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An unrepentant
Bishop Lamont Anticipated vocal opposition to his stand and opinions was experienced by Bishop Lamont, of Umtali, Rhodesia, when he oddressed a public gathering in Trinity College, on Tuesday night. A persistent interjector had to be asked to be silent and a barrage of questions and statements came from a number of former Rhodesian people in the audience.
produce "action
on behalf
of justice" and. further, he is adamant that the present Administration in Rhodesia is practising unjust discrimination against its citizens.
However, the 66-year -old bishop, after a non-stop ACTIONS, NOT WORDS two-month tour of Australia Quoting the Synod of Biand New Zealand that has shops, he says that Catholinvolved no fewer than 60 ics must use not words but public speaking engage- actions and must go about ments and television inter- the "duty of peacefully disviews, to say nothing of pri- mantling unjust structures." vate conversations, held firHe says that he and the mly to his clearly stated op- bishops of Rhodesia have position to the present re- attempted to put into acgime in Rhodesia. tion what the Church has taught.
STILL BISHOP He believes that this stand Expelled in March this taken by the Church is the year after having received only avenue possible. a ten-year gaol sentence, later commuted and suspended, he is adamant that he is still Bishop of Umtali and, in his own words, will be "going back."
He
believes arc the present day
injustices in Rhodesia. INJUSTICES
First, as a white man, he had excellent treatment and no physical harrassment under the law and this would not have been true for a black person similarly charged (with failure to inform on guerillas).
WEALTH Thirdly, he criticises laws of segregation that make it an offence for a white bishop to have his black priest as an overnight guest without permission.
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Many years ago he taught alegbra to the young WILLIAM BUCKLEY (left), now parish priest of Cloverdale, at Terenure College, Dublin. He also met again Father BOB DOWD (centre), a fellow Carmelite, now at Hilton, who spent ten years in the bishop's territory as part of an Australian missionary contingent there.
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Bishop DONAL LAMONT, of Urn tali, Rhodesia (right), had two echoes of his past when he arrived in Perth this week.
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Bishop Lamont is clear on what should motivate a Christian against racial injustice.
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Bishop Lamont cites several instances of what he
"I am very pleased that in God's providence we were able to stand up and take the position that we Secondly, he is critical of has e." education being compulsory for whites and not for black children, where there is no CATHOLICS? "The Africans can now equality of opportunity and see that the Church is ser- where only 12 years ago 95 ious in what it says and that per cent of education was Catholics are doing what the being provided by the varPope has told them to do." ious Churches.
quotes firm support front Pope Paul, who has not replaced him and who has a deep personal interest in Rhodesia from the days when, as Archbishop of Milan, he visited and took a keen pastoral interest in the Bishop Lamont approachthousands of Italian migrant es kindly but firmly the fact workers on the huge Karee- that apparently very few Caha dam. tholic white Rhodesians apIn a talk on Monday pear to side with his stand night, Bishop Lamont con- or that of the Church on centrated on the two main the question of injustice. underlying elements that are He uses the phrase "morthe background to his world ally undeveloped" to depublicised trial and senten- scribe the attitudes of many ce. Catholics who make up ten He insists that it is the per cent of Rhodesia's white role of the Church today to population.
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On the other hand, he told the Monday night audience of clergy and Religious, it was easy for celibates to criticise a regime and that they might not be so courageous were they under obligation to fend for a family; knowing that they could leave Rhodesia but only with $1,000.
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