Church and Family in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

Aloys Otieno Ojore

doi:10.18290/rt2023.18

Published : 2023-12-28

Vol. 70 No. 3 (2023)

Church and Family in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

Aloys Otieno Ojore

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6397-1109

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2023.18

Abstract

The author dwells on marriage and family life in the light of Ecclesia in Africa. He praises Ecclesia in Africa as a milestone in Africa’s ecclesial life. He gives an overview of the various emerging models of family across the world confronting the traditional Catholic understanding of marriage and the family. He insists that the African family model of polygamy should be reviewed and re-considered in light of the emerging Western models of gay and lesbian families.

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Church, family, Africa

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