African Bishops’ Report Normalizes Polygamy Through Naturalistic Humanism
The article reports that the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) issued a 25-page report analyzing polygamy in Africa through sociological, cultural, and pastoral lenses, while reaffirming the ideal of monogamous marriage. The report, responding to a mandate from the Synod on Synodality, emphasizes understanding polygamy’s persistence via social change, legal frameworks, gender relations, and economic factors, framing it as a complex pastoral challenge for inculturation. This analysis, emanating from a post-conciliar episcopal conference, represents a catastrophic surrender to naturalism and a direct repudiation of the unchanging Catholic doctrine on marriage, the social reign of Christ the King, and the supernatural end of the human person.


