Visit of the Pope in Africa: Satanism won’t get through, Love will triump...

One could think that the house of God had recovered his real face in 1992 after the forgiveness expressed by Pope John-Paul II for the barbarity of slavery. But not yet! After the biggest lie of the second millennium and one of the biggest insults to the divine ideal, the Church, especially the Roman Catholic Church, seems determined to carry on its progression in the tunnel. The first visit of the Pope Benedict XVI in Africa, notably in Cameroon and Angola, gives the opportunity to assess the Church of yesterday, of today, and the role of Africa in the construction of the Church of the third millennium.

It is well-known that both the Bible and the missionary have been used for slave trade and the enslavement of Black people. Many Popes of the Vatican have encouraged if not tolerated discriminatory practices and policies. The two World Wars and the gas chambers were certainly the apotheosis, a sort of victory of Satanism within the Christian church, and confirmed its failure in the complete construction of human beings. Those who thought they were superior and closer to God just because they were white torn apart into superior and inferior races. And all this has proven that the truth resides far beyond human boundaries. Nothing is in the race, the tribe, the religion or the established group, everything is in the spirit.

It is unfortunate that up till now, many religious dignitaries refuse obstinately to learn from the past by participating sincerely to reconcile human beings to each other and to their Lord, the only one. Indeed, people can only reconcile around the truth and therefore any good reconciliation implies first to break with perversion. One can not put in the same basket the good fruits and the poisoned ones and serve them to those who hunger for real food. By reinstating bishops making endless statements to deny the massacre of Jews during World War II, the Pope Benedict XVI was breaking with this truth and was turning his back to an authentic reconciliation. (Note: The four reinstated bishops are Lefebvrians. They belong to a movement founded by the later archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who opposed some reforms of the Roman church promoting dialogue with other religions. They were excommunicated together with their mentor in 1988).

Equally, there is a proliferation of sects, cults (the organized evil) which can not be mixed up with religious congregations and federate around the Church behind the pretext of reconciliation. Everyone knows that one of the biggest challenges that the Church of the third millennium should take up is the integration of different religions in one. People can share one language and be divided into hundred of tribes. On the other hand, people can speak different languages and be united around the same God, who advocates love and respect of one another. It is easy to understand that the peoples of the earth, living in different geographical areas, having different histories and facing different realities, have different ways to praise the Lord. But fundamentally, all the religions proceed from the desire to edify human beings while bringing them closer to the spiritual perfection, God. The established religions like Christianity, Islam and Buddhism meet around this ideal and move away from it when they are infiltrated by the devil, the evil spirit which has always been the most important enemy of peace.
Assuming that every human being is fallible, one can not claim at a time to follow God and the devil. One can not serve two masters only when cheating. Yet, the truth has always been much stronger than lies. God is love and patience but is far from being mad and inactive. He talks to us and challenges us daily through our own experiences and those of others. With us and through us, He transforms the world and achieves His justice. He precedes our thoughts, our plans, our ambitions and His work continues after us.

In the light of facts, it becomes obvious that the commitment of Pope John-Paul II in Africa was much less the consequence of a certain debt of the West toward Africa than that of his encounter with the truth. It is an encounter imposing a daring commitment and a necessary opening to reconcile the Church with itself. When in 1942, the Philosopher J-B Obama succeeded in introducing balafons for the first time in the Cameroonian Catholic Church, he certainly somehow knew that inculturation was not merely a marriage between the traditional Roman Church and the traditional African religion, it was mainly a return at the very source of the Church. Black Communities had played a fundamental role in its development in the past and are still called to play a fundamental role in its regeneration. (Note: Music to the rhythm of balafons was considered by the colonialists to be that of the devil).

