{"id":58420,"date":"2017-07-05T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=58420"},"modified":"2017-07-05T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:25:14","slug":"ahiara-diocese-seed-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/ahiara-diocese-seed-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Ahiara Diocese And The Seed Of\u00a0 Rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Sunday July 9th<\/span><\/span>, Catholic faithfuls in Ahiara diocese and of course the
\nwhole world will know who remains among the rebelling priests in the
\nChurch and who leaves. By that date, the one month ultimatum the Holy
\nFather, Pope Francis gave these rebelling priests to write personal
\nletters of apology, pledging loyalty to the Pope and accepting Bishop
\nPeter Ebele Okpalaeke as their bishop, will lapse. There are, as at date,
\n206 incardinated priests in the diocese (don\u2019t mind the egregious claim of
\n750 or 1,000 priests from the dissidents). It is for this number that the
\napology is prescribed, both those in Nigeria and abroad.<\/p>\n

For some exasperated Catholics, especially my fellow Catholics of Ahiara
\ndiocese especially those who remain loyal and faithful to the Church, the
\nChurch needs to bring to a closure an embarrassing, revolt hatched by
\ndissident priests, in cahoots with diverse lay interests that share deep
\npassion for the destruction of the Church in the diocese on the vacuous,
\nvery leaky and tendentious reason that she did not appoint a son of the
\nsoil as bishop.\u00a0 The Pope alluded to this devilish design in his stern
\naddress to a delegation from Ahiara loyal priests and laity, top officials
\nof the Roman Curia and the leaders of the Nigerian Church in his June 8th
\naudience to address the lingering crisis. Indeed, the Pope aptly likened
\nthe revolt and the rejection of a duly appointed Bishop by a section of
\nthe church in Ahiara to the wicked tenants in the Bible who seized and
\nkilled the heirs and servants of the landlord so as to take possession of
\nhis estate. He minced no words in describing the unseemly actions of the
\ndissidents in Ahiara as a mortal sin and as a way of scandalizing the
\nChurch.<\/p>\n

For many observes of what has become a disgraceful rebellion, the Pope\u2019s
\nverdict is long in coming but that is the Catholic Church for you. She is
\na patient, methodical mother who acts when she had exhausted all avenues
\nfor amendment. Yes, it took a whole five years for the Pope, the final
\nauthority in the Catholic Church to act but before then, the Pope had used
\nall known conflict resolution means known to the Church to bring this
\nman-made problem to an end. Since the three politician-priests that
\nprovoked and launched this rebellion and sowed this seed of rebellion,
\nwent to work, the Church has used various means to deal with the issue. As
\nit is in every other diocese or part of the church where similar issues
\nhad arisen, the matter would have long been put to rest if indeed the
\nintent of the rebellion was not to exert maximum disgrace on the Church
\nand finally pull it down. Since the crisis was launched, the Church in
\nNigeria and its various hierarchies have weighed in and pleaded and
\ncautioned but the kingpins of this rebellion have a clear mission that
\nneither tolerates common sense nor was interested in any other result than
\nthe destruction of the Church, if she doesn\u2019t meet their nepotic demand.<\/p>\n

The crisis in Ahiara diocese is a vicious provocative assault on the
\nbelief, teaching and practice of the Catholic Church. It is a virulent
\nattack on the age old practice of the Catholic Church. It is a vicious
\ntackle against the universally accepted norm of Catholicism. Equally it is
\na sly attack on the bond of brotherhood that binds not only Catholics
\ntogether but also Igbo as a race. It not only is a bad advertisement to
\nCatholics, it is a serious dent on Igbo and a shameful rebuke to the race.
\nMost importantly it is colossal damage to the image of Mbaise as a people
\nand it was obvious that the provocateurs and fanners of this senseless war
\nnever cared as they thrust bloody knives into the hearts of the Church and
\nthe Igbo race. What more, the rebellious actions provoked deep anger,
\npain, shame and embarrassment on the Pope and the universal Church.<\/p>\n

Ahiara diocesan crisis is all about nepotism. It is all about bigotry
\nwhich found expression in a flagrant display of outright disobedience to
\nthe Church for not pandering to the clannish and restricted tribal
\ninterests of a local cabal that wants to seize the Church in Ahiara and
\nimpose its self-serving idiosyncrasies on it. It is an overplay of
\nprimitive ego and unexplainable clannish hubris even in matters of
\nspiritualism. This carnal quest to take over a Church founded historically
\non universalism has bred a rash of demonic manifestations and it finds
\nexpression in baleful fabrication of horrific lies, serialization of
\nheretic forgeries and outright enslavement of impressionable minds by a
\ndemonic cartel that seeks inordinate lordship over the local Church as
\nways of deepening hitherto unknown carnal desires. What more, there is
\nnothing spiritual or godly in the demands and acerbic actions of the
\nshibboleths that provoked and fed the tongs of this crisis.<\/p>\n

