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The Archbishop’s statements stand as a powerful rebuke of Vatican officials trying to characterize Africa’s rejection of the modernist agenda a “cultural factors.”
The Archbishop of Cameroon’s Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda has faulted claims that the Church in Africa is only influenced by culture when taking a position on controversial topics, especially those raised in the ongoing multi-year Synod on Synodality, which Pope Francis extended to 2024, with the first phase, 4-29 October 2023, having concluded with a 42-page summary report.According to Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya, Africa’s “vehement no” on hot-button topics such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) outreach and the ordination of female Deacons was guided by Scripture and the teachings of the Catholic Church, and “not purely” the continent’s culture, which he said had been described as “inferior.”
In his presentation at the August 23 session of the ongoing weekly synodal palavers, Archbishop Nkea recalled the meetings that Africa’s delegatesto the Synod on Synodality held before the first phase of the Synod in which he said participants spoke in one voice regarding topics that they picked up from Instrumentum Laboris, the working document for the Synod.
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Archbishop: Africa’s “Vehement NO” on Women Deacons, LGBTQ+ Guided by Scripture, Church Teachings
The Archbishop's statements stand as a powerful rebuke of Vatican officials trying to characterize Africa's rejection of the modernist agenda a "cultural factors." The Archbishop of Cameroon’s Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda has faulted claims that the Church in Africa is only influenced by...