Yesterday in Shorts I mentioned this story ➡ African, Korean missionaries look to reconvert America, Europe, an unfortunate sign of just how far we’ve fallen from our Christian roots. Here’s more evidence, from Portland ~ Progressive’ pro-gay Catholics shout down faithful African priest during Mass (video)~
Fr. George Kuforiji, a native of Nigeria, was just commencing the celebration of the Mass on June 20 at St. Francis of Assisi parish when he was interrupted by elderly parishioners wearing white and bearing protest signs. The loud, grey-haired protesters filed into the central aisle and marched forward while Fr. Kuforiji tried to continue the celebration from behind the altar. Some banged tambourines or shook rattles in the church.
A parishioner captured the histrionics on video ~
The video showed several of the mostly female parishioners confronting Fr. Kuforiji at the back of the church. One woman approached him and said, “How can you be a priest? I’ve been here for over 15 years. You’ve been here a year.”
Fr. Kuforiji responded: “Do you have reverence for God?” as the woman turned her back on him in apparent disgust. Finally, the protesters ended their disruption of the liturgy by locking arms and singing the Civil Rights-era anthem, “We Shall Overcome.” […]
According to a report in The Oregonian, members of the parish council and other parishioners questioned Fr. Kuforiji’s leadership and reforms. One of his innovations was to ban “inclusive language” in Scriptural readings used in the parished. His predecessors had avoided references to God as “Lord,” “king,” or “he.” Other reforms that Fr. Kuforiji introduced when he took over the parish in 2018 was to remove a hand-woven Guatemalan cloth that had been used on the altar, replacing it with a plain white altar cloth as prescribed for use in the Catholic Church.
Sounds to me like Father Kuforiji is just trying to make St. Francis Catholic again.
These aging baby-boomers want nothing to do with the one, true God. They’d rather invent their own kinder, gentler version. The Old Testament is full of folks like this, worshiping other gods of their own creation – instead of the Creator. Things never worked out well for them did they? You’d think we would have learned from their mistakes.
The faithful African missionaries certainly have their work cut out for them!
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Related:
Waterloo Of Boomer Catholics ~
(W)hat happened when the Catholic archbishop of Portland sent a priest in to reform a wackadoodle progressive parish that had gone native… The Oregonian’s report on it is hysterically biased, making the priest look like a monster; the reporter never once appears to have considered that Catholicism is a religion that has clear norms, and this parish’s previous leadership had seriously violated them, for a long time.
Unlike the pampered, jaded, far-too-comfortable societies of western nations, for most African peoples, basic human survival is an everyday concern. Nothing forces one to prioritize than a huge dose of harsh reality […]
“It is tempting to chalk up the traditionalism of African Catholics to the underlying cultural conservatism of their broader societies, as (über-liberal, Cardinal) Kasper seemed to want to do. But look closer and much more is at play. Reading through the various public statements of many African prelates one senses that unmistakable fierceness of conviction that comes with being a newly converted society. […]
“There is something about death that makes the truth urgent. When confronted with the sword or the gun, things seem a lot less gray. Black-and-white thinking tends to come hand in hand with life-or-death situations. Eternity matters more. This life matters more because eternity matters more.”
