MY DEAREST BROTHERS,
I speak & write in Queen’s
English which was what I learnt from 1954
- 1970 and one does not learn to
use the left hand when one in old age!
Let us join hands together to
reinvent Biafra , not by beings just social
critics or juvenile activists that empty vessels that are barking but not more
biting. Our people say that the noisy barking dog is not to be feared rather
fear the one that does not bark at all, for that is the one that deadly and
kills once it bites you! The words of our elders in Biafra are definitely words
of wisdom comparable with those of King
Solomon, unfortunately none of us, the so called intellectuals of Igbo Land
ever use them in their writings nor think of cataloguing all of them as a
patriotic project that will survive our individual deaths and make generations
respect the authors and Biafra as well.
We regurgitate the white man’s
proverbs and think we deserve any applause just like this one crammed s an Infant 1 Primary Scholar in 1956
at Aji in the present Imo State; AN EMPTY VESSEL MAKES A GREATER NOISE. What is
spectacular n that infantile statement? Compare it with this more loaded one;
AGBARA NA AZO ANI, ONYEJI JI NKE YA NAKA ANA EGWU ALA
NA ESOYE HACHA NILE . Now tell me is more solomonic?
Just type into Google Search:
TRAGEDY OF POST-COLONIAL CITIZENS and see where most of us are stranded like
the proverbial bat;
PREAMBLE:
Where I was born, we have this local saying; ‘He who does not know
where the rainfall starting beating him, will never know where it
stopped’. Another warns; “A rat that joins a lizard in playing in the
rain, to remember that when the lizard is dry, it will still be wet.” In
my culture, one does not interpret proverbs. I dare do so for my readers who
are non-indigenes of Igbo land; both idioms imply that anyone who does not know
who he is or where he is coming from will definitely not know where he is
going!
The words of the elders of my people of Biafra are definitely words of wisdom. They can write a
doctoral thesis with just an idiom or a statement of the fact with a simple
analogy!
Let’s
look at these:
- The bat is totally blind and is neither an
animal of the sky nor of the land!
- The bat is neither a bird nor a rodent for it
hasn’t any feathers yet it flies! And though it has the anatomy of mammals
and a skin with furs it neither crawls nor runs on all fours, yet it feeds
like birds, amphibians and rodents!
- The bat says he knows how ugly it is, so it
has resolved to fly only at night!
But not the citizens of underdeveloped or developing
nations of the world! They have not learns any lessons from the bat or applied
that wisdom. Rather, they fly by day or night unperturbed and even borrow
feathers of all shades of colour and revel in wearing the furs of their
erstwhile colonial masters! What a tragedy!
WHEN CAN ALL
THOSE IN THE DIASPORA GET ORGANISED AND KNOW WE CAN GET OUR INDEPENDENCE BACK BY RESOLUTELY WRITING AS
BIAFRANS UNABASHED AND UNREPENTANT THAT BIAFRAN IS THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN.
…… THAT IS WHAT I HAVE DONE FOR THE PAST
DECADE AND GOT RECGNISED BY THE ENTIRE GOOGLE SAFF AS A BIAFRAN RESEARCH
SCIENTIST / A MODERN THEOSOPHIST
, THEREFORE
THEY DESIGNED 13 BLOGSPOTS FOR ME FREE OF CHARGE ENTITLED A “RENASCENT IGBO
RELIGION” A BRAND NAME.
Type any of
these now into any search engine of your choice;
DANMBAEZUE or
AGUNABU
UMUELECHI BIAFRA or
REV. PROF.
J. J. KENEZ
There is no need wasting
your intelligence or saliva on the crude politics or maladministration going on
in Nigeria .
Everyone will only refer to you as the barking dog in traditional Igbo
parlance. Okey Ndibe et al take note.
NYE GBATA BI, .. YA TIYE AKA. Come home and join us in the rescuing job here on
the ground, do not entertain the conscienceless politicians throwing fists in
the hullabaloo of PDP APC, etc. No one white man can ever accept any of you as
an equal over there. This is my humble plea on behalf of posterity. Are your
children ever going to be anything other than IMMIGRANTS???
THE CURRENT ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH
PRACTISED ALL OVER THE WORLD IS ROMAN MITHRANISM DRESSED UP AS PAULINE
CHRISTIANITY!
Jesus was deified by Roman Emperor Constantine to marry a Christian girl he
fell in love with and Saul as the guardian of the damsel demanded that he must
first convert to his brand of Christianity to achieve his desire. Thus Roman
Paganism mixed with Mithraism the Greek religion they had before the arrival of
Saul of Tarsus produced the adulterated Pauline version with all the
personality attributes of Mithra god, all the liturgical celebrations and feasts
of the ‘sun-god’ hoisted on Jesus of Nazareth, rebranded and patented in Rome
as ‘god-the-son’ and later exported to the whole world as Roman Catholic
mission!
Saul of Tarsus never met Jesus alive and so was
neither a disciple of Jesus nor one of his chosen/trained apostles. Neither
Peter, the head of the apostles; James nor John his deputies were/was involved
in the notorious Council of Nicea that ratified its formation and therefore it
was/is a heretical counterfeit that was unauthorised, unedifying, psychoneurotical,
illegal and a complete forgery! It still is to date!!
Beware and Be Forearmed that As Post Graduates Of Satan’s University, The
Clerics In Vatican City Will Often Claim Originality For Innovative Thoughts,
Any Initiative And Every Thing Others Introduce For The Progress Of Their
Romanticised Christianity!
ReplyDelete
6.
Danmbaezue Jideofo KenechukwuOctober 4, 2013 at 9:59 PM
It is better to do the natural thing within the accepted life of a sacramental
marriage than to voluntarily hand over your soul to the devil and scandalised
so many boys and girls who look up to you as a role model. What homilies can a
priest preach to the very women that he has gone to bed with?
On the other hand, what powers has such a fornicator inside the confessional?
Will his accomplices in such absurd sexual immorality ever come to him for
confessions? In addition, when they do come, will he continue to mediate the
penitential rites properly according to the mind of the Church? Remember Lord’s
recommendation; ‘it were better that a millstone be hung around your neck and
that you are thrown into the sea, than for you to deceive and scandalise the
youth and by so doing lead them to hellfire.
OUR CONCLUDING RECOMMENDATIONS
• Celibacy must be made optional, with priests allowed renewing their choice
after the first three years of their ordination. They should be free like Rev.
