[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 358.3.2 # Storia do Mogor 358.3.2 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 358.3.2 - **Language:** English ### [358.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3.2) \[As to No. 6 (the answer is) : ' They are not really parish priests'; as to No. 7, ' they cannot be (removed) except for weighty reason, and after consulting the Sacred Congregation.'\] It seems to me, gentlemen, that the above is quite clear and plain, and as a necessary consequence, the Lord Bishop of San Thomé having had no urgent reasons, nor having consulted the Sacred Congregation, his Lordship could not legitimately take away the said mission ; and though he did take it from the Capuchin fathers, and give it to the reverend Jesuit fathers, the latter, nevertheless, have never been, and are not now, the legal pastors of the Malabar Christians of Pondicherry. My Lord Bishop of San Thomé says in his letter written to your Council : ' I have sent forth a Pastoral by which I declare afresh, as I have already declared provisionally, that the reverend Fathers of the Company are the parish priests of the Malabārīs, an office which in no shape belongs to the Capuchin Fathers, neither by order of his Holiness nor by mine, as they falsely allege.' If, say I, the Lord Bishop did write these words to your Council, what is there we can do when our adversaries are our judges ? - [Previous: 358.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3.1) - [Next: 358.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3.3) - [Up: 358.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.358.3.2) · Pramāṇa