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There is no more celebrated living art ist in Italy than Giacomo Manzù. At 60, he is renowned throughout Europe for his stately cardinals, his great bronze doors of St. Peter's in Rome, and his role as friend, confidant and portraitist of Pope John XXIII. It was altogether fitting, then, that this summer Manzù should become the only living Italian art ist to have a museum dedicated to his work alone...
...message might well have been meant for all African Catholics. The more quickly Africa develops-as the Pope wants it to-the more quickly will it face the forces that are disrupting Catholicism in developed countries-urbanization, secularization, loss of faith altogether. Perhaps, as the Pope suggested in one address, the African's "deep sense of community" will help offset these forces, but the church's task will not be easy. Nonetheless, when the papal retinue departed Uganda Saturday, Paul VI left behind a church with a newly realized sense of self and a new pride in virtues...
...African Catholics who welcomed Pope Paul to their continent last week are among the newest and the oldest Christians in the world. In Egypt, Alexandria had a colony of Christians at the time of the Apostles, and it became a prominent center of early Christian scholarship. The great 4th century church father, St. Augustine, was bishop of Hippo in what is now Tunisia. Yet North African Christianity was virtually erased by the massive Moslem invasions that swept across the northern part of the continent in the 7th and 8th centuries; only the churches of Ethiopia and Egypt survived. Even today...
...Roman Catholicism is the reintroduction of African culture into the church. Most converts have long identified Catholicism with the Western European liturgy that they first learned. (TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief James Bell reported last week from Kampala that the Credo sung by Ugandan Catholics during the Pope's visit to Rubaga Cathedral was the purest Latin he had ever heard.) Until recently, older converts and African priests had resisted such innovations as Mass in the vernacular, native songs, instruments and dances, looking on them as part of their rejected past. Experimental native works like the famous Missa...
Whatever the solutions to these questions, the African bishops who met with Pope Paul made it clear that the answers would have a uniquely African flavor. Speaking to the prelates last week, Upper Volta's Paul Cardinal Zoun-grana pointed to the Africanization of liturgy as a good example. "Rather than a primitive outlook," said the cardinal, the rituals "represent an African way of thinking and way of life." Pope Paul went even further, telling the bishops on his arrival that they could give the Church "the precious and original contribution of negritude which she needs particularly...