Nigeria’s Child Safety Crisis Exposes Failure of Secular Governance and Ecclesiastical Compromise
ACI Africa reports on “Bishop” Bulus Yohana Dauwa’s lamentation regarding the November 17 abduction of 25 schoolgirls from Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State. The prelate describes Nigeria as “no longer safe for its children,” detailing how armed bandits murdered a staff member and terrorized the school for five hours before security forces arrived. The article further documents systemic anti-Christian discrimination, including blocked church construction and mosque placements designed to obstruct Christian worship. “Bishop” Dauwa attributes these failures to government preoccupation with 2027 elections rather than security, while curiously citing alleged miraculous intervention through “Padre Pio” to resolve land disputes. This report exemplifies how naturalistic analysis replaces supernatural perspective in addressing societal collapse.
Naturalistic Framework Obscures Supernatural Realities
The article presents Nigeria’s security crisis through purely sociological lenses, ignoring the regnum sociale Christi (social reign of Christ) as articulated in Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” Nowhere does “Bishop” Dauwa identify Nigeria’s fundamental problem – the rejection of Christ’s kingship over nations.
The report details how “the gunmen fired repeatedly for nearly five hours… before soldiers returned to the scene” yet fails to recognize this as divine chastisement foretold in Psalm 2: “Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed.” By framing the crisis as merely logistical (“security personnel instructed teachers to conduct a roll call”), the analysis ignores the radix malorum (root of evil) – Nigeria’s constitutional enshrinement of religious pluralism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 77).
False Ecumenism Masks Islamic Persecution
While documenting how “communities deliberately built mosques directly in front of donated church sites,” the article paradoxically promotes interfaith dialogue through Bergoglio’s mouthpiece “Pope” Leo XIV, who claims “both Christians and Muslims have been slaughtered.” This obscures the odium fidei (hatred of faith) motivating Islamic attacks, evidenced by the martyrdom of Mallam Hassan Yakubu, shot while praying.
The report’s description of “silent discrimination and persecution” against Christians actually constitutes open violation of Canon 1374: “It is the exclusive right of the Church to erect and regulate churches.” That Nigerian authorities enable mosque construction to block churches demonstrates the modernist heresy of religious liberty condemned in Pius IX’s Quanta Cura: “That false and absurd maxim, or rather madness, that each one must be allowed and left free to embrace and profess the religion he shall have believed true by the light of his reason.”
Dangerous Devotional Syncretism
Most alarmingly, “Bishop” Dauwa attributes land acquisition to “intense prayers to St. Padre Pio,” calling it “a miracle.” This promotes the cult of a post-conciliar “saint” whose mystical claims bear Jansenist rigorism and theological errors. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1399 §5) prohibited writings favoring false mystics, yet the article uncritically propagates this devotion.
The bishop’s advice to parents – “remain prayerful and hopeful” – lacks the necessary call to sacramental fortification. No mention is made of sacramentals like the Brown Scapular or the ex opere operato (by the work worked) grace of confession and holy Eucharist as spiritual weapons. This omission reflects the conciliar sect’s abandonment of exorcismus in Satanam et angelos apostaticos (exorcism against Satan and rebel angels) prescribed in the traditional Roman Ritual.
Government’s Abdication of Divine Mandate
“Bishop” Dauwa correctly notes politicians prioritize “2027 elections” over security, yet fails to identify the cause: Nigeria’s secular constitution rejecting Christ’s kingship. Pius IX’s Syllabus (Proposition 39) condemned the error that “the State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.”
The article’s reference to Trump potentially designating Nigeria a “country of particular concern” demonstrates reliance on geopolitical solutions rather than the instaurare omnia in Christo (restoration of all things in Christ) demanded by St. Pius X. Nowhere is there a call for Nigeria’s consecration to Christ the King or mandatory Catholic instruction for public officials as required by Canon 1375.
Conclusion: Only Restoration of Christ’s Reign Brings Peace
Nigeria’s descent into chaos perfectly illustrates the prophetic warning in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize… that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” Until Nigerian prelates demand constitutional recognition of the Catholic Church as the sole true religion (Pius IX, Syllabus Proposition 21) and the establishment of Catholic monarchy, their naturalistic appeals will remain futile. The kidnapping of these 25 girls constitutes not just criminality but divine judgment on a nation that has rejected its baptismal patrimony for the false god of religious pluralism.
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Nigeria ‘no longer safe for children,’ Catholic bishop says after abduction of 25 girls (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.11.2025