Cardinal Napier: Church in Africa Must ‘Bring People Together’ to Overcome Racial Divides

Cardinal Napier: Church in Africa must ‘bring people together’ to overcome racial divides

Cardinal Wilfrid Napier speaks to EWTN News in Rome on Monday, May 26, 2025. / Credit: EWTN News CNA Staff, May 28, 2025 / 13:21 pm (CNA). South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier this week said the Catholic Church can lead in helping overcome dec... [...]

Church in Africa must ‘bring people together’ to overcome racial divides

Cardinal Wilfrid Napier speaks to EWTN News in Rome on Monday, May 26, 2025. / Credit: EWTN News CNA Staff, May 28, 2025 / 13:21 pm (CNA). South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier this week said the Catholic Church can lead in helping overcome decades of apartheid and racial divide that continue to dominate life in his country. Speaking to EWTN News’ Colm Flynn in Rome on Monday, the prelate acknowledged the lingering effects of apartheid, which fo…

Cardinal Napier: Church in Africa Must ‘Bring People Together’ to Overcome Racial Divides

EWTN News Cardinal Wilfrid Napier speaks to EWTN News in Rome on Monday, May 26, 2025. Cardinal Napier reflected on participating in protests years ago and being afraid that police might open fire on him and his fellow demonstrators.

African religious leaders embrace synodality at South Africa event

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Cardinal Wilfrid Napier: Church in Africa must ‘bring people together’ to overcome racial divides

South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier this week said the Catholic Church can lead in helping overcome decades of apartheid and racial divide that continue to dominate life in his country.  Speaking to EWTN News’ Colm Flynn in Rome on Monday, the prelate acknowledged the lingering effects of apartheid, which for decades imposed a rigid racial segregation in South Africa in favor of the nation’s white minority. Although the racial segregation syst…