“Faith Community” Substitute for Catholic Ecclesiology in Nairobi Parish
Catholic News Agency reports on 14 December 2025 Family Day celebrations at St. Austin’s Msongari Parish in Nairobi Archdiocese, where Auxiliary “Bishop” David Kamau Ng’ang’a declared:
“Faith must be lived within a community… You need a backup. Don’t stay alone. You may not survive.”
Naturalism Disguised as Pastoral Care
The “bishop’s” insistence on community as salvific necessity inverts Catholic soteriology. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation) is replaced with “outside the community group, no spiritual survival” – a purely sociological reduction condemned by Pope Pius XII: “The Church is a societas perfecta… not a product of spontaneous social instincts” (Mystici Corporis Christi, 1943). Kamau’s statement that “the community helps you experience God’s love” ignores the necessity of sacramental grace, reducing faith to interpersonal dynamics.
Omission of Sacramental Economy
Throughout the event, no mention was made of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the source of ecclesial unity. The launch of seven Small Christian Communities (SCCs) – post-conciliar innovations – supplants the parish’s primary duty to provide valid sacraments. As Pius XI warned: “When the spirit of Christ is weakened… the Church takes on the appearance of a merely human institution” (Quas Primas, 1925). The planned “prayer garden dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary” compounds this naturalism, echoing condemned Fatimist emotionalism.
False Ecclesiology of the “Anti-Church”
Kamau’s assertion that SCCs are essential because “you come here only on Sundays” reveals the conciliar sect’s abandonment of ex opere operato sacramental efficacy. His praise for Holy Ghost Fathers’ missionary work ignores their post-Vatican II apostasy – these Spiritans now promote climate syncretism and interfaith dialogue. The “bishop” cites the Holy Family as model while undermining its sacramental prototype: the Holy Eucharist as vinculum caritatis (bond of charity).
Canonical Irregularity of Celebrants
Both Kamau (appointed 2021) and “Fr.” Henry Omwoyo exercise ministry under antipopes. Their Holy Orders are doubtfully valid due to post-1968 rite defects. St. Pius X condemned such innovators: “The priest is not a delegate of the community but God’s representative” (Haerent Animo, 1908). The event’s theme – “Anchored in Faith, Alive in Hope” – constitutes blasphemy when proclaimed by clergy lacking jurisdiction.
Historical Revisionism of Missionary Work
Omwoyo’s claim that St. Austin’s Parish represents “126 years of God’s faithfulness” whitewashes history. True missionary labor aimed at plantatio Ecclesiae (planting the Church) through catechism and sacraments, not “prayer gardens” or community-building. As the 1864 Syllabus of Errors condemned: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80).
The celebration exemplifies the anti-church’s strategy: replace sacramental life with therapeutic community activism. As Pope St. Pius X decreed: “Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in doctrine… called vital immanence” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 22). Until Kenya returns to the Tridentine Mass and pre-1958 hierarchy, such events remain sacrilegious simulations.
Source:
‘Faith must be lived within a community,’ bishop tells historic parish in Kenya (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 30.12.2025