Posted on 11/06/2015 2:22:52 PM PST by marshmallow
DUBLIN, November 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - A Nigerian priest who condemned Irish supporters of same-sex "marriage" has sparked a debate about whether the Irish should accept African priests with unpopularly orthodox beliefs or push for married priests and more roles for women.
To Nigerian Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo of Oyo, it is a no-brainer. "There should be absolutely no problem," he told LifeSiteNews, "for priests from anywhere in the world to come back and help Ireland," especially after so many Irish missionaries spread the Gospel to Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Not everyone agrees, especially after Fr. Joseph Okere allegedly told the congregation at St. Mel's Cathedral in Longford, Ireland that the recent referendum vote in favor of same-sex marriage "was evidence the devil was at work in Ireland" and that those who voted in favor were "devil-worshipers."
Not the sort of language the Irish are used to hearing from the terminally guilt-ridden and perpetually apologetic Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin.
Preach it, brother!
I went on a missions trip to central America a few years ago. Got into an interesting conversation with an old man living in a shack. He told me they were poor but free unlike people living in America. He said he could talk about Jesus to anybody, anywhere, without the government getting involved.
that’s exactly what my Aunt Terry would have said. She was a true daughter of the ould sod.
I was saying to my husband that it won’t be long before Africa will send missionaries to America. I didn’t know they’d stop by Ireland first.
We have an African priest from Kenya who is assigned to our parish. He is the most humble, the most holy Jesus loving man I have ever encountered. He attracts a crowd of people after every Mass. People wait in line to speak to him.
His homilies are beautiful and when he speaks it feels like Jesus is speaking to me through him.
I’m thinking black Irish. LOL
We’ve had African priests in the United States for a couple of decades at least. The Diocese of Tulsa has several. Once a diocese has one African, it’s not unusual for more to come, either those already ordained or seminarians.
The first time our Father Amaliri got up for his homily and started to sing in Ibo, it threw the staid Midwestern congregation for a loop, but they warmed up to him big time.
Africa is keeping the church true and the flame alive.
As long as the priest is preaching the eternal truths of the Church, I don’t care what his color, ethnicity or place of origin is. Jesus’ teachings are for all people, for all time, all over the world. Just sayin’
Cardinal Arinze was my choice to be Pope.
Surely now, we in the old country never thought the Black & Tans would be anything like this!
And Cardinal Arinze, does he like corned beef & cabbage like the common folk?
You might disagree with me on this.
Over the past year I went to two Catholic funerals, one led by an Irish priest and one an African priest. I’ve been to quite a many Catholic funerals in my life. But the last two by the aforementioned priests were very “evangelical.”
“The first time our Father Amaliri got up for his homily and started to sing in Ibo, it threw the staid Midwestern congregation for a loop, but they warmed up to him big time.”
There was a Kenyan priest assigned to an Orthodox parish up here aways back. His use of some African tongue (not Ge’ez or Amharic) in the Liturgy did not go over well. Nor did he. He’s gone now.
Ge’ez or Amharic would have been okay? You just needed an Ethiopian.
“Ge’ez or Amharic would have been okay? You just needed an Ethiopian.”
The Archdiocese has some Ethiopian priests. We have Ethiopian parishioners so the Our Father is recited in both Ge’ez and Amharic, among other languages, at every Liturgy. Nice languages. Personally, I think the Ethiopians are a bunch of Greeks who went south one winter and just stayed (They say just the opposite; that they came north to ski at Mount Olympus and fell in love with the olives). The ties between Greeks and Ethiopians, social, religious and family, are ancient and very strong.
Amharic is a Semitic language. Maybe they went skiing in Lebanon first and then went around to Greece.
“Amharic is a Semitic language. Maybe they went skiing in Lebanon first and then went around to Greece.”
That’s what the Lebanese guys say after they finish the Our Father in Arabic! Of course, they’re just a bunch of Greeks we left behind when we boogied as Mohammed and his armies showed up.
Movement is so much easier with an ocean right there.
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