AND
HERE IS THE ORIGINAL LETTER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THIS IS
WHAT POPE BENEDICT XVI READ OR MEDITATED OR REVIEWED FOR 13 MONTHS BEFORE HE HONESTLY THREW
IN HIS DIRTY TOWEL AND EARNED THE FIRST POPE EMERITUS
GRADUATES
OF SATAN’S UNIVERSITY
OPTIONALISE
CELIBACY NOW!
Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D. Sc.
International Co-Coordinator of A2 C3,
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ENTHRONEMENT OF TRUE MORALITY BY
THE ABROGATION OF COMPULSORY CELIBACY IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH
SANITISE CHRISTIAN
CHURCHES NOW
IN SEVEN VOLUMES
· ABROGATE CELIBACY IN THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH
· SANCTION ALL PROSPERITY
GOSPEL PREACHERS
· CURB EXCESSIVE
NOISE-MAKING ‘IN JESUS NAME’
· EXCISE COMMERCIALISATION
DURING CRUSADES
· HALT THE EXPLOITATION OF
ALL CONGREGATIONS
· EXCOMMUNICATE
INFILTRATORS AND OCCULTISTS
· DE-EMPHASISE THE CRAZE
FOR SIGNS AND WONDERS
VOLUME 1: UNMASK GRADUATES OF SATAN’S UNIVERSITY
ABROGATE CELIBACY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
By:
Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc.
© 2003
The
Vessel of the Holy Spirit of God, the Creator of the Universe
International
President, Kenez Interdenominational Philosophers’ Forum
&
Animator International, Association for the Abrogation of Celibacy in the
Catholic Church
Email: saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk or agunabu1948@gmail.com
Phone:
0803-9097614
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is just an appetiser! The full course meal costs $250.
It
has 965 loaded pages with 155 references.
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DEDICATION
To
all the underage that have been abused sexually by the homosexual and lesbian
graduates of Satan’s university adorning cassocks or veils of varying colours!
To
the memory of naïve girls who were deceived, seduced, impregnated and forced to
have dilatation and cutterage;
“the
popular D & C” from which they did not survive!
To
the repentant celibates who want to renounce the inhuman vow and wed
canonically with the appropriate dispensations!
FINALLY,
TO THE FEW HONEST AND DEDICATED SERVANTS OF THE LORD WHO HAVE KEPT THEIR VOWS
VERY RELIGIOUSLY!
MAY THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST PLEAD FOR ALL OF
YOU, AMEN!
THIS IS A VERY GOOD BIRTHDAY GIFT FOR SEMINARIANS AND
CONVENT GIRLS.
PLEASE GIVE OUT COPIES OF THIS MEMORABLE BOOK AS
SOUVENIR TO YOUR LOVED SONS AND DAUGHTERS AT THEIR ORDINATIONS AND FINAL
PROFESSIONS!
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PROLOGUE:
A
DIALOGUE OVERHEARD IN HELL
An
armed robber who died on active service found himself in front of Lucifer, the
Prince of Hell. He was hailed as an exemplary ambassador who had done very well
while on earth. He had despatched hundreds of souls who were not given time to
repent and so was placed nearest the top echelon of the executive class, as a
Superintendent - Grade 1. While on a guided tour of his area of command, he saw
two of the mass servers in his former parish. Surprised finding them here after
their pious services at all liturgical celebrations; he queried them with an
air of authority.
“What are you two doing here?” “King
Kong!” (For that was his
popular nickname on earth)“ Paddy,
Na waoh! Na so we see-a-moh- ooh! We stole and drank more altar wine than all
the priests and bishops did in five years during our six months service as
altar boys. The wine was not only sweet but also very intoxicating. We died on
our way to hospital because of a fatal accident we had after the Good Friday
vigil mass. It was our last bout of twenty litres of the red Italian brew!”
“Sorry,
so you common thieves pretended that you were good boys! Who said that armed
robbers were worse? Yeah, the Catechist.”
They
cut in, “Sh-sh – that Parish
Catechist you’re talking about is down here in a hotter part of this inferno!”
As, if in doubt, he
called out to the elderly man to taunt him. “Baba-a how now?” To
his greatest amazement, he was informed that the Parish Priest that officiated
at his wedding was still far down below. He protested to his tour guide, “No,
this is injustice! How can my friend, ‘the man of God’ we all revered on earth
be condemned to hell after his twenty-five years meritorious service as a Rev.
Father on earth? No, something’s wrong here!”
He
only sobered when the priest responded thus: “King Kong, my dear, the
Archbishop who ordained me is even farther down below and he arrived before all
of us. He was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Satan I
attended. We are graduates of the seminaries where they taught the art of
preaching, deception and subterfuge! He holds three doctorate degrees! One of
them, a post-doctoral, he earned in sexual promiscuity.”
The
Archbishop was in so much pain, he just kept mute!
Now,
refresh your mind with what earned Phinehas, the son of Aaron, the special
favour of God that turned away his wrath from the idolatrous and promiscuous
life they turned into while he delivered them from Egypt:
Numbers 25:1-15
25:1
While Israel
was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite
women,
2
who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down
before these gods.
3
So Israel
joined in worshipping the Baal of Peor. And the LORD's anger burned against
them.
4
The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them
and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD's fierce
anger may turn away from Israel."
5
So Moses said to Israel's
judges, "Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined
in worshipping the Baal of Peor."
6
Then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the
eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at
the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
7
When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left
the assembly, took a spear in his hand
8
and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of
them-- through the Israelite and into the woman's body. Then the plague against
the Israelites was stopped;
9
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
10
The LORD said to Moses,
11
"Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my
anger away from the Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honour
among them, so that in my zeal I did not put an end to them.
12
Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him.
13
He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he
was zealous for the honour of his God and made atonement for the Israelites."
14
The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son
of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
15
And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Cozbi daughter of
Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
I have no commentary to add. If the
cap fits your head, then wear it!
This association is the Phinehas of this century and
has a duty to perform.
You can also add ‘the son of Kenez’ in place of ‘son
of Eleazar’ or Aaron!
FOREWORD
CLERICAL CELIBACY HAS OUT-LIVED ITS USEFULNESS
There
was a time when Catholic Reverend Fathers and Reverend Sisters on missionary
services in this country were really admired, respected and idolised! That was
in my teens when the Late Bishop Shanahan was still an ordinary priest! Rev.
Fr. Bindel was the Parish Priest of Ihiala, then a very large area extending as
far away as Emekuku, Orlu and Oguta! They rode long distances on Hercules
bicycles carrying out their evangelistic duties. They trekked most of the time
and made converts by using the very few semi-literate natives as their
interpreters!
These interpreters were
later promoted to Catechists and soon wielded much power! They taught pagans
catechism classes in the vernacular language and only those they certified as
having passed their examinations were baptised. They stood between every
catechumen and the sacraments of baptism, confession, confirmation, matrimony
and even the irregular reception of the Holy Eucharist! You could neither see
any Rev. Fr. nor receive any of these sacraments without greasing their palms!
No girls or women ever came close to the parish houses, not to mention having
handshakes with any priest!
The
Rev. Sisters wore sparkling ankle-length white gowns and their head-gear with a
tall hood and overflowing veils covered every part of their heads except for
just the outline of their faces. I never saw their ears! To us little urchins
at the turn of the century, they were angels. After all the pictures in our
catechism, classes were made of white skins. They were all white women.
We never dreamt that we
would, in later years, have our own black sisters and daughters qualified to
become Rev. Sisters. No one ever imagined that a black skinned woman could ever
be dressed like these white angels. These angels were our earliest teachers,
nurses, midwives and doctors. They ran the few mission schools and hospitals
that were then in existence at Ihiala and Emekuku. We adored and loved them for
their motherly care but, at the same time, we hated their injection needles!
We
were told that both the priests and nuns were virgins. It was even rumoured
that they had no sexual parts to their bodies. They were ‘castrated’ was the
naïve belief that made the rumour rounds then! We assumed that the nuns had
neither breasts nor large buttocks like our mothers and aunts! How were we to
find out? The priests were covered all over with their flowing white soutanes
that they never put off in our presence. “Did they ever urinate or defecate?”
we wondered!
I never saw any of them
in short knickers although I was a mass server for several years at St Martin’s Parish, Odo-ata Ihiala, now in Ihiala Local
Government Area of Anambra State. In addition, we never saw the ears, necks and
feet of the nuns. During clinical attendance they wore gloves, so we were
partially denied seeing their hands and fingers. “Did these ladies know how to
cook?” we pondered!
That
the priests were chaste and the nuns, virgins, were assumed! We never saw the
priests and nuns chat together, hug each other or stroll along any road side by
side. They were discreet and circumspect. They were conscious of their vows of
celibacy and public image knowing that they were continuously being watched day
and night. So, they never scandalised us nor gave us the chance to suspect
them! That was in the early 1930s and 1940s.
We gradually began to
notice that many nuns went on leaves that were termed “annual” and understand
why some others that lasted beyond twelve months that were termed “sudden”,
“casual” or “sick.” Soon, our own sons and daughters were admitted into
seminaries and convents. By the 1950s, some were ordained and professed
respectively. This first set never scandalised us! We never suspected that they
could lower the standards set by these missionary white angels! That was before
the Nigeria-Biafra civil war that lasted from 1967 to 1970.
All
that changed as the scales fell off our eyes. Our religious blinkers were
forcibly removed by what we saw during the civil war at the few Caritas Feeding
Centres that we naturally located within the parish premises. We saw a lot.
