The Next Papa Roma and Christianity

If the Roman Catholic Church proceeds on a course of promoting multilateralism, then the future of the Church’s growth is bleak. The vibrancy of the Roman Catholic Church comes from its native evangelism and folksy social integration schemes where every human feels at home being Catholic. The Church has survived for two thousand years as the underpinner of Christendom.

Folks who are repulsed by the strange doctrines of myriad of non-Christian faiths really hope to

join world Catholicism. Christendom has great testimonies to show mankind that its paths and

doctrines are the surefooted routes to solving human miseries. But the Anti-Christ still perseveres

and threatens the Church. You have to be Nigerian and only live in Nigeria for one week to

experience the full wrath of this opposition: your faith becomes a veritable death sentence. Those

who sentence you to perdition and wish you bad cheer do not have anything good to offer mankind

as alternative. The Church fought Crusades to push back against the Anti-Christ, popularising an

expression like “heathen-unbeliever” back then. Today, honest Churchpeople have been reverse-

labelled “heathen-unbelievers” with concomitant killing of these folks to wit. Thus, it becomes

discomfiting if the head of the Roman Catholic Church, the Papa Roma, touts multiculturalism

instead of full embrace of the Church. Such message diminishes honest Churchpeople’s

commitments to the Church. The Church at Rome must help push back against the Anti-Christ.

The Church has evolved programmes over the centuries to defeat poverty and modern folks know

how to defeat poverty and get out of deprivations. The Church must not be apologists for folks

who still reject Christ and chose to remain poor. These folks have the choice to make: remain in

your climes and remain mired in poverty or experience poverty-defeating goodness of Christianity inside the Christian faith as you migrate to the West. Baptisms on the shores of the Med, the English Channel, the Niagara, and suchlike places in the Christian West. The next Papa Roma

after Franciscus must commit to preserving the Church and promoting the goodness and beauty of

the Christian faith: “You Cannot Experience the Goodness of Christianity Outside the Christian

Faith.” You must be baptised and be schooled and be ready to work hard for yourself and your

family and your society. You do not come to the West to seek to uproot Christianity. As

permutations for the outcome of the next conclave are made everywhere, no one mentions that

cardinal from Brazil. What did you say his name was? Some Teutonic-sounder, I presume. He sure

ain’t entering the conclave as Pope.

Sunday Adole Jonah,

Department of Physics, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State