Universal Church

Born in 1952, Monsignor Marie Daniel Dadiet was ordained a priest in 1979 at the age of 27. Nineteen years later, in 1998 at the age of 46, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Korhogo where he served for 4 years. He took over the diocese of Katiola on May 12, 2002 for only two years.

On Tuesday, September 17, 2023, Pope Francis calls on each faithful to identify a person who has hurt them and ask the Lord for the strength to forgive them. “Forgiveness is the oxygen that purifies the air polluted by hatred” (Matthew 18:21–35).

From September 24 to 29, 2023, the seminarians of the Saint Paul Middle Seminary of Wango spent the time of retreat to better start the school year 2023-2024. It is under the theme: Building one's vocation. Which retreat was led by Father Jean-Marie KONDE, priest of the archdiocese of Kinshasa on a Fidei donum mission in Bangui and vicar at the Cathedral of Bangui.

We offer you the homily given by Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga at the Mass of the pastoral return on Sunday, September 24, 2023 at the Notre Dame de Fatima parish in Bangui. It was on the same occasion that two deacons and two priests were ordained.

It is true that each particular Church is the Church of Christ in its communion with the other Churches. Missionary cooperation is "an instrument in the hands of the Bishop to ensure the missionary mandate of Christ... of education in the universal missionary spirit and of inter-ecclesial communion in the service of the proclamation of the Gospel" (Benedict XVI, Address to the PMS, 2008). It is a "service" called "missionary" charged with the "universal mission" (Cf. canons 782-791).

In a message addressed to the families of the missing victims, to the population of the city of Lisala and to people of good will, Monsignor José-Bernard Likolo Bokal'Etumba, Bishop of Lisala and Apostolic Administrator of Molegbe, expressed from Kinshasa his paternal closeness with great sadness for the death of the 17 people, victims of the torrential rain that fell on the city of Lisala from the evening of the 16th to the morning of the 17th of September of the current year...

In the courtyard of the Cathedral, the Church of God in Kikwit saw five priests and six deacons rise. This celebration, in the presence of consecrated men and women, civil and military authorities, thousands of faithful, could not take place inside the cathedral church which is currently closed for renovation.

In Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Order of the Holy Cross presented five of its members for diaconal (three) and priestly (two) ordination on this feast day. It was the Bishop of Butembo-Beni, Monsignor Sikuli Paluku Melchisédech, who presided over these ordinations at the Mater Ecclesiale Cathedral

There are many candidates participating in the Bible competition organized by the Paulines bookstore from September 2 to 25, 2023 in Kisangani. Christians of all religious denominations are attracted by an interesting exercise: it is about finding the biblical passages of 15 images displayed in the window.

Indeed, in a press conference that the Archbishop of Bangui granted to several journalists on the morning of this Friday, September 15, 2023 at the Archbishopric, Cardinal Dieudonné delivered the orientations, perspectives and objectives to pursue for the diocesan return this year.