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 As
part of his October sabbatical, Cardinal Roger Mahony toured
numerous places in Africa --- the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda ---
where the Catholic presence is very much in evidence, notably
in the work of Catholic Relief Services.
In activities that included visiting a Missionaries of Charity
home outside Bujumbura, Burundi; celebrating Mass in Kinshasa;
and laying a wreath at a genocide memorial in Rwanda, the
cardinal found the church responding to
the needs of people who have known a uniquely frightening
kind of desperation and tragedy, yet find hope in the presence
of the Lord as manifested in the work of Catholics from around
the world.
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