സഭാ നേതൃത്വത്തിനും ഷവലിയാർ ബെന്നി പുന്നത്തറക്കും ഒരു തുറന്ന കത്ത്.

കഴിഞ്ഞ കുറേക്കാലങ്ങളായി അമേരിക്കയിൽ മുത്തോലത്തിനാൽ നടമാടിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന സഭാ സാമുദായിക വിരുദ്ധ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളുടെയും മനുക്ഷ്യാവകാശ ലങ്കനങ്ങളുടെയും സഭയിലെ സാമ്പത്തീക കുറ്റകൃത്യങ്ങളുടെയും വ്യക്തമായ രൂപ രേഖകൾ പല രൂപത്തിലും പല ഭാവത്തിലും നിരവതിപേർ സഭയുടെ ഉന്നതാധികാരികളുടെ ശ്രദ്ധയിൽ പല തവണ പെടുത്തിയതാണ്. അൽമായർ മുതൽ വൈദീകർ വരെ തെളിവുകളുടെ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തിൽ അയച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന ഒരു പരാതിക്കും ഇന്നുവരെ യാതൊരു നടപടികളും എന്തിന് മറുപടിപോലും കൊടുത്തതായി കാണുന്നില്ല. ദിവസ്സം തോറും പുറത്തുവരുന്ന പരിശുദ്ധ ഫ്രാൻസ്സീസ്സ് പാപ്പയുടെ പ്രഗ്യാപനങ്ങളുമായി താതാമ്മ്യം പ്രാപിക്കാൻ ശ്രമിക്കുന്ന യാതൊരു ശ്രമവും സഭാ നേതൃത്വത്തിൽ നിന്നോ പിതാക്കന്മാരിൽ നിന്നോ കാണുന്നില്ല. കുഞ്ഞാടുകളുടെ വിശ്വാസ്സ പരിസംരക്ഷണത്തിനായും സഭയിലുള്ള കൂറ്‌ അചഞ്ചലമായി നിലനിർത്തുന്നതിനുമായി പരിശുദ്ധ പാപ്പായോട്‌ ഐക്ക്യപ്പെടുന്നതിന്‌ പകരമായി സഭയിലെ ക്രിമിനലുകളെ സംരക്ഷിക്കുന്ന നയമാണ് ഇന്ന് സഭാനേതൃത്വം കൈക്കൊള്ളുന്നത്.  

ഒരു വൈദീകന്റെ ദുഷ്കർമ്മങ്ങൾക്ക് വെള്ള പൂശാൻ അറിഞ്ഞു കൊണ്ട് നിന്നുകൊടുത്ത ബഹുമാനപ്പെട്ട ഷവലിയാർ ബന്നി പുന്നത്തറക്ക് ഒരു തിരിഞ്ഞു നോട്ടം തീർത്തും ആവശ്യമാണ്‌.  ക്നാനായ രീജ്യനിലെ വൈദീകരിൽ ചികാഗോയ്ക്ക് വെളിയിൽ നിന്നും വന്നത് വെറും അഞ്ചുപേർ മാത്രം. അവരിൽ എല്ലാവരും തന്നെ ധ്യാനം തീരും മുൻപ് തിരിച്ചു പോയി. ചില ഇടവകകളിൽ നിന്ന് മാത്രം നാമമാത്രമായി മൂന്നോ നാലോ അൽമായർ മാത്രമാണ് വന്നത്. ഈ ധ്യാനത്തിൽ പങ്കെടുത്തവരുടെ ഇടവക / മിഷൻ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തിലുള്ള കണക്ക് ഉടൻ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുന്നത് നല്ലതായിരിക്കും. ചിക്കാഗോയിലെ പ്രാഞ്ചികൾ എന്ന് മുദ്രകുത്തി വിളിക്കപ്പെട്ടവർപോലും പങ്കെടുക്കാതെ മാറി നിന്ന ഈ ധ്യാനത്തിന്റെ വിജയത്തിനായി നാൽപ്പതിലതികം രജിസ്ട്രേഷൻ ക്നാനായ സമൂഹത്തിന് വെളിയിൽ നിന്നാണ് മുത്തു തരപ്പെടുത്തിയത്. പിന്നെ എന്തിനാണ് ക്നാനായ രീജ്യൻ ധ്യാനം എന്ന് പേരിട്ടത് ?  കൊട്ടിഘോഷിച്ച പിതാക്കന്മാരെല്ലാം എവിടെപോയി ? ഇവിടെ തിരസ്കരിക്കപ്പെട്ടത്‌ ശാലോമിന്റെ ധ്യാനമല്ല മറിച്ച് മുത്തുവെന്ന കപട സന്യാസ്സിയുടെ മൂടുപടമാണ്. ക്നാനായ രീജ്യന്റെയോ ക്നാനായ ജനത്തിന്റെയോ ഉദ്ധാരണമല്ല മറിച്ച് തന്റെ രാഷ്ട്രീയ അജണ്ട നടപ്പിലാക്കുകയാണ് ഈ ധ്യാനത്തിലൂടെ മുത്തു ചെയിതത്. ഞായാറാഴ്ച വിശുദ്ധ ബലി മദ്ധ്യേ നടത്തിയ അതി ഭീകരമായ മുത്തോലത്തിന്റെ  പ്രസംഗത്തിലൂടെ മൂന്ന് ദിവസ്സത്തെ ശാലോം ടീമിന്റെ കഠിനാദ്ധ്വാനവും വിശ്വാസ്സികളുടെ ആൽമീയ നിർവൃതിയും ഒരു നിമിഷം കൊണ്ട് തകർന്ന് തരിപ്പണമായില്ലേ. 