Srs. to marry if they have fallen in love with someone they feel can assist
them live a happily married life and lead an exemplary Christian life!
• Only those who are resolute in their virginity can aspire to becoming full-
time Parish Priests, with the prospect of becoming Papal Chamberlains
at the tenth year of their ordination! They have the option of voluntarily
undergoing vasectomy to confirm their perpetual loyalty to the Church!
• A broad-based Diocesan Commission of both the laity and the clergy can
interview and appoint some of the married priests as reliable vicars in their
home parishes. However, they will find their own accommodation and cater for
their families, as they will be paid salaries and sick-call allowances!
Postscript:
Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, an exemplary ex-seminarian since the 1970s, is a stoic
of the first class genre, a moral crusader of no mean order; a war battered
veteran of the Degema Strike Force in 12th Commando Brigade of Biafra (1968 -1970) as well as a retired Nigerian Air
Force Officer (1975 -1979)! Therefore, he speaks his mind and so, he owes no
one any apologies for his strong views in this crusade to sanitise the Catholic
Church in particular, and other churches in general!
14
Mar 2014
ALTRUISM IS NEXT TO SELF FULFILLMENT AND
HAPPINESS FOR ALL
I S M IS A PRACTICAL FELLOWSHIP FOR NATURAL SCIENTISTS
PRACTICUM 001
A group of 50 people with name tags attended an ISM seminar that our Animator
International, Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue chaired.
• After pleasantries the Guest Speaker started giving each one a balloon and
asked each attendee to write his/her name on it using marker pens he provided.
• Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.
• Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which
had their name on it, within 5 minutes. Everyone was frantically searching for
their name, colliding with each other, pushing around others and there was
utter chaos.
• At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
• Then, the Seminar Speaker now asked each one to randomly collect a balloon
and give it to the person whose name was written on it.
• Within minutes everyone had his or her own balloon.
• Thereafter, the speaker began his talk by saying the following;
• Exactly this is what is happening in our individual lives. Everyone is
frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is. Our
happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness; you
will get your own. And this is the purpose of human life.
• Sharing what you have especially knowledge, love and time with others is the
beginning of ONE ALMIGHTY CREATOR, ONE CREATED UNIVERSE, ONE HUMAN FAMILY
• This practicum is the theory and practice of the motto of INTEGRATIONAL
SPIRITAN MOVEMENT in action.
• Be inspired to practice it daily and become a true Kenezian today.
Your Chief Servant ………….. Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc. in Psychometrics
PRACTICUM 002
YOUR VALUE IN THE EYES OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR THAT WE WORSHIP IS GOLDEN AND
PRICELESS FOR WE ARE HIS HEIRS.
“A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the
room of 200, he asked,
• "Who would like this $20 bill?" All hands started going up.
• He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do
this”. He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up.
• He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the
air. "Well," he replied, "what if I do this?"
• And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with
his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty.
• "Now who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.
• "My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what
I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value.
It was still worth $20.
• Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled and grounded into the dirt
by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as
though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen,
you will never lose your value in God's eyes. To Him, dirty or clean, crumpled
or finely creased, you are still priceless to Him.”
That is ISM or KENEZIANISM in practice! I hope you cherish these words of
wisdom of an Unknown Author I found in the Internet!
6 Jun 2014
“When two people are angry at each
other, there is a distance in their hearts psychologically. To cover the
distance, they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are,
the louder they will shout to hear each other through that great distance.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE??
Then the Professor asked,
“What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but
talk softly. Why? Because their hearts are psychologically close. The distance
between them is very small.”
“When they love each other even more, what happens? They don't speak,
they only whisper and they even get closer to each other in their love.
Finally, they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that's
all.”
He concluded. He was applauded, receiving a standing ovation.”
Then Professor Kenez, the Guest of Honour expertly concurred by adding;
“It is their souls that chose their social relationship in the first place, and
then they hear their heart beats rhyme as their love increases and finally the
loving souls merge as one needing neither distance nor
physical communication.
• That’s why more often than not, love making is silent, and don’t you agree
with me. Even among lower animals like dogs that we see often,
THIS IS THE BEST FOR A HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL AND HAPPY MARRIED LIFE, SO LEARN IT
NOW GRADUALLY AS YOU INTERACT IN YOUR YOUTH OR REGRET IT FOR EVER. SO NEXT TIME
YOU SHOUT AT A LOVED ONE, KNOW THAT YOU ARE CREATING A DISTANCE BETWEEN YOUR
HEART AND THEIR HEART.
Jesus was deified by Roman Emperor Constantine to marry a Christian girl he fell in love with and Saul as the guardian of the damsel demanded that he must first convert to his brand of Christianity to achieve his desire. Thus Roman Paganism mixed with Mithraism the Greek religion they had before the arrival of Saul of Tarsus produced the adulterated Pauline version with all the personality attributes of Mithra god, all the liturgical celebrations and feasts of the ‘sun-god’ hoisted on Jesus of Nazareth, rebranded and patented in Rome as ‘god-the-son’ and later exported to the whole world as Roman Catholic mission!
Beware and Be Forearmed that As Post Graduates Of Satan’s University, The Clerics In Vatican City Will Often Claim Originality For Innovative Thoughts, Any Initiative And Every Thing Others Introduce For The Progress Of Their Romanticised Christianity!
ReplyDelete
6.
Danmbaezue Jideofo KenechukwuOctober 4, 2013 at 9:59 PM
It is better to do the natural thing within the accepted life of a sacramental marriage than to voluntarily hand over your soul to the devil and scandalised so many boys and girls who look up to you as a role model. What homilies can a priest preach to the very women that he has gone to bed with?
On the other hand, what powers has such a fornicator inside the confessional? Will his accomplices in such absurd sexual immorality ever come to him for confessions? In addition, when they do come, will he continue to mediate the penitential rites properly according to the mind of the Church? Remember Lord’s recommendation; ‘it were better that a millstone be hung around your neck and that you are thrown into the sea, than for you to deceive and scandalise the youth and by so doing lead them to hellfire.
OUR CONCLUDING RECOMMENDATIONS
• Celibacy must be made optional, with priests allowed renewing their choice after the first three years of their ordination. They should be free like Rev. Srs. to marry if they have fallen in love with someone they feel can assist them live a happily married life and lead an exemplary Christian life!
