In a letter addressed to the Episcopal Conference of Cameroon, the Holy See has just inaugurated a new type of relationship between the Catholic clergy and the press.
Because rumors and counter-rumors, affirmations and denials about the tragic death of Bishop Benoît Bala are constantly rising to vertiginous heights, the space for speech within the Cameroonian Episcopal Conference (CEC) is This time as locked.
At the solemnity and vehemence of the exodus of Bishop Samuel Kléda on June 13, 2017 in Yaoundé, a communication that is crawling, rearing up hardly when it does not plant. At its expense, the national and international press lived it on July 09 at the headquarters of the CEC located in Mvolyé (Yaoundé).
Enigmas
On this occasion, indeed, Bishop Samuel Kléda, The president of the CEC, did not meet the expectations of media men and women rushed in hopes of obtaining the reaction of the Cameroonian Catholic clergy, following the communiqué published on 04 July 2017. The document signed Jean-Fils Ntamack, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, revealed that "drowning is the most likely cause of the bishop's death." When asked about the subject, the Archbishop of Douala merely said in a monotonous and administrative tone that "in relation to this, our position remains the same". The subject is laboriously complemented by "a body never disappears," to extinguish the impulses of a press, without restraint, on the probable date of the funeral of the Bishop of Bafia. Echoes of off This tonality, not demanding but not mute either, left puzzled.
She was responsible for interweaving the beginning of the 11th Ordinary Plenary Assembly of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of the Central African Region (Acerac) and the news about the death of Bishop Jean-Marie Benoît Bala. In fact, this last aspect by its delicacy, favored the taking of words in off. It is thus aside that a priest, committed to the protocol of these sub-regional assizes, will blow that "there is a letter from the Holy See that has compelled us to restrain ourselves against this Subject, no more! "Coming from Gabon, another sermonnaire will not add much. According to him, "the bishops, faithful to the principles of obedience, have chosen not to speak of this matter as the press wishes".
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For the rest, it will reveal that "all that is told you there is only tinkering". Minimas In the courtyard and at all entries, these crafts are compensated by an avalanche of portraits of the late Bishop of Bafia. "That is what can make our pain readable. But one remains attached to the directives of the Holy See in relation to the communication on the death of Bishop Bala, "informs, under the cassock, a priest of the diocese of Bafia. In this environment, the language minima observed at the CEC reflect at all times the modulation (remotely by the Vatican) of media outlets. It will be seen again when Bishop Kleda will order a young prelate of the archdiocese of Yaounde to "release the journalists". The spectacle takes illico of communicative sabbat which, at any order of march, Seems to maintain the blackout on the position of the Catholic Church of Cameroon on the continuation of this serial which mixes both the local justice, the CEC and the national and international public opinion. Indeed, nobody wants to extend ample on the funeral program.
At best, the public is encouraged to retain the thesis of assassination rather than suicide. In this chapter, the wrath of the CEC is displayed. "Do not talk about suicide, do not line up behind those who want to manipulate you! We are clear: Mgr was murdered, amen! ", Plague a nun, sweeping away any allusion to a certain Barnabé T. Cadre in a mobile phone company installed in Cameroon, the name of this 26-year-old native of Soa, Would crystallize in him all the "business".
In fact, According to information that could hardly be verified, he had the Bishop of Bafia sing. "It is this detail that would have led to the reframing of the com," analyzes Camille.