Some printable, others not whisperable! Promiscuity was the mildest term for
describing what the refugee women described as own contributions to the war
effort! Our clergymen and women were the butt of their sexual exploits as
relief items like; stockfish, egg-yolk and milk were exchanged for amorous
relationships.
“Have
they also eaten the forbidden fruit” was the mildest joke about what we knew was
happening. The war unmasked everyone. Today, my ten-year-old niece knows that
priests are anything but celibate! Most mass servers can swear that beside
heterosexual indulgence involving widows, married and unmarried women in our
parishes, our self-professed celibates clandestinely practise homosexualism and
lesbianism! It is no longer news that paedophilia is the scourge of the
Catholic clergy in the United
States of America. Nor is it news here in Africa that our own brothers and sisters,
‘self-proclaimed celibates’, have secret wives and husbands with their illicit
children tucked away in remote villages and the dark alleys of streets in our
urban areas!
Even among our
Protestant communities, legally married pastors indulge in adulterous
relationships without any qualms of conscience. Prominent television
evangelists are now caught pants down at brothels. In the Catholic hierarchy,
most of our so-called celibates, males and females, are not only promiscuous,
but revel in homosexual and lesbian relationships. Some are pathological
Casanovas and Nymphomaniacs! Hell is let loose as most of the demons there are
now living in our parishes and convents. It is more of a rat race than an
epidemic!
There seems to be gold,
silver and bronze prizes reserved for those who excel in this sexual revolution
among our celibate community! In addition, no one wants to be left behind to
pick up a bronze medal! Some have secretly fathered children and are using
church funds to maintain them. The female celibates go on the pill or commit
abortion monthly, dilatation & curettage being their favourite option!
Others build houses and sponsor their concubines in tertiary education. The
‘been-tos’ among them send their girlfriends overseas for summer holidays.
Others receive and entertain their white girlfriends, right here in Nigeria!
No
one seems to be bothered by this anomaly. Recently, however, some local
ordinaries were forced to set up special diocesan tribunals to investigate some
of the reports they received from parishioners who are the victims of this
immoral revolution! Some married women have lost their husbands to some pretty
and sensuous Rev. Sisters! Equally, some members of the C.M.O, whose wives have
been snatched by vivacious and amorous Rev. Fathers, are also complaining. Who
can redeem us from these demonic onslaughts?
The association for the
abrogation of celibacy in the Catholic Church is the answer! Their Animator
International states that “Celibacy is a legislation that can be
abrogated anytime.” It is a convenience that can be dispensed with
as soon as it is grossly abused and becomes counterproductive. That is what it
is for now! Therefore, it must be abrogated or, in the least optionalised!
In
support of this assertion, I reprint here unabridged, a letter downloaded from
the Internet, which states in concise and unequivocal terms that the
Catholic Church does not, has never and will never teach CELIBACY.
“CELIBACY AND CATHOLIC TEACHING
Father Mateo, August 28, 1982
GZ | Blessings in The Name of Our
Lord!
GZ | For centuries The Roman Rite
has been teaching the laity that celibacy is demanded of ALL Priests... Yet
since the beginning of The Catholic Church this has not been so... I.E.
St.Peter had a wife per St Paul’s
Writings... Anglican Priests are being accepted on a case by case basis into
The Roman Jurisdictions... Not to mention Other Rites that have always held
celibacy as an option rather than a mandate....
GZ | What source is generally
available to the laity that will clarify this
issue?
GZ |
Shalom, GZ | Gayle
Dear Gayle: May I humbly suggest
that the Roman Rite doesn't teach anybody anything!
The official teachers of the Church are
the Bishops in
union with the Pope, and they can be and are of all the rites. For
example, Pius XI belonged to the Ambrosian Rite, as did Paul VI. John Paul II recently celebrated Mass in the Mozarabic Rite, although he comes from the Roman Rite.
union with the Pope, and they can be and are of all the rites. For
example, Pius XI belonged to the Ambrosian Rite, as did Paul VI. John Paul II recently celebrated Mass in the Mozarabic Rite, although he comes from the Roman Rite.
Secondly, the Church doesn't
"teach the laity". The Church teaches
all her members. The Church is not "us" vs. "them". We are all the
Church and members of one another, in need of the gospel of God.
all her members. The Church is not "us" vs. "them". We are all the
Church and members of one another, in need of the gospel of God.
Thirdly, the Church does not
"teach" anything whatever about
Celibacy. The objects of Church teaching are (1) doctrine and (2) morals. Celibacy is neither. Celibacy is a matter of Church legislation.
Celibacy. The objects of Church teaching are (1) doctrine and (2) morals. Celibacy is neither. Celibacy is a matter of Church legislation.
The law of celibacy, which has been
universal in the Latin rites since the Middle Ages, is of ecclesiastical origin
and may therefore be dispensed in individual cases. Conceivably, it could be
entirely abrogated. An easily available treatment of this matter (it is scarcely
an issue) is the article "Celibacy" in the New Catholic
Encyclopaedia.
Sincerely
in Christ,
Signedon October 28, 1996……………………………………..Father
Mateo
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This is coming from an authority on the subject under
scrutiny. He is an Israelite! He studied in Rome! He is an ordained priest of the Roman
Rite and has been in service for thirty-five years. You have no reason to doubt
what he says! “If clerical celibacy has out-lived its usefulness, what is the
need of clinging tenaciously to it? This is an absurdity on the part of the
Roman Catholic Church hierarchy”. In medical language, it is giving a wrong
diagnosis while a sick patient is in a comatose state! Alternatively, shall we
take it that the Church Fathers support the numerous sex scandals rocking the
boat? Or, has it become so insensitive to the evidence of cases of paedophilia
in USA,
of lesbian and homosexual relationships reported in the mass media and so many
incidences of promiscuity in other parts of the globe and that warrants our
“separated brethren” laughing us to scorn? Why has the Pope and the Cardinals
turned their eyes the other way? Are they neck deep in these scandals
themselves? Probably it is a case of those living in glass houses not throwing
stones at each other? They are blind pastors leading the faithful!
Our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, had prophesied
about them when he compared them to the religious leaders of his time. He
reiterated that they were hypocrites that devoured the homes of widows. He
labelled them, “white sepulchres, which on the outside looked clean but
were rotten and decaying on the inside.” Anyone who deceptively takes
a vow of celibacy, deliberately violates it regularly without any pricks of the
conscience is a definitely a disciple of Satan. That is why we refer to them as
‘Postgraduates of Satan’s University.’ They are candidates for hellfire and
they will lead as many of us as they can to the same place. They are only
working for their master, Lucifer! Listen to what Jesus Christ said about such
hypocrites who take false vows in New Testament account of Matthew’s Gospel,
Chapter 23, vv. 25 - 28:
“How terrible for you, teachers
of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You clean the outside of your cup and
plate, while the inside is full of what you have obtained by violence and
selfishness. Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then
the outside will be clean too!: “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and
Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on
the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside. In the
same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but on the inside, you
are full of hypocrisy and sins.”
Does anyone need an interpretation for those simple
statements of facts? What does a tomb covered with tiles look like theses days?
White! Suppose you dig up the contents after three months, what will you find
inside? Dry bones, nails, hairs, the teeth, the skull and may be some decaying
flesh! Today, that is what the Nigerian clergy is! Our Protestant married
priests are now preferred! Many of these erring brothers and sisters of
our Catholic community come to my clinic. Nevertheless, that does not solve the
matter! They go to physicians and gynaecologists who are not Catholics; and
probably in mufti, and still accomplish their infanticidal mission. My
colleagues laugh at me! Our teaching hospitals and private clinics are
inundated with so many cases that I blush whenever I meet with some of the
irreverent ‘Rev. Fathers and Sisters!’ I may be forced to document some of
these aberrations it nothing tangible is done by the local ordinaries of these
erring sons and daughters of ours! During the civil war, I handled more than
five hundred cases, mostly out of paternal concern and humanitarian principles.
I pitied the refugee girls and women who were the commonest preys of these
amorous parish priests that used stockfish, egg-yolk and milk, donated by
CARITAS as their bets! A times I had to turn them back. The story has not
changed much! Only their bets have changed and their methodologies have greatly
been improved on. The treacheries and cover-ups have undergone metamorphosis,
but they can never outwit old hands in our profession!
My colleagues, still in active service, report that
the upsurge is astronomical. The most current evidence to buttress the
incidence and frequency of these scandalous practices by our ‘celibate
children’ is that five hundred cases of HIV/AIDS involving Rev. Fathers and
Sisters have been recorded at all the teaching hospitals nation-wide. The story
is the same in other sister African countries; Ghana,
Ivory Coast, Gambia, Kenya,
Malawi, Angola and South Africa! The papacy must
exempt Africans from the foolery of pretences at a celibate culture! It is
‘Un-African’, to say the least. Moreover, the scandalous lessons this clerical
subterfuge passes on to our youth, most especially the young girls and women
who are the victims of these amorous relationships does more harm to their
spiritual development than whatever ablutions they get at their weekly
confessions. It is a mockery of the sacrament of reconciliation! By God’s
grace, I am an octogenarian. It is equally ‘Un-African’ for an elder to see
evil, sit complacently and not warn the youth about its disastrous
consequences. I have done my duty! If nothing is done, and fast too, we
shall be left with no option than to assert that celibacy is a canonical
camouflage designed to shelter all those who are incapable of living the
monogamous lifestyle demanded by the sacrament of Holy Matrimony! It shall then
be obvious that it is an institutionalised and welcome haven for those having
sociopathological inadequacies! For now, that is what it represents among the
Igbos of Biafra in West Africa, who love
children and cherish family life dearly!
