ケニア：カトリック系統新興団体が「司祭」の結婚を祝福

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「Correction 24 October 2023: This story has been amended to clarify that Edwin Gathang’i Waiguru was not an ordained Catholic priest.」

　とあり、当初はリアルにカトリックの僧侶が結婚したとみたもののよう。

BBC Kenyan Catholic splinter group blesses cleric’s marriage 23 Oct 2023

　じっさいはsplinter groupとあり、分派ですね。正規に出家した訳ではない聖職従事者がある分派に参入、そこで結婚した、と。

「An man who claimed to be a Kenyan Catholic priest has joined a Catholic splinter group and married.

Edwin Gathang’i Waiguru was ordained into the Catholic Charismatic Church before his marriage on Sunday in Kiambu country, just north of the capital, Nairobi.

He had not been officially ordained by the Catholic Church, where priests are supposed to commit to a life of celibacy, as was earlier reported,

Standing next to his bride, Margaret Wanjira Githui, Edwin Waiguru said it was “possible to serve God and have a family and have a lovelywife".」

　そもそも神は男と女とを作ったのであり、結合するのは当然自然。神は過ちをなさないものです―というわけだ。なので結婚しても神に奉仕することはできるはずだ、と。

「"God did not make a mistake when he created a man and a woman and He said it is not good for somebody to be alone."」

　それはそれとして理屈は立つが、さあ、歴史はどう答えますか―といったところか。