Nigeria’s bishops decry ‘alarming’ rise in liturgical abuses
A letter issued on the Solemnity of the Assumption highlighted 12 specific liturgical abuses.
Nigeria’s bishops’ conference expressed “righteous indignation” Thursday at an “alarming increase” in liturgical abuses.
In a letter to the country’s priests, dated Aug. 15, the Solemnity of the Assumption, bishops’ conference officials said clergy had committed “grave violations” that were “a source of scandal and embarras…