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P R E F A C E
THE RAISON D’ÊTRE
Current
sex scandals in Catholic dioceses all over the world and in many parishes of
the African Church have necessitated the timely
formation of an association of deeply concerned parents, with the sole objective
of sanitising the congregation of what is regarded today as the greatest
demonic attack on decency, purity, holiness and social ethics! Many
postgraduates of Satan’s universities have invaded our churches. We urgently
need to checkmate them!
IT
IS SEX SCANDALS GALORE AS AT NOW!
It
is hoped that this association, as a child of necessity, will save us the
recurrent shame, stigmatisation and embarrassment serious minded members of the
clergy and our faithful laity suffer at the hands of our separated brethren.
They are fully aware of the deceit going on. Now they deride us on the false
claims we make on celibacy and so laugh us to scorn! We have no excuses for the
flagrant violations of the vows of chastity and virginity by our sons and
daughters!
The
words of Apostle Peter, in 2nd Peter 2: 17-22, Good News Bible
edition (GNB) is prophetic and says it all!
v.17:
These men are like dried-up springs, like clouds blown along by a storm; God
has reserved a place for them in the deepest darkness.
v.18:
They make proud and stupid statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap
those who are just beginning to escape from among people who live in error.
v.19: They
promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits—for
a person is a slave of anything that has conquered him.
v.20: If
people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their
knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and
conquered by them, such people are in a worse state at the end than they were
at the beginning.
v.21: It
would have been much better for them never to have known the way of
righteousness than to know it and then turn away from the sacred command that
was given them.
v.22: What
happened to them shows that the proverbs are true:
“A
dog goes back to what it has vomited” and “A pig that has been washed goes back
to roll in the mud.”
What
else can be more appropriate in describing our erring religious hypocrites than
the last two verses? One takes a vow of chastity or that of virginity after
fifteen years of training at the seminary or a minimum of seven years after a
postulancy at a convent respectively. Thereafter, such candidates flaunt
the vow and unrepentantly indulge in promiscuous sexual exploits shortly after
a mission-sponsored tutelage and the diocesan ceremonies of ordinations or
solemn professions usually well orchestrated and extensively financed by the
laity! This cancerous sore deserves a surgical excision!
Is
this not a variant of the abominations of desolation standing in holy places?
Has
Satan taken over our seminaries and convents or are the spiritual directors and
formators to be held responsible for this turn of events? Subterfuge, deceit and pretence
must have been so eulogised, practised and indulged in at some of the religious
training grounds, otherwise how can anyone explain how these wolves in sheep’s
clothing survived the rigorous classical conditioning and role-modelling of
their formators for so long. The sorrows of parents of these wayward candidates
are better imagined than experienced!
The
situation has so got out of hand that the warnings of Jesus Christ himself now
apply to our clergy. The whole of chapter twenty-three of the gospel according
to Matthew is an apt description of the depravity of most of our present day
priests! Currently, about fifty-five cases of reported HIV/AIDS
patients in our teaching hospitals are those of our young men and women in
religious cassocks, gowns and veils of all descriptions. However only one
appellation truly fits them all, and that is- HYPOCRITES!
THE
STATUS QUO OF CLERICAL CELIBACY TODAY
“CELIBACY,
is the state of being unmarried, with abstinence from sexual activity.
Considered a form of asceticism (q.v.), it has been practiced in many religious
traditions: in ancient Judaism, by the Essenes; and in Buddhism, Jainism and
Hinduism, by the members of monastic groups.
In
Christianity, monks and nuns in both the Western and Eastern churches have
practiced celibacy. In the Eastern Church, parish clergy are permitted to marry
before ordination, but bishops are selected from among the unmarried clergy. In
the Roman Catholic Church, celibacy is required of all clergy in the Latin
Rite. The church holds that this practice is sanctioned, although not required,
by the New Testament, basing this claim upon what it avers to have been the
constant tradition of the church and upon several biblical texts (notably, 1
Cor. 7:6-7, 25; Matt. 19:12). The principles upon which the law of celibacy is
founded are (1) that the clergy may serve God with more freedom and with
undivided heart; and (2) that, being called to serve Jesus Christ; they may
embrace the holier life of self-restraint. This statement does not imply, it is
said, that matrimony is not a holy state but simply that celibacy is a state of
greater perfection.
Having
no doctrinal bearing in the Roman Catholic Church, celibacy is regarded as a
purely disciplinary law. A dispensation from the obligation of celibacy has
occasionally been granted to ecclesiastics under exceptional circumstances, for
instance, to provide an heir for a noble family in danger of extinction.
The
Protestant reformers rejected the celibacy of the clergy, Martin Luther setting
the example to his followers by marrying a former nun. Both the marriage of
ministers and the abolition of monastic vows became common features of those
bodies that withdrew their allegiance from the Roman Catholic Church. According
to the articles of religion of the Church of England, "bishops, priests,
and deacons are not commanded by God's law, either to vow the estate of single
life, or to abstain from marriage; therefore it is lawful for them, as for all
other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the
same to serve better to godliness."
The
history of priestly celibacy has been a stormy one since it became law for the
clergy of the Latin Rite in the 6th century. Although Pope Paul VI, in his
encyclical of June 24, 1967, reaffirmed the traditional position, the
requirement of priestly celibacy remains a much-disputed ecclesiastical
question.”
Excerpts
from INFOPEDIA, the ultimate in information & historical data, USA, 2000
THE
SCENARIO IN NIGERIA
· At UNTH some years back, a convent girl
was used at the medical students’ practical session to demonstrate the early
signs of pregnancy in a virgin. The naïve postulant was made to stand in front
of students of her age and narrate what happens to her early in the morning. ‘Of
course her descriptions are nothing peculiar’, the mischievous
Consultant explained to the class, ‘Congrats my dear, you are a very
good sample of a healthy mother-to-be, you are pregnant!” he
thundered.
You
can only conceptualise the loud ovation or the sarcastic uproar that greeted
the Consultant’s verdict! Then imagine the scorn and shame the Catholic medical
students had to bear because of a parish priest’s secret love affair with the
adolescent girl who honestly desired the vocation and seriously hoped to become
an exemplary Reverend Sister!
· At a wedding in my hometown back in 1992,
a handsome light complexioned Rev. Fr. travelled all the way from Umuahia to
officiate at St Martin’s Parish,
Odoata-Ihiala. The grandmother of the bridegroom was at hand to witness the
ceremony despite her aging frame and figure! She insisted on being present at
her first grandson’s wedding feast, but for a different reason altogether as
the events of the wedding celebration unfolded. At the end of the cutting of
the wedding cake, she requested to speak. Sitting in front of the audience with
the microphone secure in her trembling hands, she feebly implored the visiting
Rev. Fr. not to forget to take along with him the beautiful daughter the bride
bore for him prior to being engaged to her grandson. “We have taken care of her
for you for three years now!” she concluded. You can imagine the livid
consternation her confession caused in the reception hall!
This
is only the tip of the iceberg, as many such violations of the vow of celibacy
and worse stories from the convents litter all our parishes. One cannot recount
even ninety percent of them were such a one to narrate for ten hours the sex
scandals perpetrated under the unnatural guise of a celibate life that no
African is qualified for, let alone programmed to keep! We have been deceiving
ourselves all these years. Before the civil war, this author could vouch for
33% of the Rev. Gentlemen who took their sacred vows seriously. Now, he cannot
even swear an affidavit for as little as 0.05%.
The current vocation explosion is
thanks to this nonchalant attitude to the vows of obedience, poverty and
chastity. Most of the candidates for the religious life nowadays, are
frustrated applicants who now see easy life and sensual pleasure as the
exclusive preserve of clandestine Rev. Frs. and impious Rev. Srs. They are the
only ones permitted by the Church to dissect the sexual enjoyment in Holy
Matrimony from the difficult roles and duties of parenthood as demanded by the
Canon Laws of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. They enjoy sex without the
corresponding responsibility of pregnancy, gestation period, labour pains,
delivery and child rearing involved in it. Let those who want to marry
come out and do so honourably! It is time to put an end to pretence and public
deceit!
The
seven or more items listed on the title page will be treated on separate well
research volumes. For now, only the first has been examined. The treatise is
neither comprehensive nor exhaustive! Every concerned parent or Christian is
invited to make his or her inputs on any of the listed aberrations in the
theory and practice of Christianity today and mail it to the headquarters of
the INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT, a fellowship for all natural scientists
for immediate publication. Feel free to communicate with us by dialling
042-550344 or 0804-2719800, e-mail saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk.
Many
seminarians and postulants are virgins at their ordinations and first
professions! They are sincere on the vows they take. However, their seniors who
are already morally depraved and demonised seduce them into joining the cohort
of fraudsters in cassocks and veils!
Many
young Reverend Sisters equally, report that they were initiated into illicit
sex exploits by their parish priests or those they trusted. Platonic love
affairs became translated into concubinage within the first three years of
their profession. Some, rather than withdrawing and getting married
legally, are then convinced that everyone was indulging in it, so why should
they leave?
That
there is an option to this deceitful aberration is all that the association for
the abrogation of celibacy in the Catholic Church is saying. This clandestine
misapplication of what Paul said in his letter to the Corinthian Church
is the genesis of the mass deception! It did not make celibacy either
obligatory or mandatory, but optional. So, who invented this compulsory
application?
1
Corinthians 7:1-9
7:1
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry.
2
But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and
each woman her own husband.
3
The husband should fulfil his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife
to her husband.
4
The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the
same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.
5
Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you
may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will
not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 I
say this as a concession, not as a command.
