South Sudan Bishops Warn of Constitutional Crisis Ahead of December Elections

In the shadow of a December election date that collides with Christmas and a peace agreement still only partially honored, South Sudan's Catholic bishops have stepped forward as moral sentinels, warning that constitutional crisis looms regardless of whether the vote proceeds or is delayed. Gathering for three days in Juba in mid-July, the bishops of the Juba province placed their concern not in partisan politics but in the ancient pastoral duty to name what threatens the common good. Their warning arrives against a backdrop of economic unraveling, intercommunal violence, and a people worn thin