110. Are seminarians cheap labour?
The current seminary structure also creates the ‘I-have-arrived mentality’ accompanied by an entitlement mentality.
The current seminary structure also creates the ‘I-have-arrived mentality’ accompanied by an entitlement mentality.
‘Ebube agụ na-eche agụ’ is an Igbo maxim that roughly translates as ‘the glory of the leopard shields the leopard’
A major reason Islam displaced Christianity is the lack of inculturation of the Christian faith
The Catholic Church repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of indigenous peoples, including what is known as the “doctrine of discovery”
Both my predecessors and I have asked forgiveness for personal and social sins for all the actions or omissions that did not contribute to evangelisation – Pope Francis
The present celebration is providential in order to safeguard the dignity and rights of the indigenous peoples.
We warn earnestly in the Lord faithful Christians of every condition that no one in the future dare to vex anyone, despoil him of his possessions, or reduce to servitude
We prohibit each and every one of the persons, under penalty of excommunication latae sententiae, to enslave the Indians
We declare that the Indians should be converted by preaching and example.
We exhort temporal princes, lords, captains, armed men, barons, soldiers, nobles, communities, and all others that they themselves desist from the aforementioned deeds.