7 I
wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has
this gift, another has that.
8
Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay
unmarried, as I am.
9
But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to
marry than to burn with passion.
It
is this wrong misapplication of what the apostle recommended that is the crux
of the matter. Our association is only asking that we sanitise the priesthood
and stop the mass deception. It is evident to members of the mass servers and
altar girls that both Rev. Frs. & Rev. Srs. Do not keep the vow. Here is
our position:
1. Celibacy must be made
optional, with priests allowed to renew their choice every three years for the
first ten years of their ordination. They should be as free as Reverend Sisters
to marry if they have fallen in love with someone they feel can assist them
live a happily married life and an exemplary Christian life!
2. Only those who are
resolute in their virginity can then aspire to becoming full-
time
Parish Priests, with the prospect of becoming Papal Chamberlains
at the
fifteenth year of their ordination! They have the option of voluntarily
undergoing
vasectomy to confirm their perpetual loyalty to the Church!
3. A broad-based Diocesan Commission of both the
laity and the clergy can interview and appoint some of the married priests as
reliable vicars in their home parishes. However, they will find their own
accommodation and cater for their families as they will be paid salaries and
sick-call allowances!
Both
the few honest celibates and the uncountable dishonest ‘celibates’ know that
this is the truth of the matter. Therefore, the African Synod of Bishops should
take the option Pope John Paul II gave them. In African culture, elders do not
tell lies nor propagate falsehood or false lifestyles. That is the essence of
the Ozo-titles that are conferred on trust-worthy citizens, whose tongues are
washed and minds rid of subterfuge during the rituals of purification in the
long drawn out ceremonies. Most of these clerics want the abolition of the
obnoxious dogma but are cautious lest any one says that he or she has been
indulging in its violation. That is the origin of all the ‘hide-me-&
I-hide-you’ scenario we are being treated to! Let the honest ones come out
boldly and condemn the unnatural law of celibacy. They will gain greater
respect!
We
are equal partners in this business of sanitising all Christian Churches!
We cannot shy away from our responsibilities to chart a new course and so
sanitise our Catholic Church! Get as many people as possible to fill out the
registration forms at the back of the book. Enlist only dedicated and devout
practitioners of the Christian Faith to join us. God be with you as the Holy
Spirit guides you. For “Surely, His Goodness and Mercy shall follow us all the
days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Almighty God, for ever
and ever”.
In
support of my recommendations, now read 1st Maccabees 1, 2
& 3.
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CHAPTER
ONE
THE ORIGIN OF CELIBACY
1.1
WHAT IS CELIBACY?
Celibacy,
is the state of being unmarried, with abstinence from sexual activity.
Considered a form of asceticism, it has been practised in many religious
traditions: in ancient Judaism, by the Essenes; and in Buddhism, Jainism and
Hinduism, by the members of monastic groups. In Christianity, celibacy has
been practised by monks and nuns in both the Western and Eastern churches. In
the Eastern Church, parish clergy are permitted to marry before ordination, but
bishops are selected from among the unmarried clergy. In the Roman Catholic
Church, celibacy is required of all clergy in the Latin Rite. The church holds
that this practice is sanctioned, although not required, by the New Testament,
basing this claim upon what it avers to have been the constant tradition of the
church and upon several biblical texts (notably, 1 Corinthians 7:6-7, 25;
Matthew 19:12). The principles upon which the law of celibacy is
founded are that the clergy may serve God with more freedom and with undivided
heart; and that, being called to serve Jesus Christ, they may embrace the holier
life of self-restraint.This statement does not imply, it is said, that
matrimony is not a holy state, but simply that celibacy is a state of greater
perfection.
There
would be no argument against this myopic position if those who take the vow of
celibacy actually kept it. However, that is not the case, at least, in the past
century. What we now have in Nigeria and other sister African countries are
FRAUDSTERS who pretend to be celibates but are truly Casanovas, Nymphomaniacs
and a generation of promiscuous heterosexuals, homosexuals and/or lesbians.
Consequently, our youth have been so corrupted by these demons in cassocks and
veils that the SIXTH Commandment of God means nothing to the younger generation
of Catholic children! Shall we fold our hands and allow such desecration of
moral ethics to continue unabated. That’s the challenge before this
association!
Having
no doctrinal bearing in the Roman Catholic Church, celibacy is regarded as a
purely disciplinary law. A dispensation from the obligation of celibacy has
occasionally been granted to ecclesiastics under exceptional circumstances, for
instance, to provide an heir for a noble family in danger of extinction.
The same argument can be applied to the African
situation, more so when it is remembered that our peculiar culture frowns on
someone dying without leaving any children to continue the family tree or even
an individual’s name. In some communities, one is not even mourned nor given a
decent funeral if such a person has never given birth to any offspring at all,
whether legally married or not. You only get a befitting funeral when you have
had a child in or outside wedlock! And these so-called celibates know that,
believe in it, since they’re not islands in our cultural setting or gene-load.
Do you blame them? “Blood no dey lie for joh ooh!” We have a saying, which
states “ if a prick does not die young, it will surely eat bearded meat.” Ask
Professor Chinua Achebe or rather read his famous novels; ‘Things Fall Apart’,
‘No Longer at Ease’ or ‘The Arrow of God’; they will give you a background to
understanding what I am talking about. Dr Kenez®.
The Protestant reformers rejected the celibacy of the
clergy, Martin Luther setting the example to his followers by marrying a former
nun. Both the marriage of ministers and the abolition of monastic vows became
common features of those bodies that withdrew their allegiance from the Roman
Catholic Church. According to the articles of religion of the Church
of England, “bishops, priests, and deacons are not commanded by
God's law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from
marriage; therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to
marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to
godliness.” The history of priestly celibacy has been a stormy one
since it became law for the clergy of the Latin Rite in the 6th century.
Although Pope Paul VI, in his encyclical of June 24, 1967, reaffirmed the
traditional position, the requirement of priestly celibacy remains a
much-disputed ecclesiastical question.[1]
Among
the Igbos we say; “ No one can wedge a flood during a heavy rainfall!” The only
way to control such a flood is to divert its direction of flow. No one can
cheat nature, at least not when one is half-baked, semi-trained and ill
prepared to take a vow that needs an ascetic life or demands a monastic genre.
The only way an African can practise celibacy that is transparent and
convincing to the average Church member is when those who take the vows are
also ‘MADE EUNUCHS FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN’; as St Paul the proponent, the initiator and the
instigator of the celibacy tradition suggested.
Moreover,
I am fully aware of the contents of Matthew, 19:11-12 and 1stCorinthians,
7: 7-35! None of them demands or makes celibacy compulsory! Both are
suggestions based on God’s grace not on false vows taken by sex perverts and
fraudsters! So let all that would embrace celibacy in our local congregations
in Africa be ready for surgery that will
permanently curb sexual arousal and extinguish that fire that definitely could
lead them into indulgence in heterosexual activities. We, in turn, shall
whole-heartedly welcome, respect and accord such ones full recognition and
unwavering loyalty in every religious function and willingly take care of and
sponsor such candidates to the priesthood or any other religious profession!
Anything short of this is unacceptable! Dr Kenez®
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The
material in this book is meant only for mature minds who want to see a better
society where their descendants are not fooled nor scandalised by religious
leaders with questionable credentials, low moral standards or worse still,
psychopathological traits bordering on inadequate psychosexual development. We
are living in an age where heterosexual promiscuity, hype- homosexuality,
nymphomania and paedophilia have become rampant among fraudsters parading as
religious men and women who claim to be celibates. Protect your offspring from
these disciples of Satan adorned in white cassocks, gowns and veils. All that
glitter is not gold! If you are naïve enough to leave your fathering or
mothering duties today, do not blame anybody tomorrow when your kids are
initiated into secret cults or the sexual perversions of homosexualism and lesbianism.
· Celibacy must be made optional, with priests
allowed renewing their choice after the first three years of their ordination.
They should be free like Rev. Srs. to marry if they have fallen in love with
someone they feel can assist them live a happily married life and lead an
exemplary Christian life!
· Only those who are resolute in their
virginity can aspire to becoming full-
time
Parish Priests, with the prospect of becoming Papal Chamberlains
at
the tenth year of their ordination! They have the option of voluntarily
undergoing
vasectomy to confirm their perpetual loyalty to the Church!
· A broad-based Diocesan Commission of both
the laity and the clergy can interview and appoint some of the married priests
as reliable vicars in their home parishes. However, they will find their own
accommodation and cater for their families, as they will be paid salaries and
sick-call allowances!
The
Internet is saturated with pornographic materials not good for growing minds,
but this can be monitored and satisfactorily censored by responsible parents.
However, that innocent looking priest, pastor, brother or sister you trust, can
do more damage to your child’s morality, because you will least suspect them!
Read this book, reflect on its genuine concerns and join us in providing an
insurance cover for the normal personality development of your lovely children.
Sex scandals are rocking Christendom now!
THE
GOSPEL TRUTH ABOUT THIS BOOK
Our
sons and daughters are trapped and only you and I can rescue them! The good
ones among them want to quit but are timid and afraid of what people who
sponsored them would say! Let us join hands and liberate them now! Some former
classmates of mine, who are honest but feel trapped in this buffoonery and
deceit, engineered this publication. We have outlined options that the Papacy
can adopt to save our souls! The future of the Holy, Apostolic and Catholic
Church is the ‘raison d’être’ of this publication. No other motivation
propelled the association. The Holy Spirit of the Almighty Creator of us all
was, is and will ever remain the team leader of this effort!