• Only those who are resolute in their virginity can aspire to becoming full-
time Parish Priests, with the prospect of becoming Papal Chamberlains
at the tenth year of their ordination! They have the option of voluntarily
undergoing vasectomy to confirm their perpetual loyalty to the Church!
• A broad-based Diocesan Commission of both the laity and the clergy can interview and appoint some of the married priests as reliable vicars in their home parishes. However, they will find their own accommodation and cater for their families, as they will be paid salaries and sick-call allowances!
Postscript:
Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, an exemplary ex-seminarian since the 1970s, is a stoic of the first class genre, a moral crusader of no mean order; a war battered veteran of the Degema Strike Force in 12th Commando Brigade of
I S M IS A PRACTICAL FELLOWSHIP FOR NATURAL SCIENTISTS
PRACTICUM 001
A group of 50 people with name tags attended an ISM seminar that our Animator International, Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue chaired.
• After pleasantries the Guest Speaker started giving each one a balloon and asked each attendee to write his/her name on it using marker pens he provided.
• Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.
• Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name on it, within 5 minutes. Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with each other, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.
• At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
• Then, the Seminar Speaker now asked each one to randomly collect a balloon and give it to the person whose name was written on it.
• Within minutes everyone had his or her own balloon.
• Thereafter, the speaker began his talk by saying the following;
• Exactly this is what is happening in our individual lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is. Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness; you will get your own. And this is the purpose of human life.
• Sharing what you have especially knowledge, love and time with others is the beginning of ONE ALMIGHTY CREATOR, ONE CREATED UNIVERSE, ONE HUMAN FAMILY
• This practicum is the theory and practice of the motto of INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT in action.
• Be inspired to practice it daily and become a true Kenezian today.
Your Chief Servant ………….. Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc. in Psychometrics
PRACTICUM 002
YOUR VALUE IN THE EYES OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR THAT WE WORSHIP IS GOLDEN AND PRICELESS FOR WE ARE HIS HEIRS.
“A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked,
• "Who would like this $20 bill?" All hands started going up.
• He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this”. He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up.
• He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "what if I do this?"
• And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty.
• "Now who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.
• "My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.
• Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled and grounded into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value in God's eyes. To Him, dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to Him.”
That is ISM or KENEZIANISM in practice! I hope you cherish these words of wisdom of an Unknown Author I found in the Internet!
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE??
Then the Professor asked,
“What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly. Why? Because their hearts are psychologically close. The distance between them is very small.”
“When they love each other even more, what happens? They don't speak, they only whisper and they even get closer to each other in their love. Finally, they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that's all.”
He concluded. He was applauded, receiving a standing ovation.”
Then Professor Kenez, the Guest of Honour expertly concurred by adding;
“It is their souls that chose their social relationship in the first place, and then they hear their heart beats rhyme as their love increases and finally the loving souls merge as one needing neither distance nor physical communication.
• That’s why more often than not, love making is silent, and don’t you agree with me. Even among lower animals like dogs that we see often,
THIS IS THE BEST FOR A HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL AND HAPPY MARRIED LIFE, SO LEARN IT NOW GRADUALLY AS YOU INTERACT IN YOUR YOUTH OR REGRET IT FOR EVER. SO NEXT TIME YOU SHOUT AT A LOVED ONE, KNOW THAT YOU ARE CREATING A DISTANCE BETWEEN YOUR HEART AND THEIR HEART.
DR
JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE ALONG WITH MEMBERS OF HIS ASSOCIATION HAD BEEN
CRUSADING FOR THE ABROGATION OF COMPULSORY CELIBACY IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH .
HERE IS A SAMPLE OF THE
EVIDENCE ON THE ISSUE....
A
Picture of Past Members of Sex Abuse Commissions tell of Struggles with Their
Bishops was posted here
Commissions set up by church officials to advise church
officials on clergy sexual abuse have a checkered history. No one knows this
better than Catholics who answered their bishops' call to serve but found
themselves and their advice rejected or ignored.
The U.S.
bishops named a 12-member blue-ribbon panel of lay advisers amid the firestorm
of media coverage in 2002.
"A lot of American bishops would not want to see any
of us of the original review board named to this [pontifical] commission,"
said Nicholas Cafardi, who served on the National Review Board from 2002 to
2004.
"The report we wrote in 2004 was pretty rough on the
bishops," said Cafardi, a Duquesne
University law professor,
dean emeritus and canon lawyer. "If [the pope and the Vatican ] want a
credible board, they should have at least one American who has dealt with the
realities. This is hardly something to claim credit for, but we had the largest
crisis in terms of victims and perpetrators -- more than Ireland , Belgium
and Australia
-- because our country has the biggest church."
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, who also served
on the original U.S. National Review Board, said the bishops resisted the board
on many points, such as whether there would be audits of priest personnel files
and who would do the audits. "I don't think they realized that this was a
time bomb and the magnitude of what was left to come."
NCR enlarges my soul! It nourishes the
"Catholic" in me with its faithful voice of truth, integrity and
compassion.
- Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
She also noted, "The bishops didn't honestly deal
with each other."
Cafardi, Burke and several others were present in 2004
when Chicago Cardinal Francis George celebrated Mass for the review board, and
then afterward told them, according to several review board members there,
"You will be the downfall of the church." The archdiocese's spokesman
later denied the cardinal said this.
In 2005, George would ignore the U.S. bishops'
Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People by failing to remove an
accused priest, Daniel McCormack, who was subsequently prosecuted and sent to
prison. The archdiocese has settled lawsuits with at least five of about a
dozen plaintiffs for more than $7 million.
In 2012, when Cafardi learned that the Vatican was
planning a conference on clergy sex abuse, he tried to get invited. He wrote to
the organizer, German Jesuit Fr. Hans Zollner. Vice rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University ,
Zollner has been named to the new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of
Minors.
Cafardi sent Zollner a copy of his 2008 book, Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops' Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse
of Children, on the bishops' failure to abide by voluntary
guidelines prior to the 2002 conference in Dallas, where they adopted the youth
protection charter.
"I wrote to Fr. Zollner ... offering to cover my own
expenses. I pointed out I was a graduate of Gregorian and had this experience.
Zollner sent a nice letter but it was a typical Roman kiss-off, saying the
schedule has been set," Cafardi said.
Bishops spurning the advice of their own oversight groups
are sources of disillusionment for people like Cafardi and Burke.
