Church condemns lavish weddings

Sep 30, 2009

THE growing culture of expensive weddings has become a major concern for the Catholic Church, the Archbishop of Kampala, Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, has said.

By Mathias Mazinga

THE growing culture of expensive weddings has become a major concern for the Catholic Church, the Archbishop of Kampala, Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, has said.

Speaking during the annual convention of the youth of Kampala Archdiocese at Namugongo Martyrs’ Shrine on Sunday, Lwanga discouraged exorbitant wedding parties and introduction ceremonies, arguing that they scared the youth away from church marriages and led to increased cases of elopement.

“A wedding must not necessarily be expensive. When I was in France, I attended a church wedding, where the couple dressed simply and had only one page-boy,” he said. He added that at the reception, which was attended by only a few family members, they only had water-melon juice.

He asked the youth to support each other to overcome socio-economic and political problems such as human sacrifice, unemployment, intolerance, lack of career guidance, poverty, drug abuse, broken families, sectarianism, greed and corruption.

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