ദൈവ വചനത്തിലും കർത്താവിലും മാർപ്പാപ്പയിലും ഒന്നും വിശ്വസിക്കാത്ത അനുസ്സരിക്കാത്ത പുരോഹിതരെ നിങ്ങൾ ആണ് ഇന്നത്തെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ നിരീശ്വരവാതികൾ. കാപട്യത്തിന്റെ മുഖം മൂടി അണിഞ്ഞ് തിരുവസ്ത്രങ്ങൾ ഉടുത്ത്  അർപ്പിക്കുന്ന ബലികൾ എല്ലാം പുരോഹിതരില്ലാത്ത വിശ്വാസ്സികൾ മാത്രം അർപ്പിക്കുന്ന ബലികലാണ്.  നിങ്ങളുടെ മാറ്റം ഇന്ന് സഭ ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നു - ആവശ്യപ്പെടുന്നു.  ക്നാനായ സമുദായത്തിന്റെ നിലനിൽപ്പിനും സഭയുടെ വളർച്ചക്കും മൂലക്കാട്ട് പിതാവിന്റെ രാജി ചോതിച്ചു വാങ്ങാൻ കോട്ടയം രൂപതാ വൈദീകർ തയ്യാറാകണം. എങ്കിൽ മാത്രമേ മുതോലത്തെ പോലുള്ള സമുദായ ദ്രോഹികളെ നിലക്ക് നിർത്താൻ കഴിയൂ. കുറച്ചു മാസ്സം മുൻപ് ചിക്കാഗോയിലെ കുറേ പേര്‍ ചേര്‍ന്ന് മുതോലത്തിന് എതിരെ  തയ്യാറാക്കി പിതാക്കന്മാര്‍ക്ക് കൊടുത്ത  സുദീര്‍ക്കമായ പരാതികൾ  ചുവടെ കൊടുക്കുന്നു.

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. 

ക്നാനായ രീജ്യനിലെ ചില വൈദീകർ അയച്ച ഒരു പരാതി കാണാൻ ഇവിടെ ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക
  
ഇനി മുത്തോലത്തിനെതിരെ കൊടുത്ത മറ്റൊരു പരാതി നോക്കൂ. ഈ പരാതിയുടെ കോപ്പി കാക്കനാട്ട് ആലഞ്ചേരി പിതാവിനും കോട്ടയത്ത്‌ മൂലക്കാട്ട് പിതാവിനും പിന്നെ പണ്ടാരശ്ശേരി പിതാവിനും കൊടുത്തിരുന്നു.

