More “Pius Ncube” priests booted from church for shocking sex affairs
6 August 2012
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At least six priests in the oldest Christian organisation, the Roman Catholic church have in the past eight years alone been kicked out of holy service after being found guilty of sex affairs as was in the manner of the disgraceful exposure of his Grace the Most Reverend Dr. Pius Alick Mvundla Ncube in 2007.
This was revealed during an interview of the current Archibishop of Harare Robert Ndlovu.
Archbishop Ndlovu speaking to the weekly Standard paper’s deputy editor Walter Marwizi, would not disclose the full statistics raising belief that the number of ‘immoral’ priests may by far exceeds six.
“Well, I wouldn’t give you statistics but I know for instance since I came to Harare, I can say more or less with certainty five or six priests have been told to leave the priesthood,” he said.
Below is the Archbishop(ARN’s) short interview with Walter Marwizi(WM):
WM: What is the state of Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe: Is it growing or declining in terms of numbers?
ARN: Well, I would say it’s growing judging by the number of people and records that we have, of those that are being baptised, those that are being confirmed it’s grown, but there is an element that we have to look at. In the past few years, within the last 10 years or so, a good number of Catholics have gone to the diaspora and we can feel that in our parishes.  But otherwise in terms of growth, I can say it is balancing.
WM: There are critics who say the church is losing members especially the youth because it has remained too conservative on matters such as condoms and birth control. What is your comment?
ARN: We believe that sex is something sacred and it is to be used within a relationship, and therefore it’s an expression of love of two people and they realise in so doing they are co-operating with their creator. And that is God…So if it is morally wrong it does not become morally right because someone has invented a condom…
WM: Let’s turn to the problems in the priesthood. The church has been criticised for failing to rein in wayward priests. Is the church addressing these problems?


ARN: You always have problems and a rotten apple here and there because we are human beings and I think action is being taken, a good number of priests have been suspended once they were found out. A good number have just been told to leave the priesthood.
WM: Do you have numbers?
ARN: Well, I wouldn’t give you statistics but I know for instance since I came to Harare, I can say more or less with certainty five or six priests have been told to leave the priesthood. And I think two or three were sent on suspension because it depends on the gravity of the matter, some of them are not really (serious offences) but for discipline’s sake we have to do that… But also look at it from this point of view; we are recruiting from a society that we all know. I like to use the term a wounded society, so sometimes these temptations don’t stop because someone has become a priest…
WM: We have this case of former Archbishop Pius Ncube. Here is a head of the church who got involved with a woman, what do you think about his conduct?
ARN: Well, I get your point and I know the gravity of the situation especially as it was reported. But as I said there is a human side to all things and sometimes people can exploit that, I wouldn’t know the details of it, you know it was really a private life, how he came to be hooked into that situation, was it something set up, it is very difficult to get, he knows the rest but I always said, I look at myself and say it could happen to me, I am still a human being I can still get attracted to a person of the opposite sex …And we have to also realise that celibacy itself is not an easy life and I   think anyone who tells you it’s an easy life, will not be truthful. Celibacy is not an easy life but is a life that is worth living with the grace of God. It can be, it can be done.
WM: And what would you say is the damage that was caused by to the church by the Pius Ncube saga.
ARN: Well, as I said the issue of what happened to Archbishop Ncube has a lot of question marks that we still cannot answer. That is why I use the word, was he trapped into that… but you know it had also, some people will still think it had a political dimension, true or false I don’t know.
WM: But he confessed when he went to Vatican
ARN: Yah, but you see he confessed having, it’s not to deny that something happened that he had an affair with her but how it came about. This is what I don’t know and how do you get to that, he is the only one who knows what happened. How he met that woman and how he managed to reach that stage with a married woman for that matter, I don’t know what transpired there. But definitely I would be naïve about it, we have to accept that it scandalised the faithful.
 

23 Replies to “More “Pius Ncube” priests booted from church for shocking sex affairs”

  1. @ Chigwadziso! When a human being is doing the private, the first thing is to make sure on-lookers are far away. The first instinct act would be to check if the doors are locked and the curtains are closed. How were the pictures of Pius Ncube taken then? How did the photographer know when to press the trigger? So the CIO have master keys for all houses in Zimbabwe?

  2. What did Ncube do that Commander in Gay Robgay Mugabe hasnt done himself…namely screw a married woman and Mugabe himself went one further by impreganting the bitch before he himself was divorced! Xato gays have small memories!

  3. Locks,I think you wanted to say CIO stalked him,we can’t say they trapped him nekuti akanyenga ega,akatumwa neCIO here?

  4. If it was not a trap, how did the CIO get pictures of someone doing the private? How did they time that Pius was on top at a specific time? Did they use security gamma ray cameras from afar? More questions! Was it an invasion of privacy?

  5. I’ve bn a catholic for more than twenty years and i hve neva heard a confession bng publicised, Hw did yu noe that Pius Ncube confessed,secondly Can yu pliz interview the woman again.I’ve respected ZimEye for long coz i thot it gathers news as it is not opinionated news.Wateva yu print the RCC will always b the largest and oldest denomination

  6. We ar RCC .Pius disgraced us .He was simply an urgent of the devil he divided the church @ st Patrics Makokoba along tribal lines .He was a bloody tribalist and his puppet Fr Hebrone .He wanted to fight God akanyura!!

  7. MDC mentality, always thinking about set ups. Yes, he was set up by the devil. The devil’s spirit told him that it was not a sin to fall in love with a married woman and that if he is caught, he should just blame it on the CIO.

  8. PANE umwe fata wepanechimwe chikoro chemaRoma kumhondoro anonzi ari kukwira vana vechikoro.But to talk abt the immorality in the Catholic church is unfair.zviri kwese kwese.KumaWisiri,maAnglican worse kumapentecostal churches.Rimwe gore, ’94, ndakamboona sister nafata vachitsvodana kuGweru

  9. PANE umwe fata wepanechimwe chikoro chemaRoma kumhondoro anonzi ari kukwira vana vechikoro.But to talk abt the immorality in the Catholic church is unfair.zviri kwese kwese.KumaWisiri,maAnglican worse kumapentecostal churches

  10. We are humans vakomana.for al have sinned.asina kumbotadza ngaateme pius nedombo.ngatinamatirane tiseme zvivi.

  11. I like the candidness exuded by Archbishop Robert Ndlovu. He articulates that in life never say never because, after all, we are still human beings. He wisely admits that these things do happen in the RCC. Am quite convinced his sentiments aptly cover ministers in other denominations and the social ills that persistently stalk them. The bottom line: holy lives are possible with GOD’s grace. I hope someone will not say Mavambo is over-religious coz I’m simply religious.

  12. Its hard for to stay single as a man why do they not get married once than to do such disgusting things

  13. I was once in this lyf and from experience found out dat this lyf z all about cheating

  14. Im a priest and what do i do when i get horny.i cant mastribate myself,or seeing those nuns,for your own info we do have sex,those that dont,opte to do themselves.dont judge the book by the cover,we humans after all

  15. Yes he did it buti was a trap set up by CIO whole thing from start to finish to discredit Mvundla since they knew he was a Mugabe critic

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