Posted on 10/09/2009 7:13:50 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
In these portentous times, there are days when I feel as if I've strayed into the gloomy bits in a colorized version of Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." In that Christmastime TV favorite, "an angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed."
I definitely had that feeling this week as I read an article about a Vatican meeting of Roman Catholic bishops with the headline "Africa Bishops Speak of Obama in Religious Terms." According to that report:
The archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo, Monsignor Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, told the formal synod itself that it would be wise to not ignore what he called a "primordial event" in recent times."If the election of a black as head of the United States of America was a divine sign and a sign from the Holy Spirit for the reconciliation of races and ethnic groups for peaceful relations ... this synod and the universal church would gain from not ignoring this primordial event of contemporary history which is far from being a banal game of political alliances," he said in his speech.
As a black, pro-life Catholic, it's hard to express the many levels on which this pronouncement tends to repudiate my very existence.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Very true.
The African Bishops have gone off the rails, some of them more than others. This has been a long time coming, though. JPII was eager to get native African bishops, and I think was somewhat less than demanding about their theology. Many of them have been known to hold positions very opposed to those of the Church on everything from condoms to polygamy to shamanism.
BXVI is trying, particularly with this African meeting, to make them Catholic, but it looks like he’s got a lot of work to do.
Too often they mix their traditional religious beliefs (shamanism, witchcraft, etc.) with Catholicism and they church seems to turn its back on that. It’s not a true Catholic religion. It’s a mixture.
You’re absolutely right. And, we are already under God’s judgement. We ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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