WE OWE THEM THIS GOOD TURN! THEY CANNOT HELP
THEMSELVES. HOWEVER, YOU CAN!
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GRADUATES
OF SATAN’S UNIVERSITY
OPTIONALISE
CELIBACY NOW!
Rev.
Prof. J. J. Kenez, D. Sc.
International
Co-Coordinator of A2 C3,
ASSOCIATION
FOR THE ENTHRONEMENT OF TRUE MORALITY BY THE ABROGATION OF COMPULSORY CELIBACY
IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
………………………………………………………………………………………………
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CHURCHES NOW
IN SEVEN VOLUMES
· ABROGATE CELIBACY IN THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH
· SANCTION ALL PROSPERITY
GOSPEL PREACHERS
· CURB EXCESSIVE
NOISE-MAKING ‘IN JESUS NAME’
· EXCISE COMMERCIALISATION
DURING CRUSADES
· HALT THE EXPLOITATION OF
ALL CONGREGATIONS
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INFILTRATORS AND OCCULTISTS
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VOLUME 1: UNMASK GRADUATES OF SATAN’S UNIVERSITY
ABROGATE CELIBACY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
By:
Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc.
© 2003
The
Vessel of the Holy Spirit of God, the Creator of the Universe
International
President, Kenez Interdenominational Philosophers’ Forum
&
Animator International, Association for the Abrogation of Celibacy in the
Catholic Church
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DEDICATION
To
all the underage that have been abused sexually by the homosexual and lesbian
graduates of Satan’s university adorning cassocks or veils of varying colours!
To
the memory of naïve girls who were deceived, seduced, impregnated and forced to
have dilatation and cutterage; “the popular D & C” from which they did not
survive!
To
the repentant celibates who want to renounce the inhuman vow and wed
canonically with the appropriate dispensations!
FINALLY,
TO THE FEW HONEST AND DEDICATED SERVANTS OF THE LORD WHO HAVE KEPT THEIR VOWS
VERY RELIGIOUSLY!
MAY THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST PLEAD FOR ALL OF
YOU, AMEN!
THIS IS A VERY GOOD BIRTHDAY GIFT FOR SEMINARIANS AND
CONVENT GIRLS.
PLEASE GIVE OUT COPIES OF THIS MEMORABLE BOOK AS
SOUVENIR TO YOUR LOVED SONS AND DAUGHTERS AT THEIR ORDINATIONS AND FINAL
PROFESSIONS!
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PROLOGUE:
A
DIALOGUE OVERHEARD IN HELL
An
armed robber who died on active service found himself in front of Lucifer, the
Prince of Hell. He was hailed as an exemplary ambassador who had done very well
while on earth. He had despatched hundreds of souls who were not given time to
repent and so was placed nearest the top echelon of the executive class, as a
Superintendent - Grade 1. While on a guided tour of his area of command, he saw
two of the mass servers in his former parish. Surprised finding them here after
their pious services at all liturgical celebrations; he queried them with an
air of authority.
“What are you two doing here?”“King Kong!” (For that was his popular nickname on
earth)“Paddy, Na waoh! Na so we see-a-moh- ooh!
We stole and drank more altar wine than all the priests and bishops did in five
years during our six months service as altar boys. The wine was not only sweet
but also very intoxicating. We died on our way to hospital because of a fatal
accident we had after the Good Friday vigil mass. It was our last bout of
twenty litres of the red Italian brew!”
“Sorry,
so you common thieves pretended that you were good boys! Who said that armed
robbers were worse? Yeah, the Catechist.”
They
cut in, “Sh-sh – that Parish
Catechist you’re talking about is down here in a hotter part of this inferno!”
As, if in doubt, he
called out to the elderly man to taunt him. “Baba-a how now?” To
his greatest amazement, he was informed that the Parish Priest that officiated
at his wedding was still far down below. He protested to his tour guide, “No,
this is injustice! How can my friend, ‘the man of God’ we all revered on earth
be condemned to hell after his twenty-five years meritorious service as a Rev.
Father on earth? No, something’s wrong here!”
He
only sobered when the priest responded thus: “King Kong, my dear, the
Archbishop who ordained me is even farther down below and he arrived before all
of us. He was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Satan I
attended. We are graduates of the seminaries where they taught the art of
preaching, deception and subterfuge! He holds three doctorate degrees! One of
them, a post-doctoral, he earned in sexual promiscuity.”
The
Archbishop was in so much pain, he just kept mute!
Now,
refresh your mind with what earned Phinehas, the son of Aaron, the special
favour of God that turned away his wrath from the idolatrous and promiscuous
life they turned into while he delivered them from Egypt:
Numbers 25:1-15
25:1
While Israel
was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with
Moabite women,
2
who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down
before these gods.
3
So Israel
joined in worshipping the Baal of Peor. And the LORD's anger burned against
them.
4
The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them
and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD's fierce
anger may turn away from Israel."
5
So Moses said to Israel's
judges, "Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined
in worshipping the Baal of Peor."
6
Then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the
eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at
the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
7
When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left
the assembly, took a spear in his hand
8
and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of
them-- through the Israelite and into the woman's body. Then the plague against
the Israelites was stopped;
9
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
10
The LORD said to Moses,
11
"Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my
anger away from the Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honour
among them, so that in my zeal I did not put an end to them.
12
Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him.
13
He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he
was zealous for the honour of his God and made atonement for the
Israelites."
14
The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son
of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
15
And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Cozbi daughter of
Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
I have no commentary to add. If the
cap fits your head, then wear it!
This association is the Phinehas of this century and
has a duty to perform.
You can also add ‘the son of Kenez’ in place of ‘son
of Eleazar’ or Aaron!
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FOREWORD
CLERICAL CELIBACY HAS OUT-LIVED ITS USEFULNESS
There
was a time when Catholic Reverend Fathers and Reverend Sisters on missionary
services in this country were really admired, respected and idolised! That was
in my teens when the Late Bishop Shanahan was still an ordinary priest! Rev.
Fr. Bindel was the Parish Priest of Ihiala, then a very large area extending as
far away as Emekuku, Orlu and Oguta! They rode long distances on Hercules
bicycles carrying out their evangelistic duties. They trekked most of the time
and made converts by using the very few semi-literate natives as their
interpreters!
These interpreters were
later promoted to Catechists and soon wielded much power! They taught pagans
catechism classes in the vernacular language and only those they certified as
having passed their examinations were baptised. They stood between every
catechumen and the sacraments of baptism, confession, confirmation, matrimony
and even the irregular reception of the Holy Eucharist! You could neither see
any Rev. Fr. nor receive any of these sacraments without greasing their palms!
No girls or women ever came close to the parish houses, not to mention having
handshakes with any priest!
The
Rev. Sisters wore sparkling ankle-length white gowns and their head-gear with a
tall hood and overflowing veils covered every part of their heads except for
just the outline of their faces. I never saw their ears! To us little urchins
at the turn of the century, they were angels. After all the pictures in our
catechism, classes were made of white skins. They were all white women.
We never dreamt that we
would, in later years, have our own black sisters and daughters qualified to
become Rev. Sisters. No one ever imagined that a black skinned woman could ever
be dressed like these white angels. These angels were our earliest teachers,
nurses, midwives and doctors. They ran the few mission schools and hospitals
that were then in existence at Ihiala and Emekuku. We adored and loved them for
their motherly care but, at the same time, we hated their injection needles!
We
were told that both the priests and nuns were virgins. It was even rumoured
that they had no sexual parts to their bodies. They were ‘castrated’ was the
naïve belief that made the rumour rounds then! We assumed that the nuns had
neither breasts nor large buttocks like our mothers and aunts! How were we to
find out? The priests were covered all over with their flowing white soutanes
that they never put off in our presence. “Did they ever urinate or defecate?”
we wondered!
I never saw any of them
in short knickers although I was a mass server for several years at St Martin’s Parish, Odo-ata Ihiala, now in Ihiala Local
Government Area of Anambra State. In addition, we never saw the ears, necks and
feet of the nuns. During clinical attendance they wore gloves, so we were
partially denied seeing their hands and fingers. “Did these ladies know how to
cook?” we pondered!
That
the priests were chaste and the nuns, virgins, were assumed! We never saw the
priests and nuns chat together, hug each other or stroll along any road side by
side. They were discreet and circumspect. They were conscious of their vows of
celibacy and public image knowing that they were continuously being watched day
and night. So, they never scandalised us nor gave us the chance to suspect
them! That was in the early 1930s and 1940s.
We gradually began to
notice that many nuns went on leaves that were termed “annual” and understand
why some others that lasted beyond twelve months that were termed “sudden”,
“casual” or “sick.” Soon, our own sons and daughters were admitted into
seminaries and convents. By the 1950s, some were ordained and professed
respectively. This first set never scandalised us! We never suspected that they
could lower the standards set by these missionary white angels! That was before
the Nigeria-Biafra civil war that lasted from 1967 to 1970.
All
that changed as the scales fell off our eyes. Our religious blinkers were
forcibly removed by what we saw during the civil war at the few Caritas Feeding
Centres that we naturally located within the parish premises. We saw a lot.
Some printable, others not whisperable! Promiscuity was the mildest term for describing
what the refugee women described as own contributions to the war effort! Our
clergymen and women were the butt of their sexual exploits as relief items
like; stockfish, egg-yolk and milk were exchanged for amorous relationships.
