KENYA
Daily Nation
September 9, 2018
By Dorothy Kweyu
IN SUMMARY
Since 2000 when the big child sex abuse scandals broke out, things have changed in the formation of priests, with more sessions on human sexuality and maturity and development.
Fr Stéphane Joulain is categorical that the church risks bankruptcy from sexual abuse settlements.
Reading current headlines on sex scandals within the Catholic Church, one would be forgiven for believing that the gates of hell have opened wide to swallow the Pope — Peter’s representative on earth — and clergy, if not the entire church.
For centuries, Catholics with grievances against priests have been referred to Psalm 105:15: “Do not touch my anointed ones …”
Therefore, they will not utter anything that might paint their pastors negatively. This is what came to my mind when Canadian priest Roger Tessier abruptly called off our interview.
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