Sharing their frustration is Lieve Halsberghe of Louvain , Belgium ,
a researcher forBishopAccountability.org, an advocacy organization for
victims of clergy sex abuse. 2010 saw the churches in Belgium , Ireland ,
Austria , Germany and Italy engulfed in scandals as
revelations about the extent of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests
became public. In Belgium ,
this led to a civil investigation and even a police raid on national church
offices.
Lieve Halsberghe's aunt, Godelieve Halsberghe, was a
magistrate who served on a church commission of inquiry into abuse cases. In
2010, the commission issued a report that contained testimony given by hundreds
of people who had been sexually abused by priests.
On the commission from 2000 to 2008, Godelieve Halsberghe
clashed with the hierarchy over their concealing information about offenders.
Most notoriously, Roger Vangheluwe resigned as bishop of Bruges in 2010 after
admitting to abusing a nephew over a 15-year period, beginning when the boy was
5.
Lieve Halsberghe, a member of the Survivors Network of
those Abused by Priests (SNAP) in Belgium, said that Cardinal Godfried
Danneels, retired archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, and his successor,
Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard, allowed Vangheluwe to retire quietly and did
not seek justice. They are still respected public figures, often in the media,
"as if nothing ever happened," Halsberghe said.
All these men have caused so much harm to so many people
-- and they are unpunished," she said.
For Burke, the overriding question is: "What is the
church going to do with bishops who permit this behavior?" She cited the
case of St. Paul-Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt. Last year, the
archdiocese's canon lawyer, Jennifer Haselberger, resigned and made public what
she described as the archdiocese's "disregard" for canon and civil
law in its handling of sex abuse allegations. In January, prosecutors announced
they would not press criminal charges against the archdiocese for failure to
report two cases prominent in documents Haselberger provided. One case involved
a priest who was convicted of molesting a minor, and the other a priest accused
of possessing child pornography.
"You can go around the world and see bishops who knew
these things," said Burke. "If the state isn't going to charge these
men with obstruction of justice, the church can still do it. They can implement
penalties."
Watching the larger scandal unfold over a decade has
hardened her opinions. "They are not going to defrock bishops. I don't
think they have the capacity or desire. ... We live in a society of
transparency; the church has lived for 2,000 years in secrecy."
Marie Collins, the Irish sex abuse survivor who is a
member of Pope Francis' new commission, told The Associated Press that her top
priority was for the Vatican to punish bishops who have covered up for priest
abusers.
"There's no point in my mind of having gold-plated
child-protection programs in place if there's no sanction for a bishop who
decides to ignore them," Collins said. "The reason everyone is so
angry is not because they have abusers in their ranks. Abusers are in every
rank of society. It's because of the systemic cover-up."
"Putting Marie Collins on the commission was a
brilliant decision," said Dominican Fr. Thomas Doyle, the American priest
and canon lawyer who has become one of the church's harshest critics. "She
is probably the only one with true credibility among the victims, who are
clearly the most important people in this equation, not the bishops."
The highest-ranking churchman on the commission is Boston
Cardinal Sean O'Malley. O'Malley, who has a long history in Hispanic ministry,
has known Pope Francis for years, having stayed in Buenos Aires , Argentina ,
with then-Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio. One of eight on Francis' Council of
Cardinals, he is a confidante of the pope and likely to wield influence on the
new sex abuse commission.
His reputation is of a problem-solver, having served
successively at three dioceses battered by abuse scandals -- Fall
River , Mass. , Palm
Beach , Fla. , and Boston . He has met individually with victims
and led penitential services, and he arranged for Pope Benedict XVI to meet
with abuse survivors on his 2008 trip to America .
However, O'Malley's reputation isn't as sterling among
advocates for abuse victims, who question his transparency. They point out that
he avoids the press and has refused to publish full lists of priests who served
in his dioceses who have been credibly accused of abuse.
In Boston ,
O'Malley has withheld names of 70 accused religious order priests,
"including some who have gone to prison," according
BishopAccountability.org. In Fall
River , he withheld names of perpetrators for 10 years,
until 2002, by which time the priests could not be prosecuted because of
statute of limitations law.
O'Malley's appointment "does not bring instant
credibility to the effort," Doyle wrote in an essay on the NCR website. "Probably the only
bishop on the planet with the authentic qualifications to serve, if the goal
really is to help victims and help the church, is Bishop Geoffrey Robinson,
retired auxiliary bishop of Sydney."
Robinson led the Australian bishops' committee that
addressed sexual abuse by clergy. In 2008, he was touring the U.S. to promote
his book Confronting Power and Sex in
the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus, when his
bishops' conference issued a statement saying they found "doctrinal
difficulties" with it.
Last June, Robinson launched an online petition in
conjunction with the release of his latest book, For Christ's Sake: End Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church ... for
Good. The book and the petition called on the church hierarchy to
confront the systemic causes of the abuse crisis, like moral immaturity and the
celibate culture.
Doyle also wondered why Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin wasn't appointed.
Martin "is one of the very few bishops who really get it," Doyle
told NCR. "The
Irish church has been brought to its knees by these scandals and Martin has
done things that are meaningful. ... Why was Martin excluded?"
For Halsberghe, a policy to assist victims in countries
where legal systems are weak and principled journalism rare should be a
priority for the papal commission.
She has been researching a European missionary who was
deported from an Africa country and sent back
to his home country. "He was laicized, after a mutual decision of the
hierarchy in the mission, his country and the Vatican ," she said.
"The police were not notified (until I did it) and
the alleged perpetrator is on the loose in his country of origin. The victims
are being bluffed. Church officials tell them there are no treatment
possibilities for them, that they are free to go to the police, in a country
where everyone knows the corrupt police will run back to the bishop
instantly."
"The only standard the pope should seek is
justice," Halsberghe said.
Some question if Francis truly understands the scope of
the sexual abuse crisis in the church. He rarely speaks about it, and when he
does, abuse survivors don't like what they hear.
"The cases of abuse are awful because they leave
profound wounds," Francis recently told Corriere della Sera, an Italian daily. He then said,
"The Catholic church may be the only institution to have moved with
transparency and responsibility. No one else has done more. Yet the church is
the only one to be attacked."
That "was like a kick in the gut," said Monica
Barrett of Milwaukee .
Now 53, she was raped by a priest when she was in grade school.
"I don't think if you create a problem, worsen it by
lying and systematic cover-up, and are then forced to respond to public outcry,
that it means you should get credit for being transparent and
responsible."
