L'Effort Camerounais (English Version)

Editorial: Pope Benedict XVI Faces Yet Another Assault!

By Ireneaus Chia Chongwain

It is said uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. This saying means more to Benedict XVI’s papacy than to that of any Pope in recent memory. There is little Pope Benedict XVI has either done or said that has not attracted the attention of his detractors, who are evidently resolute on putting a question mark on his moral authority and make nonsense of the person who has assured the doctrinal purity and distinctiveness of the Catholic Church for well over 30 years. He is aware of what he is up against as he keeps warning priests and the Catholic Faithful of what he calls “dangerous reductionism” that seeks to undermine anything divine.

Vatican Says Media Attempts to Link Pope Benedict To The Sexual Abuse Of Minors Have Failed

Pope Benedict XVI

The Vatican says various media attempts, especially in Germany, to personally involve Pope Benedict XVI to priests’ sexual abuse of minors have failed. An evidently hostile press, for reasons still to be determined, has accused Pope Benedict XVI of welcoming and reassigning to the ministry a priest guilty of the sexual abuse of minors, claims the Vatican has dismissed as false and calumnious.  Read the Vatican Press Office director and Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi’s reaction and the interview of Monsignor Charles Scicluna, who handles cases brought against abusive priests for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on the controversy. 

Media Failed to Blame Pope in Sexual Abuse Cases

Source: Zenit.org

 

Father Federico Lombardi

Vatican City: The attempts of various media sources, especially in Germany, to implicate Benedict XVI in cases of sexual abuse by clergy, have failed, said the Vatican spokesman. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, affirmed this in a communiqué that was broadcast by Vatican Radio.

The Church's Strict Patrol against Pedophilia

Source : Zenit.org

 

Monsignor Charles Scicluna

Vatican City: Here is a Vatican translation of an interview with Monsignor Charles Scicluna, who handles cases brought against abusive priests for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, published Saturday by Avvenire. Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna is the "promoter of justice" of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He is effectively the prosecutor of the tribunal of the former Holy Office, whose job it is to investigate what are known as delicta graviora; that is, the crimes which the Catholic Church considers as being the most serious of all: crimes against the Eucharist and against the sanctity of the Sacrament of Penance, and crimes against the Sixth Commandment ("thou shall not commit impure acts") committed by a cleric against a person under the age of eighteen. Scicluna, an affable and polite Maltese, has the reputation of scrupulously carrying out the tasks entrusted to him without deferring to anyone.

Lourdes ex-students support the education of orphans and vulnerable children in Kumbo Diocese

By Emmanuel Wirndzerem Verdzeka

 

Cardinal Tumi, Bishop Nkuo and LESANS
Our Lady of Lourdes Ex-students Association, LESA, has affirmed efforts the Church in Kumbo is making to educate underprivileged children.

Bishop Bushu, Priests and well wishers console Tiko Market Fire victims

By Jude Abanseka

The Tiko St. Joseph Parish church was full on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, as the Bishop of Buea Mgr. Immanuel Bushu and 20 priests celebrated a Mass to console victims of the Tiko Market fire disaster.

Mgr. George Nkuo describes Ndzevru pastoral visit as one with a difference

By Marcel Kpudzeka Msekenyuyfoon
Seminarian on Pastoral Year in Ndzevru

 

Bishop George Nkuo
The Bishop of Kumbo, Mgr. George Nkuo, paid his second pastoral visit to Ndzevru Quasi- Parish on Sunday, February 21, 2010.

2008 February conflagration still looming, former Presidential aspirant warns

By Jude Abanseka

Dr. Klaus-Peter Treydte

In the event the status quo is maintained, it will not be surprising to see a repeat of the violent strike that plunged Cameroon into an impasse for close to a week in February 2008. A 2004 Presidential aspirant and vice dean in charge of Studies and Students' Affairs, Faculty of Arts Buea University, Dr. George Nyamdi made this assertion Thursday, February 25 in Buea during a Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, FES, Political Dialogue, which held under the theme, "Youth and Nation Building in Cameroon. "

Critical reflection on the International Day of the Woman in Cameroon: What comes to a woman is equal to her strength

By Julia Manka Ambe

On the eve of the 25th edition of the International Day of the Woman, a 16-year old girl was raped at Ntamulung Bamenda. The pain this girl is undergoing is nothing compared to the psychological trauma she would have to endure for the rest of her life.

One month After Death of Fr. Paul Verdzekov, Mgr. Esua Sents Out Message of Acknowledgment and Gratitude

Late Fr. Paul Verdzekov

One month has gone by since we laid Father Paul Verdzekov, Archbishop Emeritus of Bamenda, to rest in the Bamenda Metropolitan Cathedral. With the news of his sudden death you quickly rallied to the support of the Church in the Archdiocese of Bamenda and you stood firmly by us in our moment of loss and need.