UGANDA
Digital Journal
By Brett Wilkins
May 6, 2013
Kampala – A popular Ugandan priest has been ostracized from the Catholic Church after exposing what he calls an ‘open secret’– the rampant sexual abuse of children by clergy members.
Earlier this year, Ghanian cardinal and papal candidate Peter Turkson raised eyebrows when he told CNN that the international clergy sex abuse scandal couldn’t happen in Africa because “African traditional systems kind of protect… its population against this tendency” and “in Africa homosexuality… [is] not countenanced in our society.”
But one African priest strongly disagrees. Anthony Musaala, a gospel music star known as the “Dancing Priest,” has been publicizing sex abuse among clergy in his native Uganda. In doing so, he’s forcing the country’s Catholic Church to confront an ugly epidemic that it says doesn’t exist.
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