Barrett is one of 500 victims who have been in court for
years, seeking restitution from the Milwaukee archdiocese, which is in the
third year of grinding bankruptcy litigation with the plaintiffs.
"I would like to see some consistent, universal laws
that apply to those within the church, to the abusers, the people who covered
it up and knew about it and did nothing," Barrett wrote in an email
to NCR.
The church's actions today, she said, can either
re-victimize or promote healing. That is why, she said, the church must
"treat survivors in a universally fair manner. Show them compassion.
Compensate them equally. Treat them with respect and dignity rather than
distrust and anger."
[Jason Berry was a co-producer of the recent Frontline
documentary "Secrets of the Vatican " on PBS.]
This story appeared in the April 11-24, 2014 print issue
under the headline: Advisers saw advice spurned .
now here is what this theosophist posted to pope benedict xvi that he read for 13 months before gracefully throwing into his towel
BREAD
AND BUTTER CLERICS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Are
Parading As Indigenous Priests Whereas They Are Foreign Stooges
There has been a
retinue of charlatans in every profession in the world since the agricultural
perspectives that Cain, the farmer and Abel, the shepherd introduced to the
rest of humanity if the biblical legends and/or religious fables are worth
their whiles! What is indigenous in a half-baked cleric who does not realise
that he is only a pawn in the chessboard of Roman Sacerdotal Nationals that
have dominated the scene in Christendom since the Constantinian misadventure of
bastardising the true ‘Good News of the Lord Jesus’ with the Mithranism era of
Roman idolatry? For 500 years the baton of Papacy had always been handed over
to only Roman citizens until lately, when Pope John Paul I was poisoned to
death by fellow cardinals contesting for the throne of the Roman Catholic
Papacy! Pope John Paul II surfaced as a belated consensus candidate. To date
the reconciliatory position of the late Pope has not been accepted by hardcore
Roman Theologians who see the throne as their birthright! When can other
nations produce Popes as in past centuries? Was Jesus a native of Rome ? Why has the Papacy
continued to operate from Rome , whereas the
birthplace of Jesus was/is Nazareth or Bethlehem ? Why Muslims go
to Mecca and Medina is obvious! When, therefore, shall
Christians all over the world, especially Roman Catholics, become as reasonable
as Muslims?
Take a cue from the
Roman Catholic Priests of African descent who, to date , do not realise that
the elite members of their congregations see them merely as the ‘Matthews’ and
‘Zaccheaeus’ of our times. To date, without being conscious of their
neo-colonial roles in destroying our authentic cultural heritage; they are the
errand boys of Roman Christian Imperialism and gradually events they
stage-manage in the name of the Papacy reveals they are nothing but saboteurs
in the overall panoroma of genuine religiosity in the land of our birth!The
desecration of our ancient taboos (*nso ala*) and bastardisation of the
authentic norms and mores of our pristine holy ancestors is the remote cause of religious apathy among the politicians and youths of today! Some of our
‘been-to’ clerics revel in the moral decadence they learnt at the various
European countries they are sent to study and only return to corrupt the few
upright clerics who they consider naive and inexperienced because they hold on
to the sacred vows they took at their ordinations! These nonchalant ‘tax
collectors’ or AMC for Roman Theologians and their Religious Imperialists
should be halted. It is better we have a few priests who can sanctify our
parishes than a long retinue of Satan’s disciples hiding under the cloak of
Roman Catholic Clergy while leading the whole congregation to hell. The time to
call a spade by its real name is now. I am only blowing the whistle early
enough so that our lovely children and generations yet unborn will not end up
in hellfire, if what we are brainwashed to believe as doctrines and dogmas
really exist!
This is an up-date
on the original diatribe entitled “ GRADUATES OF SATAN’S UNIVERSITY” that the
enthusiastic or avid reader can find at my other websites:
Where
I was born, we have this local saying; ‘He who does not know where the rainfall
starting beating him, will never know where it stopped’. Another warns; “A rat that joins a lizard in playing in the rain, to remember that when
the lizard is dry, it will still be wet.”
In my culture, one does not
interpret proverbs. I dare do so for my readers who are non-indigenes of Igbo
land; both idioms imply that anyone who does not know who he is or where he is
coming from will definitely not know where he is going! The words of the elders
of my people of Biafra are definitely words of wisdom. They
can write a doctoral thesis with just an idiom or a statement of the fact with
a simple analogy!
Let’s
look at these: The bat is totally blind and is neither an
animal of the sky nor of the land! The bat is neither a bird nor a rodent for
it hasn’t any feathers yet it flies! And though it has the anatomy of mammals
and a skin with furs it neither crawls nor runs on all fours, yet it feeds like
birds, amphibians and rodents! The bat says he knows how ugly it is, so it has
resolved to fly only at night! What a tragedy! These unreverend men and women
should emulate the bat!
A DIALOGUE OVERHEARD
IN HELL
An armed robber who
died on active service found himself in front of Lucifer, the Prince of Hell.
He was hailed as an exemplary ambassador who had done very well while on earth.
He had despatched hundreds of souls who were not given time to repent and so
was placed nearest the top echelon of the executive class, as a Superintendent
- Grade 1. While on a guided tour of his area of command, he saw two of the
mass servers in his former parish. Surprised finding them here after their
pious services at all liturgical celebrations; he queried them with an air of authority.
“What are you two doing here?” “King Kong!” (For
that was his popular nickname on earth) “Paddy, Na-waoh! Na so we see-a-moh- ooh! We
stole and drank more altar wine than all the priests and bishops did in five
years during our six months service as altar boys. The wine was not only sweet
but also very intoxicating. We died on our way to hospital because of a fatal
accident we had after the Good Friday vigil mass. It was our last bout of
twenty litres of the red Italian brew!”
“Sorry, so you common thieves pretended that you were
good boys! Who said that armed robbers were worse? Yeah, the Catechist.”
They cut in, “Sh-sh – that Parish Catechist you’re talking about is down here in a
hotter part of this inferno!”
As, if in doubt, he
called out to the elderly man to taunt him. “Baba-a how now?” To his greatest amazement, he was
informed that the Parish Priest that officiated at his wedding was still far
down below. He protested to his tour guide, “No, this is injustice! How can my friend,
‘the man of God’ we all revered on earth be condemned to hell after his
twenty-five years meritorious service as a Rev. Father on earth? No,
something’s wrong here!”
