Homosexuality and the Church in Africa

(Crisis magazine.Eric Sammons).

There’s been strong resistance in the African Church to the growing acceptance of homosexuality in the worldwide Catholic Church. We’ll talk today with someone who went to Africa to discuss this important issue with Church officials there.

Janet E. Smith recently retired from the Father McGivney Chair of Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, MI. Professor Smith is the author of Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later and A Right to Privacy. Her volume entitled Self-Gift contains her previously published essays on Humanae Vitae and the thought of John Paul II.

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