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What a travesty of justice! — Part Three…Catholic Church must confess!

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CATHOLIC clergy expect congregants to confess their sins regularly, especially before the celebration of Mass to prepare their hearts so that they are worthy to receive the Holy sacrament.
And congregants comply.
This is despite the Catholic Church not confessing to the Good Lord for violating the Divine Law by being part to the brutal armed robbery of our land by the British and reducing us, the owners of this land, to paupers who could only survive by being slaves of these robbers.
When they ensconced Father Hartmann in the band of convicts, the so-called ‘Pioneer Column’, it was not a fluke. It was an actualisation of their goal; the successful robbery of the land of Zimbabwe for the looting and plundering of its wealth and benefitting from the labour of its people.
The Catholics have been consistent, revealing that it was no accident that the Jesuit priest accompanied the band of brigands, saying mass for these convicts who were on their way to commit crimes against humanity, to murder, rob and brazenly benefit from this misadventure.
Father Richartz was there, accosting Nehanda to be baptised to renounce the honour of being a freedom fighter and rather embrace the shame of being a sellout — Nehanda refused to sell out.
This priest was representing the Catholic Church, clearly executing the mandate of the British robbery of our land, demonising the defenders of the land and using the name of God to further the ends of this British robbery.
The Catholics were there all the way, urging genocide together with Cecil John Rhodes and his lieutenants.
It is unbelievable that they could do this so brazenly despite it being so contrary to their mission, that of being representatives of Christ.
In Luke 4:18, Jesus defined his mission as having come to heal the wounded, to free the captives, heal the broken-hearted and restore sight to the blind.
But the Catholics, in their mission to Rhodesia, came to kill, imprison, rob, wound, impoverish and enslave.
For their part in the armed robbery of our land, they received thousands of hectares of land from Leander Starr Jameson — Chishawasha Mission alone accounting for 5 600 hectares — and they accepted. They accepted what had been looted from the people of this country, land for which the people of Zimbabwe had been killed and maimed.
At the beginning of each Mass, Catholics confess:
“Ndinobvuma panemi Mwari Baba muna masimba ose, napanemio hama dzangu, kuti ndakatadza kwazvo, mukufunga, mukureva, mukuita nomukuzengurira.”
They do this so that they can be worthy to celebrate the Holy sacrament.
What did Father Hartmann say when he got to this part; did he confess the crime of being part and parcel of the marauding robbers on a mission to murder and loot and plunder, or did he skip this part as he said multiple Masses for these convicts?
The Catholics have not yet confessed to us Africans of Zimbabwe, their fellow human beings: ‘Kuti takaputsa chirangano chechi Kristu chinoti’:
‘Love your neighbour as yourself’.
Had they heeded and obeyed this cardinal rule of Christ’s teachings, they would never have been part of the invasion force come to murder our people, plunder and loot our wealth, exploit our labour and impose their evil rule on us.
Divine Law does not sanction colonialism, slavery nor any form of societal organisation that abrogates justice and equality, certainly it does not accommodate murder, looting and plundering of what belongs to others for self-aggrandisement. The Catholics were in grave breech of the Divine Law when they became part of the British armed robbery of our land and the brutal murder and torment of our people.
They have not yet confessed.
They have not confessed nor done penance for abrogating many of the 10 Commandments.
Usabe (Thou shalt not steal):
They participated in looting and plundering of our wealth and accepted thousands of hectares of land looted from our people. This is only one example of how much they benefitted from the plunder and looting of our wealth.
Usachive chomumwe kana chiyi zvacho (Thou shalt not covet…):
Ndidzo mviro mviro dzokubatana namaRhodesians kuzotipamba nokutitorera zvinhu zvedu, kuri kuzvitutumadza kuti chako ichocho ndechangu. Handikumbiri kana kutengeserana newe, kana kuchishandira, hauzi chinhu iwe ndinokutorera nechisimba.
Usauraye (Thou shalt not kill):
Paiurawa vanhu vedu, you were part of it.
You participated in the murder of our people.
Father Richartz was the referee wokuti uchaurawa wamboti sorry ndakaposha kumiririra rudzi rwangu nezvinhu zvedu kana kuti kwete.
Rurimii rwokutuka munhu kuti usamiririra chokwadi?
On February 15 1897, Father Biehler, a Catholic priest at Chishawasha Mission, wrote the following as the first Chimurenga raged on:
“Our mode of fighting is not the proper one for the Mashonas…It seems to me that the only way of doing anything at all with the natives is to starve them, destroy their lands, kill all that can be killed.”
During this same war, Rhodes’ bloodlust is described: “He would return to the scene of action to count the African corpses, how he told a police officer to spare no-one, even if he threw down his arms and implored mercy, ordering ‘you should kill all you can’.”
Rhodes’ lieutenant A.W. Jarvis, later elevated to Sir Jarvis by the crown of England, expressed a wish to ‘wipe them all out, as far as one can, everything black’.
A certain Sir Frederick Carrington, at a public dinner, advocated the ‘extermination or deportation of the entire Ndebele ‘race.’
The consonance between Rhodes’ camp and the Catholic camp, on the necessity for genocide, spells out unequivocally that the two sides were actually one; they were all armed robbers but some armed with the gun while others were armed with the Bible.
They were all desperate for the extermination of our people so that our everything, land and wealth, would be theirs.
But Musikavanhu did not agree.
They lied to our people that the Lord God was one with them in their evil project of murdering our people, looting their wealth and usurping their sovereignty and replacing it with their evil rule.
They still maintain this lie. It is totally amazing that an institution that should be guided by the loftiest of principles still named a school after the chaplain of the brigands so called Pioneer Column, Father Hartmann. Hartmann House, a school on Borrowdale Road, is a Catholic banner which loudly says to all Zimbabweans and the whole world:
‘We are proud to have taken part in the armed robbery of this land, to have murdered more than 60 000 people, to have looted land, cattle and minerals. We are proudly British in the brutal and merciless subjugation of Zimbabwe’.
Not only have the Catholics not confessed nor repented, they are still beating the drums and celebrating 90 years of brutal British enslavement of our people in which thousands perished, thousands more maimed, millions impoverished and from which hearts and minds are still bleeding.
What do you say?
You are a Zimbabwean, and a congregant of the Catholic Church, and you send your little boy to Hartmann House and because of the colonial curriculum that has dominated our education, you don’t know of Father Hartmann’s role in the brutal armed robbery of your people!
And then one day you learn of this history.
How do you feel as a patriotic Zimbabwean and a God-fearing person?
Would you still respect the Catholic Church?
Would you still think Hartmann House is the right place to educate your innocent son?
Does it bother the Catholic Church at all that there is a glaring contradiction between what it teaches and its practice?
Does it worry the Catholic Church at all that through its obduracy it is disenchanting those who would truly want to worship God?
Clearly, the Catholic Church intends the little boys who so trustingly attend Hartmann House to admire someone so evil and when this happens, what happens to them as people?
Do they grow to be the best they can be if these are the heroes raised before them?
It is apparent the Catholic Church does not really care as long it protects and pursues its true interests, those that brought the band of brigands, so called ‘Pioneer Column’, to our land; those that raised the Union Jack in our Harare on September 12 1890.
They have been saying Mass hundreds of times a day for more than a century in our land without confessing to this crime to God Almighty and to the people of Zimbabwe.
Their own teachings are their indictment.
Catholics are supposed to be ‘zvapupu zvechokwadi’.

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