“Have
they also eaten the forbidden fruit” was the mildest joke about what we knew was
happening. The war unmasked everyone. Today, my ten-year-old niece knows that
priests are anything but celibate! Most mass servers can swear that beside
heterosexual indulgence involving widows, married and unmarried women in our
parishes, our self-professed celibates clandestinely practise homosexualism and
lesbianism! It is no longer news that paedophilia is the scourge of the
Catholic clergy in the United
States of America. Nor is it news here in Africa that our own brothers and sisters,
‘self-proclaimed celibates’, have secret wives and husbands with their illicit
children tucked away in remote villages and the dark alleys of streets in our
urban areas!
Even among our
Protestant communities, legally married pastors indulge in adulterous
relationships without any qualms of conscience. Prominent television
evangelists are now caught pants down at brothels. In the Catholic hierarchy,
most of our so-called celibates, males and females, are not only promiscuous,
but revel in homosexual and lesbian relationships. Some are pathological
Casanovas and Nymphomaniacs! Hell is let loose as most of the demons there are
now living in our parishes and convents. It is more of a rat race than an epidemic!
There seems to be gold,
silver and bronze prizes reserved for those who excel in this sexual revolution
among our celibate community! In addition, no one wants to be left behind to
pick up a bronze medal! Some have secretly fathered children and are using
church funds to maintain them. The female celibates go on the pill or commit
abortion monthly, dilatation & curettage being their favourite option!
Others build houses and sponsor their concubines in tertiary education. The
‘been-tos’ among them send their girlfriends overseas for summer holidays.
Others receive and entertain their white girlfriends, right here in Nigeria!
No
one seems to be bothered by this anomaly. Recently, however, some local
ordinaries were forced to set up special diocesan tribunals to investigate some
of the reports they received from parishioners who are the victims of this
immoral revolution! Some married women have lost their husbands to some pretty
and sensuous Rev. Sisters! Equally, some members of the C.M.O, whose wives have
been snatched by vivacious and amorous Rev. Fathers, are also complaining. Who
can redeem us from these demonic onslaughts?
The association for the
abrogation of celibacy in the Catholic Church is the answer! Their Animator
International states that “Celibacy is a legislation that can be
abrogated anytime.” It is a convenience that can be dispensed with
as soon as it is grossly abused and becomes counterproductive. That is what it
is for now! Therefore, it must be abrogated or, in the least optionalised!
In
support of this assertion, I reprint here unabridged, a letter downloaded from
the Internet, which states in concise and unequivocal terms that the
Catholic Church does not, has never and will never teach CELIBACY.
“CELIBACY AND CATHOLIC TEACHING
Father Mateo, August 28, 1982
GZ | Blessings in The Name of Our
Lord!
GZ | For centuries The Roman Rite
has been teaching the laity that celibacy is demanded of ALL Priests... Yet
since the beginning of The Catholic Church this has not been so... I.E. St.Peter
had a wife per St Paul’s
Writings... Anglican Priests are being accepted on a case by case basis into
The Roman Jurisdictions... Not to mention Other Rites that have always held
celibacy as an option rather than a mandate....
GZ | What source is generally
available to the laity that will clarify this
issue?
GZ |
Shalom, GZ | Gayle
Dear Gayle: May I humbly suggest
that the Roman Rite doesn't teach anybody anything!
The official teachers of the Church are
the Bishops in
union with the Pope, and they can be and are of all the rites. For
example, Pius XI belonged to the Ambrosian Rite, as did Paul VI. John Paul II recently celebrated Mass in the Mozarabic Rite, although he comes from the Roman Rite.
union with the Pope, and they can be and are of all the rites. For
example, Pius XI belonged to the Ambrosian Rite, as did Paul VI. John Paul II recently celebrated Mass in the Mozarabic Rite, although he comes from the Roman Rite.
Secondly, the Church doesn't
"teach the laity". The Church teaches
all her members. The Church is not "us" vs. "them". We are all the
Church and members of one another, in need of the gospel of God.
all her members. The Church is not "us" vs. "them". We are all the
Church and members of one another, in need of the gospel of God.
Thirdly, the Church does not
"teach" anything whatever about
Celibacy. The objects of Church teaching are (1) doctrine and (2) morals. Celibacy is neither. Celibacy is a matter of Church legislation.
Celibacy. The objects of Church teaching are (1) doctrine and (2) morals. Celibacy is neither. Celibacy is a matter of Church legislation.
The law of celibacy, which has been
universal in the Latin rites since the Middle Ages, is of ecclesiastical origin
and may therefore be dispensed in individual cases. Conceivably, it could be
entirely abrogated. An easily available treatment of this matter (it is
scarcely an issue) is the article "Celibacy" in the New Catholic
Encyclopaedia.
Sincerely
in Christ,
Signedon October 28, 1996……………………………………..Father
Mateo
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This is coming from an authority on the subject under
scrutiny. He is an Israelite! He studied in Rome! He is an ordained priest of the Roman
Rite and has been in service for thirty-five years. You have no reason to doubt
what he says! “If clerical celibacy has out-lived its usefulness, what is the need
of clinging tenaciously to it? This is an absurdity on the part of the Roman
Catholic Church hierarchy”. In medical language, it is giving a wrong diagnosis
while a sick patient is in a comatose state! Alternatively, shall we take it
that the Church Fathers support the numerous sex scandals rocking the boat? Or,
has it become so insensitive to the evidence of cases of paedophilia in USA, of lesbian
and homosexual relationships reported in the mass media and so many incidences
of promiscuity in other parts of the globe and that warrants our “separated
brethren” laughing us to scorn? Why has the Pope and the Cardinals turned their
eyes the other way? Are they neck deep in these scandals themselves? Probably
it is a case of those living in glass houses not throwing stones at each other?
They are blind pastors leading the faithful!
Our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, had prophesied
about them when he compared them to the religious leaders of his time. He
reiterated that they were hypocrites that devoured the homes of widows. He
labelled them, “white sepulchres, which on the outside looked clean but
were rotten and decaying on the inside.” Anyone who deceptively takes
a vow of celibacy, deliberately violates it regularly without any pricks of the
conscience is a definitely a disciple of Satan. That is why we refer to them as
‘Postgraduates of Satan’s University.’ They are candidates for hellfire and
they will lead as many of us as they can to the same place. They are only
working for their master, Lucifer! Listen to what Jesus Christ said about such
hypocrites who take false vows in New Testament account of Matthew’s Gospel,
Chapter 23, vv. 25 - 28:
“How terrible for you, teachers
of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You clean the outside of your cup and
plate, while the inside is full of what you have obtained by violence and
selfishness. Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then
the outside will be clean too!: “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and
Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on
the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside. In the
same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but on the inside, you
are full of hypocrisy and sins.”
Does anyone need an interpretation for those simple
statements of facts? What does a tomb covered with tiles look like theses days?
White! Suppose you dig up the contents after three months, what will you find
inside? Dry bones, nails, hairs, the teeth, the skull and may be some decaying
flesh! Today, that is what the Nigerian clergy is! Our Protestant married
priests are now preferred! Many of these erring brothers and sisters of
our Catholic community come to my clinic. Nevertheless, that does not solve the
matter! They go to physicians and gynaecologists who are not Catholics; and
probably in mufti, and still accomplish their infanticidal mission. My
colleagues laugh at me! Our teaching hospitals and private clinics are
inundated with so many cases that I blush whenever I meet with some of the
irreverent ‘Rev. Fathers and Sisters!’ I may be forced to document some of
these aberrations it nothing tangible is done by the local ordinaries of these
erring sons and daughters of ours! During the civil war, I handled more than
five hundred cases, mostly out of paternal concern and humanitarian principles.
I pitied the refugee girls and women who were the commonest preys of these
amorous parish priests that used stockfish, egg-yolk and milk, donated by
CARITAS as their bets! Atimes I had to turn them back. The story has not
changed much! Only their bets have changed and their methodologies have greatly
been improved on. The treacheries and cover-ups have undergone metamorphosis,
but they can never outwit old hands in our profession!
My colleagues, still in active service, report that
the upsurge is astronomical. The most current evidence to buttress the
incidence and frequency of these scandalous practices by our ‘celibate
children’ is that five hundred cases of HIV/AIDS involving Rev. Fathers and
Sisters have been recorded at all the teaching hospitals nation-wide. The story
is the same in other sister African countries; Ghana,
Ivory Coast, Gambia, Kenya,
Malawi, Angola and South Africa! The papacy must
exempt Africans from the foolery of pretences at a celibate culture! It is
‘Un-African’, to say the least. Moreover, the scandalous lessons this clerical
subterfuge passes on to our youth, most especially the young girls and women
who are the victims of these amorous relationships does more harm to their
spiritual development than whatever ablutions they get at their weekly
confessions. It is a mockery of the sacrament of reconciliation! By God’s
grace, I am an octogenarian. It is equally ‘Un-African’ for an elder to see
evil, sit complacently and not warn the youth about its disastrous
consequences. I have done my duty! If nothing is done, and fast too, we
shall be left with no option than to assert that celibacy is a canonical
camouflage designed to shelter all those who are incapable of living the
monogamous lifestyle demanded by the sacrament of Holy Matrimony! It shall then
be obvious that it is an institutionalised and welcome haven for those having
sociopathological inadequacies! For now, that is what it represents among the
Igbos of Biafra in West Africa, who love
children and cherish family life dearly!
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
P R E F A C E
THE RAISON D’ÊTRE
Current
sex scandals in Catholic dioceses all over the world and in many parishes of
the African Church have necessitated the timely
formation of an association of deeply concerned parents, with the sole
objective of sanitising the congregation of what is regarded today as the
greatest demonic attack on decency, purity, holiness and social ethics! Many postgraduates
of Satan’s universities have invaded our churches. We urgently need to
checkmate them!
