Dennis Onyango in The Standard writes:
Since foreigners began jetting into the country to mediate in the post-election conflict, retired Archbishop Dr David Gitari has been a perplexed man.
For decades, Kenyans considered the Church a powerful and neutral voice in national religious and secular affairs, including politics.
So how did it come to be that when the dispute erupted, retired South African Priest Desmond Tutu got more acceptability and raised more hope than the local prelate?
Retired Archbishop Gitari wonders what has happened to the strong voice for justice the church exercised in the past.
The candidness with which the Church handled [issues] has since dried up.
Today, even Church leaders themselves say the fire has died. They only differ on why. Gitari says: “We did not need Tutu to come all the way from South Africa to solve this crisis. We did not need Kofi Annan. The Church should have been able to solve this problem. But they are seen as partisan.”
Read it all here.
HT to epiScope.