Nigeria’s Neo-Church Chaplains Enlist Civil Caesar to Police Modernist Clergy
The EWTN News portal, via its African affiliate ACI Africa, reports that the national director of the Pastoral Affairs Department of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, “Father” Augustine Olusegun Fasiku, addressed a seminar for provincial youth chaplains on June 25, 2026, urging them to report allegations of abuse involving minors to both “Church” and civil authorities. Fasiku invoked the 1983 Code’s Canons 1752 and 1398, the motu proprio Vos Estis Lux Mundi, and Nigerian civil statutes—the Child Rights Act of 2003 and the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act of 2015—as the framework for this mandatory reporting. He declared that “Pope Francis abolished the pontifical secret” and that internal procedures cannot impede cooperation with the state. This capitulation to secular juridical supremacy, draped in the language of “safeguarding,” exposes the conciliar sect’s total abandonment of the Church’s supernatural jurisdiction and its reduction of the priesthood to a branch of social work policed by the Masonic state.