[The Old Hoosier]

Unfortunately, we have the same thing here -- priests who make sh*t up. It's just that the MSM agrees with the ones here.

[gbcdoj]

To raise cash, he has started selling his own private-label "healing water," called Aquarapha.

This kind of nonsense is an embarrassment to the Catholic Church.

1 And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven. 2 But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning: To day there will be a storm, for the sky is red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and can you not know the signs of the times? 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he left them, and went away. (St. Matthew 16:1-4)

Is this water blessed? If so, he's committing simony by selling it. If not, it's ordinary water and he's promoting superstition.

[sinkspur]

This is the second of a multi-part series running in the Dallas Morning News.

[murphE]

Father Mbaka, a handsome 38-year-old, says he began his healing ministry in 1996 after discovering he had curative powers. "It is the work of the Holy Spirit," he explains. "I can't heal anyone as a human being. I am open to God as a channel. And the blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk. Cancers disappear."

He says those who doubt him will face God's wrath. Three days earlier, a man in a neighboring state vehemently criticized his ministry. As punishment, Father Mbaka says, God struck the man blind. "If he repents, he will see again," he says.

That doesn't sound very "pastoral".

In 2000, a South African archbishop, Buti Tlhagale, advocated adding animal sacrifice to the Catholic Mass as a way of venerating ancestors. "Animal sacrifice has a special place in the scheme of things and is celebrated in almost all African families," he argued. "We have kept it out of the church of God for too long."

Yay! Let's hear it for inculturation!

[Dominick]

This isn't new at all. We have a lot of false seers. Whats the difference if it sounds fantastic to western ears? To an African, it sounds perfectly plausible. The difference is that people let things like this fester in Africa. We have Bayside, Conyers, and many many others. THe point that other Priests make up thinks is spot on.

Igbo Atilogwu dance is not a form of voudon. Also, that did not occur at Mass. It is no more sinister than a polka party after Mass.

There are people practicing santeria, voudon and the western versions (like Scientology) all over the US, without a buffet. We may also look at the Haitian syncretism, and you will find they are considered far stranger by traditional African standards.

Why do you think people steal the Eucharist, or bury nails on Church property? It kills me that these cultists praciticng black magic believe in the Real Presence more than many Catholics.