The African Pope
Spear, Lois
governors had to raise taxes upon taking office to make up for budget deficits. But Dukakis had pledged during the 1974 campaign he would never raise taxes. The promise haunted him this year, even...
...The reason is that men see the principle even more clearly in a com- when criminal activity was even imputed to a and women are motivated by many conflict- petition of the degrees of greed in contempo- corporation...
...The need to replace foreign missionaries with an indigenous hierarchy was one of the themes running through the October 20, 1967 message, Africae Terrarum, for "the promotion of the religious, civil, and social well being of their continent...
...been legal questions raised by stockholders as to whether management had any right to engage in good works, was not, in fact, flagrantly derelict in duty in so doing, instead of A FEW WEEKS ago, a grand jury in that corporations have committed, crimes in bending every effort to get and keep every Goshen, Indiana accomplished an as- the past, do commit them in the present and possible penny for the shareholders...
...tempered in most producers by an equal and people and since individual people are well The corporation, on the other hand, is sometimes conflicting desire to put on a good known to be the principal producers of crimes motivated solely by greed, the desire to make show...
...For our purposes here, The obvious question is Why...
...But for Democrats, who rose to national dominance on a sea of public funds, limits on gov- ernment spending may mean limits on popular appeal...
...To implement his views, Paul gradually moved to install 200 local bishops in positions formerly held by foreign clergy...
...Of several minds: Frank Getlein make more money every year than was made last year, and to make it by any means availSWEET LAND O'GOSHEN able...
...The Pinto's gas tank has been the to-Nixon blanket pardon we seem to have manner of unfair competition against rivals, subject of recall activity, of civil suits and of a extended to corporations for the criminality including industrial espionage and even lot of speculation on automobile design, but , they share with mankind...
...In the words of African peoples, the Catholic Church has had its failures there...
...E. J. DIONNE, JR...
...But this natural desire is rate affairs are in fact conducted by individual check inclinations toward stealing...
...in short, Democrats who performed roughly the way the conventional wisdomwould have us believe Democrats must now perform in the wake of Proposition 13...
...Dukakis, after all, was disliked not only by Proposition 13 and death penalty advocates...
...Thus, not only does the desire to be television, leaving out such distractions as press...
...There has probably ducted that criminal acts never take place...
...Thus, often, comers are not cut that of all kinds, it seems reasonable to assume as much money as possible in any year, to could be, risks are taken with material considCommonweal: 679...
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...More than that, it more criminally inclined than the ordinary run It's quite a record, but contemporaries can was just about the first time in living memory of men and women...
...The following August, he conferred episcopal consecration on ten autochthonous prelates...
...But neither vote can be called a mandate for the politics of limits, of which both men were adept practitioners...
...But the paradoxical fact may be that Democrats who actually do behave as budget cutters will face the greatest problems of all...
...clearly labeled sins, such as Pride, Lust and never been a Broadway producer who didn't Since, when you get right down to it, corpo- Sloth, to name just three, can effectively want to make money...
...Similarly, Carey has failed to arouse much en- thusiasm among most public employee unions, blacks or liberals--though he will probably get enough help in these quarters to win in November...
...Barbara Ackerrnann drew only seven percent of the vote, but her candidacy symbolized a liberal-left disaffection that also rob- bed Dukakis of the enthusiastic support of liberal campaign workers...
...So would President Carter...
...Fraternit~ Matin, he was "un grand Africaln...
...When he was elected in 1963, only 3 African ambas- series of empty phrases...
...One of the fLrSt moves to indigenize the African church came at the new pope's first consistory...
...to establish a network of relations-- totally different from the It makes the words of President Felix Houphouet-Boigny colonialism of the past--between the Holy See and black (Ivory Coast) in his telegram of condolence more than merely a Africa...
...In 1962, the Al~ostolic Delegate for Central and West Africa, Bishop Sergio Pignedoli, had organized for the then Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini a long expedition by jeep, canoe and Piper Cub from Nigeria to South Africa...
...The jury indicted the assuredly will commit them in the future...
...Dukakis's defeat by an advocate of Proposition 13 is being heralded as a sign that Democrats nationally must move to the right...
...who through tough cuts--including cuts ' in welfare budgets--managed to achieve balanced budgets...
...In October, 1964 the pope inscribed on the calendar of saints the names of 22 young Ougandais Christians who were burned alive for their faith in 1886...
...In addressing the African bishops at the Cathedral of Kampala, Paul said, "You Afri- cans, you are already your own missionaries...
...Respect for Paul spread among African peoples even before his papal consecration in 1963...
...Yet, in spite of nent nearly doubled, reaching a total of at least 40 million...
...At the same time, he helped local churches to search out their identity and to organize themselves for greater apostolic efforts by sponsoring two pan-African episcopal conferences, one francophone and the other anglophone...
...Not why the eliminate criminality altogether, while others greed-wise, all show biz can be divided into Goshenites are doing it to Ford...
...For many of the word's poorer nations, re-assessment was unnecessary...
...In short, the side appeal of the politics of limits may also be its undoing as far as Democrats are concerned, because everyone wants someone else to pay for the limits everyone appears to favor...
