Renegade African church blames celibacy rule for sex abuse crisis

PARIS (FRANCE)
La Croix International

June 7, 2019

A faction of Catholic priests in Kenya who set up their own church years ago to circumvent the Vatican’s strict celibacy rule see themselves as a solution the clerical sex abuse crisis.

Peter Njogu, a self-proclaimed bishop, said that after falling in love with a nurse in Rome, he was distressed at hearing tales of priests having “secret families.”

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