He only sobered when
the priest responded thus: “King Kong, my dear, the Archbishop who
ordained me is even farther down below and he arrived before all of us. He was
the Vice Chancellor of the University of Satan I attended. We are graduates of the
seminaries where they taught the art of preaching, deception and subterfuge! He
holds three doctorate degrees! One of them, a post-doctoral, he earned in
sexual promiscuity.”
The Archbishop was in so much pain, he just kept mute!
Now, refresh your
mind with what earned Phinehas, the son of Aaron, the special favour of God
that turned away his wrath from the idolatrous and promiscuous life they turned
into while he delivered them from Egypt :
Numbers 25:1-15
25:1 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began
to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,
2 who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods.
The people ate and bowed down before these gods.
3 So Israel joined in worshipping the Baal of
Peor. And the LORD's anger burned against them.
4 The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders
of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD,
so that the LORD's fierce anger may turn away from Israel ."
5 So Moses said to Israel 's
judges, "Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined
in worshipping the Baal of Peor."
6 Then an Israelite man brought to his family a
Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the
priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand
8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove
the spear through both of them-- through the Israelite and into the woman's
body. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;
9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
10 The LORD said to Moses,
11 "Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron,
the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites; for he was as zealous
as I am for my honour among them, so that in my zeal I did not put an end to
them.
12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace
with him.
13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a
lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honour of his God and made
atonement for the Israelites."
14 The name of the Israelite who was killed with the
Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to
death was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
I have no commentary to add. If the
cap fits your head, then wear it!
This association is the Phinehas of this century and has a duty to
perform.
You can also replace ‘son of Eleazar’ with ‘the son of Kenez’ to get my
gist!
Today, the errand pseudo-clerics are bastardising our cultural
festivities, like ICHI OZO, NEW YAM FESTIVALS & IGBA OFALA, which the white
missionaries, in their ignorance labelled heathen rituals with
‘holier-than-thou’ missionary fiat!
FOREWORD
CLERICAL
CELIBACY HAS OUT-LIVED ITS USEFULNESS
There was a time when Catholic Reverend Fathers and
Reverend Sisters on missionary services in this country were really admired,
respected and idolised! That was in my teens when the Late Bishop Shanahan was
still an ordinary priest! Rev. Fr. Bindel was the Parish Priest of Ihiala, then
a very large area extending as far away as Emekuku, Orlu and Oguta! They rode
long distances on Hercules bicycles carrying out their evangelistic duties.
They trekked most of the time and made converts by using the very few
semi-literate natives as their interpreters!
These interpreters were later promoted to Catechists
and soon wielded much power! They taught pagans catechism classes in the
vernacular language and only those they certified as having passed their
examinations were baptised. They stood between every catechumen and the
sacraments of baptism, confession, confirmation, matrimony and even the
irregular reception of the Holy Eucharist! You could neither see any Rev. Fr.
nor receive any of these sacraments without greasing their palms! No girls or
women ever came close to the parish houses, not to mention having handshakes
with any priest!
The Rev. Sisters wore sparkling ankle-length white
gowns and their head-gear with a tall hood and overflowing veils covered every
part of their heads except for just the outline of their faces. I never saw
their ears! To us little urchins at the turn of the century, they were angels.
After all the pictures in our catechism classes were made of white skins. They
were all white women. We never dreamt that we would, in later years, have our
own black sisters and daughters qualified to become Rev. Sisters. No one ever
imagined that a black skinned woman could ever be dressed like these white
angels. These angels were our earliest teachers, nurses, midwives and doctors.
They ran the few mission schools and hospitals that were then in existence at
Ihiala and Emekuku. We adored and loved them for their motherly care but, at
the same time, we hated their injection needles!
We were told that both the priests and nuns were
virgins. It was even rumoured that they had no sexual parts to their bodies.
They were ‘castrated’ was the naïve belief that made the rumour rounds then! We
assumed that the nuns had neither breasts nor large buttocks like our mothers
and aunts! How were we to find out? The priests were covered all over with
their flowing white soutanes that they never put off in our presence. “Did they
ever urinate or defecate?” we wondered! I never saw any of them in short
knickers although I was a mass server for several years at St Martin’s Parish,
Odo-ata Ihiala, now in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra
State . In addition, we
never saw the ears, necks and feet of the nuns. During clinical attendance they
wore gloves, so we were partially denied seeing their hands and fingers. “Did
these ladies know how to cook?” we pondered!
That the priests were chaste and the nuns, virgins,
were assumed! We never saw the priests and nuns chat together, hug each other
or stroll along any road side by side. They were discreet and circumspect. They
were conscious of their vows of celibacy and public image knowing that they
were continuously being watched day and night. So, they never scandalised us
nor gave us the chance to suspect them! That was in the early 1930s and 1940s.
We gradually began to notice that many nuns went on leaves that were termed
“annual” and understood why some others that lasted beyond twelve months were
termed “sudden”, “casual” or “sick.” Soon, our own sons and daughters were
admitted into seminaries and convents. By the 1950s, some were ordained and
professed respectively. This first set never scandalised us! We never suspected
that they could lower the standards set by these missionary white angels! That
was before the Nigeria-Biafra civil war that lasted from 1967 to 1970. The wind blew hard and the hen’s
anus was clearly seen by all!
All that changed as the scales fell off our eyes. Our
religious blinkers were forcibly removed by what we saw during the civil war at
the few Caritas Feeding Centres that we naturally located within the parish
premises. We saw a lot. Some
printable, others not whisper-able! Promiscuity was the mildest term for
describing what the refugee women described as own contributions to the war
effort! Our clergymen and
women were the butt of their sexual exploits as relief items like stockfish,
egg-yolk and milk were exchanged for amorous relationships. Some wore the
glamorous foreign dresses donated by CARITAS & WCC that
were meant for homeless refugees that left their wardrobes behind!
“Have they also eaten the forbidden
fruit” was the mildest joke about what we knew was happening at our local
parishes. There was a conspiracy of silence by all the culprits!
The war unmasked everyone. Today, my ten-year-old
niece knows that priests are anything but celibate! Most mass servers can swear
that beside heterosexual indulgence involving widows, married and unmarried
women in our parishes, our self-professed celibates clandestinely practise
homosexualism and lesbianism! It is no longer news that paedophilia is the
scourge of the Catholic clergy in the United States of America .
