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PERTH, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1980
No. 21 85
Pope in Africa: Cheers, crowds controversy
KINSHASA, Zaire (NC)— Pope Paul II arrived in Africa amid wildly cheering crowds, dancers on 10-foot stilts and the colourful pageantry of black Africa.
The pope landed in Zaire, the first stop of his six-nation tour, on May 2 and promptly turned the welcoming ceremony into a symbolic gesture t oward all Africa. He kissed the ground and said: "God bless Zaire. God bless Africa." A fter several days of activity, however, the cheers where interspresed with tragedy controversy. The tragedy occurred when nine people were trampled by the early crowds trying to enter a park where the pope was scheduled to celebrate Mass.
A t St. Norbert College this week theprincipal Mr. Des O'SULLIVAN (left) felt a moment of sailsfaction at the official opening of the last of the schoolfaculty units. He is pictured in the art department with teachers Mrs. P. GROVT (right) and Alison WHYKE, of Cannington, Truth McMUR TIE, of Queens Park, Monique VERSTEENGEN, of Queens Park, Grant COCKS, of Madington and seated at the pottery wheels, Matthew WILSON, of Cannington and Paul HITCHCOCK, of Gosnells. (See story Page 3)
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Strong support for State aid for nongovernment schools was expressed by Archbishop Goody and the Premier, Sir Charles Court, at the opening of the O'SullivanDevine Centre at St. Norbert College on Crown lands in signifiSunday. The Archbishop said that the college could not have been built without large goverriment subsidies and pointed out that an independent school provided education for t axpayers' children at p erhaps half what it w ould cost the government to provide such a school. Sir Charles said that if the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, found himself involved in constitutional difficulties about assistance to independent schools he (Sir Charles) had worked out a formula whereby State Governments could provide a solution. The Archbishop, speaking of the cost and availability of land for new independent schools, said t hat, whereas in past years most primary schools and churches were built on Crown lands but now f
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SPEED The controversy involved the speed with which A frican customs should be incorporated into church life in Africa. The other countries on t he African tour are the Congo, Kenya, Ghana, t he Ivory Coast and Upper Volta. At Kinshasa's airport, the pope was greeted by President Mobutu Sese S eko and Cardinal Joseph Malula of Kinshasa. Pope John Paul said he came as a religious leader to "purify, elevate and a ffirm" the religious nature of the African soul. He also said hewasa messenger of peace and rejoiced with the independent African nations who have gained independence thus taking their destiny in their own hands.
cant areas and so local and State governments' willingness to assist in that direction was not as easily fulfilled as in the past. It was now very costly to buy a site in a suitable locality. He suggested that provi- MOBUTU sion be made in the reguYet each African nation lations for land development which would make had a struggle to forge its adequate land available own personality and culfor new or expanding ture, he said. For this the schools. countries needed peace, independence and non(SEE ALSO P.3) partisan aid. A t the airport were hundreds of thousands of chanting and singing people. The presence of Mobutu Church-State relations was seen as further eviin Yugoslavia under the dence of the President's famed leader, Marshal growing reconciliation Tito, who died this week, with Zaire's Catholic took strange turns during Church. the leadership of the man On the eve of the pope's who had been baptised a arrival, Mobutu, a bapCatholic as a child. The tised Catholic, married history of these is pub- his companion of several lichpil gin PR OP 10. ears Bobila Dawa at a
Mass celebrated by Cardinal Malula. In the mid-1970s, the 49year-old Mobutu tried to curb the power of the church as part of a campaign to eliminate colonial influence from Zaire. A key State action was the nationalization of the Catholic school system. But the school system w as returned to the church in 1977 and Vatican officials with the pope said the Church-State p roblems have been settled. Zaire, the former Belgian Congo, was Chris-
tianized by European missionaries and has the largest Catholic population in terms of numbers and percentage of the nations on the Papal trip. Over 45 per cent of Zaire's 27.4 million people profess Catholicism. During the flight from Rome to Zaire, the pope talked with journalists about _Africa and alluded to the recent U.S. effort to rescue the American hostages in Iran. "We always need to fear for world peace, but these (CONTINUED P.2)
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