Romo Mangun

Your -- otherwise excellent -- article about Romo Mangun (The Jakarta Post, May 15, 1996, page 7, column 9) contains an utterly embarrassing sentence (I quote): "He chose to leave the Church and live with the outcast community..."

Let me emphatically declared: Romo Mangun has not left the Church. The truth is, that he asked for permission (granted) to be relieved of the ordinary duties and activities of a common parish-priest in order to devote all his time and energy to the cause of the poor and the destitute. Romo Mangun is a member of the Church, and a priest whom we all are very proud of.

This serves as a correction in order to avoid a serious misunderstanding.

C. JEUKEN, S.J.

Jakarta