Rather there is everything about clannishness, primitive arrogance and
\nunrefined pride in all the arguments and actions advanced by those that
\nplay deaf to the history, procedures and precedents of the Church in
\ndeciding who leads a diocese. This devilish desire, while reduced to a
\none-line war cry; \u2018demand for Mbaise bishop\u2019 is none other than a
\nfrantically procured tribal mandate that finds no place in the Catholic
\nChurch. Since that divisive war was declared, with the appointment of
\nBishop Peter Okpalaeke, every vile means has been thrown into the fray by
\nthose who have not only arrogated to themselves the duty of appointing a
\nbishop for the Catholic Church but sound emptily arrogant on issues that
\nare settled and well known to the entire world.\u00a0 The whole crisis is am
\ninstigated effort to destroy the Church using the appointment of a Bishop
\nas a cover and the Holy Father has clearly identified this.<\/p>\n

As the politician priests, having fully inhaled the smoke of Satan, went
\non their nocturnal rounds among the Ahiara priests like the snake to Eve
\nin the garden of Eden, meeting and seducing priests to sign on to their
\nethnic war against the appointment of a bishop of Anambra origin, there
\nwas no doubt that they were bent on inflicting maximum damage on the
\nChurch for not doing their self serving desires. They quickly formed a
\ndeadly alliance\u00a0 with the willing basket of deplorable, the isi anyi
\nkuwasawas, made up of nominal Catholics, those with questionable Catholic
\ncallings, those that have left the Catholic Church, those that have one
\ngrudge or the other against the Catholic Church, the political way farers
\nwho lost their deposit in the political space and who saw a renewed
\nprospect in tapping into the cheap ethnic promises of fighting for an
\nMbaise bishop, non Catholics, animists, pagans, etc who now formed the
\nalluring bandwagon. They armed this deadly mob with one clear mission
\nstatement; \u2018Mbaise Bishop or we pull down the Church\u2019. Possessed by a
\nqueer idol of tribe, they levied a son of Igboland a \u2018foreigner who
\nneither hears our language nor understand our culture\u2019-can you imagine
\nthat? Quickly erasing their religious callings and clearly denying the
\nuniversality of the Church, the priests shed their priestly calling and
\nplayed along and mischief assumed a full life of its own. They tried to
\ncouch their quaint mission under the dubious demand for \u2018justice\u2019 which is
\nnone other than an effort to sew a fraudulent cloth for their nefarious
\ninterest.<\/p>\n

Having formed the irrational mob, the next step was to search and find for
\nthemselves some supposedly knowledgeable impostors, some Goebbels of
\nsorts, brimming full with residual bitterness and thinly disguised
\nmischief against the church and frustration with the society. These are
\nglorified buffoons that arrogate themselves reverse knowledge of the issue
\nin question and who are so attracted to the nectars of clannish support
\nfor their challenged personas. These became the Okoko Ndems and
\npropagandists who self-conferred themselves with dubious expertise in
\nCanon Law, which they quote copiously but obtusely from their bedrooms to
\nsatisfy their predetermined goals. These were charged with forging and
\nproducing tons of baloneys, filled with lies, forgeries, hate, heresies
\nand blasphemies against the Church and her leaders both within and without
\nNigeria. Being pathological anti socials, these characters became sources
\nof prurient bitter hogwash, often laced with a generous but dubious
\nallusion to the Canon Law with which they not only duped and misled the
\nsimple minded, the unsuspecting and the uneducated but set them on an
\nirreversible path of murderous vengeance against the Church. From their
\nsmall dingy corners, they smiled as Mark Anthony did after turning the
\nRoman mob against the conspirators who killed Julius Caesar and exclaimed;
\n\u2018mischief, thou art afoot\u2019. Yes their mischief is afoot in Ahiara diocese
\nand they are drawing raucous applause from the plebian for their
\ndestructive values to the Church.<\/p>\n

These contrived messengers of Lucifer were let loose like unbridled
\nloose cannons on every Church leader in Nigeria and they smeared,
\nblackmailed, abused, denigrated, scandalized and besmirched everybody
\nand everything revered and held sacred in the Nigerian Catholic Church
\nand infact, the universal Catholic Church. In this mad sequel, Cardinal
\nArinze, globally-respected leader of the Church has been practically
\nlynched with all manners of allegations, insults, tirades and curses.
\nCardinal Onaiyekan, who was appointed to administer the diocese and
\nsolve the crisis, has equally been lynched with every manner of lies,
\nallegations and abuses. Archbishop Anthony Obinna, indeed, the Catholic
\nBishops Conference of Nigeria, the Nuncio (Pope\u2019s Ambassador) were all
\ntied on the stake and murdered by the bizarre lies and murderous venom
\nof the lynch mob. Even the Late Bishop Mark Unegbu, the first indigenous
\nBishop of Owerri was literally exhumed and killed again in a horrific
\neffort to completely rubbish the Church and ensure it never survives the
\nbile of those that purport to want a Bishop from their tribe at all
\ncosts. It was certain that if God comes down to earth to speak against
\ntheir wanton conduct, they would have subjected him to scurrilous
\ninsults for not acceding to their desires. No sacred teaching of the
\nchurch, no sacred institution in the Catholic Church has been spared
\nfrom mutilation, trampling and violation from those crusading for a
\nbishop for me.<\/p>\n