IT
IS SEX SCANDALS GALORE AS AT NOW!
It
is hoped that this association, as a child of necessity, will save us the
recurrent shame, stigmatisation and embarrassment serious minded members of the
clergy and our faithful laity suffer at the hands of our separated brethren.
They are fully aware of the deceit going on. Now they deride us on the false
claims we make on celibacy and so laugh us to scorn! We have no excuses for the
flagrant violations of the vows of chastity and virginity by our sons and
daughters!
The
words of Apostle Peter, in 2nd Peter 2: 17-22, Good News Bible
edition (GNB) is prophetic and says it all!
v.17:
These men are like dried-up springs, like clouds blown along by a storm; God
has reserved a place for them in the deepest darkness.
v.18:
They make proud and stupid statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap
those who are just beginning to escape from among people who live in error.
v.19: They
promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits—for
a person is a slave of anything that has conquered him.
v.20: If
people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their
knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and
conquered by them, such people are in a worse state at the end than they were
at the beginning.
v.21: It
would have been much better for them never to have known the way of
righteousness than to know it and then turn away from the sacred command that
was given them.
v.22: What
happened to them shows that the proverbs are true:
“A
dog goes back to what it has vomited” and “A pig that has been washed goes back
to roll in the mud.”
What
else can be more appropriate in describing our erring religious hypocrites than
the last two verses? One takes a vow of chastity or that of virginity after
fifteen years of training at the seminary or a minimum of seven years after a
postulancy at a convent respectively. Thereafter, such candidates flaunt
the vow and unrepentantly indulge in promiscuous sexual exploits shortly after
a mission-sponsored tutelage and the diocesan ceremonies of ordinations or
solemn professions usually well orchestrated and extensively financed by the
laity!This cancerous sore deserves a surgical excision!
Is
this not a variant of the abominations of desolation standing in holy places?
Has
Satan taken over our seminaries and convents or are the spiritual directors and
formators to be held responsible for this turn of events? Subterfuge, deceit and pretence
must have been so eulogised, practised and indulged in at some of the religious
training grounds, otherwise how can anyone explain how these wolves in sheep’s
clothing survived the rigorous classical conditioning and role-modelling of
their formators for so long. The sorrows of parents of these wayward candidates
are better imagined than experienced!
The
situation has so got out of hand that the warnings of Jesus Christ himself now
apply to our clergy. The whole of chapter twenty-three of the gospel according
to Matthew is an apt description of the depravity of most of our present day
priests! Currently, about fifty-five cases of reported HIV/AIDS
patients in our teaching hospitals are those of our young men and women in
religious cassocks, gowns and veils of all descriptions. However only one
appellation truly fits them all, and that is- HYPOCRITES!
THE
STATUS QUO OF CLERICAL CELIBACY TODAY
“CELIBACY,
is the state of being unmarried, with abstinence from sexual activity.
Considered a form of asceticism (q.v.), it has been practiced in many religious
traditions: in ancient Judaism, by the Essenes; and in Buddhism, Jainism and
Hinduism, by the members of monastic groups.
In
Christianity, monks and nuns in both the Western and Eastern churches have
practiced celibacy. In the Eastern Church, parish clergy are permitted to marry
before ordination, but bishops are selected from among the unmarried clergy. In
the Roman Catholic Church, celibacy is required of all clergy in the Latin
Rite. The church holds that this practice is sanctioned, although not required,
by the New Testament, basing this claim upon what it avers to have been the
constant tradition of the church and upon several biblical texts (notably, 1
Cor. 7:6-7, 25; Matt. 19:12). The principles upon which the law of celibacy is
founded are (1) that the clergy may serve God with more freedom and with
undivided heart; and (2) that, being called to serve Jesus Christ; they may
embrace the holier life of self-restraint. This statement does not imply, it is
said, that matrimony is not a holy state but simply that celibacy is a state of
greater perfection.
Having
no doctrinal bearing in the Roman Catholic Church, celibacy is regarded as a
purely disciplinary law. A dispensation from the obligation of celibacy has
occasionally been granted to ecclesiastics under exceptional circumstances, for
instance, to provide an heir for a noble family in danger of extinction.
The
Protestant reformers rejected the celibacy of the clergy, Martin Luther setting
the example to his followers by marrying a former nun. Both the marriage of
ministers and the abolition of monastic vows became common features of those
bodies that withdrew their allegiance from the Roman Catholic Church. According
to the articles of religion of the Church of England, "bishops, priests,
and deacons are not commanded by God's law, either to vow the estate of single
life, or to abstain from marriage; therefore it is lawful for them, as for all
other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the
same to serve better to godliness."
The
history of priestly celibacy has been a stormy one since it became law for the
clergy of the Latin Rite in the 6th century. Although Pope Paul VI, in his
encyclical of June 24, 1967, reaffirmed the traditional position, the
requirement of priestly celibacy remains a much-disputed ecclesiastical
question.”
Excerpts
from INFOPEDIA, the ultimate in information & historical data, USA, 2000
THE
SCENARIO IN NIGERIA
· At UNTH some years back, a convent girl
was used at the medical students’ practical session to demonstrate the early
signs of pregnancy in a virgin. The naïve postulant was made to stand in front
of students of her age and narrate what happens to her early in the morning.‘Of
course her descriptions are nothing peculiar’, the mischievous
Consultant explained to the class, ‘Congrats my dear, you are a very
good sample of a healthy mother-to-be, you are pregnant!” he
thundered.
You
can only conceptualise the loud ovation or the sarcastic uproar that greeted
the Consultant’s verdict! Then imagine the scorn and shame the Catholic medical
students had to bear because of a parish priest’s secret love affair with the
adolescent girl who honestly desired the vocation and seriously hoped to become
an exemplary Reverend Sister!
· At a wedding in my hometown back in 1992,
a handsome light complexioned Rev. Fr. travelled all the way from Umuahia to
officiate at St Martin’s Parish,
Odoata-Ihiala. The grandmother of the bridegroom was at hand to witness the
ceremony despite her aging frame and figure! She insisted on being present at
her first grandson’s wedding feast, but for a different reason altogether as
the events of the wedding celebration unfolded. At the end of the cutting of
the wedding cake, she requested to speak. Sitting in front of the audience with
the microphone secure in her trembling hands, she feebly implored the visiting
Rev. Fr. not to forget to take along with him the beautiful daughter the bride
bore for him prior to being engaged to her grandson. “We have taken care of her
for you for three years now!” she concluded. You can imagine the livid
consternation her confession caused in the reception hall!
This
is only the tip of the iceberg, as many such violations of the vow of celibacy
and worse stories from the convents litter all our parishes. One cannot recount
even ninety percent of them were such a one to narrate for ten hours the sex
scandals perpetrated under the unnatural guise of a celibate life that no
African is qualified for, let alone programmed to keep! We have been deceiving
ourselves all these years. Before the civil war, this author could vouch for
33% of the Rev. Gentlemen who took their sacred vows seriously. Now, he cannot
even swear an affidavit for as little as 0.05%.
The
current vocation explosion is thanks to this nonchalant attitude to the vows of
obedience, poverty and chastity. Most of the candidates for the religious life
nowadays, are frustrated applicants who now see easy life and sensual pleasure
as the exclusive preserve of clandestine Rev. Frs. and impious Rev. Srs. They
are the only ones permitted by the Church to dissect the sexual enjoyment in
Holy Matrimony from the difficult roles and duties of parenthood as demanded by
the Canon Laws of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. They enjoy sex without the
corresponding responsibility of pregnancy, gestation period, labour pains,
delivery and child rearing involved in it. Let those who want to marry
come out and do so honourably! It is time to put an end to pretence and public
deceit!
The
seven or more items listed on the title page will be treated on separate well
research volumes. For now, only the first has been examined. The treatise is
neither comprehensive nor exhaustive! Every concerned parent or Christian is
invited to make his or her inputs on any of the listed aberrations in the
theory and practice of Christianity today and mail it to the headquarters of
the INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT, a fellowship for all natural scientists
for immediate publication. Feel free to communicate with us by dialling
042-550344 or 0804-2719800, e-mail saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk.
Many
seminarians and postulants are virgins at their ordinations and first
professions! They are sincere on the vows they take. However, their seniors who
are already morally depraved and demonised seduce them into joining the cohort
of fraudsters in cassocks and veils!
Many
young Reverend Sisters equally, report that they were initiated into illicit
sex exploits by their parish priests or those they trusted. Platonic love
affairs became translated into concubinage within the first three years of
their profession. Some, rather than withdrawing and getting married
legally, are then convinced that everyone was indulging in it, so why should
they leave?
That
there is an option to this deceitful aberration is all that the association for
the abrogation of celibacy in the Catholic Church is saying. This clandestine
misapplication of what Paul said in his letter to the Corinthian Church
is the genesis of the mass deception! It did not make celibacy either
obligatory or mandatory, but optional. So, who invented this compulsory
application?
1
Corinthians 7:1-9
7:1
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry.
2
But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and
each woman her own husband.
3
The husband should fulfil his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife
to her husband.
4 The
wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same
way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.
5
Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you
may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will
not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 I
say this as a concession, not as a command.
7 I
wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has
this gift, another has that.
8
Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay
unmarried, as I am.
9
But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to
marry than to burn with passion.
It
is this wrong misapplication of what the apostle recommended that is the crux
of the matter. Our association is only asking that we sanitise the priesthood
and stop the mass deception. It is evident to members of the mass servers and
altar girls that both Rev. Frs. & Rev. Srs. Do not keep the vow. Here is
our position:
1. Celibacy must be made
optional, with priests allowed to renew their choice every three years for the
first ten years of their ordination. They should be as free as Reverend Sisters
to marry if they have fallen in love with someone they feel can assist them
live a happily married life and an exemplary Christian life!
