CBCN: Deeply spiritual & highly cerebral Pope Benedict kept everyone on path of orthodoxy – Archbishop Ugorji
By Padre Mike Nsikak Umoh, CSN
The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has expressed regrets over the loss, to the Church and humanity, of the Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, whom he described as “a gracious, gentle, deferent, humble and approachable Church Leader.”
In a statement made available through the National Directorate of Social Communications of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), the Archbishop of Owerri Archdiocese affirmed that Benedict XVI was a Pope-Theologian who was deeply spiritual and highly cerebral; thus his main subject was consistently on the Son of God.
With these combined strengths, Pope Benedict was able to “bring a balance between faith and reason” and “battle the post-modern hydra-headed disease of materialism, secularism and ethical relativism eating up the very soul of the Church and society like a moral Cancer.”
While saluting the courageous and exemplary retirement of the Pope on 28 February 2013, the CBCN leader said the Pope’s various Encyclicals, and teachings during his Wednesday Audience, “belong to his greatest scholarly and pastoral legacies.”
