Father Rocco Taban is a huge disgrace to the Catholic Church in South Sudan
Rocco Taban is a temptation and a huge disgrace of whom Catholic Church should take administrative actions
By Kon Joseph Leek, Juba, South Sudan
July 4, 2016 (SSB) — It was sometimes in May [2016] when a number of aggravated youth carried postcards in to Emmanuel Cathedral [Episcopal Church] demonstrating the allowance of Dr. Riek to pray there a week before.
Again last week [26th June], a presiding pastor named Rocco Taban Moussa; an apostolic Administrator for Malakal [having powers equivalent to that of a bishop] turned in to less of what he really is by whimsically crossing beyond his territory by imaginatively rolling out of the pastor’s attires, he might have been out of his sense that time that perhaps made him forgot where he was –he filled his heart with hatred and vomited out a quantity of poisons in the holly place!
This was what he said as sourced from Radio Tamazuj
“More than 100,000 people are in the bush being displaced by their own government
This is the country we have chosen, this is the country we have voted for its independence so that our country displaces us, our Country. We are ruled really by monkeys, we have to be very clear we are ruled by monkeys
And the governor who was protecting people in Wau, who was loved by the people in Wau, General Elias Waya was removed by the presidential decree and being displaced by a mad man
Do we love our country? Do we love this nation?
And so for the president of the republic did not say even a word. In Australia, three people were killed three days ago. The prime minister came out three times a day to make a statement because of three Australians!
They are eating, and drinking and sleeping. Devils! These are devils! We are ruled by devils and we are sorry for them
We don’t want to call fire on them because we will go against Christ, but they have to understand that they are devils and they are ruling us with evil powers. They are criminals. Praise be Jesus Christ”. Rocco Taban Mousa on Sunday 26th, June at St. Joseph Church Juba
This exaggerated hypothesis from the pastor was acting as antidote to his illusive pain of the claim that it is the government killing the people, yes, the government carries some blame on how the 2013 war came in the first place but the national quagmire now is a shared responsibility for us all, we have [pastor Rocco included] a shared responsibility of talking to ourselves to accept ourselves through peace and reconciliation not through hate speech that amounts to incitement and later aggravates more hatred that results to more death [whether we want it or not, we have to accept our selves for our co-existence]
Hearing this, you get to wonder that what is going on. What is the church turning to be? Many churches are supporting gay rights, some pastors are committing abominable things like adultery, killing, some rapping, others stealing, the rest committing pedophilia and comes to the church and began shouting,”praise be to the lord!” Lord! Which Lord? Those are the category of Taban [is possibly coming from] of whom I am requesting the Catholic Church to dismiss him or take some displinary actions against him such that he doesn’t disgrace the church next time
The Catholic Church need to look for ways of dealing with such imperious, puerile psychopathic priest
Impetuous Rocco’s demagogic posture and oratorical nature hit the most climaxes that sent many in to hysteria [invigorated women to ululate as if they were in a marriage ceremony] and others marched out of the church. Whatever he said is good to him and his supporters but my problem of which I believe Catholic Church also knows and accept it as true is that the choice of podium is inappropriate, it couldn’t have been on the pulpit-sacred place! but somewhere outside the church
The pastor had succeeded in his own way by slurring the congregates away from what they came there for
Well, it is undeniable fact that many of these pastors are living embodiments of what they preach but for this Rocco guy is just too much and open, preaching wrong thing in a right place in the earshot of everyone!
We just came out of war, some pockets of fighting that are going on does not need to be refreshed with hate speeches and taunting. The stand of the church is love as a holly place where we are suppose to talk of cooperation and rehabilitation not incitement like Pastor Rocco Taban
I have personally stopped going to the churches these days until further notice because my psychic tells me that one day war will break out of the church. What is going on is quiet mundane and no one cares. It was in Episcopal Church last time from some youth and it is now in catholic from the church leader! Let’s wait the other denominations
It makes one to ask himself that, “Are some church administrators being too assiduous to dismantle the stand of the church to the public?”
In short; the Catholic Church’s authority, to clear the snow on this Rocco guy whose behaviors suddenly dominated the media needs to be dehorned in order to know the reach of his horn when it comes to how the church performs its activities or duties. This is another character that is a clear symbol of Catholic Church’s administrative stereotype [to the negative perception] if not addressed
The writer is a commentator on contemporary issues, he is reachable on j.konleek@gmail.com
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