(Crux. Ngala Killian Chimtom).
A leading African Catholic priest and intellectual has publicly lamented the rush of financial support for former U.S. President Donald Trump in the wake of his conviction in a hush money trial, saying the reaction illustrates that “basic moral values no longer seem to matter.” Father Humphrey Tatah Mbuy of Cameroon, the director of communications for his country’s bishops conference, made the remarks June 2. “After the former President of the United States, Donald Trump, was found guilty of 34 counts of felony, his supporters took pride in less than six hours to collect a whopping $52 million for his support, as if to tell the world and its children that it doesn’t matter any crime anyone commits, money talks,” Mbuy said. In a weekly reflection titled Fides Quaerens Intellectum, a classic Latin phrase meaning “faith seeking understanding,” Mbuy argued that Trump’s own reaction to the verdicts in his trial for illegal payoffs to a former porn star, coupled with the wave of popular support for the former president, sends a worrying signal.