Catholic Occultism - Part 1

KAMPALA - A cult leader facing murder charges in Uganda's doomsday massacre was a student priest who attended graduate school at a Jesuit university in Los Angeles, officials said. Defrocked priest Dominic Kataribabo, 32, is one of 6 Ugandans now wanted in connection with the worst cult-related killings in modern history.

So far, police have found 924 bodies, most of them burnt, many strangled and mutilated. More than half were inside the nailed-shut doors of a village church set afire while many followers were still alive. Leaders of the cult slaughtered a child every Friday and drank its blood, a Kampala newspaper reported.

Several people who claimed they had witnessed ritual killings said that the leaders consulted witches in nearby towns who advised them "to kill the opposition leaders and drink the blood of a young slain child to keep off the spirits and government."

Originally thought to have perished in the fire, the cult leaders are now believed to be in hiding, possibly in Kenya. Little had been known about Kataribabo, a defrocked Roman Catholic priest who helped lead the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, and preached the world would end on Dec. 31, 1999.

But church and university officials said Kataribabo earned a 1987 master's degree in religious studies from Loyola Marymount University, one of America's top Roman Catholic colleges. "He seemed to be pretty ordinary," said a university spokesman, reviewing Kataribabo's records.

Police found 81 bodies, 5 of which were children, under a newly poured cement floor in Kataribabo's 10-room house. Another 74 mutilated, strangled bodies, including 28 children, were found in his backyard.

Los Angeles Archdiocese records show Kataribabo was awarded a full Loyola Marymount scholarship in 1985 under a university program benefiting third world priests after being nominated by his local bishop in the Kampala archdiocese. Kataribabo lived at St. Anthony's parish rectory in the coastal city of El Segundo, said archdiocese spokesman Fr. Gregory Coiro.

The archdiocese granted "sacramental ministry" permission to Kataribabo, meaning he could conduct Mass and weddings at St. Anthony's, said Coiro. The ordained priest from Uganda left America on July 10, 1987. "He said he was returning to his own country," Coiro said. "There were no improprieties listed in Kataribabo's file." It was only after he became involved with the cult that he was defrocked.

The warrants name two other of sect's most notorious figures: "The Prophet," Bishop Joseph Kibwetere, titular head of the cult, and charismatic ex-banana beer peddler and former prostitute, Sister Cedonia Mwerinde, 48, known as "The Programmer," the real power behind the cult with her self-proclaimed apocalyptic visions of the Virgin Mary.

Fr Paul Ikazire, a priest who spent three years as one of the cult's leaders before defecting back to the Roman Catholic Church, recalls how Sister Credonia dominated the sect.

"The meetings were chaired by Sister Credonia, who was the de facto head of the cult," he said. "Kibwetere was just a figurehead, intended to impose masculine authority over the followers and enhance the cult's public relations. I perceived her as a trickster, obsessed with the desire to grab other people's property. She told her followers to sell their property but she never sold hers."

Credonia was also responsible for imposing a ruthless daily regimen on the devotees. They would be woken before sunrise to perform religious rites and receive instruction on her apocalyptic teachings, then be forced to toil from dawn until dusk in the fields, with only a cup of porridge in the mornings and a plate of beans in the evenings.

A strict code of silence was also enforced: followers were allowed to speak only to recite prayers or sing hymns. This brutal way of life turned her followers - many of them illiterate peasants when they joined - into a cowed, half-starved, sleep-deprived flock which was ripe for brain-washing

Both men are described as serene and quiet-spoken; but both were also torn by religious turmoil that made them prey to Credonia's influence. Kibwetere was treated for mental illness in 1998. Although there is no doubt that they also oversaw the killing spree - Kataribabo even bought the sulphuric acid used in the church blaze - they appeared to have believed in their warped visions of Catholicism. Few who knew Credonia believed that she shared their religious conviction.

There has been speculation that the deaths came after predictions of the end of the world failed to come true. Cult members, who were told to sell their possessions and give the proceeds to the movement, had been told that they would enter a new world "free of sorrow and misery".

On Fri., March 17, 600 followers were boarded inside the church and were then incinerated in a fire set from within the building. The previous night, cult members were treated to an unprecedented celebration: 70 crates of Coca-Cola were ordered and a bull slaughtered. The sect had been busily selling off everything from empty jerry cans and old clothes to houses and 200 head of cattle.

It is thought that cult members believed that the boards were to protect them and keep out the unredeemed during the apocalypse. Yet, that does not explain why they did not react to the smell of the gasoline and sulphuric acid that police say was sprinkled around the room. One possibility is that they were given drugged or poisoned communion wine. Once the inferno began, there was no escape. "It was all over very quickly," one detective said.

The blaze, initially treated as mass suicide, turned out to be only the fiery climax of a horrific killing rampage. International arrest warrants have been issued for the leaders. If found and convicted, they could be hanged.

BBC 4/27/2000, Sunday Telegraph 4/6, AP 4/6, 3/28

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