Light From Africa
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Peter. Do you love me?”
The Church of “nice” harbored more wolves in sheep’s clothing, cruelly devouring and scandalizing as they sought not to serve, but to be served.
Hope from Africa.
May this hope restore the purity that was always associated with religious life.
A hope that these shepards renew the faith in their care. Feed their flock with service to others, personal sanctification and Christian Love that is rooted in self sacrifice.
“Feed my sheep.”
Finally…
May they continue to come to the mission fields of America.
Our Tanzanian Parish Priest and his 2 x Nigerian Assistant Priests are wonderful. I was a little skeptical when they first arrived and it was post Covid where the world was suddenly different after the forced lockdowns.
Our Parish is full on weekends and even weekday Mass numbers have grown beyond just the beautiful elderly who lead the Rosary. There is something about the appreciation for the Faith which comes out of Africa that the West is currently lacking. Christian persecution is very real in Africa.
St JP2 took evangelisation to Africa and the fruits are now being felt. Unfortunately the downside is that the Church took its eyes off Europe and the West and the lack of fruits are being felt there too. Praying for the Church in Europe. And Africa of course.
For all their talk about racism against people of color, I wonder if the lavender laced European and North American episcopate and presbytery really like the conservative traditional leadership that the African episcopate and presbytery are showing. The irony is astounding.
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We had Nigerian Dominicans serving our diocese and parish. Here’s a video I took of Fr. Pius’s homily celebrating “Fr. Happy’s” (Fr. Ignatius) 30th anniversary:
LQC, Cardinal Kasper revealed the Europeans’ disdain for the Africans when he remarked how “they should not be telling us so much what to do.” The way he said it was much worse than the words alone. As I recall, that was in reaction to some serious questions some African bishops had raised about the “Synod on the Family.” As usual, the ultra-liberals are actually the worst racists.
Perhaps the next pope will be African. The Catholic Church there is very conservative. Cardinal Sarah is a good example of the leadership.
The sister diocese in my state have quite a few African priests serving.
The Anglican Church in Africa is very conservative also. When Episcopalian parishes in the US are fed up with gay/ lesbian priests and bishops, same sex marriages, pro abortion and changes to their Book of Common Prayer they become Anglican and they join the Anglican African Communion.
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Missionaries worked in Africa