66. Neo-paganism or cultural reawakening?
What is happening today is not neo-paganism but a cultural reawakening. The danger of insisting that it is neo-paganism is that we further deepen our identity crisis.
65. Religion induced identity crisis
The consequence is that we suffer from a chronic identity crisis as we are never western with our practice of Christianity, and neither are we authentic Africans in our faith.
64. Safeguarding our authority and faith—Religious distance
I am not going to church because I don’t want to go but because I don’t want to see things that I don’t want to see.
63. Why we must safeguard our authority jealously – religious
The religious reason we need to safeguard our authority jealously is that religion is increasingly becoming a commodity in Nigeria
61. Political backlash against the Church: Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan government intensified its crackdown on the Catholic Church only when it had expelled the Nuncio from the country and effectively severed diplomatic ties with the Holy See.
60. The Philippine presidential elections: the aftermath
The Church’s official neutrality is a Christological strategy that ensures that the pastor always reaches all people. It limits the high political risk of defeat and political backlash. It gives the Church a soft landing in case of defeat.
59: The Philippine election: Why the Church lost
A big majority of Filipinos, most of whom are Catholic, voted for Bongbong. All the pontification fell on deaf ears
58. The 2022 Philippine presidential election: The Catholic Church lost
Goodness without truth is pretense. Service without truth is manipulation.
57. Politics and the Eucharist – The United States
The extent to which the Church can go in the US is not applicable in Nigeria because the socio-cultural context of each country differs