Chimamanda Adichie, calls out priest who verbally abused her during her mother’s funeral mass
Nigerian writer and Feminist, Chimamanda Adichie, has called out a priest who verbally abused her over comments she made about the Catholic church in Nigeria during her mother’s funeral mass.
Nigerian writer and Feminist, Chimamanda Adichie, has called out a priest who verbally abused her over comments she made about the Catholic church in Nigeria during her mother’s funeral mass.
In a video that has since gone viral, the award-winning writer said she left the church angrily over the Parish Priest’s verbal attack and only came back to explain what she said during the interview about the Catholic Church in Nigeria.
Mrs. Adichie, who broke the silence in front of the congregation and members of the Abba community in a church said that it was so bad for a priest to force people to donate to the church.
She recounted how the priest alleged that she said she doesn’t attend Catholic Church in Nigeria because it is all about money.
The author said that what she said in the interview is there are good things about the Catholic Church but she doesn’t like when people are forced to give money.
She insists that making church donations shouldn’t be a mandatory exercise but a voluntary act that can be done if the person is completely ready and willing.
Chimamanda hates the fact that the priest during her mom’s funeral mass ordered that the church doors be locked so no one will be exempted from donating money.
Speaking in Igbo dialect, Adichie said the parish priest had several opportunities to express his displeasure over the interview personally but never did.
