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\"ZEC<\/a>\"medado-mazombwe-zambia-reports\"<\/a>Fraternal greetings come your way from the Catholic Secretariat in Lusaka.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It is indeed with a great sense of sadness that I now write to officially inform you that His Eminence, Medardo Joseph Cardinal Mazombwe, <\/b>the Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka, passed away around 17:00hrs on Thursday 29th<\/sup> August 2013. READ MORE<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Profile of Cardinal Joseph Mazombwe<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

HIS EMINENCE MEDARDO CARDINAL JOSEPH MAZOMBWE – 1931 – 2013<\/strong>
\n30 August 2013,\u00a0Friday<\/b>:\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
Mourners gather at Cathedral of the Child Jesus, Pope Square Lusaka
\n19.00 hours:\u00a0 Mass at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus
\n31 August 2013\u00a0Saturday<\/b>:
\n19.00 hours:\u00a0 Mass at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus
\n1 September 2013 Sunday:\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
Morning:\u00a0 Mass in various parishes
\n19.00 hours:\u00a0 Prayers, Vespers, Rosary at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus
\n2 September 2013 Monday:\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
14:30 hours onwards:\u00a0Body lies in State at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus <\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
19:00 hours:\u00a0 Vigil Mass; Body lies in Church over night; Body Viewing at Cathedral of the Child Jesus<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
3 September 2013 Tuesday: <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
<\/b> 09:00 hours: Requiem Mass at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus. Burial at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus. (N.B. There will be no body viewing after the Requiem Mass)<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
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Updates on the 31st August 2013<\/strong><\/address>\n
May I share a personal word of strong memory of the goodness of Cardinal Mazombwe\u2019s leadership and friendship.\u00a0 <\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
He was a great pastoral leader very much interested and involved in social justice work.\u00a0He knew the social teaching of the Church and so often found opportunities to share that message with appropriate audiences.\u00a0 <\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
\"Peter<\/a>In particular I remember two occasions when he spoke for the cancellation of Zambia\u2019s debt during the Jubilee campaign.\u00a0The first was at the First African Synod, Rome 1994.\u00a0He made an impassioned call \u2013 factual, analytical and scriptural \u2013 of the need for cancelling debt as part of the Jubilee movement.\u00a0He told me afterwards that he was moved by the fact that his intervention received a unique and prolonged ovation!\u00a0The second was during a 1998 meeting in the USA where the President of the World Bank and the Director of the IMF were present, along with high Government officials and non-governmental representatives.\u00a0His presentation of the debt issue as a moral challenge moved the audience and became a reference for subsequent Jubilee calls by the Bishops Conference of the United States of America. I know that this influenced decisions to cancel debt.<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
The very fine book of Zambian Bishops\u2019 social letters, edited by Fr Joe Komakoma, contains so many rich teachings influenced over key years by Cardinal Mazombwe.\u00a0His memory will continue to inspire the justice mission of the Zambian Church, indeed the wider African Church, in the years to come.<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
Personally, I was so happy to visit the Cardinal at Christmas time last year, where he very kindly recalled working with us on many occasions at the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection.\u00a0 <\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
I wish I could be there at the Cathedral of the Holy Child next Tuesday for the Requiem Mass \u2013 but I will surely be there in spirit!<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
\u00a0Peace of Christ.<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
Peter J. Henriot, S.J.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/i><\/span><\/address>\n
Director of Development, Loyola Jesuit Secondary School, Kasungu, Malawi\u00a0<\/span> <\/i><\/address>\n
Funeral Mass at the Cathedral of\u00a0 the Child Jesus, Pope Square Grounds, Lusaka, Zambia presided by Cardinal J. Njue of Kenya.<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
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