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...includes many Latin Americans, plus several votes, each, from Italy, Spain, Germany and the U.S. Pignedoli, long the most gregarious of Curialists, had the week's most active dinner table. Among his guests: Aloisio Lorscheider, president of the Latin American bishops' conference, and Tanzania's Laurean Rugambwa, who has influence among Africans as the first black Cardinal in modern times...
...permanent pan-African secretariat empowered to call meetings of the African bishops and act as a communications clearinghouse. When Pope Paul arrived in Kampala, he heartily endorsed their moves, both toward autonomy and a more vigorous effort to Africanize the church. In Rugaba Cathedral, Tanzania's Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa pledged the symposium's "total solidarity" with Rome (last year, the bishops had praised the Pope's birth control encyclical). Then Paul cut the umbilical cord of four centuries. "You are missionaries to yourselves now," said the Pope. "The Church of Christ is well and truly planted." Expressions...
...offered to pay for a U.N.-like simultaneous translation system for the Ecumenical Council (the Pope declined). He is contributing $200,000 to renovate the Church of the Holy Spirit in Pope John's home town of Bergamo, $220,000 to build a cathedral for Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa of Tanganyika, $1,000,000 for Fu-jen University in Formosa. Cushing's generosity has made him at least as well known abroad as Spellman, and he collects decorations and honorary degrees from grateful recipients "in bunches like bananas." One of the most recent is the Grand Cross...
...discard nonessentials that harm its mission, seek to make it, without sacrificing doctrine, more accessible as a home for modern man. Apart from unity-minded Cardinal Bea, the liberals have few friends in the Vatican Curia, but they do include such articulate prelates as Tanganyika's Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa, Utrecht's Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink, Montreal's Cardinal Léger, Munich's Julius Cardinal Döpfner, a clear majority of the bishops in France, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Africa and Asia...
Laurian Cardinal Rugambwa, Bishop of Bukoba, Tanganyika; first Negro Prince of the Roman Catholic Church LL.D...