Word: malula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just before the conclave began, Joseph Malula, the stocky black Cardinal from Zaire, sat dejectedly on a wooden chair in a bare seminarian's room and scornfully waved his hand at the Vatican vista outside the window. "All that?all that imperial paraphernalia. All that isolation of the Pope. All that medieval remoteness and inheritance that makes Europeans think that the church is only Western. All that tightness that makes them fail to understand that young countries like mine want something different. They want simplicity. They want Jesus Christ. All that, all that must change." Fifty hours later, Karol Wojtyla...
...authority, the Papacy. Catholic independence clashes with Mobutu's effort to unify the nation by cultivating a semi-religious devotion to himself and his government. Some observers trace his fear of Catholic social influence to 1970, when the high-living Mobutu attended a Mass at which Joseph Cardinal Malula preached that Zaïre's ruling class was enriching itself and ignoring the people's misery. His new threat to close churches followed a protest from Zaïre's bishops, not only against the end of religion classes but against any hint that salvation comes...
...month and changed his name to one with a more African sound, Mobutu-Sese-Seko (TIME, Jan. 24), many of Zaïre's citizens loyally followed suit. But then came a word of caution to the nation's 8,000,000 Roman Catholics from Joseph Cardinal Malula. 54, Archbishop of Kinshasa and one of Africa's three black cardinals. Malula, though long an advocate of African culture, balked at Christians giving up their baptismal names, and said so in an article in the Catholic weekly magazine, Afrique Chrétienne. Roman Catholic Mobutu promptly bounced...
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