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Rector Of Loyola College Allegedly Sacked, ECA India Representative & Loyola College Alumnus Demands Govt Of India’s Intervention

April 20, 2023
The Commune

On April 19th, 2023, Loyola College, Chennai announced the appointment of a new Rector for its campus on its official website.

According to the circular carrying the signature of the outgoing Rector, Fr Francis Xavier it said, “Fr General of the Society of Jesus has appointed Fr Antony Robinson SJ the Rector of Loyola Campus, Chennai”.

The Commune had earlier published an extensive report of Abhinav Vinayak, a freelance investigative journalist, on misappropriation of UGC funds.

Abhinav Vinayak in his complaint to the Chairman of UGC had stated that the two individuals who orchestrated the scam are now in senior positions at Loyola College Chennai, with Dr. M. Selvanayagam being promoted to Head of Research of LICET Loyola I-Cam College of Engineering and Technology and Fr. Francis P. Xavier serving as Rector.

Abhinav, who interviewed Rev Fr. Albert Muthumalai, quoted him as saying,”such a great institution meant to educate students, with high ethics and moral values has become a den of unquestionable corruption.”

While several victims of Jesuits abuse in Loyola College have gone on record and stated that kangaroo courts were setup, fake witnesses were allegedly planted and the institution used its alumnus as mercenaries against anyone who questioned their crimes, Loyola College appeared to play down the facts in ways that soft-pedaled the Rectors’ guilt, note a Loyola Alumnus.

The fact that Loyola College did not conduct any investigation whatsover to punish those who committed the crime did not go well with Christian activists.

R. Joseph Kennedy, ECA (Ending Clergy Abuse) India Representative and Alumnus of the prestigious Loyola College, Chennai took to social media and lashed out at the Jesuit authorities.

In a scathing post he raised concerns on Loyola College policing itself and demanded the intervention of the Govt. of India.

“The Rector of Loyola College, despite being at the epicenter of a major corruption scandal involving crores of rupees of taxpayers’ money is granted a free pass. WOW!”, Kennedy said.

Despite the fact that the whistleblower is a well-known Jesuit priest and former Principal of Loyola College, the institutional conspiracy of silence and the refusal to make files public now seem confirmed by the inverention of the Jesuit Curia in Rome to appoint a new Rector of Loyola College which is unprecedented and has never happened in the history of the institution.”

“In Dec 2022, I submitted a 41 Page report to the University Grants Commission of India titled ‘Loyola College, Chennai is at a Dangerous Inflection Point and granting University status will be extremely suicidal for India as a nation and the Christian Faithful’ #LoyolaFiles. Eversince, Loyola College, in its scandalously sluggish pace has been unwilling to investigate this mega maha scandal. This is exactly what happens when you allow Loyola College to police itself. Corrupt Jesuit leaders cannot be trusted to deliver justice; and the Government of India must step in.”

Another Christian activist and Nationalist Robert Rosario demanded “Government must investigate to unearth all Scandals and punish the culprits”

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