The Catholic Bishop of Accra,
Ghana, Charles Palmer-Buckle, sometimes can’t sleep at night. He’s
tormented by the distance between the Vatican’s teaching and his flock’s
behavior. Unusually for an African bishop — the continent’s Catholic
hierarchy is renowned for the strictness of its doctrinal observation —
he sways towards accommodating the behavior of the flock.
Describing, in an interview earlier this year, a parishioner married to the same man for 35 years, with children together, but sharing her husband with two other wives, he said: “If I want to apply the law as it is, I must tell her to quit the marriage. But if I do that, she and her children are going to say, ‘The Church destroyed my family.’ As a bishop, I tell you, I have sleepless nights… If a person is wounded in marriage and is having difficulty, what do you do? That’s what the Church is struggling with.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/10/11/the-links-between-pope-francis-mikhail-gorbachev-and-forbidden-sex/
Describing, in an interview earlier this year, a parishioner married to the same man for 35 years, with children together, but sharing her husband with two other wives, he said: “If I want to apply the law as it is, I must tell her to quit the marriage. But if I do that, she and her children are going to say, ‘The Church destroyed my family.’ As a bishop, I tell you, I have sleepless nights… If a person is wounded in marriage and is having difficulty, what do you do? That’s what the Church is struggling with.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/10/11/the-links-between-pope-francis-mikhail-gorbachev-and-forbidden-sex/