Money obsession endangers your devotion to God, ex-Nuncio Kasujja tells Ugandans

Former Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium and Luxembourg, Archbishop Dr Augustine Kasujja, has asked Christians and all Ugandans to avoid monetary and material obsession.

Hankering for money and wealth, the Nuncio said, endangers Christian devotion, the reason why it is never encouraged.

“Our Lord Jesus Christ cautions us against double loyalty. You cannot serve two masters. You will pay loyalty to one and offend the other. Likewise, you cannot obsess yourself over money and material things and at the same time be a faithful follower of Christ. Yes, money is good, but I must not become our idol.

“It is unfortunate that many of our people have become slaves of money. All they think about is accumulating money and material property. It is when they approach their death that they realise that the money or material things they accumulated, sometimes at the expense of others, did not make them any different from the other people. So, let’s avoid excessive desire for money and material things in order to be in a good relationship with God and our brethren. Let us use the things of this world for the common good,” Kasujja said.

He was delivering his homily during the Catholic Professionals’ mass at St Charles Lwanga Catholic Parish church. Ggaba, in Makindye Division on Sunday, September 21 (2025).

To make his counsel even clearer, Nuncio Kasujja quoted St Paul the Apostle, who said, “money is the root cause of all evil” (1 Timothy 6:10).

The mass was animated by Catholic professionals, who included lawyers, teachers, engineers, psychologists, doctors, accountants, farmers, business persons, and accountants, just to mention a few. During the mass, Nuncio Kasujja imparted a special empowerment blessing upon all the professionals who graced the function.

Nuncio Augustine Kasujja (wearing a mitre and a green chasuble) shares a photo-moment with the Catholic professionals during their empowerment mass at St. Charles Lwanga Catholic parish church Ggaba, in Makindye Division on Sunday, September 21, 2025. (Credit: Mathias Mazinga)

Ggaba parish starts new evangelisation pogramme

In another development, St Charles Lwanga Catholic Parish Ggaba has started implementing its grass-roots evangelisation programme, whereby seminarians from St Mary’s National Seminary Ggaba will be going to Christian homes and educational institutions in the parish, teaching and deepening people’s knowledge of Catholic Catechism.

Rev. Fr. Kizito Sebunnya is the parish-priest of Ggaba.

“The programme of new evangelisation is enshrined in our 5-year strategic plan, which the Archbishop of Kampala, Paul Ssemogerere, launched on our parish day. We did research and realised that parents no longer teach their children the catechism of the Church, which explains the general moral degeneration in society. The seminarians will be moving door-to-door.

“What we are basically doing is to take Jesus back to the people. And the best people to do this are the seminarians. They will teach the people the Church's syllabus.  They will be teaching them the human values, ubuntu. But we also want the seminarians to know the reality of the people they are going to serve because as they do this ministry, they will also be researching us,” Ssebunnya said.

The assigned seminarians, who numbered about 50, were blessed and commissioned by Nuncio Kasujja during the same mass.

During the same function, the newly appointed assistant parish-priest of Ggaba parish, Fr. Vincent Ssemwanga, was introduced to the parishioners.