The Catholic News Agency portal reports on a Christmas message by “Father” Michael Banjo, secretary-general of the Nigerian “bishops'” conference, addressing Nigeria’s security crisis. The article quotes Banjo lamenting vote-selling for material gain and demanding leaders with “integrity, compassion, and proven character” who “fear God.” He attributes Nigeria’s violence to civic irresponsibility and ungodliness, urging Nigerians to “stop trading our future for crumbs” through electoral corruption. Banjo claims peace requires accountability in governance and personal honesty, warning that “what does not give glory to God cannot give peace.” The article frames this as a call for moral renewal amid foreign pressure to address anti-Christian violence.
Naturalism Masquerading as Piety
The Nigerian “cleric” reduces Nigeria’s crisis to mere moral failings while ignoring the dogmatic necessity of Christ’s Social Kingship over nations. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas (1925) establishes that “the rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced deplorable consequences” precisely because “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” Banjo’s exclusive focus on human agency (“voting for leaders of integrity”) constitutes a Pelagian denial of grace, implying societal transformation occurs through ethical behavior rather than submission to the One True Faith.
His repeated calls to “give glory to God” ring hollow when divorced from the lex credendi (rule of belief) requiring nations to formally acknowledge Christ as King. The First Vatican Council anathematized those claiming “human reason is…the sole arbiter of truth” (Session III, Ch.4), yet Banjo’s sermon implicitly treats Christianity as a moral system rather than the supernatural revelation demanding public submission. Nowhere does he reference Nigeria’s duty to establish Catholicism as the state religion – a grave omission violating Pius IX’s condemnation of religious indifferentism in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which…he shall consider true” (Error #15).
Conciliar Sect’s False Ecumenism
Banjo’s assertion that “every Nigerian life matters regardless of whether he or she is a Christian or Muslim” constitutes blatant religious indifferentism. This contradicts the dogma extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) defined at the Council of Florence (1442): “The Holy Roman Church believes…that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church…can have a share in life eternal.” The Nigerian “bishops'” conference official thereby promotes the heresy condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium animos (1928): “A false opinion…considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy.”
When Banjo states “protecting life is not a favor…it is the primary duty of government,” he ignores that governments derive legitimacy solely from upholding Catholic truth. As Pius IX taught: “The State…must submit to the Church as a son to his mother” (Encyclical Quanta cura). The conciliar sect’s silence on Nigeria’s Islamic persecution of Christians exposes complicity: Banjo decries “targeted violence affecting Christian communities” without naming Islam as the aggressor. This follows Vatican II’s Nostra aetate heresy forbidding “discrimination” against false religions while abandoning Christ’s command to “make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19).
Undermining Sacramental Economy
The Nigerian “priest” reduces Christianity to ethical behavior: “If you sell tomatoes…and hide rotten ones…you do not honor God.” This moralistic reductionism ignores the sacramental foundation of grace. Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis (1943) teaches that sanctification occurs primarily through “the sacraments and sacrifice” administered by the Church. Banjo’s focus on marketplace honesty while omitting Nigeria’s sacramental crisis – where conciliar “Mass” invalidly simulates the True Sacrifice – reveals the neo-church’s naturalization of the supernatural.
His domestic advice (“couples…refuse to forgive”) equally distorts Catholic teaching. Marriage’s indissolubility derives from its sacramental nature (Council of Trent, Session XXIV), not psychological reconciliation techniques. By framing family peace as achievable through interpersonal dynamics rather than sacramental graces, Banjo promotes the modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili: “The Christian supper gradually took on the character of a liturgical act” (Error #49) – reducing sacraments to human inventions rather than divine institutions.
Antichurch’s False Authority
This “Christmas message” exemplifies the conciliar sect’s usurpation of ecclesial authority. As Pius XII established in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), valid Holy Orders require proper form, matter, and intention. The post-conciliar ordination rite’s deliberate ambiguity invalidates “Father” Banjo’s priesthood, rendering his sermon spiritually void. The Nigerian “bishops'” conference he represents belongs to the antipope’s counterfeit church – an apparatus condemned by St. Paul: “They are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ” (2 Cor 11:13).
True Catholic solutions for Nigeria would begin with denouncing the antipopes (since John XXIII) and restoring sacraments administered by priests ordained in the traditional rite. Instead, Banjo offers humanistic platitudes, proving the neo-church’s apostasy from Catholic integralism. As Pope St. Pius X warned: “The enemies of the Church…are to be sought less among non-Catholics than among her own children” (Encyclical Pascendi, 1907). Nigeria’s suffering will intensify until Catholics reject the conciliar sect and return to the One True Faith under Christ the King.
Source:
Nigerians must stop ‘trading future for crumbs’: Catholic official on security crisis (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 23.12.2025