Date:  February 22, 2013

Subject:  Petition for removal of Fr. Abraham Mutholam as Vicar General and as St. Mary’s Parish Vicar

Dear Your Excellency Mar Jacob Angadiath,

As you know, the Knanaya community in North America has been going through some tough times for the last 27 years and it has been, especially, hard for the last few months. I would like to take this time and point out that the source of our recent hardship and stress, unfortunately, has been the betrayal by our own Vicar General Fr. Abraham Mutholam.

When the Knanaya churches were being established, the community stood solidly behind Fr. Mutholam and contributed, both, financially and emotionally, to the success of the project. The community has been working with him throughout the last 7 years to establish more Knanaya churches around the country. The community supported all the actions by the VG with the hope that the church leaders were working hard to accomplish our eventual goal of a Knanaya diocese as promised by the VG. Recently, it has been revealed that the VG was betraying the community with no real actions towards accomplishing this goal and, in some cases, working against the goal. This triggered me and many of the community members to take a hard look back at all the actions and statements from Fr. Mutholam during the last few years.

We were all surprised to find out that the VG was not only betraying the community but also misleading the Syro-Malabar Eparchy and the Kottayam Arch-eparchy.  We had identified a few of these in the memorandum submitted to your Excellency in December, 2012. Since then, we continued to monitor VG’s actions and statements and I felt it is my responsibility, as a lay person, to bring to your attention some of the recent abuses conducted by Fr. Mutholam.

These are listed below:

1.    A very clear abuse of power by using the Syro-Malabar “Palliyoganadapadikal” for his own selfish goals and use them only when it is advantageous to himself.

a.     An example of this is the recent purchase of a new car without the concurrence from parish community and, above all, without the sanction from the Syro-Malabar Hierarchy in North America. The expense was $26000.00. This is a clear violation of the rules specified in the “Palliyoganadapadikal”.

                                                    i.     When this was questioned at the St. Mary’s parish pothuyogam, recently, his response was that according to the rules, he is not required to explain that to the community.

b.    But whenever the community takes an action to protest against activities that the community deemed hurtful, the VG uses the rules to invalidate those protests.

                                                    i.     An example of this is the recent community wide protest against the pastoral letter. Fr. Mutholam informed the community that all the actions they have taken are invalid according to the rules of the diocese because the parish priests were not present or leading the meetings when the protests were voiced. Note that the actions by the community were unanimous and very emotional but the VG, not only, ignored them but actively worked against them by asking the priests to not participate in the meetings.

2.    The VG has continued to violate the church rules and, this time, being insubordinate and insulting towards the Chicago St. Thomas eparchy and the Kottayam Arch-Eparchy.

a.     An example of this is the recent letter circulated to all Knanaya priests to be read in the parishes (published on Sunday, Feb. 17^th). The content of the letter was, in itself, an in-subordination and I will provide the details of that next. It is my understanding that such an official letter must be sanctioned and published by the diocese officials only. This is, especially, true due to the fact that the Knanaya region is not an autonomous governing entity within the Syro-Malabar diocese.

b.    As far as the content of the letter is concerned, the VG has indicated that he himself does not agree with the Knanaya formulae proposed by His Excellency Mar Mathew Moolakatt even though he was in full agreement with it when it was published and also, was actively, promoting it to the community. It was surprising to the parishioners when he indicated, in the letter, that he is against the formulae. This is a clear in-subordination and insult to the Kottayam Arch-Eparchy.

c.     In the letter, the VG also referred to the recent protests against the circular published by your Excellency. It is our understanding that the circular verbiage was developed in consultation with him. But, once the community disagreed with the circular, he also turned against it by signing on to the protest resolution from St. Mary’s parish council. He also drafted and distributed a resolution (published on Sunday, January 20, 2013) directing that the least acceptable solution is the “Moolakatt Formulae”. By this resolution, he not only insulted the community but also discredited your Excellency.

d.    Besides these specific examples, in the past, there have been many instances where the VG acted like an independent head of the Knanaya region (parallel to the Eparchy) by publishing many circulars and directives violating the protocols of Syro-Malabar Eparchy.

