Inspiration for African Catholics from Lwanga and Lefebvre

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Good day, All,

I published my first French video given the show of resistance by the French-speaking African bishops in light of the recent gay blessing fiasco.

The video is in French, but I have included here an English script so that you may read it.

If you are a francophone, then by all means, regardez svp!

Good day ladies and gentlemen,

Today I would like to offer an opinion, perhaps a message of support and encouragement to the French-speaking bishops of Africa. I have been very impressed by the response of the Catholic bishops of Africa regarding the recent document from Rome on same-sex blessings. As I live in the very anti-Catholic nation of Canada, it has been refreshing to see such a reaction from the shepherds of the Church.

I was most impressed with the statements made by the bishops of Cameroon, and I thought bishop Mbarge of Yaounde offered an excellent analysis in a video I watched.

At any rate, I won’t take up too much of your time, but I wanted to call to mind two martyrs who I think are central to the situation at hand in Africa.

The first is of course Saint Charles Lwanga. There is perhaps no better saint for these times — times when the West is trying to colonize Africa with disorder and vice — than this saint. He rejected the advances of the evil king and kept his chastity, shedding his blood for Christ. The evil kings of the world — sadly aided by a corrupt hierarchy — are trying to force Africans to submit to the tyranny of sin once again.

The story of Lwanga is about more than mere sexual disorder, however. Ultimately, these disordered actions do not come out of nowhere. Long before a man gets to that point, he must have made many decisions and committed many sins in his life. You see, this affliction is both a spiritual and psychological problem. It is spiritual in that sin darkens the intellect, therefore opening one up to worse sin; it is psychological in that what we see in people with this disorder is really a type of narcissism. In fact, the old medical books used to list it as such. This is why the world must affirm this disorder and celebrate it publicly, and why those who are afflicted with it or support it cannot rest until the whole world thinks like them. It is a tyranny of disorder and vice, and it is the reason why we must all march in so-called pride parades, which really are diabolical inversions of a Catholic procession.

Narcissists can not take criticism and handle others being paid attention to. It should be no surprise our prideful work amuses itself ever more by starting into a screen and taking pictures of ourselves. The West is the kingdom of narcism, and this sexual disorder is the religion that must be spread throughout the world.

This same spirit has made its way into the Church. I do not speak merely of the scandals in the priesthood but on a more profound level.

Narcissism, being a daughter of pride, is vanquished by humility. Satan was the first narcissist when he said “I will not serve.” Over the centuries the Catholic life was centred on God and the trajectory of the Catholic soul pointed up. However, since the Council, this is no longer the case. It is a story too long to discuss here, but we all know what happened.

The Liturgy changed from theocentric to anthropocentric. The Church adopted a humanist spirit rather than a theist spirit. Paul VI admitted as such when he closed the Council.

Yes, I know it is possible to understand Paul VI humanism in a way that is not totally heretical, but it must be said that the fruits of this humanism have been made manifest by the confused concept of dignity in the era after the Council. For the modern Church, man has dignity because he is man, whereas for the traditional Catholic, man has dignity in so far as he is baptized and partakes in some way in the Divine Nature. In short, he has no dignity in himself, but only when God is in him, which is not possible if he lives in a state of sin, which means it is impossible to bless a union of those in public sin, as it would mean to bless an enemy of God in his state of rebellion. 

The heretics in the Church cannot understand this, because they have deified man and made God a mere servant of a divinized human race.

As a result, the Church has continued to struggle and has become almost irrelevant in many formerly Catholic countries.

Perhaps the sole exception to this is the African continent where the Faith is still strong. Of course, it is not a golden age in Africa, as many are leaving for heretical groups, but compared to the West, it really does seem golden. 

Why is this?

Well, Africa is a poor continent, which means Africans are de facto more grounded than spoiled Westerners. We are too comfortable in the West and we amuse ourselves to death. In Africa, by and large, you still deal with reality. However, I am sure that has started to change given the proliferation of social media technology. Everyone has a smartphone now, which means everyone is becoming dumber, and I am sure Africans are seeing this more and more.

This combination of the revolution in the Church and a revolution in society has been deadly, and Africa may be the only place where it hasn’t completely taken over.

This bring us to our next martyr.

I hear speak about Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

I understand, it is a controversial subject, but I ask for your patience.

Monsignor Lefebvre was of course not a martyr of blood — a red martyr we call it — but was instead a white martyr, which is to say he he was martyred in an unbloody way. He saw what was coming and what would result from the changes that followed the Council, and he was like a prophet in the Old Testament — never accepted in his own country.

Many years later, I believe we can see that he was correct.

We must call to mind the early part of his priesthood.

He was a great bishop and missionary in Africa. If you are in a French African country, you likely benefit from his legacy. He loved your people and he risked his life time and time again so that Africans could know Christ.

He was not a revolutionary, but the opposite. In fact, he was a very unoriginal man, which is a very good thing for a Bishop. He taught only the true Faith and was not willing to compromise with the revolution — just like you.

By taking your stance against the madness out of Rome, you have shown your courage and honour. If you will allow yourselves to reconsider the legacy of Archbishop Lefebvre, you will find that it was that same uncompromising rock-solid Catholic Faith that kept him strong when the revolution did to Europe and the West what it is attempting to do now to Africa.

If we can say that Charles Lwanga was a martyr killed but the narcissistic spirit of sexual disorder in the flesh, we might say that Lefebvre was a martyr exiled by the narcissistic and humanistic revolutionary spirit that has engulfed the Church. 

It is my prayer that the bishops of Africa will look to the life and legacy of Archbishop Lefebvre — the adopted son of Africa who is praying for you right now.

God bless you