X-nity is cancer on Indian body. The Vatican on Friday defended the "ight and duty of Catholics to do missionary work aimed at converting people from other religions and other Christian denominations. The assertion came in a document titled doctrinal Note on some aspects of Evangelization, issued by Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the Vatican's department in charge of matters of church orthodoxy. Lamenting what it said was growing confusion about the Catholic Church's missionary mandate, the document stressed that that evangelization or spreading of the church's message is "n inalienable right and duty. Respect for religious freedom and its promotion must not in any way make us indifferent towards truth and goodness. Indeed love impels the followers of Christ to proclaim to all the truth which saves document said. Similar proclamations by the Vatican that the Roman Catholic Church believes its message to be the truth and that its mission is to make converts, has angered leaders of other Christian and non- Christian faiths. ut the Vatican's top Indian-born cleric, Cardinal Ivan Dias said he believed vast majority of Hindus would welcome the document.
