SECOND FRONT PAGE Man proposes, God disposes
Pope gets to South Africa after all JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (NC) - Bad weather forced Pope John Paul II's plane to land in South Africa, the country that had been deliberately ,excluded from his Sept. 10-19 trip to five southern African countries. The papal flight was diverted to Johannesburg Sept. 14 because of low clouds over the airport in Maseru, Lesotho, where the plane was scheduled to land in the morning. The detour occurred as a hostage drama unfolded in Maseru. Armed men disguised as nuns captured a busload of pilgrims on their way to see the pope. ' A spokesman for the South African Foreign Ministry said the government had provided the pope and his entourage with luxury
buses for the 360-mile trip from Johannesburg to Maseru. He estimated the trip would take six hours. The pope, informed of the diversion, remarked with a smile, "It wasn't on the schedule," and continued reading a book of philosophy. Upon the plane's arrival, arme<;l guards quickly surrounded the plane, which also carried the pope's entourage and 70 journalists. At the airport, Foreign Minister R.F. "Pik" Botha arrived and talked briefly with the pope in the airport's YIP lounge. It was the first time a papal flight had been diverted to a different country. Pilot Robert Cartwright said the plane took off late from Gabo-
U.8. moral concern praised by pope Bishop Cronin among prelates making ad limina visit CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (NC) - Pope John Paul II has praised the growth of"a new moral concern" among U.S. Catholics to help overcome world poverty and underdevelopment. "There is a growing consciousness that peace is indivisible and that' true development is either shared by all or it is not true development," he said Sept. 9 to a group of U.S. bishops from New England, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. They included Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, who was accompanied by Msgr. John J. Oliveira, YE, chancellor and episcopal secretary. The bishops were making their "ad Iimina" visits, required every' five years to report on the status of their dioceses. The pope spoke at his summer villa in Castel Gandolfo, 15 miles south of Rome. The pope praised the U.S. bishops for their treatment of world peace and development issues in their war and peace and economic pastoral letters: "The Challenge of Peace" and "Economic Justice for All." "As pastors of God's people, you have asked them to reflect on the indivisibility of peace and on the consequences of economic interdependence," the pope said. "From this point of view we see how important economic and commercial relations are among the countries and people of the world, and how important it is that justice be observed in this sector," he added. "On the international level the underdevelopment of peoples is accompanied and aggravated by the immense problem of their countries' debts," the pope said.,
Human rights also must be promoted, he added. "Considering how important human rights are to the human person, it is clear that they must be vigorously defended in every program of development/' he said. Human solidarity is accomplished "without distinction of creed, sex, race, nationality or political affiliation," the pope said. Also receiving papal praise was Catholic Relief Services, the foreign aid and development agency of the U.S. bishops. "In the case of Catholic Relief Services, the American bishops conceived and constituted a whole ecclesial program on the basis of the principles of interdependence, solidarity and collaboration," he said. CRS programs are "carried out with keen human sensitivity and the full power of Christian charity," he added. ".;,,,.
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In Zimbabwe In highlights of his trip thus far, the pope brought a message of reconciliation to southern Zimbabwe where lingering tribal and land disputes have marred the nation's eight-year effort at reconstructing since the end of a guer-
rilla war brought black majority government. At a Mass in Bulawayo Sept. 12, the pope expressed sorrow for the "many victims of violence" in the
region and for those "unjustly deprived of proper,tY'f~ndsavings." B'ut he praised a recent politica:I " breakthrough that will make Turn to Page 12
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