AkaGwokto
You know I have a very protected Catholic girl in this city that I talk to
on these internal church matters, she is a way devoted catholic with her
entire family from her husband to her kids to her family. And she has been
very up front on going after these men in white robes and sexual abuse with
a notion that Western counties have a problem with screwing boys. And it is
only last Friday when I looked in her eyes and I made a statement that
really annoyed her, and this is what I stated. Child molestation is rampant
in Western countries, not for it exists here but for it is talked about
publicly, I cringe to think that it does not exist in African Catholic
churches, for we have it we simply do not talk about it. She walked off the
dining table and the dinner ended there for she took me as a man with no
respect to Africa her culture and her respect to priests. And barely 24
hours this story pops up. AkaGwokto child molestation is not a Western
Catholic church problem it is an entire Catholic church problem, from as
top to the Dope Pope to the low as the local church in Zeu Arua. And the
sooner we start to address it as a church problem the sooner we will save
some for these little boys. And why boys? For they are impressionable they
try and so hard to be someone and society neglected them for all programs
and all care and all money is about girls. The society of 2013 has
absolutely no funding for boys it is all about girls and women, in fact if
you look carefully it is only the Catholic church that makes boys count.
Thus the priests harvesting them and massively. For some reason we as
society have to be responsible for some of this nonsense. Do you actually
know what happens in those sacred parishes in Africa? Of course you dont?
So this in Western countries is being blown up but the local priest in
Africa is still harvesting, we need to start to open these things up man for
it is a very unfortunate issue. And when you look closely, it is still going
on largely in United States for The Obama administration has made it an
uphill to go after these monsters, in fact in United States to go after a
diocese you are shut out with money and go away 5 minutes after you talk for
the Obama administration does not want noise about it. What we need is to
arrest them and jail them. Thank you for posting this one man, it has saved
my poor soul for I have been almost a hyena out there wondering how African
priests cannot be involved when everyone is.
We need to stand up and go after this church man.
EM
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gwokto La'Kitgum
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 5:22 AM
To: ugandans-at-heart
Subject: Re: [UAH] Father Musaala blows the lid off priestly sexual abuse in
Uganda (Africa) « sebaspace
I told you about these filthy men in snow-white robes pretending to be men
of the Almighty and here you can read from a horse's mouth itself.
Some of us, specifically me. have been eye and ear witnesses to
unscrupulous, deliberate sinful acts committed by our African, and to some
extent, white (foreign) priest the likes of which are reasons many -
including me - have had to quit the Holy Catholic Church. Deplorable,
disgusting in God's eyes they are.
Problem is, the same devils to run local parishes themselves and can only
take a local parishioner to gather sufficient guts to report an excruciating
matter to the Bishops or whoever BUT, do they respond appropriately and in
time at all? Many such end up being accomplishes because they know but chose
not to act.
Most rumors we often hear about priests messing up with believers are,
matter of fact, true. There is no smoke without a fire and you better belive
this. We are being led to glory by abusive shepherds/pedophiles who will not
be in the same place with us when the time comes. Still wonder where they
will be?
HELL is where they will be. Now, I aint God but many of these sinful acts
are better be spoken since the best the abusers and pedophiles can do for
themselves is condemn their own souls to hell before the Almighty does.
Pope La'Kitgum Africanus
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Gwokto La'Kitgum
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Father Musaala blows the lid off priestly sexual abuse in Uganda (Africa) «
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FR ANTHONY MUSAALA
MIREMBE GARDENS
PO BOX 30329
KAMPALA
Tuesday 12th March 2013
AN OPEN LETTER TO BISHOPS, PRIESTS AND LAITY: THE FAILURE OF CELIBATE
CHASTITY AMONG DIOCESAN PRIESTS.
It is an open secret that many catholic priests and some bishops, in Uganda
and elsewhere, no longer live celibate chastity.
>From the numerous cases on the ground one might be forgiven for saying that
most diocesan priests either dont believe in celibacy anymore, or if they
do, have long since given up the struggle to be chaste.
In any case it still seems important for priests to vow even a woefully
imperfect celibacy, if only for the sake of the hallowed priestly image.
The church however still maintains the fable that most catholic priests
persevere in celibate chastity fairly well, which fiction begs belief.
ALL IS NOT WELL
All is definitely not well with what I call administrative celibacy, in
the catholic church. It is a celibacy which is more forced than consented
to, and its effects are anything but good.
I suggest that now more than at any other time, we must begin an open and
frank dialogue about catholic priests becoming happily married men, rather
than being miserable and single, either before or after ordination.
Although this may be quite a shock to many, but the alternative may be far
worse. What do you think happens when lapses and scandals by priests,
sisters,brothers and bishops continue unabated , whether hidden or not?
My forecast is that we will have a few more years of catholic
self-deception; perhaps ten, telling ourselves and the world that
everything is Ok, nothing serious. Then more scandals will surface.
As people become more enlightened (as in Europe) there will be a crisis of
faith, perhaps a sudden collapse, with many leaving the church, either to
join other churches (whose pastors may be no better, but who appear to be
less hypocritical about it), or to become agnostics, especially the middle
classes.
One must remember that there are other challenges facing the church, such as
general weakening of faith, loss of sacramental life, low incomes, dull
liturgies, and the challenges of the media. Many of the youth ( not the
children) are already alienated from Catholicism and are easy prey to
proselytizing groups.
FACING THE NAKED TRUTH
The number of catholic priests and bishops who are sexually active in Uganda
is unknown, but almost everywhere unedifying stories of priests
sexploits, are not hard to come by. These stories are told in counseling
or as anecdotes,or by the media. They are told within the parishes and
beyond. They are told at home in families, in taxis, in hair salons and in
the markets.
What is talked about? Priests secret and not so secret liaisons with girls
and women, coerced sex with house-maids, with students, with relatives;
priests wives set up in well established homes; priests involved with a
parishioners wife; of priests romantically involved with religious
Sisters; priests offering money for sex, and so on
If you add to this, a fair number of priests and bishops children
scattered around the nation, who are carefully hidden from view (and not so
carefully!), not to mention children who are aborted at priests behest,
we begin to get the true picture of human weakness, whose consequences are
nothing less than catastrophic both for the priest and his partners, and
which cannot be concealed by taking a vow of celibacy, or by retreats and
more prayers.
LETS LEARN FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA
While in Europe and the States, the scandal of numerous paedophile priests,
whose victims are rightly suing the catholic church is widely reported in
the media, very little by contrast is heard about priests and bishops in
Africa who continue sexually abusing female minors (or vulnerable women)
with no legal action taken.
Obviously time has come for serious measures to be undertaken, similar to
those in Europe and America. Apart from legal action in civil and
ecclesiastical courts aginst offenders, strict child protection codes and
practices, must be enforced, by the state which for instance should prohibit
young or vulnerable females from residing in parish houses, where some of
the abuses occur.
THE SINS OF DECEPTION AND SILENCE
Thus the unnecessary and unpalatable deception about celibate priests, that
they are chaste when they are not is clearly contradicted by what is on the
ground. The deception is of course not tenable for much longer.
Surely we must first tell ourselves the truth as a church, that is to say,
that celibacy has failed or is failing us, and then also tell the world
which we have been deceiving the naked truth, before we are completely
overtaken by events.
Unfortunately there is an ominous unhealthy conspiracy of silence about
these matters among the Ugandan clergy and faithful alike, probably because
priestly celibacy might be seen to be a hollow shell, which it mostly is
nowadays.
The laity for all their good will, are also co-opted into this unwholesome
silence, sometimes for lack of information, sometimes because they believe
that they have some moral duty to be loyal to an imperfect church. In
truth their silence shores up the sins of priests and the destroys many
lives.
MARRIED PRIESTS NOT WANTED FOR THE WRONG REASONS
When I ask lay people whether catholic priests should have the option to
marry the answer is always NO; since they say, that would make catholic
priests like Anglican reverends! As if that was the worse possible fate,
yet Anglican clergy who are married certainly do not have the same levels
and same kinds of sexual lapses as their catholic counterparts..
Most lay people in Uganda would not like their priests to have the option of
marriage, yet it is their very own children, sisters, wives who are being
used and abused by the clergy!
THE CAMPAIGN
A campaign for optional married priesthood in the catholic church is now
required. This campaign is primarily a form of education and purification.
It is not be construed as a rebellion against established doctrine but a
reading of the signs of the times
Since there are no fundamental theological arguments against a married
priesthood (there are already some married priests in he UK and Uniate
catholic churches) but only arguments from tradition and church discipline,
I believe that it is a matter of time before common sense prevails and
marriage for the clergy in the latin rite (i.e. catholic) church is
accepted..
I am aware that there is a big struggle ahead.Unfortunately celibacy also
serves certain vested interests in the power structure of the church, and of
course celibate priests are cheaper and easier to deal with, even to
manipulate, by ecclesiastical authority, but I believe that in time we will
be freed from this unecessary yoke, unhelpful as it is, which is all the
more severe in Africa where family and family ties are so crucial to ones
psychological equilibrium..
PERSONAL INTEREST
One factor which has prompted me to take up this campaign is my own
biography. I am one of a handful of several priests who had the misfortune
of appearing in the press for supposed sexual trespasses.
In my case,which was 2009, it was cited that I must be a homosexual, because
I had homosexual friends and went to homosexual gatherings. Not that I cared
much whether or not someone thinks that I am homosexual. Certainly I have
been called worse things than that.
In my defence I tried to point out that I didnt actually recall having had
homosexual relations with any of my rabid accusers, neither did they; which
meant that hearsay alone became the evidence .
What I found troubling is what followed. Apart from all the pain and
scandal caused to all concerned, I found that even though all the
allegations were based on hearsay, I was being treated, by my superiors as
the biggest sinner in Nineveh.
Up till now judgements are being made against me by ecclesiastical
authority in the light of those events, which I suppose is to be expected.
I wondered about this and came to the conclusion that priests who get
caught. like me, have to pay for the sins of all those who dont get
caught.
In other words failed celibacy requires scapegoats.Some clergy are able to
get away with the grossest behaviour, because of their age, position,
influence or even because of financial inducements.
So while I appear to have little moral authority to talk about celibacy as a
priestly virtue because of what may or may not have happened to me in 2009,
nevertheless I can point out the systemic immorality of the
institutionalized hypocrisy called celibate diocesan priesthood, which
severely punishes lapses when they appear, but condones the secret crimes of
many more.
I believe that there must be a new openness at whatever it takes. The point
is not that diocesan priests should leave the priesthood and get married,
but compel the church to offer the option of a married priesthood. This will
put an end to the double lives so many priests are forced to live.
SOME CASES HEARD
Case One
I spoke with a 21 year old young man last week. He is one of seven children
of a catholic priest who happens to still be serving within the Province of
the Archdiocese of Kampala. The young man, who is willing to testify, lived
in a parish house with his father priest, even serving on the altar with
him, but having to pretend to be a visiting nephew.
At times he was assisted by his father to go to school, but was later
abandoned. On one occasion he drank poison in order to end his life, due to
the trauma, but was taken to hospital before he died.
Case Two
Another is a personal friend. He was fathered by a missionary priest of the
White Fathers 58 years ago but is still suffering the trauma of no real
identity or home.
Although he has since received some minimum compensation from the White
fathers , he still feels that there was an injustice to his mother who is
still alive , who was sexually assaulted by the said White father priest in
his office when she was only sixteen. He wishes to sue.
Case Three
Another case is of a priest who seduced a member of my youth group who
happened to be in need of school fees, at Old Kampala, She soon became
pregnant by the said priest, disappeared from church activities and from her
home to be established in a home.
Case Four
Another lady tells of how she went to confession, only to be sexually
molested by the priest, who fondled her breasts during confession
Case Five
When I was at secondary school, it was common knowledge that various
Brothers were having sexual activity with the boys. It was called jaboo.
As a pubescent teenager, my first sexual encounter was actually with one of
the brothers who invited me to his room on the pretext of doing some extra
chemistry equations. I was sixteen at the time. Later I heard that several
others had been through the same thing..with the same Brother and with other
ones..Some are still alive to this day.
ACTION REQUIRED
I do not believe either that these cases are just a few bad apples in the
barrel, but rather they are symptomatic of a sick system which has lost its
integrity in this one area, but wont admit it.
Some of these cases are clearly criminal in nature, especially those of sex
with children. They should be dealt with in a normal fashion and legal
action taken in civil courts either against the church, or against those
priests who offend.
I am therefore compiling cases from all over Uganda.I believe that if the
all the victims of clearly molestations were to come out and sue the
church in civil courts, such abuses would sharply decrease.
I am also helping to set up a Victims Support Group, independent of the
church for obvious reasons, with guidance and help from similar groups in
Europe and the States.
I have also engaged a Human rights lawyer to advise on the wider
implications of clergy abuse on the basic human rights of
individuals,especially women.
Join me in this exciting challenge to bring fundamental change and renewal
to the catholic church.
Happy Easter
FR. ANTHONY MUSAALA
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