As we create new parishes, we should ensure that they are licensed places of worship to celebrate statutory marriages. We should ensure we complete the preliminary acts, including the marriage registration with the registry.
Contracting marriage in various legal systems is necessary if one desires to benefit from each legal system.
If Jesus had lived in Sub-Saharan Africa or a tropical region, he would have used another drink made from plants that grow in tropical regions.
The danger of arbitrariness is the lack of control and absence of sound theological and canonical foundations on why we do certain things and on why certain things need to be introduced
Using Jesus as the model is always salvific, liberating, humbling, inspiring, refreshing, fulfilling, and comforting.
History has shown that attempts to suppress or ignore questions of identity are not always successful.
We suffer more from the failures of our forebears to put things right and not from spiritual causes.
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.
