Cardinal: African priests should stay in Africa and not come to Europe

"Vatican: African priests should go into the slums.  A Curial Cardinal complains that many African priests would rather work in Europe than in the slums of their homeland. He calls on the clergy to have more missionary zeal.

The Vatican calls on African priests to be more willing to stay in their home country and not to go to Western countries. Many African priests wanted to work as missionaries in Europe and the US, but were not as willing to go to the poor regions of their own country or continent, said Cardinal Fernando Filoni during a visit to Uganda, as Radio Vatican reported on Thursday.

Filoni is the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Vatican official responsible for the local Churches in Africa.
Filoni urged the African priests to visit the slums of the big cities. The Italian Curial Cardinal told priests, religious and priesthood candidates in the capital of Uganda, faith should be proclaimed not only within the church walls. What is needed is a genuine missionary zeal. The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Archbishopric of Kampala is the occasion of Filoni's visit, which lasts until Sunday. "

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See also Cardinal forced to apologise for remarks about Africans. The Cardinal does not seem to be aware of the great contribution Africans make to the Church at a time of acute crisis in the European Church (and beyond).

Pope Benedict's liturgical reform stalled- time for a new Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship

kreuz.net – Ein neuer Liturgiepräfekt?:

The current incumbent started running crowned with laurels in advance of the race - and has in the four years of his activities established a disappointing record.

With the Motu Proprio 'Summorum Pontificum', of 7 uly 2007 Pope Benedict XVI founded a new liturgical reform movement. This holds many faithful, priests and seminarians in its spell. In the same year, he chose a native of Genoa, Monsignor Guido Marini as his master of ceremonies. At the same time he sent the Bugnini-schooled, liturgy destroyer, Archbishop Piero Marini , whom he inherited from his predecessor, into the desert. 

Zero initiatives 

In December 2008, Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera (66) of Toledo was appointed prefect of the liturgy congregation. He had made a name in Spain as a theologian and catechist .  But after almost four years after his appointment of Cardinal, the balance is very meager. No impulse to revitalize the tradition. No curb of excessive liturgical abuses.

Nothing. The Cardinal seems to rest assured, that the concerns of the traditionalists have been moved to the CDF and are considered directly by the Pope. 

A new Liturgy Prefect  is needed

The result: The renewal of the liturgy - a central theme of the current pontificate - does not move forward. This is the reason that the desire increases in the circle of papal master of ceremonies as well as among the liturgical consultants that the orthodox Cardinal Cañizares should be moved. A move to the Congregation for Education would be possible if the present incumbent, Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski (72) would resign soon.  Another possibility would be to Mission Congregation if Fernando Cardinal Filoni (66) was to be appointed the next Secretary of State. Cardinal Cañizares could also be a candidate for the new appointment to the now meaningless post at the CDF. 

Maybe he would make a difference

The natural candidate for the succession as Liturgy Prefect is the US born prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, Cardinal Raymond Burke (63). He is a canonist. In the past, he has founded and encouraged traditional communities.  Cardinal Burke has written books on the decay of the liturgy and celebrated regularly in the Roman Rite.

 As Bishop of La Crosse in Wisconsin and as Archbishop of Saint Louis in the US State of Louisiana, he helped his dioceses achieve new heights. He encouraged the rediscovery and cleaning of the liturgy as a true evangelization, prayer, concern for vocations, the seminaries and was uncompromising in his fight against the abortion ideology and the gay delusion. 

de facto Cardinal Burke has occupied the position which Cardinal Cañizares has left empty. And, for many he is the only member of the College of Cardinals, who would continue the concerns of the pontificate of Benedict XVI as the next Pope.