Catholic Church Seeks to Hide Sexual Abuse in Uganda

Some things never change when it comes to the Roman Catholic Church: gays are treated like lepers, women remain subservient and inferior members of the Church, and the quest to hide sexual abuse of children and minors never ends.  Efforts to bring to light widespread sexual abuse in Uganda once again demonstrate that the Church hierarchy's main objective is to silence anyone who might expose the foul cesspool that is today's institutional Church and the criminal conspirators in the hierarchy.  Africa is the last growth area for the Church so one can expect the leadership to go to great lengths to hide the scandal.  Here are highlights from the Daily Monitor:

A Catholic priest, who last month exposed prevalence of sexual adventure by his colleagues in violation of celibacy oath, has disengaged from the debate citing an “agreement” he reached with Kampala Archbishop Cyprian Lwanga.

Fr. Anthony Musaala, whom the prelate suspended about a fortnight ago for raising the allegations in public, yesterday said he was constrained to further discuss a subject he thrust into the public domain. “I made an agreement with the Archbishop [not to talk to the media] because there was so much happening; so much at stake, he said, “So, I will not comment and I hope you appreciate that.”

Fr. Musaala’s premature withdrawal came a day after Archbishop Lwanga, who suspended him mid-last month, made a U-turn on Easter eve to acknowledge and apologise for alleged sexual abuses, including of minors, by some priests. “It’s sad that there has been some misbehaving by some (priests) as alleged,” he said, before announcing an ad hoc commission had been constituted to inquire into the matter.

Findings of the investigations, according to Archbishop Lwanga, would not be made public because the Church has a cocooned mechanism of resolving such slip-ups.

Fr Musaala, who was suspended on March 19, told this newspaper that he had no regrets for authoring the dossier and demanded that cases of sexual abuse, especially of children, in Uganda should not be left to the church alone to tackle. He said then that his exposure of the vice was “a good thing” to draw attention of state actors to sex crimes and child abuse by catholic clerics.

You can change the name of the continent or country involved, but the pattern of abuse and cover ups remains the same worldwide.