115. Reliability: an indispensable quality
The comment, “I don’t trust that priest”, signifies that the priest has damaged his reliability and undermined his moral authority
114. Can a Vicar General, Episcopal Vicar or Dean unilaterally levy a tax?
It is fitting that levying a tax is restricted to a bishop who is to consult the finance committee and council of priests.
113. On Church finances
No Church is wealthier than the economy of the territory where the Church is located
112. Sycophancy and ecclesiastical authority
The danger of sycophancy is that it snuffs out the truth from us, and as priests and religious, it undermines the Truth, the very foundation and purpose of our vocation and mission.
111. Is the female religious cheap labour?
The exercise of authority in the Church is always a vocation to service and not for exploitation.
110. Are seminarians cheap labour?
The current seminary structure also creates the ‘I-have-arrived mentality’ accompanied by an entitlement mentality.
109. Ebube agụ na-eche agụ
‘Ebube agụ na-eche agụ’ is an Igbo maxim that roughly translates as ‘the glory of the leopard shields the leopard’
108. How Islam converted entire nations
A major reason Islam displaced Christianity is the lack of inculturation of the Christian faith
107. The Church’s recent statement
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”
106. Pope Francis’ Apology to Mexico and Spaniards’ Reaction
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