Fr. Mutholam has been acting as an independent administrator without sub-ordination to either Chicago Syro-Malabar Eparchy or Kottayam Arch-Eparchy. In the past, he has made statements that showed his unwillingness and arrogance to listen to any constructive criticism from other priests or the parish community. In many pothuyogams, he has publically humiliated anyone who shown courage to offer constructive criticism. He, especially, disliked anyone who expressed the knowledge of church rules and regulations. This is such a common knowledge among the community that, even today, no one dares to ask or provide feedback to him in public. As further evidence, to avoid any questioning or criticisms, he has handpicked his supporters to fill the various church administrative positions including the parish and pastoral councils. In addition, the VG has made sure that he is the sole interface to the diocese for other priests and the parishioners. This prevented the real feelings and emotions of other priests and the community from reaching the diocesan officials which resulted in the miss-representation of community’s position on issues.

In conclusion, due to the many betrayals to the community and the insubordination to the Eparchy, Fr. Mutholam has lost all credibility and privileges to serve the church in his current positions. I, humbly, request that he be removed from all of his positions, effective immediately, so that he is not the one representing the community and church in future dialogues and discussions. Additionally, I request that your Excellency appoint an enquiry commission to investigate his actions in the past including abuse of power, abuse of other priests, individuals, and finally, the misuse of church funds. In order to take the Syro-Malabar diocese and the community to the next level and to calm the emotions, please appoint a new VG and a new St. Mary’s Church Vicar who is trustworthy, dynamic, diplomatic, and, above all, spiritual.

During this holy lent season as we prepare to participate in our savior’s suffering, sacrifice, and the resurrection, it is with great sadness that I submit this petition to your Excellency. Please accept my apologies, in advance, if I have crossed any boundaries with this letter. I, also, humbly request that your Excellency keep this petition confidential so that there will not be any repercussions to my family or myself.

Sincerely,

ക്നാനായ മക്കളെ പറ്റിക്കാൻ ധൃതിപിടിച്ച് അമേരിക്കയിലെ എല്ലാ ഇടവകകളിലും മിഷനുകളിലും അയച്ചുകൊടുത്ത്‌ ഉടനെ പാസ്സാക്കി തിരിച്ചയച്ചു കൊടുക്കാൻ മുതോലം എഴുതി കൊടുത്ത പ്രമേയത്തിന്റെ കരട് രൂപത്തിന് ഇവിടെ ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക 

തന്റെ വേലത്തരങ്ങൾ ഒരു കൊടുങ്കാറ്റായി ക്നാനായ സമൂഹം പ്രതിക്ഷേതിച്ചപ്പോൾ നിന്നിടത്ത് നിന്ന് തകിടം മറിഞ്ഞ് സ്വയം മെത്രാൻ ചമഞ്ഞ്  മുതോലം എഴുതിയ ഇടയലേഖനം വായിക്കാൻ ഇവിടെ ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക. 

2012 ഡിസംബർ 6 ന് അങ്ങാടിയത്ത് പിതാവ് ക്നാനായക്കാർക്കായി ഇറക്കാൻ തയ്യാറാക്കിയ ഇടയ ലേഖനത്തിന്റെ ആദ്യത്തെ കരട്രൂപം വായിക്കാൻ ഇവിടെ ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക.

2012 ഡിസംബർ 6 ന് ഇറക്കാൻ തയ്യാറാക്കിയ അങ്ങാടിയത്ത് പിതാവിന്റെ ഇടയലേഖനത്തിൽ മൂലക്കാട്ട് പിതാവും മുതോലവും കൂടി നടത്തിയ വെട്ടലുകളും  തിരുത്തലുകളും ഉള്ള പല കത്തുകളിൽ ഒരെണ്ണം കാണാൻ ഇവിടെ ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക.

വെട്ടലുകൾക്കും തിരുത്തലുകൾക്കും ഒടുവിൽ ക്നാനായ സമൂഹത്തെ മൊത്തമായി ചതിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് മൂലക്കാട്ട് പിതാവും അങ്ങാടിയത്ത് പിതാവും മുത്തോലവും കൂടി   നടത്തിയ ഗൂടാലോചനയുടെ അവസ്സാനം 2012 ഡിസംബർ 6 ന് പുറത്തിറക്കിയ അങ്ങാടിയത്ത് പിതാവിന്റെ ഇടയ ലേഖനം വായിക്കാൻ ഇവിടെ ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക.