Ask Your Priest Friend : On the apparent failures of the Catholic Church

By Wilson Ngema, SD* I wonder how anyone would have the audacity to speak about the Catholic Church in such glorious terms amidst its evident failures throughout history. Just think of the paedophilia scandal in the USA! And how do you account for the fact that ever since independence the cream of our leadership has been Catholics and/or products of Catholic schools and yet everyday Cameroon is sinking deeper and deeper into bribery and corruption, tribalism, Satanism and all the other evils that are now leading us into anarchy? Triumphalism is bad. If I have somehow come across as triumphalistic,…