Bishops yield to

party cells in
seminaries
FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT THE bishops of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo, have yielded to government demands that youth cells of the People's Revolutionary Movement—the nation's only political party--be established in the country's seminaries.
In a letter to the secretary general of the movement, Bishop Leon Lesansbo of lnongo, president of the Zairean Bishops' Conference said that the standing committee of the conference "accepts the implantation of the movement's youth section in the seminaries as a national institutional movement for political education of all Zaireans, if the authorities of the party promise to respect the goals, good order and specific character of these institutions."
The government radio station, the Voice of Zaire, announced that the party's politburo had taken note of the "positive stand of the bishops for the installation of cornmittees in the major seminaries and houses of religious formation."
The politburo also announced that the Pope John Seminary in Kinshasa may now reopen.
In January, President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire closed the seminary because Cardinal Joseph Malula of Kinshasa had refused to allow the formation of a party youth group there.
EXILED IN ROME
Cardinal Malula has been in temporary exile in Rome since February after being expelled from his State-owned residence and excluded from a national honorary order.
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