African Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Stated, “The West brought us Jesus Christ, the Gospel, but nowadays we get the feeling that the West is beginning to length itself from the Gospel” and suggests the Pope and the Vatican’s Selection to Make it possible for Clergymen to Bless Similar-Sexual intercourse Couples is a sort of “Cultural Colonization” and “Western Imperialism”
Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Mild Society Global, agrees with African Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo and says the identical matter that is occurring with Catholics in Europe, sadly is happening between Evangelicals in The usa, unfortunately among the whites and blacks.
ROME — The Vatican’s final decision to enable priests to bless similar-sexual intercourse couples was observed as the imposition of Western techniques on Africa, a type of “cultural colonization,” a top African Cardinal has mentioned.
In a March 17 interview with the French-language Catholic television channel KTO, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, the president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), claimed that African Catholics continue to think in the biblical prohibition of homosexual practice as an “abomination.”
On December 18, 2023, the Vatican’s doctrinal business issued a declaration titled Fiducia Supplicans reversing a longstanding ban on blessings for homosexual partners, a go that provoked common opposition among Africa’s Catholics.
“The African continent lived and knowledgeable the document Fiducia Supplicans as cultural colonization, as a form of Western imperialism on the cultural airplane,” reported Cardinal Ambongo, who is on Pope Francis staff of nine advisors.
“The techniques viewed as regular in the West were being remaining imposed on one more folks, which explains the virulence of Africa’s reaction,” the cardinal reported, noting that “our individuals felt wounded in their religion.”
“It was a type of cultural imperialism and the Africans saw behind Fiducia Supplicans the will to impose on Africa the methods of the West,” he included.
Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo (R) parades right before attending a mass for peace in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on January 28, 2024. A mass for peace in the Excellent Lakes region was arranged by reps of the Catholic church buildings of the DRC, Rwanda and Burundi, wherever Ambongo criticized the leaders of the three countries, accusing them of inciting “division and war”. (ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP by using Getty Pictures)
“In Africa, homosexual follow is seen as a deviance, an abomination, as the Bible calls it,” he stated. “How could these types of a thing be blessed? It is not regarded a standard exercise.”
The cardinal also mentioned that he has the perception that the West is shedding its roots and pitfalls “disappearing.”
“The roots of the West are the values that the West introduced to us throughout colonization and we thought in these values,” he reported. “But we recognize that for the West nowadays these values no longer exist. That disconcerts us and we talk to ourselves: ‘Where is the West likely?’”
“We have the perception that the West is no extended disposed to suppose its own society. Anything is relativized, every thing is revisited, and that worries us,” he mentioned.
“The West introduced us Jesus Christ, the gospel, but today we get the sense that the West is starting to length alone from the gospel,” he declared.