Thursday, December 10, 2009

Nigerian Bishop Joseph Ekuwem weighs in on St. Mary Magdalene's Big Mitote Controversy! :)

Didn't even care
!

If Pope Benedict XVI might have been left be wondering:

"Just Who or What is Brackettville?" :)

"Bishop Joseph Ekuwem of Nigeria called for renewed catechesis on the reality of demons...."

Meanwhile:

Fellow Nigerian Bishop Augustine Akubeze rushed in to defend his own Brackettville - style Big Mitote clergy from the implied criticism:

"Bishop Augustine Akubeze said that belief in witchcraft lacks any justification in reason...

But!

"Archbishop Norbert Mtega of Tanzania countered this in turn by saying that:

[M]any Catholics are tortured, harassed, and assassinated simply due to unfounded malicious suspicions fomented by sorcery and witchdoctors.


Here's more rock'em - sock'em fragments adapted from Jeff Ziegler's article No to Neocolonialism, featured as a Special Report in the December 2009 edition of The Catholic Report.

"DAYS 7 - 8: The Rosary

"Bishop Joseph Ekuwem of Nigeria called for renewed catechesis on the reality of demons and the appointment of an exorcist in every diocese to save Catholics from the claws of false belief and terrible occult practices like witchcraft.


"Referring to the discontinuity between the 1614 and 1999 rites of exorcism, Bishop Ekuwem pleaded for a new rite based on the old rite of exorcism..."

LATER...

"Apparently responding to Bishop Ekuwem's earlier discussion of witchcraft, another Nigerian prelate -- Bishop Augustine Akubeze -- said that Africans are made to believe that witches are real and that witchcraft is effective. Yet belief in witchcraft lacks any justification in reason, science, and common sense.

"He rued the murder of suspected witches, as well as their torture by Pentecostals and others."


AND THEN ALONG COMES A TANZANIAN ARCHBISHOP!


"Archbishop Norbert Mtega of Tanzania, on the other hand said that many Catholics are tortured, harassed, and assassinated simply due to unfounded malicious fomented by sorcery and witchdoctors..."


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