While this murderous character assassination was going on, the procured
\nintelligentsia of the lynch mob was busy, twisting every message from the
\nChurch and Nigerian church authority, obfuscating such messages and
\ndirectives and forging them out of context to deceive and keep their
\nunthinking mob on the streets and under their guile wraps. Every directive
\nfrom the Church was bastardized and twisted to suit the fixated primitive
\ndesires of the lynch mob who were induced to stage regular protests, lock
\ndown Churches and indulge in arrays of unseemly, uncatholic and detestable
\nacts to drive home their demand. Ensuring that every directive of the
\nChurch was mutilated and colored as \u2018forgeries\u2019 from Arinze, Onaiyekan,
\nObinna or the CBCN, the leaders of this mad rebellion ensured their
\nvictims, firmly trapped in their mischievous cages, never escaped to
\nsource out reason or the real facts of the teachings of the Catholic
\nChurch on the contentious issue.<\/p>\n

They would rather their victims were quartered in a closet where they
\nwould be fed regular diets of lies, slanderous fabrications and raw
\nforgeries so as to fully harvest their nuisance values. What better way to
\nwork the rabble to full destructive value than couching raw fabrications
\nand lies in ethnic and clannish foils, play up the victimhood card and
\nappeal to cheap sentiments? These kingpins have so brainwashed their
\nvictims with enough lies to last them several generations by those who
\nswear they will rather pull down the Church than have an Anambra bishop.
\nCuriously some of the leaders of these mob, who generously feed them with
\na cocktail of lies double in same capacity as loud proponents of the
\nBiafran actualization and you imagine what it will be in their Biafra
\nwhere an Anambra man would be seen by an Mbaise man as a foreigner who
\nneither hears our language or understands our culture.<\/p>\n

What baffled was that the provocateurs and participant in this feast of
\ncannibalism were not moved that no respectable sane Leader of the Church
\nboth in Nigeria and the world shared their weird demand that clearly
\nviolates the belief and practice of the Catholic Church. It never mattered
\nto these people that no known law; Canon or otherwise, supports their
\nweird desire to have a son of the soil as bishop at all costs. It never
\nmattered to them that the strange, devilish teachings and philosophies,
\nwild and baseless lies and allegations they ventilated against respected
\nleaders of the Church and the Church herself, was shared by no one but
\nthem. Of course, they created a convenient caveat for this huge deficit by
\nappealing to vague victimhood. On yea, every person hates and is working
\nagainst the Mbaise interest! What a tragedy!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the arrowheads of this devilish rebellion have been promising
\ntheir victims, the unthinking mob every six months since 2012 that Rome
\nwill appoint one of them as Bishop and ditch Okpalaeke. They have been
\ntelling their brainwashed victims that Bishop Okpalaeke was not appointed
\nby the Pope but by Cardinal Arinze. They have virtually handed the
\nCatholic Church to Cardinal Arinze in a bizarre and confounding
\ndesperation to work the mob to a deadly frenzy. Yes, Arinze practically
\ncontrols the Vatican, and even the Pope! They have told their unthinking
\nvictims whom they want to use to destroy the Church that they know so well
\nof the Vatican and Canon Law to conclude that Bishop Okpalaeke was not
\nproperly appointed. Yet, when the Pope invited them to come to Rome and
\nadvance all the hogwash they have been feeding themselves and their
\nvictims for five years, all of them developed running stomach knowing the
\nworthless value of the nonsensical arguments and spurious lies they have
\nbeen hawking all these years, they wholly declined to honour the Pope\u2019s
\nsummon and rather engaged in another round of tirade to denigrate the
\nsummon. Even their hidden lay backers and sustainers declined. They all
\nknew they have been marketing spurious lies that will not survive any
\nscrutiny at the Vatican.<\/p>\n

