Why I don’t fan any football club: BP
Why I don’t fan any football club: BP By Fr. Henry Charles Umelechi Football patronage goes with a lot of passion but many of us have always thought that they could handle the passion. Some actually handle it on their own but due to age and sickness, the passion overwhelms them. I was a strong fan of Manchester United before, but when I found out how passionately intoxicating and overwhelming it became for me such that sometimes I couldn’t eat or pray whenever Manchester United looses, I totally distanced myself from fanning any football club. I asked myself: “If I get high blood pressure, and other related injuries physical and psychological because of this, who would pay me for that and who would I blame? Nobody ” The individuals footballers on the peach even enjoy the game more than us and recreate themselves too and get paid for the…
The List of the Current Catholic Dioceses in Nigeria and their dates of creation/erection.
List of the Current Catholic Dioceses in Nigeria and their dates of creation/erection. By Fr. Henry Charles Umelechi (18 October, 2023) Each Catholic Metropolitan province contains an Archdiocese and suffragan diocese(s). An archdiocese is referred to as a metropolitan see or the “head” diocese of an ecclesiastical province: the “primus inter pares,” the first among the dioceses in a province. For example, the Archdiocese of Onitsha is the Metropolitan See for the Province of Onitsha, which includes Archdiocese of Onitsha itself and the suffragan dioceses of Abakaliki, Aguleri , Awgu, Awka, Ekwulobia and other three dioceses. The suffragan dioceses are those dioceses under the leadership of the Archdiocese. Currently, there are 60 Catholic dioceses in Nigeria which includes one eparchy, in 9 Ecclesiastical provinces with 9 Metropolitan Archdioceses: ✓Metropolitan Archdiocese of Abuja(8) Historical Details: Erected as an Independent Mission: 6 November 1981 Elevated to a Diocese: 19 June 1989 Elevated…
Father, I want to be Pope
Father, I want to be Pope He said, “Fr. I wish I am the Pope, his salary must be huge, I seriously want to be a priest and become the pope.” My Response: “When a ranking cardinal is elected to the Seat of Saint Peter as the Pope, he earns, in effect, a promotion—but with a reduction in pay to zero.” “You can’t be serious, must you people hide everything from us,” he said, “…like the Pope has no salary of his own akin to other heads of states and many religious leaders?” He continued, “as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby earns just over £85,000 a year.” I don’t even know whether he thought I was joking or lying but I took it as curiosity. And to answer this curiosity: “During the time of COVID-19, when the Vatican City encountered budgeting issues amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Holy See…