Fr Roger Pamponette, priest for Gran Couva and environs, commenting on whether Carnival was evil, said emphatically, "Of course, not! "The church never objectified anything as evil," he said. "That has never been our theology...It's not what goes in but what comes out. "People have forgotten our teachings...They are very different to Protestantism." Fr Joseph Harris, vicar for priests and parish priest of St Ann's, writing in the Catholic News about the relationship of Carnival to Catholicism, said: "Carnival exists in all Catholic countries. "In a real sense, Carnival is a Catholic thing and in its purest sense expresses the joie de vivre, which is part and parcel of true Christian living."