The Chairman of the Catholic Episcopal Conference and Bishop of Kiyinda-Mityana diocese, Joseph Anthony Zziwa has stressed that the Catholic Church is steadfast on the one-man-one-woman category of marriage as stipulated in the Church Catechism sacraments.
“My response to those asking for the Catholic Church stand on the matter is that we have never deviated from that stand and in spite of incessant outcries of the imbalance in the man-woman ratio in society, I want to reaffirm the church stand and to categorically state that never at any one moment shall this status quo be tampered with for ever and ever,” Bishop Zziwa asserted.
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He was over the weekend addressing believers who turned up at the 28th anniversary of the founding of Lugazi Diocese way back in 1997.
At the same function, retired Bishop Emeritus, Dr. Mathias Ssekamanya celebrated 60 years of service, with 40 of these years as a bishop, while Bishop Christopher Kakooza celebrated 40 years in service with 25 of these years as a bishop.
Bp. Zziwa was reacting to questions about the church’s opinion on the proposed Marriage Bill seeking among other things, to give men a leeway to contracting a second marriage once he reaches consensus with the first wife.
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Expounding on this stand, he stated, “We are not going to be diverted from the ecclesiastical teaching of one wife for one husband although there are proponents of the bill because if we are tempted to bend to these wishes, who knows, someone may come up one day with far more dangerous suggestions”.
He cautioned that if such dangerous laws are enacted, someone with a wayward type of thinking may rise up one day and suggest that God is non-existent, and believers will start questioning the church’s stand on what he referred to as a stupefying and senseless opinion.
The ceremony was spiced by a mass wedding of seven couples.
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