The University of Notre Dame will offer a Mass for peace and justice in memory of Nelson Mandela at 5:15 p.m. Friday (Dec. 13) in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Rev. Emmanuel Katongole, a priest of the Ugandan Archdiocese of Kampala, will preside and be assisted by Deacon Melvin Tardy.
Mandela, the longtime anti-apartheid leader and the president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, died Thursday (Dec. 5) at age 95.
Notre Dame also will mark Mandela’s passing with the screening of the film “Mandela: Extended Stroll to Freedom” on Thursday (Dec. 12) at the DeBartolo Executing Arts Center, to be followed by a presentation by a panel of scholars who will talk about the film and the significance of Mandela’s daily life and perform. Panelists will incorporate Father Katongole, Thomas Hibbs from Baylor University and Thomas Allen of Allied Faith and Household. Sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, the film and panel presentation are offered out.
Even though Mandela never visited the Notre Dame campus, the University hosted his presidential successor, Thabo Mbeki, and other members of his African Nationwide Congress (ANC) for a landmark conference in 1991. Titled “The ANC and New Investment in South Africa,” the conference brought with each other officials from the ANC, U.S. government and much more than 40 major U.S. firms to discuss for the initial time a policy for investment in the quickly-to-be post-apartheid South Africa.
Notre Dame to remember Nelson Mandela with Mass, film
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