“Archbishop” Ugorji’s Empty Exhortations Mask Deeper Apostasy
The VaticanNews portal (February 4, 2026) reports on the “World Day for Consecrated Life” celebration at Assumpta Cathedral in Owerri, Nigeria. “Archbishop” Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji allegedly challenged religious to embrace poverty while bemoaning their “culture of ostentation.” The event featured cultural dances and a shared meal after Mass. Ugorji invoked the “Year of Saint Francis” and urged religious to become “models of holiness and witnesses of peace.” This spectacle epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of consecrated life to social work and psychological therapy.
Illicit Sacraments Invalidate the Entire Charade
The article never questions whether the “Holy Mass” celebrated by Ugorji—a man ordained under Paul VI’s invalid rites—could possibly confer grace. As Pope Pius XII established in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), any alteration to the sacramental form renders ordinations null. The post-conciliar “episcopal consecrations” lack the proper matter, form, and intention, making Ugorji’s sacraments sacrilegious simulations. When “Father” Anthony Agugo and “Sister” Eucharista Ezeobiukwu speak of “evangelization,” they promote apostasy, for extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam). Their “religious vows” are theatrical gestures without supernatural merit.
Materialism as Symptom of Doctrinal Bankruptcy
Ugorji’s complaint that “many religious communities are not at peace because of the struggle for material things” admits the complete failure of the post-conciliar experiment. Yet he dares not name the cause: the abandonment of ex opere operato sacramental efficacy. Traditional religious orders maintained poverty because they received actual grace through valid Masses and sacraments. The conciliar sect’s “religious” inevitably degenerate into social workers because their invalid “ordination” rites block all sanctifying grace. As Pope Pius XI warned in 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.”
By omitting Christ’s Social Kingship, Ugorji reduces “peace” to a psychological state—precisely the naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 15).
Syncretism Masquerading as “Inculturation”
The article boasts of “cultural dances” and an African proverb about elders’ wisdom. This exposes the conciliar sect’s idolatrous fusion of pagan customs with Catholic worship—a violation of the First Commandment. Pope St. Pius X demolished such errors in Lamentabili Sane:
“The evolution of dogmas… has multiplied and perfected, through external additions, the small seed hidden in the Gospels” (Condemned Proposition 54).
True consecrated life requires rejection of worldly culture, not its embrace. St. Benedict fled Rome’s decadence to found monasticism; St. Francis stripped naked to renounce family wealth. Ugorji’s religious wallow in “ostentation” because their very foundation is modernist sand.
Counterfeit “St. Francis” Year Completes the Fraud
The “Year of Saint Francis” (2026-2027) is another conciliar fabrication. The real St. Francis received stigmata while praying on Mount Alvernia—a supernatural event the modernists implicitly deny by reducing him to a peace activist. Archbishop Ugorji’s call to “become models of holiness” rings hollow when his sect canonizes heretics like “St.” John Paul II.
The Silent Apostasy: No Mention of Final Judgment
Nowhere does Ugorji warn religious that violating vows of poverty endangers their souls. The pre-Vatican II Roman Catechism explicitly states:
“Religious who violate their vows… must be reminded of the dreadful judgment of God.”
This silence proves the conciliar sect’s apostasy. When “Sister” Eucharista speaks of “evangelization through witness,” she means the false ecumenism of Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate—not the missionary mandate to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
Conclusion: A Circus of Apostates
The Assumpta Cathedral event—with its dancing, feasting, and empty speeches—mirrors the Israelites’ golden calf revelry (Exodus 32). Until Nigeria’s few remaining Catholics reject the conciliar sect and seek valid sacraments from true priests, such spectacles will multiply. As Pope Leo XIII decreed in Satis Cognitum:
“The Church is that which the successor of Peter and the bishops in communion with him govern.”
Since the apostate “bishops” of Owerri lack both validity and orthodoxy, their “consecrated life” is diabolical parody. The path to holiness lies only outside this neo-pagan sect.
Source:
Nigeria: Religious men and women navigate faith and culture (vaticannews.va)
Date: 04.02.2026