CHAPTER FOUR - Nairobi Cocktail, The sleaze
Nairobi By Night That some Catholic priests are rumoured to break their celibacy vows often, perhaps much too often, is whispered and only spoken aloud by the very brave. Father Joshua was not a whisperer of rumours, he was one of the priests who broke his vows often enough. None of his congregants or peers has ever confronted him about it, but he had no doubt they suspected him. Father Joshua was careful about the women he slept with; he preferred hit and run, his clandestine activities conducted far from his parish. Every encounter with a woman left him with some guilt to reckon with, the guilt got less and less with each encounter. Recently, he has had to force the guilt upon himself. In the small, dark confession box, he confessed his sins, but to himself and to God. Father Joshua had served church from as far back as his memory could remember. He was an expert pageboy by the time he was nine years of age. He was a catechist by the time he sat for his seco