South African Prelate Denounces “Ideological Colonization”

With force, the South African prelate denounces the moral corruption coming from the West that wants to “colonize” the African continent. He explains: “The culture of most African countries is the result of the influence of the Church; the Africans having largely made their own the morals which had been taught to them by the first Christian missionaries. A new ideological colonization is now trying to eliminate this influence on African culture by intervening in the minds and hearts of people.”

An example of this recruitment is provided by “this culture promoting homosexuality, an integral part of the 60s and 70s, [which] played a decisive role in the collapse of morality”—and “I would be surprised if the abuses were not related to homosexuality.” Cardinal Napier obviously does not know how speak doublespeak.

The Violence Cause by Abortion

For the Archbishop of Durban, another example of this “ideological colonization”—an expression used by Pope Francis in an improvised homily at Saint Martha’s on November 21, 2017—comes from “the promotion of contraception that is presented as a way to free women from the burden of having too many children.”

“It’s a form of colonization to tell women that they should only have a few children, otherwise they will not be free...This is an attempt to indoctrinate people against life, to convince them that pregnancy is an invasion of the woman’s body,” the prelate explains.

The Cardinal brings out the connection between abortion and the exponential rise in crime in his country, where “the number of people killed each year is equal to that of a country at war.” And he ponders: “I would be very surprised if the legalization of abortion had had no effect on the increase of violence in society. If a woman and her husband think it is not a priority to protect the life of an unborn child, what can prevent them from resorting to violence against those who are already born?”

He concludes that there is a “logical connection between a message that favors abortion and contempt for the lives of others, because it is dangerous to say that a woman has the right to kill a child in her womb.”

“The old world called up to disappear is the world of abortion,” said Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre peacefully, in his Open Letter to Confused Catholics, almost 35 years ago. Refusing to sink into the prevailing pessimism, the founder of the Society of Saint Pius X indicated at the same time the only possible way of salvation for societies: “by keeping what the Church has always taught, you will ensure the future.”