Catholic News Agency reports on “Archbishop” Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Abuja’s November 23 homily lamenting Nigeria’s descent from “happiest nation” to potentially “saddest nation in the world.” The conciliar prelate attributed this decline to poor governance, insecurity, corruption, and religious hypocrisy since Nigeria’s 1960 independence. Speaking at St. Luke’s Parish during confirmation ceremonies, Kaigama criticized selective justice where “the law catches only the feeble” while powerful corrupt officials enjoy impunity. He questioned whether Nigeria’s famed religiosity translates into authentic Christian witness, asking: “Is our religiosity only about filling up mosques and churches with numbers or indeed allowing ourselves to be led by the Spirit of God to act justly?” The article concludes with Kaigama urging Nigerians to hold leaders accountable without fear.
Naturalistic Reduction of Christ’s Kingship to Social Activism
The conciliar prelate’s sermon on the Feast of Christ the King constitutes blasphemous trivialization of this supreme liturgical solemnity instituted by Pope Pius XI specifically to combat the very errors Kaigama embodies. Whereas Quas Primas unambiguously declared that “nations will be happy or unhappy depending on whether they obey or rebel against the authority of Christ” (Pius XI, 1925), this “archbishop” reduces Nigeria’s crisis to mere socioeconomic factors. His diagnostic silence about Nigeria’s fundamental rejection of Regnum Christi exposes the conciliar sect’s systematic suppression of Catholic social doctrine.
Pius XI’s encyclical warned prophetically that when states “refuse to submit to the rule of our Savior… they will quickly fall into ruin” – precisely Nigeria’s trajectory since abandoning its Christian colonial foundations. Yet Kaigama dares blame this collapse on abstract “poor governance” rather than Nigeria’s embrace of Masonic principles enshrined in its 1960 constitution – principles condemned by Pope Pius IX as “the impious system of what they call naturalism” (Syllabus of Errors, 1864, Error #39). By omitting Nigeria’s constitutional apostasy from Christ the King, the “archbishop” confirms the conciliar hierarchy’s complicity in establishing “the reign of Satan instead of the reign of God” (St. Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique).
Theological Schizophrenia of Conciliar “Worship”
Kaigama’s description of Nigerians behaving “as if [God] does not exist in our homes and places of work outside of our places of worship” unwittingly condemns the post-conciliar liturgy he celebrates. The Novus Ordo Missae – designed by Freemason Annibale Bugnini – intentionally creates this exact dichotomy by abandoning the lex orandi that formed saints for centuries. As Pope Pius XII warned, when liturgy degenerates into “a show in which the people want to be actors instead of adorers” (Address to Liturgical Conference, 1956), the faithful inevitably become “nominal Christians” whose religion stops at the church door.
The “archbishop” commits grave theological fraud by administering confirmation to 500 souls within this invalid rite. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 781) requires confirmands to possess “knowledge of the principal mysteries of faith necessary for salvation” – impossible when catechists teach the conciliar sect’s relativistic creed. His empty ritual mocks the Holy Ghost’s sacramental grace, fulfilling Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani’s prophecy that the new sacramental rites would cause “the destruction of faith in the Real Presence” (1969 Intervention).
Cowardly Omission of Islamist Persecution
Kaigama’s reference to the 2014 Chibok girls kidnapping carefully avoids naming their Islamic terrorist captors (Boko Haram), continuing the conciliar sect’s policy of Islamic appeasement. This contradicts the entire Catholic martyrological tradition where saints “gladly suffered confiscation of property for the sake of the faith” (Hebrews 10:34). The article compounds this betrayal by framing Nigeria’s persecution as generic “insecurity” rather than Islam’s systematic eradication of Christianity – a genocide enabled by Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate.
Pope Pius XI mandated that on Christ the King Sunday, rulers must “publicly venerate and obey” Christ lest they face judgment for “renouncing and not wishing to recognize the reign of our Savior” (Quas Primas). Yet Kaigama substitutes this divine warning with milquetoast calls for “national introspection” – the very moral relativism condemned as “the plague of indifferentism” by Pope Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos, 1832). His silence on Nigeria’s Islamic blasphemy laws imposing Sharia supremacy confirms the conciliar hierarchy’s surrender to what Pope Benedict XV called “the Satanic spirit of anti-Christian conspiracy” (Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum, 1914).
False Equivalence Between True Religion and Mohammedanism
The article’s grotesque equation of “filling up mosques and churches” as parallel religious phenomena epitomizes Vatican II’s apostasy. Pope Pius IX definitively condemned the notion that “Mohammedanism is no less pleasing to God than Catholicism” (Syllabus of Errors, Error #16). Yet Kaigama’s rhetorical device implies Allah and the Holy Trinity deserve equal reverence – heresy explicitly anathematized by the Council of Florence (1442): “It firmly believes, professes and preaches that no one outside the Catholic Church… can have a share in eternal life.”
This blasphemous equivalency stems directly from the conciliar sect’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, which Pius XII had already condemned as theological impossibility: “That which does not correspond to truth and to the norm of morality objectively has no right to exist, to be spread, or to be activated” (Address to Italian Catholic Jurists, 1953). By treating mosque attendance as spiritually equivalent to Catholic worship, Kaigama denies Christ’s exclusive mediation – the very essence of His Kingship.
Conclusion: When Shepherds Become Wolves
Nigeria’s descent into chaos perfectly illustrates the conciliar sect’s fruit: nations abandoned by false shepherds who “have taken over the government of the Church but do not enter by the door” (St. Pius X, Pascendi, 1907). As the true Church teaches, “There shall be no prosperity for men until the sweet yoke of Christ is accepted and His Kingship recognized” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). Until Nigeria’s Catholics reject these modernist usurpers and return to the immutable Faith, their sufferings will intensify – not despite their religiosity, but because their leaders have replaced the One True King with the United Nations’ humanitarian idolatry.
Source:
Archbishop says Nigeria could be ‘saddest nation in the world,’ reflects on better days (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 25.11.2025