‘The root of priestly sin’: Kenyan Catholics rebel against celibacy vow  The Independent

He was a priest just out of seminary. She was a nurse. They were both from the slopes of Mount Kenya, but their paths improbably crossed in Rome. He became unshakable in his desire to marry her, even though he had taken the Catholic church’s mandatory vow of celibacy for priests. When he returned to preach in Kenya, Peter Njogu was shocked when fellow priests told him that many of them had broken that vow, marrying and having children. In hushed tones, they spoke of their “secret families”, kept hidden in distant homes. The thought of doing so pained him. As the Catholic church goes through…