Yet, in the West where the principal headquarters of the Church is located, the Christian temples are emptying in aid of pagan and satanic temples. The lack of faith, materialism, combined with the misdeeds of the clergymen, have finally driven the faithful out of churches. While the Church in Africa has the wind in its sails, the destructive powers are managing to inseminate the same canker worms into its body by appointing at key positions corrupt religious people, those who have treated with the devil. In Cameroon for instance, there is a flowering of perverse behaviors within the clergy. From wheeling and dealing to corruption and embezzlement, passing through sexual abuses, homosexuality and persecution of ordinary faithfuls, the church is becoming a house which endangers instead of being a house which reassures. Inside, we notice a speech which is increasingly dual, perverse and suspicious activities which tend to accentuate spiritual colonialism. There are more and more statues, paintings and other representations which intentionnaly give a white face to God. Groups of youths, laywomen, laymen and the other believers are led to wear cloths highlighting the same message, so that they idealize the white race and imperialist colors. At the same time, they are led to scorn their own race, the black being willingly considered as the color of the bad, non virtuous and inhuman people. The vigilant observer notices that from one support to the other, these images, hung in many sitting rooms, present a Jesus whose eyes vary strangely and even dangerously from brown to Aryan blue. (Note: The Aryans are introduced as white people from northern Europe, especially those with pale hair and blue eyes, who were believed by the NAZIS to be better than members of all other races.)
Not content with giving the name of foreign missionaries to many of their investments (churches, schools, caring and heath centers), today, the Catholic clergy also invites believers to worship the presumed remains of European saints!

All these practices move away from the authentic God, enslave mentally, promote paganism, fetishism and of course provide a fertile ground for freemasonry.

However, this Church, which has been run for many decades by a local clergy, has also enjoyed engaged builders who have led to the conversion of numerous citizens. Nowadays, this noble fiber continues to exist and many signs show that they won’t give up. In view of the religious zeal and the dynamism animating the people of God across Africa, it is clear that despite the jolts, Satanism won’t get the better of true faith. Moreover, the spiritual center of the global Church is moving from the North to the South and this can only be profitable to the world. African people have had for a long time the experience of difficult and conflicting situations, which prepares them better to rise to present and future challenges. Africa is a model of humility, endurance and powerfulness which can only inspire the people of God across the world and incite to deep changes. The most important thing for the Church is to find back the holy sprit which it lacks so much.

Lastly, let us share a bit of the long and rich experience of Meinrad Hebga (1928-2008), another fervent supporter of inculturation and dialogue between religions. He is above all a catholic missionary who devoted the most part of his career healing spiritually numerous sufferers across the world and combating esoteric sects.
As a small boy, in the thirties, he was touched by the sexist, racial and confessional segregations which were customary in Christian missions. At the pre-seminary of Edéa, those treated as “Negroes” should serve lunch to their french classmate together with his fellow creatures, a mediocre student of the first year of secondary school. One day, the young Hebga was violently kicked on the back by the (French) Superior father. He flew over four steps of the stairs and hit his head against the entrance of the W.C. He suffered in the spine and the head for three years. For what crime? Because of a tough Latin version, he didn’t serve the soup early enough to his irascible masters…Until the eve of his ordination in 1951, he was having difficult relationships with his superiors, among whom a French archbishop showing a simplistic chauvinism. Mgr Marcel Lefebvre was happy to tell that 100 000 Malagasies were killed in a rebellion against the French colonial order. All along important services, rather than talking of the Christ, the same personage used to denounce the Resistances and encourage the various tricks used by his compatriots to deceive, discourage and control the populations of occupied regions. Hebga was so shocked that he nearly gave up the priesthood and even Christianity when he came across a text in the Bible: ”Is the Christ divided? Is it Paul that was crucified for you? Is it in the name of Paul that you were baptized?” 1Cor.1, 13. “Light had entered my mind and peace had entered my heart. It would have been sheer madness to give up the faith in the Christ just because of a human creature. I have never got this temptation again and I’ve helped some fellow people to overcome it.” Hebga says.

This testimony illustrates well the suffering and the victory over suffering of Black people. Obviously, all the peoples of the earth suffer, but there are sufferings which destroy. Those for instance of persecutors tormented by the fire of hell and who henceforth agitate in all directions or those of victims who got trapped by hatred and are obsessed by revenge. On the other hand, there are sufferings which set free, enlighten and bring eternal life. Those of Jesus Christ for instance, persecuted and crucified, but whose spirit work continuously among nations. Nowadays, Christians and non Christians from all over the world are getting united to make his justice shine. All these people placing the love of God in the center of their lives are integral parts of the New Church, the Church which will collapse the barriers of hatred and injustice. From the ashes of Satanism will emerge the walls of the holy house!

We welcome all those who come in the name of God!


www.wwafa.org, March 16, 2009

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