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One of the leading voices of the Catholic Church in Africa has criticised the appeals of two US clerics to change the Church's teaching on homosexuality. Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier responded by quoting Popes Francis and Benedict XVI to both Cardinal Robert McElroy and Jesuit Father James Martin. In a Twitter response to Martin, the Archbishop Emeritus of Durban wrote: "The biggest irony of the decade? A month after his death, then-Cardinal Ratzinger, in these words from 1986, urges bishops to be constantly vigilant against "programmes that in fact try to put pressure on the Church to change its teaching,...