Catholic Church Clips Mbaka, Banned From Talking

The Catholic church has finally clipped the wings of Fr. Ejike Mbaka, Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministries Enugu Nigeria (AMEN) as it has banned him from commenting on partisan politics.

The move by the Catholic Church in Nigeria came as the German Catholic Church has been rocked by a fresh crisis following the shock resignation of one of its most influential bishops over the Church’s sexual abuse scandal.

The ban on Mbaka  GreenWhiteGreen GWG gathered came through a letter from Bishop Callistus Onaga, the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, to Mbaka converting his Adoration Ministry to a chaplaincy.

With that development, Mbaka will no longer have the right over the ministry, and his position as spiritual director would be taken over as it brings the Chaplaincy within the oversight of the Bishop.

The bishop in effect will have the power to appoint a chaplain for the chaplaincy and it necessary would not have to be Mbaka.

It was gathered that the bishop stated that he can appoint any ministerial officer “to assist the chaplains to oversee the pastoral activities of the ministry.”

The development came after Mbaka sought to resume his ministration following his one month retreat that came after the uproar from his adherents a month ago after he disappeared for hours.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG had reported how his supporters marched on the Bishop’s Court and vandalized it on the claim that Mbaka was being held against his will by the Bishop.

Meanwhile, the German Catholic church was itself facing another crisis of its own after a senior bishop in the country resigned on account of the sex scandal that has smeared the church.

“In essence, for me, it is a matter of sharing responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse by church officials over the past decades,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx wrote to the pope in a letter released on Friday.

A former president of Germany Bishops’ Conference, Marx is one of the nation’s most influential church leaders.

The German Catholic Church is one of the wealthiest in the world.

Marx, the bishop of Munich, said the investigations and expert reports over the past 10 years consistently showed that there had been “a lot of personal failure and administrative errors,” but “also institutional or systemic failure.”

Marx’s letter was sent to the pope nearly a fortnight ago but was only made public on Friday.

His resignation offer came after the pope last month stepped into the scandal that has engulfed the Catholic Church in Cologne by ordering a review of the west German city’s handling of a sex abuse scandal.

The pope plans to dispatch a so-called apostolic visitation to Germany’s largest diocese this month to investigate “possible errors” carried out by Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki in handling the claims of sexual misconduct by priests.

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