This week, the drama is back in Zambia again between the Catholic Church and ex-communicated Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo.

The issue at the centre of all this tug of war is celibacy, which Archbishop Milingo violated, hence his banishment from the church two years ago.

The former Archbishop of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia has bounced back home still insisting that ex-communication does not exist. His Korean wife Maria Sung accompanies him.

Archbishop Milingo is claims to be catholic and has continued to celebrate mass.

Archbishop Milingo has also continued with his spiritual healing sessions. He has links with the unification church founded by South Korean spiritual leader Sun Myung Moon.

In his sermons, the prelate urges for the end to celibacy because priests have continued to still sex from the people.

Archbishop Milingo says celibacy was nowhere in the Bible hence, the church should do away with it because very few priests adhere to the concept.

He openly calls for priests to start looking for marriage partners instead of maintaining their false grip on celibacy.

May be Milingo has a point, may be he doesn’t. Let the Catholic Church review he subject of celibacy. But I would like to say that such an exercise must be done cautiously because the interest and values of the church must be reserved.

There may be outside forces invading and bulldozing the Catholic Church to abolish celibacy.

It is public knowledge now that some priests are not celibate. We have knowledge about how some priests and bishops have been sexually molesting girls and boys in some parishes.

I think such reports should call for a review to celibacy but not it outright abolishment because we have to look at numbers. I believe that one man’s sin cannot condemn the whole world to hell.

Therefore, we need to discuss the calls for allowing priests to marry. We need prayers and consensus over the matter because it has befallen and staying aloof would not be the best action to take. The Catholic Church is under siege and that is the reality before God and mankind.