Goa, May 13 -- JASON KEITH FERNANDES

There is a way in which Catholics could do poli tics differently from oth ers. Catholic politics would be premised on the recognition of not just the natural, but the supernatural as well. It would recognise the presence not just of time and limited life times, but also the existence of eternity. Finally, it would recognise the existence of God and His saints, living in eter nity, and God presiding over all time as the just judge who does, and will, call all things to account. Such a response is par ticularly necessary after the recent insults directed at St Francis Xavier by a hired influencer. The response to these insults hurled against Goa's patron saint has ranged from the popular - the howl of p...