Nor is it news here in Africa that our own brothers and sisters,
‘self-proclaimed celibates’, have secret wives and husbands with their illicit
children tucked away in remote villages and the dark alleys of streets in our
urban areas!
Even among our Protestant communities, legally married
pastors indulge in adulterous relationships without any qualms of conscience.
Prominent television evangelists are now caught pants down at brothels. In the
Catholic hierarchy, most of our so-called celibates, males and females, are not
only promiscuous, but revel in homosexual and lesbian relationships. Some are
pathological Casanovas and Nymphomaniacs! Hell is let loose as most of the
demons there are now living in our parishes and convents. It is more of a rat
race than an epidemic! There seems to be gold, silver and bronze prizes
reserved for those who excel in this sexual revolution among our celibate
community!
In addition, no one wants to be left behind to pick up
a bronze medal! Some have secretly fathered children and are using church funds
to maintain them. The female celibates go on the pill or commit abortion
monthly, dilatation & curettage being their favourite option! Others build
houses and sponsor their concubines in tertiary educations. The ‘been-tos’
among them send their girlfriends overseas for summer holidays. Others receive
and entertain their white girlfriends, right here in Nigeria !
No one seems to be bothered by this anomaly. Recently,
however, some local ordinaries were forced to set up special diocesan tribunals
to investigate some of the reports they received from parishioners who were/are
the victims of this immoral revolution! Some married women have lost their
husbands to some pretty and sensuous Rev. Sisters! Equally, some members of the
C.M.O, whose wives have been snatched by vivacious and amorous Rev. Fathers,
are also complaining. Who can redeem us from these demonic onslaughts?
The association for the abrogation of celibacy in the
Catholic Church is the answer! Their Animator International, Dr Jideofo
Kenechukwu Danmbaezue, categorically states; “Celibacy is a legislation that
can be abrogated anytime.” It is a convenience that can be dispensed with as soon
as it is grossly abused and becomes counterproductive. That is what it is for
now! Therefore, it must be abrogated or, in the least optionalised!
In support of this assertion, I reprint here
unabridged, a letter downloaded from the Internet, which states in concise and
unequivocal terms that the Catholic Church does not, has never and will never
teach CELIBACY.
“CELIBACY AND CATHOLIC TEACHING
Father Mateo, August 28, 1982
GZ | Blessings in The Name of Our
Lord!
GZ | For centuries The Roman Rite
has been teaching the laity that celibacy is demanded of ALL Priests... Yet
since the beginning of The Catholic Church this has not been so... I.E.
St.Peter had a wife per St Paul ’s Writings...
Anglican Priests are being accepted on a case by case basis into The Roman
Jurisdictions... Not to mention Other Rites that have always held celibacy as
an option rather than a mandate....
GZ | What source is generally
available to the laity that will clarify this
issue?
GZ | Shalom,
GZ | Gayle
Dear Gayle: May I humbly suggest
that the Roman Rite doesn't teach anybody anything!
The
official teachers of the Church are the Bishops in
union
with the Pope, and they can be and are of all the rites. For
example,
Pius XI belonged to the Ambrosian Rite, as did Paul VI. John Paul II recently
celebrated Mass in the Mozarabic Rite, although he comes from the Roman Rite.
Secondly,
the Church doesn't "teach the laity". The Church teaches
all
her members. The Church is not "us" vs. "them". We are all
the
Church
and members of one another, in need of the gospel of God.
Thirdly,
the Church does not "teach" anything whatever about
Celibacy.
The objects of Church teaching are (1) doctrine and (2) morals. Celibacy is
neither. Celibacy is a matter of Church legislation.
The law of celibacy, which has been
universal in the Latin rites since the Middle Ages, is of ecclesiastical origin
and may therefore be dispensed in individual cases. Conceivably, it could be
entirely abrogated. An easily available treatment of this matter (it is
scarcely an issue) is the article "Celibacy" in the New Catholic
Encyclopaedia.
Sincerely in Christ,
Signed on October 28,
1996……………………………………..Father Mateo
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This is coming from an authority on
the subject under scrutiny. He is an Israelite! He studied in Rome !
He is an ordained priest of the Roman Rite and has been in service for
thirty-five years. You have no reason to doubt what he says! “If clerical
celibacy has out-lived its usefulness, what is the need of clinging tenaciously
to it? This is an absurdity on the part of the Roman Catholic Church
hierarchy”. In medical language, it is giving a wrong diagnosis while a sick
patient is in a comatose state! Alternatively, shall we take it that the Church
Fathers support the numerous sex scandals rocking the boat? Or, has it become
so insensitive to the evidence of cases of paedophilia in USA , of lesbian and homosexual
relationships reported in the mass media and so many incidences of promiscuity
in other parts of the globe and that warrants our “separated brethren” laughing
us to scorn? Why has the Pope and the Cardinals turned their eyes the other
way? Are they neck deep in these scandals themselves? Probably it is a case of
those living in glass houses not throwing stones at each other? They are blind
pastors leading the faithful!
Our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, had prophesied
about them when he compared them to the religious leaders of his time. He
reiterated that they were hypocrites that devoured the homes of widows. He
labelled them, “white
sepulchres, which on the outside looked clean but were rotten and decaying on
the inside.” Anyone who
deceptively takes a vow of celibacy and deliberately violates it regularly
without any pricks of the conscience is a demon and definitely a disciple of
Satan! That is why we refer to them as ‘Postgraduates of Satan’s University.’
They are candidates for hellfire and they will lead as many of us as they can
to the same place. They are only working for their master, Lucifer! Listen to
what Jesus Christ said about such hypocrites who take false vows in the New
Testament account of Matthew’s
Gospel, Chapter 23, vv. 25 - 28:
“How terrible for you,
teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You clean the outside of
your cup and plate, while the inside is full of what you have obtained by
violence and selfishness. Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup
first, and then the outside will be clean too! “How terrible for you, teachers
of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which
look fine on the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the
inside. In the same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but on
the inside, you are full of hypocrisy and sins.”
My dear false clerics; does anyone need an
interpretation for those simple statements of facts? What does a tomb covered
with tiles look like theses days? Sparkling White! Suppose you dig up the
contents after three months of burying a human corpse in it, what will you find
inside? Dry bones, the skull nails, hairs, the teeth and may be some decaying
flesh!
Today, that is what the Nigerian clergy is! Our
Protestant married priests are now preferred by rational Christians! Many of
these erring brothers and sisters of our Catholic community come to my clinic.
