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By Word and Deed, Missioners Speak to People of Love By word and deed , missioners speak to people of love. Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin helps build a new society in Zimbabwe. If you have moved or your address Is incorrect, please fill out coupon on page 58 A young woman at the Zimbabwe Rusununguko (meaning "Freedom") school to train former refugees. The butterfly Do not presume to tell me, 0 impetuous man, Where I may or may not fly; I am an untamed spirit Veering with the winds of my choosing. Your own civilization has become A narcissistic monster Whose burial ceremonies will remain unsung For lack of mourners. But I am everlasting, For the spirit that is in me Cannot be trammeled in the seines of time and space But will unceasingly mingle with the eternal breezes, Even as you look at my broken wing Or my body, mutilated by your tar-squelching monster of steel, And, in your ignorance, pronounce me dead. And therefore as I flutter-flutter Or dissect the air in geometric designs And light upon these soft petals Or the trunk of a mighty oak, My seeming frailty is my strength. For I, being all Spirit, Am the very essence of freedom And my triumph over your chains Is the triumph of freedom itself. Daniel Kunene South African poet Cover: With good cause, a Zimbabwean boy exults over a bumper harvest, for malnutrition is still the most pressing problem. Since independence, black Zimbabwean farmers have been getting more technical help to grow better crops, a goal the Church has pursued for years. Mqaaneortbc Volume 76, Number 2 Catholic Forci£11 J\lli!M>11 Soa<ly of MnCnCa Publilh<t l...eoJ Somro<t, M.M. Editor· Maryknoll Mo~Sandoval Ma•Wl!P•a Edlloi: fnlDk M....., • ic~ Ass"I Maaqiei Ed 1<>1: Februar} 1982 Raymond Bo)I< Assoaate Edi ton· M0<pn J ViUttlll. M.M. Pillricia Jac~o . M. M. 3 Building a new Zimbabwe, by Moises Sandoval Stq>hcnT DcM011, M.M. The Church works for a socie1y based on equali1y. Pattid A. 8ot&ia , M. M. An Staff: 9 Guide to Southern Africa: 111 thi~ issue Albat Sclucintt, Dirc<1or Cathenne F1pn A repressive republic and democracy under socialism. Produaion Ma"-'cr: N0<man JC.lueprd 10 Land of hope. strength and chaflenge, by J. McLaughlin Zimbabwe is free to experiment with something new. FuJC\Umcnt Director: Robcn J. Carlelon, M M. 14 Edi1orial: Dir.ct 111 corre~pondcncc Time running out for South Africa to Robtn J. Carlelon, M.M. Dismantling apanheid bes1 serves U.S. in1eres1s. Maryknoll, N V. IOS4j Maryknoll, the Cathoht 17 President Canaan Banana: Zimbabwe's goal: peace Forclan Mis<iion Sodrty Cooperation brings encouraging gains in one year. or America, was e!labli.shed in 1911 by the American Bishops to r<CrUit, mlin, 22 Black life in white South Africa, by Elizabeth Schmidt send and support American Forced rese11lemen1 in "homelands" divides families. missionttt in IJ'Cl.S O\Cl'Ka:I usiarw:d 10 M&l)knoll by the Holy Fa1her. 28 Advocates of change: Voices ofSou1h African churches MarytnoD iuuppomd by Leaders condemn discriminating racial policies. free will offenop and UIO$ llO paid qenu 32 The late Joe Gqabi: Srrugglefor liberation Though Catholics are few, the Church has made a strong impact. Moqboll Peaceful demons1ra1ions resulled in a massacre. OS.SN~lct) is publi>h<d monthly by the Cacholi< Forclin M"si<>n 39 Hope 111 thirstlond, by Edward Dougherty Text by Moises Sandoval Sodtty or Atntrica, loc. • Segregation is for life and extends to cemeteries. Matyknoll, N Y 10$4$. Photos by Joseph A. Hahn, M.M. Mtmbenlup; SI a year; SHor six ycan; 41 Technology and apanheid: Computerized oppression forrip, S) a year U.S. technology is used to strengthen apanheid. Second dus po!lait IS .,.;c:l ot Marylnoll, N. Y. • 1982, Co1hol1c ForciJll 45 Nuclear threat, by Eva Gold and John Lamperti Building a new Zimbabwe Mission Society or America, Atomic explosions indica1e capabtli1y 10 build bombs. Inc. All rliht< rtacn1cd MarylclfOlt ill available In mlcroform. Write to: 47 Members memos: 'Religion is like a tree· University Micfonlms Some topics: Hinduism, imperialism, Ca1 h olici~m. African leaders ask the Church in helping to pacify the people and lntcrnallonal, 300 North Zeeb Road, Dept. PR, to help build a society based even give them the rudimentary 51 Apar1heid, a black American :1 perspective, by R. Lambert Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106 schooling to serve colo nial in­ ThttitleMaryknolt • Sou1h Africa is a cause and a ~ymbol 10 U.S. blacks. on equality and solidarity is rcailltcr<d with the terests, Rhodes rewarded the early United States Pnttnt and SS In Angola: Namibian refugees build for thefuwre lradcmark Office. Jesuit missioners with huge tracts POSTMASTER· Send addr«l They prepare for free e l ec1io11~ and independence. When Cecil Rhodes colonized what of land. For many decades, the co­ chan&C$ to