“Because they claim to have powers to heal and to make people rich, Catholics prefer to go there on Sundays rather than come to Mass,” he said, and continued, “I know of Priests who hold night vigils on Saturdays and end with Holy Mass. Catholics from surrounding parishes attend the night vigils that go late into the night and when you go to the parishes on Sunday morning, you find very few people there.”
He decried the rise of self-acclaimed “men of God”, even among members of the Clergy, who seek to enrich themselves. “That is why it is these pastors and Priests who own private jets and mansions in Nigeria. And they know that the more the crowds they attract, the more the power they wield, and the more the money they collect.”
“I know of a private ministry which was closed down in a particular Catholic Diocese here when the Bishop issued a directive requiring that all the money collected in that particular ministry be given to the Diocese. That alone was enough to shut the ministry down,” Fr. Anaehobi said.
Source: ACIAfrica
