"Archbishop Robert Sarah, the Guinea - born secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples''

Warns his fellow African prelates at last October's Roman Synod with Pope Benedict XVI:

[H]omosexuality becomes a culturally acceptable choice...


Adapted from Jeff Ziegler's excellent article in The Catholic World Report, December, 2009. It is titled No to Neocolonialism.


"DAY 4: A blast against Western gender ideology


"The strongest words of the day were uttered by Archbishop Robert Sarah, the Guinea - born secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

"Taking aim at the effects of Western gender ideology, which he described as contrary to African culture and to the human truths illuminated by the divine Revelation in Jesus Christ, he said..."

A synopsis of Archbishop Sarah's point of view:

"The right to choose being the supreme value of this new ethic, homosexuality becomes a culturally acceptable choice, and access to this choice must be promoted.

"The new ideology is dynamic and imposes itself at the same time on cultures and [on] politics."

But by contrast:

"In African culture, man is nothing without woman and woman is nothing without man.

"Both are nothing if the child isn't the center of the family created by a man and a woman and the base of society.

""[The] ideology of gender unbalances the meaning of marital and family life that Africa has maintained until now ....

"Africa must protect itself from the contamination of intellectual cynicism in the West..."