The Catholic Bishop of Torit is suggesting that the diocesan annual general meeting should discuss ways of restructuring of the diocese.
Bishop Ameyu Stephen Martin Mulla during their annual diocesan general meeting on Tuesday, asked his priests in the diocese to accept changes in order to progress.
‘Let us be serious about this question of restructuring, because it has to come from you. The suggestion has to come from you. It is not me imposing my will on you but I think if we would like to be sound in our diocese, we have to accept some renewal, restructuring. We must restructure ourselves’, he stresses.
Bishop Ameyu disagrees with the idea of having priests serving in technical positions instead of performing pastoral duties.
‘It is not necessary that the priests should be the one conducting justice and peace, no it is not. There are lay people who are experts. We as priests we must commit ourselves to pastoral works instead of those technical things. Other people can do that because we have empty parishes that we need to fill in. So more and more we need to commit ourselves to pastoral works not to this technical work. There is no technical work here; you are a technical person for the salvation of the soul. You are to send the soul to heaven instead of other things’, he notes.
The Bishop calls on the priests to work together in order to transform the diocese.