Harare — By ridiculing the church and insulting its bishops, Zimbabwe's Catholic president, Robert Mugabe, blamed for the country's political and economic turmoil, has cut himself off from the Church.
That is the view of Fr Oskar Wermter, a Jesuit priest in Zimbabwe since 1966 and now based in St Peter's Mbare, a socially depressed area in Harare where government demolitions in 2005 destroyed livelihoods and left many people hopeless.
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