Job Opportunities

A friend of mine expressed his disappointment when she was not successful in the job interview. She was an experienced and high qualified for the position, yet the organisation gave job opportunity to a less experienced and less qualified person for the position. The person was selected merely based on influence of nepotism or as I call it 'someone knew someone.' 

A dilemma is cast in my professional life as to how an organisation should hire an employee. Every organisation has freedom to select who they want but it is imperative to keep the interest, core values and mission of the organisation while making selections. If an organisation makes selection based on friendship and nepotism, it is most likely that organisation will not perform as it should. An organisation may overlook a talented candidate since it favors candidates that have influence. This poses a serious concern in a developing society where professional or highly talented people are left back since they have no influence in the hierarchy. 

My own take on this matter is, an organisation must be non-biased while selecting candidates. This requires courage to face influential people on the higher part of the hierarchy. Most multi-million organisation have non-biased and fair selection of candidates to suit their employment needs, this makes these companies bloom and thrive. They choose the best talent by overlooking whether a candidate knows someone in the hierarchy. It is important that even small scale businesses practice this rule, the rule is, not someone knows someone rather someone knows no one. 

Mangalore Diocese: An open letter

Dear Bishop, priests and Sisters of Mangalore Diocese

I am writing this letter with utmost sadness and disappointment in the way you teach Catholics in Mangalore diocese. I have recently left priesthood because of various reasons. This has left a permanent scar in my heart. I cannot talk to my parents anymore and everyone who celebrated my triumph as priest has told me to go to hell. I am like dead person for them. I have been hearing all sorts of rumors and hurtful things in the last few years. I am not going to illustrate anything but you know exactly what happens when someone leaves priesthood or religious life.

I have become untouchable and cast away from society. This is the price I have to pay for being a Catholic, in fact belonging to a religion that I had clue about. While I was baby I was baptized without one clue what I am getting into. I am not going to discuss theological issues and my difficulties in believing in any crap from theology. I believe in God and I am a spiritual person and I live a good life. I lived a good life as a priest and I will continue to live that life. I want to bring it to your attention only human dimension and not theological discourse. As human, how can any living person can remain without loved by someone? I am not interested in the crap that Jesus will help us when we are in need of emotional and sexual help. I am also disheartened for many things in the Church. But I will not enumerate anyone of them. Each one of you knows what I am talking.

My family has abandoned me because I am no more priest now. They celebrated my priesthood saying I will bless their family weddings, and funeral etc. I don’t want to give up my entire life to bless wedding and funerals. If you teach family is the domestic church, why would any family abandon their own son? Why don’t you teach that leaving priesthood is not a curse or end of the world or not shame to family? Leaving priesthood must be taught as any other divorce or nullity crap. I heard all good things about me as priest but now I hear only bad things. It is high time that narrow-minded Mangalore Catholics be taught right thing about Jesus and His Church and stop with crap teaching about priesthood and religious life. How can it be a curse on me when I leave priesthood? Will my God disown me and destroy me because I left priesthood to marry the person I love? God created love between man and woman. He did not create curse at all.

I want you to open you horizon and come out of your little bedroom and little chapels and see the real world. I want you to open up your minds and hearts. Priesthood must be considered like any other profession/job and not sacred crap. I think priesthood must be like any other thing. In fact priesthood has easy and joyful life except for sex, even that some of you might get it. I just want you to teach love and not hatred about God. God does not hate anyone, whether ex-priest or divorcee. He loves everyone equally. It is the middlemen who teach about God from their perspective teach hatred. I want you to stop this. I want you to circulate this letter and I will follow up with this letter with my expositions on theological difficulties to believe in Church crap. But mind you, I am very spiritual and fully loved by God. You may say, I am crazy or lost marbles or want to settle score but please do know that I am fully settled person in life and I have a wonderful family of my own.

Yours sincerely

Ex-priest (labeled as)