Cardinal Joseph-Albert Malula, believed to be no less than the very founder of the Congolese Church, has been proclaimed a “national hero”, among great fanfare. In a message, announced by Fides, monsignor Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, archbishop of Kinshasa, has thanked, in the name of the Congolese Church to be sure, the president of the DR Congo, Joseph Kabila, for honoring the crimsoned one, who died in 1989. “For his tireless research of excellence and perfection, his lapidary inscription: ‘a Congolese Church in a Congolese State’, for his research into the African soul, we are grateful to the State for having nominated Cardinal Albert Malula to be a national hero”, said monsignor Monsengwo. The Congolese Church is celebrating the Year of Cardinal Malula (from September 20, 2009 to September 20, 2010). This most suitable of initiatives intends to mark the 50th anniversary of the episcopate of the Cardinal and the twenty years that have passed since his very death. In the context of the celebrations a series of highly anticipated conferences have been launched that have highlighted several aspects of the Cardinal’s multifaceted personality – one of the first African theologians to claim the very ‘culturation’ of Christian values”.[AB]