They tell their bemused and impressionable victims that the Canon Law
\nstates that they will be parts of the appointment process of a bishop, who
\nmust wily nily come from their land or else heavens will be made to fall.
\nThey have hewed for themselves their own sets of laws and beliefs such
\nthat they are ever ready to put a spin to everything from the Vatican,
\nwhich they easily dismiss as a forgery from either Cardinal Arinze or
\nCardinal Onaiyekan or the Nuncio. It was this horrible and the
\nunquestioning mob, stripped of their reasoning, submitted themselves to be
\nduped by these slave traders. As they churned their detestable jeremiad,
\nthe rainbow coalition of ndi nkuwasa was worked to a murderous rage.
\nPeriodic lockdown of the Cathedral in the name of protests became the norm
\nand the hauling of curses and abuses against the Church and its hierarchy
\nbecame a regular norm in the pulpits. Generous ventilation of insults and
\nunruly conducts were promoted in strange efforts to bring the Catholic
\nChurch to its knees except she gives in to their demand. They worked
\nthemselves and their victims to the apogee of vain pride from where they
\nfound so hard to descend when it was obvious that they cannot con the
\nChurch with their poorly assembled baloney. At a time, the most difficult
\ntask for them was how to do the tower of Babel they have constructed and
\nthat is where they are stranded today as the deadline for the apology
\ncloses in.<\/p>\n

But it bears mention that these murderous mob were not real Catholics. As
\nI have said earlier it was a rainbow coalition of those with one axe or
\nthe other to grind with the Church; the nominal Catholics who just affix
\nCatholicism to their creed, those who have left the Church, non Catholics,
\npagans, etc. No real catholic who faithfully belongs to the Church will
\nspeak condescendingly on the leaders of the Church talk not of abusing and
\nlying against them. No convinced Catholic will insist on the Church to
\neither do his selfish will or get destroyed. No real Catholic will
\nwillingly scandalize, lie and smear the Church to achieve ill-defined
\ninterests, especially when such interest has no grounds on the practice
\nand rules of Catholicism. No real Catholic will spit such fire and
\nbrimstone that we have seen spewed in Ahiara in the past five years just
\nbecause the Church refuses to appoint a son of the soil as bishop. No real
\nCatholic will subject revered Church leaders to scurrilous and vicious
\nattack, insult and abuse based solely on contrived lies, specious and
\noutlandish allegations. No real Catholic should openly and callously
\ndisobey the Church in such manner that those that provoked and fed the
\nAhiara diocesan crisis have done in the past five years. No real Catholic
\nwill indulge in the devilish art of mutilating, obfuscating and
\nmanipulating the teachings of Christ and the Church so as to achieve
\ninordinate interests. No real will form an unholy alliance with non
\nCatholics to fight the Church. The real Catholics in Ahiara refused to
\nfight but prayed that God will handle the matter in His own ways. He has
\nno reason to indulge in several desperate means to force the hands of God
\nbecause his belief in God and His capacities to deal with any issue, is
\ntotal, unlike the mercenaries, not sure of his ways and means,\u00a0 indulge in
\nevery desperate means to force God to do their will.<\/p>\n

However the visage of Catholic priests running, tail behind their backs,
\nto Governor Okorocha, whom they had treated to their well known insult at
\nthe earlier stages of this rebellion for telling them to obey the Church
\nand the Pope and now begging him to intervene in the suspension threat
\nfrom the Pope is humiliating enough to whoever calls himself a priest.
\nMore humiliating was the same Governor Okorocha lecturing priests on
\nobedience to the Church and the Pope, like a school teacher does to his
\npupils. As laudable as the Governor\u2019s efforts are, it is a humiliation too
\nmany that men that went through the thorough process of priestly formation
\nshould voluntarily drag themselves so low because they vitiated their
\npriestly calling through incredible show of shameful obduracy and
\ndemeaning clannishness.<\/p>\n

That priests should even tarry to obey the Pope or pretend not to discern
\nthe ways of the Church, is a generational embarrassment that will
\ncertainly outlast their generations. That priests should indulge in
\ndenigrating the hierarchy of the Church, trade lies, blackmail, and
\ninsults on venerable leaders of the Church both within and without Nigeria
\nis a huge dent on their callings and marks a remarkable process in
\nself-demarketing which has dragged them down their high horses. Ahiara
\npriests have caused huge embarrassment to themselves, the Church and the
\nMbaise nation by their unbelievable acts of disobedience and even writing
\nthe apology, voluntarily or grudgingly will not wipe away the massive
\nembarrassment splurged on the faces of Mbaise, Imo State and the Catholic
\nChurch worldwide by the disappointing acts of the priests. I hope the
\nChurch seriously reviews the process of priestly formation in Ahiara
\ndiocese after this madness has ebbed to avoid such embarrassing and
\nshameful occurrence in the future. But it must be stated that it will take
\nages for the negative fruits of the seed of rebellion sowed in Ahiara to
\npeter out, even after the resolution of this crisis and every Mbaise
\nCatholic, and even non Catholics will partake in the unsavory effects of
\nthis wild seed.<\/p>\n

Peter Claver Oparah
\nIkeja, Lagos.
\nE-mail:\u00a0peterclaver2000@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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