When the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) issued Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration permitting the blessing of “same-sex couples” and couples in other “irregular situations”, Catholic Church leaders in Africa expressed their sharp opposition to the move.
Catholic Bishops in Africa under the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) consulted member Conferences across the continent and issued a statement saying there would be no blessing for homosexual couples in the African churches.
In Kenya, however, the biggest criticism of the Vatican DDF declaration came from non-Catholics, who said that the Catholic Church had lost its way, according to Archbishop Philip Subira Anyolo of the country’s Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi (ADN).
“Other Churches were talking even more than Catholics. They wondered where the Catholic Church was headed,” Archbishop Anyolo told EWTN’s Colm Flyn, who asked him how the December 18 DDF declaration had been received in Kenya.
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