Cameroonian Priest Criticizes Cameroonian Bishops

Ludovic Lado, a rising intellectual of Cameroonian and African Christianity, has written an open letter criticizing Cameroonian Roman Catholic Bishops for cozying up with Paul Biya's dictatorship in the country. He points out how throughout Biya's machination to destroy democracy in the country, the position of the Bishops has been cacophonic and incoherent. He implored them to be the prophetic voice they are supposed to be in a country that is rife with all sorts of injustices. Lado is following in the footsteps of Cameroonian Roman Catholic priests such as the diseased Engelbert Mveng and Jean-Marc Ela, prophetic voices that were overrun by Biya's dictatorship and marginalized by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church as it cozied up with dictatorship in the country. It is not only the Cameroonian Bishops who are giving their backing to dictatorship in Cameroon; Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI personally blessed the Biya dictorship. It may well be that the Bishops in Cameroon are only following in the footstep of Roman Catholic hierarchy which appears to have made peace with the appalling degradation of the lives of their Christians in Cameroon.