South African Priests Practise as Shamans - Slaughtering Animals and Wild Dancing
On 16 September, eight Southern African bishops issued a pastoral letter warning priests against blending Catholic beliefs and pagan African practices. It was particularly about Ubungoma, a term in Zulu language describing the Nguni people's tradition of communicating with ancestral spirits.
The first two signatories of the letter were Archbishop Siegfried Mandla Jwara, 68, of Durban, and his predecessor, Cardinal Wilfred Napier, 84, who currently serves as the apostolic administrator of Eshowe.
They wrote: "It is particularly grievous that some Catholic priests and religious are reported to engage in these practices."
The letter prohibits priests, deacons, and religious from participating in any syncretic religious practices, including the slaughter of chickens, the use of coloured water and candles, the blessing of non-liturgical wild dancing and healing rituals outside of Catholic liturgical practice.
Priests who promote or participate in such practices will face "correction, including …More
Deuteronomy 30, 17-18
"But if your heart strays, if you refuse to listen, if you let yourself be drawn into
worshiping other gods and serving them, I tell you today, you will most certainly
perish."
In their rebellion against God they follow the apostate Prevost as they followed the apostate Bergoglio.
Prevost, defying Christ's command, does not …
@Father Karl A Claver Yes, that nation is still very pagan. I knew a good Western priest who was a missionary there for years, and he was always fighting these idolatrous practices with his flock. He didn't get much support from the local bishop, etc. So he retired and returned home to live his days out in a monastery.