Others go to physicians and gynaecologists who are not Catholics to procure
abortion; and probably in mufti, and still accomplish their infanticide
missions. Nevertheless, that does not solve the matter! Our teaching hospitals
and private clinics are inundated with so many cases that I blush whenever I
meet with some of the irreverent ‘Rev. Fathers and Sisters!’ I may be forced to
document some of these aberrations if nothing tangible is done by the local
ordinaries of these erring sons and daughters of ours! This is definitely a
case of “abomination standing
in a holy place”!
During the civil war, I handled more than five hundred
cases, mostly out of paternal concern and humanitarian principles. I pitied the
refugee girls and women who were the commonest preys of these amorous parish
priests that used stockfish, egg-yolk and milk, donated by CARITAS as their
baits! Often, I had to turn some unrepentant ones back. To date, the story has
not changed much! Only their baits have changed and their methodologies have
greatly been improved on. Their new treacheries and cover-ups have undergone
metamorphosis, but they can never outwit old hands in our profession!
My colleagues, still in active service, report that
the upsurge is astronomical. The most current evidence to buttress the
incidence and frequency of these scandalous practices by our ‘celibate
children’ is that five hundred cases of HIV/AIDS involving Rev. Fathers and
Sisters have been recorded at all the teaching hospitals nation-wide. The story
is the same in other sister African countries; Ghana , Ivory
Coast , Tanzania , Uganda , Gambia , Kenya , Ethiopia , Liberia , Malawi , Angola and South Africa ! The papacy must
exempt Africans from this foolery of pretences at a celibate culture! It is ‘Un-African’, to say the
least. Moreover, the scandalous lessons this clerical subterfuge passes on to
our youth, most especially the young girls and women who are the victims of
these amorous relationships does more harm to their spiritual development than
whatever ablutions they get at their routine weekly confessions. It is a
blatant mockery of the Sacrament of Reconciliation!
By God’s grace, I am nearly an octogenarian. It is
‘Un-African’ for an elder to see evil, sit complacently and not warn the youth
about its impending and disastrous consequences. I have done my duty! If nothing is done, and fast too, we
shall be left with no option than to assert that celibacy is a canonical
camouflage designed by the Papacy to shelter all those who are incapable of
living the monogamous lifestyle demanded by the sacrament of Holy Matrimony! It
shall then be obvious that it is an institutionalised welcome haven for those
having socio-pathological inadequacies! For now, that is what it represents
among the Igbos of Biafra in West Africa , who love children and cherish ethical family
life dearly!
Current sex scandals
in Catholic dioceses all over the world and in many parishes of the African Church have necessitated the timely formation
of an association of deeply concerned parents, with the sole objective of
sanitising the congregation of what is regarded today as the greatest demonic
attack on decency, purity, holiness and social ethics! Many postgraduates of
Satan’s universities have invaded our churches. We urgently need to checkmate
them!
IT IS SEX SCANDALS GALORE AS AT NOW!
It is hoped that
this association, as a child of necessity, will save us the recurrent shame,
stigmatisation and embarrassment serious minded members of the clergy and our
faithful laity suffer at the hands of our separated brethren. They are fully
aware of the deceit going on. Now they deride us on the false claims we make on
celibacy and so laugh us to scorn! We have no excuses for the flagrant
violations of the vows of chastity and virginity by our sons and daughters! The
words of Apostle Peter, in 2nd Peter
2: 17-22, Good News Bible edition (GNB) is prophetic and says it all!
v.17: These men are like dried-up
springs, like clouds blown along by a storm; God has reserved a place for them
in the deepest darkness.
v.18: They make proud and stupid
statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap those who are just beginning
to escape from among people who live in error.
v.19: They promise them
freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits—for a person is
a slave of anything that has conquered him.
v.20: If people have escaped
from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such
people are in a worse state at the end than they were at the beginning.
v.21: It would have been much
better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than to know it
and then turn away from the sacred command that was given them.
v.22: What happened to them
shows that the proverbs are true:
“A dog goes back to what it has
vomited” and “A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud.”
What else can be
more appropriate in describing our erring religious hypocrites than the last
two verses? One takes a vow of chastity or that of virginity after fifteen
years of training at the seminary or a minimum of seven years after a postulancy
at a convent respectively. Thereafter, such candidates flaunt the vow and
unrepentantly indulge in promiscuous sexual exploits shortly after a
mission-sponsored tutelage and the diocesan ceremonies of ordinations or solemn
professions usually well orchestrated and extensively financed by the laity! This cancerous sore deserves a
surgical excision!
Is this not a
variant of the abominations of desolation standing in holy places?
Has Satan
taken over our seminaries and convents or are the spiritual directors and
formators to be held responsible for this turn of events? Subterfuge, deceit and pretence must
have been so eulogised, practised and indulged in at some of the religious
training grounds, otherwise how can anyone explain how these wolves in sheep’s
clothing survived the rigorous classical conditioning and role-modelling of
their spiritual formators for so long. The sorrows of parents of these wayward
candidates are better imagined than experienced!
The situation has so
got out of hand that the warnings of Jesus Christ himself now apply to our
clergy. The whole of chapter twenty-three of the gospel according to Matthew is
an apt description of the depravity of most of our present day priests! Currently, about fifty-five cases
of reported HIV/AIDS patients in our teaching hospitals are those of our young
men and women in religious cassocks, gowns and veils of all descriptions.
However only one appellation truly fits them all, and that is-
HYPOCRITES!
CONCLUSION OF THE
MATTER
There are many clerics and nuns,
otherwise referred to as Rev. Fathers and Rev. Sisters, including those that
have been elevated to Monsignors, Mother Generals, Bishops, Archbishops and
Cardinals in the Roman Catholic hierarchy that should summon courage and leave
gracefully before the youths of our Global Village forcibly remove them fro
their pecuniary, parasitic, sycophantic and adulterous lifestyles. There are no
jobs in the labour market worldwide and so those who successfully pretended to
have had vocations all through their training periods till they are ordained
and then they continue to live false lives with impunity!
No one spits out sugar
when it has already entered the mouth! Free housing, free cars, free
televisions, free dresses, free toiletries as well as free food, free sex
e.t.c. These crafty tortoises in our native
stories! They think they are smart! WHY?
THEY ARE ALL AFRAID OF
LOSING THEIR FREE BREAD AND BUTTER!