African archbishop: Opposition to homosexuality is not ‘cultural’ but about fidelity to Christ

‘Africa was not defending a cultural idea. Africa was defending the teaching that the Church has had for 2,000 years,’ Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Cameroon said about opposition to homosexual ‘blessings.’ In an apparent rebuke of Pope Francis, the president of the Cameroon Episcopal Conference reiterated that African clerical resistance to “female deacons” and LGBT ideology is not based on the continent’s conservative cultural outlook but rather on “fidelity to what Christ taught.” Read more…