He said eating and praying together as well as the fear and love
of God which used to be some characteristics of families were
gradually being replaced with the pursuit of wealth and work.
“Many families are no longer families because parents busy
themselves working hard to earn more money and increase their wealth
with some resorting to unchristian means to acquire their wealth,”
Bishop Bemile lamented.
Bishop Bemile was speaking during the 33rd National Plenary
Assembly of the Catholic Laity Council held at the Saint Andrew’s
Catholic Church in Wa on Friday.
It was on the theme: “The Domestic Church as an Agent of Evangelization”.
Bishop Bemile said the Ghanaian was known to be religious,
honest, hospitable, peaceful, lover of life and truth and above all
feared God but lamented that all most of hese cherished values had
been thrown to the dogs.
He said in the past Christian doctrines were manifested in
schools, colleges, hospitals and clinics, noting that today, many of
these institutions were handicapped in the areas of evangelization
because of unfavourable policies which tended to make religion a
private matter.
Bishop Bemile said homosexuality and lesbianism which every well
intentioned Ghanaian used to frown upon and considered European was
today being promoted and practiced by people who claimed to be
believers in God.
Virginity and fidelity, one time cherished values, were traded in
for pleasure, variety and money despite the spread of killer diseases
such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B and C.
The Bishop also pointed out that the tendency to get rich quick
by the youth had given birth to increasing vices such as ‘sakawa,’
armed robbery, drug peddling and sex trade.
Bishop Bemile noted that unless Christians dug deep to uncover
the roots of the lost family life, it would not flourish as much as it
should.
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