...If he wins in November, Jerry Brown would do well to study the campaigns in New York and Massachusetts...
...Here were two Democrats who inherited huge deficits from Republican administrations...
...failures and the continuing persecution the church faces from Paul's efforts on behalf of African peoples earned for him neo-colonial regimes, in the eyes of African leaders, the record the profound respect of the new political classes, enabling him of the 261st successor of Peter is a brilliant one...
...strued as criminal actions...
...I I The feeling abroad THE AFRICAN POPE PAUL VI & THE THIRD WORLD Paul VI's death forced many of his critics to reassess his pontificate, placing the controversial statements on sexual morality within the larger context of the church's mission to promote all peoples...
...Not only share, in sabotage, defrauding the government of just the Goshen indictment was the first intimation the view of many observers over the years, taxes, and, most spectacularly, defrauding that the corporation's original desig n and con- but share disproportionately: the corporation, the workers of everything they could be de- tinued use of that lethal design could be con- in this interpretation, is by its nature much frauded of, including their lives...
...J. Dionne, Jr., is a member of the staff of the New York Times...
...Augustine's ing from authoritarian regimes in countries for whom indepen- Episcopal College, recently returned from a trip to Africa...
...Carey, on the other hand, has managed to cut state taxes a billion dollars over the last two years, a fact he doesn't let voters forget...
...The promise haunted him this year, even though he managed to keep property taxes down in city after city this year by the surplus he had built up through his fiscal program...
...with representatives of the Organization of African Unity...
...The difference between their votes is, of course, the difference between winning and losing...
...tonishing feat...
...That's obvi- can moderate the inclination toward criminal three parts, Broadway, movies and network ous to the most casual reader of the Pinto's behavior...
...And yet neither performed convincingly...
...at cards routinely cheating the general public up when the car is struck from behind by It's odd on the face of it, this kind of Ford- in the goods sold the public, going in for all another car...
...For Republicans, who have fewer qualms over attacking unions, and fewer still over cutting back on welfare programs for the poor, this may not prove to be an insurmountable problem...
...When corporations have occasionally dabbled in what, among individuals, would be called good works, there have actually AREN'T CORPORATIONS SINNERSTOO...
...A black bishop, the Voltaique Paul Zoungrana received the red hat, followed by two more in April, 1969...
...Rather, why not anybody else until honest hold in check the desire to steal what- off-Broadway, off-off, regional, public telly now...
...Then, to give public witness to his commitment to African peoples, in 1969 he traveled to Kampala for the ceremony honoring these first witnesses to Catholicism on the black continent...
...President Boigny said of Paul: "His sadors were accredited at the Vatican...
...He was also opposed by state policemen who wanted pay raises and liberals who opposed his spending cuts for welfare programs...
...even during his lifetime, Paul was lovingly referred to as the Pope of the Third World...
...and who were tough on public employees...
...But for all this, the most startling fact is that neither Carey nor Dukakis did very well, Carey got 52 percent of the vote, Dukakis 42 percent...
...The The truth of this distinction is evident Ford Motor Company on criminal counts in reason for the non-indictability of corpora- enough in industrial history, which shows so- the matter of the well-known tendency of the tions until now must be sought elsewhere in cially distinguished men who wouldn't cheat gas tank on Ford's Pinto to catch fire or blow their presumed innocence...
...To encourage the spread of Catholicism, he supported local seminaries...
...It is small wonder that Paul VI will be remembered by Despite Paul's concern for peace and the well-being of the Africans as the Pope of the Third World...
...Is it that corporate affairs are so con- ever isn't nailed down, but well-established, documentaries, all that...
...The conclusion of the civil wars in the Sudan and Nigeria LOIS SPEAR found the Christians facing a new wave of persecutions com- (Sister Lois Spear, who teaches History at St...
...From among this number, he appointed 12 black cardinals to the Sacred College...
...ing considerations, quite a few of which can rary show business...
...There are 25 today...
...constant preoccupation with problems of the Third World, and Approximately 15 chiefs of state and at least a dozen African particularly of Africa, in which regard he encouraged a politics politicians and ministers visited the Vatican to see Paul who, of openness and dialogue in a spirit of fraternity, won for him symbolically, returned their visits when, at Kampala, he met universal esteem and respect...
...Holding together a coalition that rests on the poor, the liberals, working-class voters and the unions requires state spending...
...On that day as he looked forward to the future of the Catholic Church, Paul described Africa as "the new homeland of Christ...
...Among the Christian churches, his promotion of ecumenical collaboration in place of missionary rivalry, led some English church leaders to speculate that by the year 2000 the number of African Christians might well exceed 350 million...
...During the 27 O(tober 1978:678 lifetime of Paul, the number of Catholics alone on the conti- dence meant merely a change in colonial rulers...
...New York has already had its propostion 13," he says, which is not exactly true, but which serves the Governor's political purposes at the moment...
...These experiences .with African villagers-many of them literally "lost" in the forests--convinced Paul of the urgent need to return, not only the land, but its churches also, to the peoples of Africa...
Vol. 105 • October 1978 • No. 21
