By Jude Atemanke, CNA, March 20, 2024 (Catholic World Report)
This article was originally published by ACI Africa, CNA’s news partner in Africa, and has been adapted by CNA.
ACI Africa, Mar 20, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA) – Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration by the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) permitting the blessing of same-sex couples and couples in other “irregular situations,” was perceived as “cultural colonization” in Africa, the president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) said.
In a March 17 interview with the French-language Catholic television channel KTO, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo deplored the lack of “synodality” in the release of the DDF document that has evoked mixed reactions and deep division among Catholic bishops across the world since its publication on Dec. 18, 2023.
“In this declaration, there was a whole cultural problem, because the African continent perceived Fiducia Supplicans as cultural colonization,” said Ambongo, the archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. …