The Nairobi cardinal speaks to Brendan Walsh about staunch opposition to gay marriage and the October synod When I ask Cardinal John Njue of Nairobi for his date of birth, so that he could sign my little, black, leather birthday book as an ice-breaker at the start of our conversation, he chuckles. “I don’t have the date,” he says. “But I know it was in 1944, during the Second World War – it was on a day when a plane crash-landed in the forest.”He cheerfully opens my book at random, and signs his name. Njue explains he was baptised in 1948 along with his parents. His father was polygamous before he became a Christian and the whole family was baptised together and his parents were married in church on the same day. Our discussion moves to the subject of