.  He is taking the Agape fund to Eastern State of India and Kottayam to glorify himself and conducted several inaugural meetings with powerful politicians and clergy men to get fame. Since St. Thomas Syro Malabar Diocese and its Churches are with Tax exempt status, there is no need of transferring church money to Agape.
9.    Always facilitating illegal contributors and encouraging through Holly Alter and Church/Region media.
10.  Holly Alter is using to tarnish his political opponents through bad phrasing and threatening with Holly Bible quoting.
11.  Misusing and abusing the Holly Alter and precious offering through his camera and media and publically proclaiming as long as he have his camera and his personal controlled media, nobody can do nothing to him. Also he publically stated several times that he is a politician and he will use his people according to the situation and if anybody wants they can use him as well.   

12. One time, he refused to offer Christmas mass in a rented church where we used to have regular mass every Sunday, saying Jesus will be born only in our own church. But after a persistent complaint to the Bishop, he later agreed to say the mass.
13. He refused to announce publicly in the church the names of Knanites marrying non knanya in the past and now he says it is okay to tell the names publically. 
14. Recently, a Knanaya youth had to get attorney's help to get a wedding "kuri" (permission), because the priest was asking for money in exchange for the"kuri". This happened under his leadership.  
15. Once a youth invited him to attend a wedding at the Syro Malabar Cathedral Church but he refused, saying that he will attend only wedding at Knanaya Churches. But in another case, he did attended wedding in a Latin Church.  Such acts have discouraged many youths to not attend Knanaya Churches.
16. In the past, he discouraged to allow Malayalam speaking priests who serve Latin Churches/Syro Malabar Churches to say mass in Knanaya Churches and now he has joined Syro Malabar Church and say Mass now in Knanaya church.  
17. There is a retreat that will be held the summer of 2013 at a five star hotel. Several people had raised concerns regarding this retreat because this event is against KCCNA and Fr. Mutholam plans to have a cultural program during the retreat. He has called these people with concerns and threatened them by using abusive language.  
18. About 5 months ago, there was a memorial mass that took place at Sacred Heart Knanaya Catholic Church in Chicago. Fr. Abraham Mutholam had ordered to put the collection money that was received during that mass into his personal account. You can ask any of the 2012 officials for verification of what happened.
19. He has been removing  the Knanaya priests from their positions in North America since they have had differing opinions, and sending them back to India. An example of this would be the Knanaya Priest that served in Houston, Fr. Jose Illikunnumpurath and the Knanaya Priest that served in Miami, Fr. Stephen Vettuvelil.  
20. Few months ago, he told parishioners that there will be a memorial mass for all the dead in the past the next day. To the surprise of parishioners who came with photos of their beloved ones the next day, they saw a mass celebrating birthday of the wife of a rich parishioner
21. Fr. Abraham Mutholam is a crooked politician. For the past 4 years we haven't had elections for the Chicago Knanaya community. This year we did and he took part in the elections. He's been dividing the community. We do not want a politician leading the church, instead, we would like to have dedicated priest.

These examples show Fr. Mutholam has been practicing in a manner that is contrary to the wishes of his Parishioners and the Catholic Church.  We fear that leaving him in charge of pastoral care of Knanaya people will jeopardize the Catholic faith and practices of the Knanaya people. Therefore, we respectfully request Your Excellency please remove Fr. Abraham Mutholath from the post of Vicar General serving Knanaya people in the USA.