I bless the Roman Catholic Church down in Africa

September 10, 2019

(Sorry.)

Here's a fascinating story of how the Franco-African Roman Catholic church came to terms with decolonialism, which meant much more than simply rejecting direct rule from France, but was a larger psychological "decolonialization" project, and led to serious re-thinking of Christianity, in relation to its deep embeddedness (for Roman Catholics) in post-Latin Europe.  Africa continues to be a complicated space for Roman Catholicism, not so much now because of colonialism, but because of Pentecostalism.