 Many Catholics have spoken out against discrimination against them by members of the Catholic Church.A Dalit activist with a "nom-de-plume" of Bama Faustina has written books that are critical of the discrimination by the nuns and priests in Churches in South India (CSI).During 2003 ad limina visits of the bishops of India, Pope John Paul II criticized the caste discrimination in the Catholic Church in India when addressing bishops of the ecclesiastical provinces of Madras-Mylapore, Madurai and Pondicherry-Cuddalore, the three archbishops of Tamil Nadu.