CAMEROON: A COUNTRY OF PARADOXES
It is always pitiful to see ignorance presiding over academia. It is ironic that in a Country whose intelligentsia was sponsored by the Christian missionary will declare itself a secular state and pride itself on having excluded RELIGIOUS Studies from their Syllabus of Errors called Education. The Greater Irony is that any Cameroonian thinks he can tell the CHURCH, WHICH IS
IN ROME, who should be or should not be the next Pope after declaring Religious Studies anathema sit? The fact is that Cameroon is not up to a Hundred Years old as a sovereign state, yet thinks that it knows more than the Church, which is 2000 years old. The fact is that the Church, which is in Rome, has both spiritual and political power, which makes haste slowly -Festina Lente. The Pope, who was chosen by the press, always emerged from the Conclave as a Cardinal. The ELECTION OF a Pope is a purely Spiritual duty of the Cardinals and not any political game that is left to the whims of atheists or agnostics who declare Religion useless. Let the so-called Cameroonian Curriculum planners leave politics aside and incorporate Religious Studies into their schools before coming out into the agora to display their certified ignorance of ecclesiology. Ecclesiology is the Study of the Science called the Church. As they say. “ROMA LOCUTA CAUSA FINITA: When Rome Speaks, the case is closed. Just as Pope Francis was unknown before his election, so too will the next Pope be someone who has been serving the church in the silence of the Spirit. As Pope John XXII said, “Divino Affiant Spíritus”- Let the Spirit of the Lord Blow where and on whom it chooses. Amen
Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died after battling pneumonia. He had experienced health issues in recent years, including two abdominal surgeries and several respiratory infections. The pope spent five weeks in the hospital in February and March 2025 with bronchitis that developed into pneumonia in both lungs. He was the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church and has guided the Church with a focus on humility, care, and reform since 2013. Pope Francis was also a spiritual head to 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide. DWAfrica
