President of Nigerian Bishops' Conference once again honors his position

Rorate Caeli ^ | 2/8/14 | New Catholic

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Weeks after bravely supporting the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act, 2013, signed into law by his nation's president, the President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Abp. Ignatius Kaigama, of Jos, once again shows himself to be one of the most assertive bishops alive, merely by defending what the Church has always defended:

The criticism of the position of the Catholic Church on abortion and other related immoral acts has been attributed to inherited prejudices of the critics and their ignorance of the beliefs and traditions of the Church. ... According to the Archbishop: “The Catholic Church has been criticized over her stance on such issues as abortion, condom, homosexuality, cloning, stem cell research, etc.” He however maintained that the Church’s principled views on key moral issues cannot be compromised.

The local ordinary of Jos further remarked: “The Catholic Church is often judged by people who do not care to know what we really believe. Prejudices inherited from one generation to another have blinded critics of the Catholic Church so much that they cannot be objective about Catholic beliefs and traditions.”

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Complete title: President of Nigerian Bishops' Conference once again honors his position: Church cannot bow to those who "nurture pathological hatred for her judgments"

[Mrs. Don-o]

I’d like to think this Nigerian bishop speaks for the whole Christian world.

[Arthur McGowan]

Such a contrast with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, whose policy is: “We support everything the Democratic Party supports, unless it would get us in trouble with Rome, like abortion or gay marriage.”

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Crazy how things have done a 180, haven’t they - there was a time that western missionaries were sent to bring the Word to a non-Christian Africa - now it’s missionaries from Africa who have to bring the Word to an anti-Christian West.

 

 

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Nigerian bishops approved the anti-gay law. But the Vatican is voting against.

Wednesday, January 29th “ Fides ”, however, has broken the silence. And how? Giving relief to an editorial in “Southern Cross”, the weekly conference sponsored by the Catholic bishops of South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland.

The editorial raised by “Fides” claim that raise the voice of the Church in Africa “against discriminatory laws and violence against homosexuals, many of whom are Catholics.”

The above is Pope Francis' "collegiality" at it's finest!

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"He added: “We must be faithful to our religious heritage even at a time when some of the people who introduced Christianity to us have become its ardent critics and some of them nurture a pathological hatred for Church directives or moral judgments.”"

Well said, Archbishop Kaigama!