68. Saint Okeke
We should not consider our native names as incapable of being saintly because the Church has not officially recognised them. You could be the saint who would promote your name. After you, others would begin using it.
We should not consider our native names as incapable of being saintly because the Church has not officially recognised them. You could be the saint who would promote your name. After you, others would begin using it.
Most of our native names are deeply theological and indeed, not foreign to Christian sentiment. If this is the case, why do we continue to undermine native names at baptism? The dominant mentality in the world.
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.
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.
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.
The religious reason we need to safeguard our authority jealously is that religion is increasingly becoming a commodity in Nigeria
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.
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.
A big majority of Filipinos, most of whom are Catholic, voted for Bongbong. All the pontification fell on deaf ears