2. Only those who are
resolute in their virginity can then aspire to becoming full-
time
Parish Priests, with the prospect of becoming Papal Chamberlains
at the
fifteenth year of their ordination! They have the option of voluntarily
undergoing
vasectomy to confirm their perpetual loyalty to the Church!
3. A broad-based Diocesan Commission of both the
laity and the clergy can interview and appoint some of the married priests as
reliable vicars in their home parishes. However, they will find their own
accommodation and cater for their families as they will be paid salaries and
sick-call allowances!
Both
the few honest celibates and the uncountable dishonest ‘celibates’ know that
this is the truth of the matter. Therefore, the African Synod of Bishops should
take the option Pope John Paul II gave them. In African culture, elders do not
tell lies nor propagate falsehood or false lifestyles. That is the essence of
the Ozo-titles that are conferred on trust-worthy citizens, whose tongues are
washed and minds rid of subterfuge during the rituals of purification in the
long drawn out ceremonies. Most of these clerics want the abolition of the
obnoxious dogma but are cautious lest any one says that he or she has been
indulging in its violation. That is the origin of all the ‘hide-me-&
I-hide-you’ scenario we are being treated to! Let the honest ones come out
boldly and condemn the unnatural law of celibacy. They will gain greater
respect!
We
are equal partners in this business of sanitising all Christian Churches!
We cannot shy away from our responsibilities to chart a new course and so
sanitise our Catholic Church! Get as many people as possible to fill out the
registration forms at the back of the book. Enlist only dedicated and devout
practitioners of the Christian Faith to join us. God be with you as the Holy
Spirit guides you. For “Surely, His Goodness and Mercy shall follow us all the
days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Almighty God, for ever
and ever”.
In
support of my recommendations, now read 1st Maccabees 1, 2
& 3.
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CHAPTER
ONE
THE ORIGIN OF CELIBACY
1.1
WHAT IS CELIBACY?
Celibacy,
is the state of being unmarried, with abstinence from sexual activity.
Considered a form of asceticism, it has been practised in many religious
traditions: in ancient Judaism, by the Essenes; and in Buddhism, Jainism and
Hinduism, by the members of monastic groups. In Christianity, celibacy has
been practised by monks and nuns in both the Western and Eastern churches. In
the Eastern Church, parish clergy are permitted to marry before ordination, but
bishops are selected from among the unmarried clergy. In the Roman Catholic
Church, celibacy is required of all clergy in the Latin Rite. The church holds
that this practice is sanctioned, although not required, by the New Testament,
basing this claim upon what it avers to have been the constant tradition of the
church and upon several biblical texts (notably, 1 Corinthians 7:6-7, 25;
Matthew 19:12). The principles upon which the law of celibacy is
founded are that the clergy may serve God with more freedom and with undivided
heart; and that, being called to serve Jesus Christ, they may embrace the
holier life of self-restraint.This statement does not imply, it is said,
that matrimony is not a holy state, but simply that celibacy is a state of greater
perfection.
There
would be no argument against this myopic position if those who take the vow of
celibacy actually kept it. However, that is not the case, at least, in the past
century. What we now have in Nigeria and other sister African countries are
FRAUDSTERS who pretend to be celibates but are truly Casanovas, Nymphomaniacs
and a generation of promiscuous heterosexuals, homosexuals and/or lesbians.
Consequently, our youth have been so corrupted by these demons in cassocks and
veils that the SIXTH Commandment of God means nothing to the younger generation
of Catholic children! Shall we fold our hands and allow such desecration of
moral ethics to continue unabated. That’s the challenge before this
association!
Having
no doctrinal bearing in the Roman Catholic Church, celibacy is regarded as a
purely disciplinary law. A dispensation from the obligation of celibacy has
occasionally been granted to ecclesiastics under exceptional circumstances, for
instance, to provide an heir for a noble family in danger of extinction.
The same argument can be applied to the African
situation, more so when it is remembered that our peculiar culture frowns on
someone dying without leaving any children to continue the family tree or even
an individual’s name. In some communities, one is not even mourned nor given a
decent funeral if such a person has never given birth to any offspring at all,
whether legally married or not. You only get a befitting funeral when you have
had a child in or outside wedlock! And these so-called celibates know that,
believe in it, since they’re not islands in our cultural setting or gene-load.
Do you blame them? “Blood no dey lie for joh ooh!” We have a saying, which
states “ if a prick does not die young, it will surely eat bearded meat.” Ask
Professor Chinua Achebe or rather read his famous novels; ‘Things Fall Apart’,
‘No Longer at Ease’ or ‘The Arrow of God’; they will give you a background to
understanding what I am talking about. Dr Kenez®.
The Protestant reformers rejected the celibacy of the
clergy, Martin Luther setting the example to his followers by marrying a former
nun. Both the marriage of ministers and the abolition of monastic vows became
common features of those bodies that withdrew their allegiance from the Roman
Catholic Church. According to the articles of religion of the Church
of England, “bishops, priests, and deacons are not commanded by
God's law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from
marriage; therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to
marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to
godliness.” The history of priestly celibacy has been a stormy one
since it became law for the clergy of the Latin Rite in the 6th century.
Although Pope Paul VI, in his encyclical of June 24, 1967, reaffirmed the
traditional position, the requirement of priestly celibacy remains a
much-disputed ecclesiastical question.[1]
Among
the Igbos we say; “ No one can wedge a flood during a heavy rainfall!” The only
way to control such a flood is to divert its direction of flow. No one can
cheat nature, at least not when one is half-baked, semi-trained and ill
prepared to take a vow that needs an ascetic life or demands a monastic genre.
The only way an African can practise celibacy that is transparent and
convincing to the average Church member is when those who take the vows are
also ‘MADE EUNUCHS FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN’; as St Paul the proponent, the initiator and the
instigator of the celibacy tradition suggested.
Moreover,
I am fully aware of the contents of Matthew, 19:11-12 and 1stCorinthians,
7: 7-35! None of them demands or makes celibacy compulsory! Both are
suggestions based on God’s grace not on false vows taken by sex perverts and
fraudsters! So let all that would embrace celibacy in our local congregations
in Africa be ready for surgery that will
permanently curb sexual arousal and extinguish that fire that definitely could
lead them into indulgence in heterosexual activities. We, in turn, shall
whole-heartedly welcome, respect and accord such ones full recognition and
unwavering loyalty in every religious function and willingly take care of and
sponsor such candidates to the priesthood or any other religious profession!
Anything short of this is unacceptable! Dr Kenez®
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material in this book is meant only for mature minds who want to see a better
society where their descendants are not fooled nor scandalised by religious
leaders with questionable credentials, low moral standards or worse still,
psychopathological traits bordering on inadequate psychosexual development. We
are living in an age where heterosexual promiscuity, hype- homosexuality,
nymphomania and paedophilia have become rampant among fraudsters parading as
religious men and women who claim to be celibates. Protect your offspring from
these disciples of Satan adorned in white cassocks, gowns and veils. All that
glitter is not gold! If you are naïve enough to leave your fathering or
mothering duties today, do not blame anybody tomorrow when your kids are
initiated into secret cults or the sexual perversions of homosexualism and
lesbianism.
· Celibacy must be made optional, with priests
allowed renewing their choice after the first three years of their ordination.
They should be free like Rev. Srs. to marry if they have fallen in love with
someone they feel can assist them live a happily married life and lead an
exemplary Christian life!
· Only those who are resolute in their
virginity can aspire to becoming full-
time
Parish Priests, with the prospect of becoming Papal Chamberlains
at
the tenth year of their ordination! They have the option of voluntarily
undergoing
vasectomy to confirm their perpetual loyalty to the Church!
· A broad-based Diocesan Commission of both
the laity and the clergy can interview and appoint some of the married priests
as reliable vicars in their home parishes. However, they will find their own
accommodation and cater for their families, as they will be paid salaries and
sick-call allowances!
The
Internet is saturated with pornographic materials not good for growing minds,
but this can be monitored and satisfactorily censored by responsible parents.
However, that innocent looking priest, pastor, brother or sister you trust, can
do more damage to your child’s morality, because you will least suspect them!
Read this book, reflect on its genuine concerns and join us in providing an
insurance cover for the normal personality development of your lovely children.
Sex scandals are rocking Christendom now!
THE
GOSPEL TRUTH ABOUT THIS BOOK
Our
sons and daughters are trapped and only you and I can rescue them! The good
ones among them want to quit but are timid and afraid of what people who
sponsored them would say! Let us join hands and liberate them now! Some former
classmates of mine, who are honest but feel trapped in this buffoonery and
deceit, engineered this publication. We have outlined options that the Papacy
can adopt to save our souls! The future of the Holy, Apostolic and Catholic
Church is the ‘raison d’être’ of this publication. No other motivation
propelled the association. The Holy Spirit of the Almighty Creator of us all
was, is and will ever remain the team leader of this effort!
WE OWE THEM THIS GOOD TURN! THEY CANNOT HELP
THEMSELVES. HOWEVER, YOU CAN!
Contact me via; 0812-7546470, or 0803-9097614 or
0805-1764999 or E-mail: saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk
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HERE IS WHAT THE OLD C.K.C BOYISH AND YOUTHFUL FACE OF THE REV. FR.
ECHIPU DR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE WHEN HE PENNED THIS DIATRIBE