Mory/mo//, Marylrnoll, N. V. tOS4S S9 Conflict in values: 'God knows no apartheid· are now the nations of Zimbabwe lo nial governments viewed the Members of all Sou1h African churches are polarized. and Zambia nearly 100 years ago, Church as a partner in their en­ CovM credits he observed that a missioner is terprise. But when the missioners, Front, Inside and back: 63 Giving ourselves to say 'l love you,' by P. Bergin worth 100 soldiers. For their work sensitized by the Church's growing Hahn/Zimbabwe To perform good works, s1ar1 small and s1an now. 3 cialist outlook" modeled on the fel­ Fathers during Vatican II and with Building a new Zimbabwe lowship of equality and brother­ the encyclicals of recent popes. hood lived by early Christians. As a result of the Church's coura- Although Catholics are only ten social doctrine, began to speak out against injustice, the state began to p~rcent of the cou ntry's nearly eight million inhabitants, they perceive them as enemies. played a very important role in the Now, with leaders representing struggle for independence. The the African majority, missioners Church started the first schools for are again being asked to help build Africans, gave the first lectures on a new society. Some clergy and reli­ gious have no qualms in accepting trade unions and was the first to speak up for human rights. the challenge, but others see in the The awareness of the injustice in colonial experience an object lesson Zimbabwe (formerly called Rhode­ in not becoming too closely identi­ Bishop Donal Lamont, deported sia) grew apace with the Church's during the war, has 19 priests fied with those in power. rapidly developing social doctrine. for a diocese the size of Ireland. As in early days, the churches are Irish Carmelite missionary Bishop seen as valuable allies by Zim­ Donal Lamont, who issued his first babwe's new leadership. Speaking statement in 1959 despite opposi­ to the heads of religious denomina­ tion from the apostolic delegate tions in 1981 , President Canaan said he relied not on a new Banana, an ordained Methodist libera~ tion theology but on teachings as minister, urged churches to support old as those of Pope Leo XIII. government programs they judge Responding to "the knocks on the These insights were vastly enriched good, to "preside over the process door," Father Dove has many with the declarations of the Council programs to assist Zimbabweans. of historical transformation," to do research and analysis on devel­ opment that seeks to express hu­ Palm Sunday Mass in African man values, and to "evolve a township: the enthusiasm of theology that encompasses a so- black parishioners is impressive. !1!111!1!1"111Jim=-==~ Left, Lamont with Auxiliary Bishop Patrick Mutume; below, novices near Silveira House. 4 "I have had the privilege of meeting him and his family and my impres­ sion is that he has a deep Christian tradition within him," Dove said. "He has visited this mission on many occasions and talked about Christian socialism, saying he wanted to do something about the neglected rural poor, who are the masses of the people." Bishop Lamont says that the Je­ suit-educated Mugabe realizes that his own people could not envision a John Stewart, former national director society in which God has no place. of the Justice and Peace Commission, "They are a God-oriented people. is a South African dedicated to build­ The idea of a totally materialistic ing a non-racial Zimbabwean society. universe with no God is totally alien Archbishop Patrick Chakaipa spoke al Independence Day ceremonies. to the African people." The Bishop's reluctance to be­ Building a new Zimbabwe bique (for opposing the struggle for Instead, in Zimbabwe when the come closely associated with the independence from Portugal)." new black leaders decided to hold a government stems from another religious service to celebrate inde­ concern: "While the Church re­ geous stand, it emerged from the pendence, they went to the Catholic spects legitimate government, it civil war with great prestige. Arch­ Sabina Mugabe: "Thanks to the cathedral in Salisbury, the capital. must of its very nature retain its in­ bishop Denis Hurley of Durban, prayers of many people, my brother The former white government dependence and exercise its func­ South Africa, the head of the (Robert) is doing very well." leaders went to the Anglican cathe­ tion as the conscience of society." D Southern Africa Bi shops Con­ dral for such observances. When Bishop Lamont returned to Zim­ ference, said in 1981: John Deary, former head of the "The Catholic Church, because babwe in 1980- he had been de­ ported by the white minority re­ Justice and Peace Commission: of the attitude adopted by its Jus­ "A lot of discriminatory practices gime in 1977 after failing to report tice and Peace Commission and its and legislation have been revoked.
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