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Church’s Treatment Of Eastern
Rites Can Aid, Block Christian
Unity, Melkite Patriarch Says
ROME, (NC) — The way the
Church as a whole treats its
Eastern Rites can promote or
obstruct efforts toward Christ
ian unity, Melkite Rite Pat
riarch Maximos IV Saigh of An
tioch said here.
The eyes of the Orthodox
world are on the Eastern Rites,
he declared. From the way
they are treated, he stated, the
Orthodox will judge how they
would be treated if Christian
unity were restored.
But the Patriarch warned that
“our Catholic Eastern churches
have not yet found within Cath
olicism the place worthy of
them.”
Patriarch Saigh spoke in an
interview published by the Rome
Christian Democratic daily, II
Popolo. He said the ecumenical
council “could open the road to
union just as it could close it
definitely.”
He said the council could
close it by “giving our Ortho
dox brothers — and may God
forbid this — the conviction
that there is no room for them
in the Catholic Church save
through the absorption of their
own existence within Latinism,
improperly identified with Ca
tholicism.”
But he called himself “rather
optimistic” on this subject.
“May God prolong the life of
the present Holy Father,” he
said , referring to His Holi
ness Pope John XXIII, “because
his venerable person is the best
guarantee for union.
Patriarch Saigh said Catho
lics now realize that there is far
more dividing Eastern Chris
tianity from Western Chris
tianity than the mere refusal
of the East to submit to author
ity.
"The Orthodox, recognizing
their failings in practicing
charity, want Catholics to do
likewise. It would seem that
today the Catholics have em
barked on this road and that
they ask the Orthodox to re
turn, not as guilty persons, but
to accept a brotherly embrace
and forget the ancient quarrels
based not on doctrinal differen
ces but on racial animosity, po
litical interests and so on.
“It is true that there are still
today doctrinal differences,
caused above all by the fact
that the teaching on the make
up of the Church was not clar
ified in time. But we believe
that these differences are not
insurmountable if there is on
both sides a sincere willingness
not to exaggerate these differ
ences uselessly, and also the
will on our part to clarify
Catholic teaching from the pa
tristic and traditional points
of view, avoiding futile inflex
ibility.”
Political interference re
mains ~ a difficulty confront
ing the Orthodox, the Patriarch
remarked.
"But it is not our task to
examine the consicience of
others;” he said.
“In my opinion the greatest
difficulty probably is for Catho
lics of the Latin Rite to under
stand both theoretically and
practically that union does not
mean uniformity, that it does not
mean the assimilation of others,
that it is not a means of human
domination.
“The Catholic Eastern
churches are for the Roman
Church a‘test.’ According to the
way they are treated within the
framework of Catholicism, the
Orthodox will judge the way they
will be treated if union is re
stored.
“Although we recognize all
the advantages and benefits we
have received from union, it
must be recognized that our
Catholic Oriental churches have
not yet found within Catholicism
a place worthy of them.”
Orthodox observers at the
ecumenical council “will be
able to see that there is the
greatest freedom of expression
in the Catholic Church gathered
in council,” he remarked. He
added the hope that other Ortho
dox churches would send ob
servers to the council, “prin
cipally the ecumenical patriar
chate of Constantinople.”
He listed what he deemed the
principal problems which the
Eastern Rite council Fathers
will bring before the assembly
of the world’s bishops:
—A better definition of the
divine origin of the episcopate
and of its powers.
—Greater disciplinary auto
nomy for the Eastern churches.
—A re-evaluation of the role
of the patriarch within Catholic
ism.
—The use of living languages
in the liturgy.
“Unity in regard to the date
of Easter.
—Creation within the Holy
See's central administration of
a permanent body dealing with
ecumenical problems.
Archbishop Maximos IV Saigh, Melkite Rite Patriarch of Antioch, has called for
greater attention by the Church as a whole to the Eastern Rites (of the Catholic Church)
as a means of achieving reunion with the Orthodox Churches. Speaking in Rome, Pa-
trairch Saigh stated that “the eyes of the Orthodox world are on the Eastern Rites.”
From the way they are treated, he said, the Orthodox will judge how they would be
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—Decentralization of the
Church’s administration.
—Revival of the diaconate.
—Bringing the Eastern
Catholic churches into missio
nary work, especially in North
Africa, Ethiopia and India.
—A bigger role for laymen in
the Church, not only for their
sanctification but to make them
real coworkers in the Christ
ianization of the world.”
Italy Has Most Council
Commission Members
VATICAN CITY, (NC) - Ital
ian prelates from by far the
largest national group in 10 ec
umenical council commissions,
with the U.S. representation in
second place.
The U.S. group is followed
by the French, Spanish, Ger
man and Canadian ones, the
only other national groups to
have more than 10 members on
the commissions.
There are 260 commissions
members out of some 2,500
council Fathers. Each of the
commissions has 16 elected
members and 10 members, in
cluding presidents, appointed
by His Holiness Pope John
XXIII. The commissions are re
sponsible for organizing and
amending the proposals in their
specific fields for submission
to the Fathers.
A total of 59 nations are
represented by commission
members. Together the U.S. and
Canadian members total 32.
Nine African countries have 12
representatives and Australia
has three.
Italy has 51 commission
members, 19 elected and 32 ap
pointed, more than twice the
U.S. total of 21, 18 of whom
were elected. France is in third
place with 20 members, includ
ing 15 who were elected.
Spain has 18 members, 10
elected and 8 appointed. Ger
many has 12, of whom
11 were elected. Canada is in
sixth place with 11 members,
9 of whom were elected.
Brazil and India each have
eight members, Poland has six
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Ten countries are represen
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Argentina, Austria, Chile,
Great Britain, Japan, Leban
on, Mexico, The Netherlands,
Syria and Yugoslavia.
Six nations have three mem
bers: Australia, China, the Con
go, Ireland, Portugal and Swit
zerland.
Seven countries are repre
sented by two members : Bo
livia, Columbia, Indonesia,
Paraguay, the Philippiness,
Tanganyika and Vietnam.
Twenty-five nations have a
single representative: Burma,
Cameroun, Ceylon, Cuba, Czec
hoslovakia, Dominican Repub
lic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Greece,
Guatemala, Iraq, Ivory Coast,
Jordan, Luxembourg, Malagasy
Republic, Malaya, Pakistan,
Panama, Peru, Republic of
South Africa, Thailand, Tunisia,
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ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN
Says Debate On
Liturgy Moderate
Vatican City (NC)-An Amer
ican archbishop has described
the debate on the liturgy at the
ecumenical council as moderate
and stated that the council’s at
titude toward liturgical reform
is “wide open.”
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
of Atlanta, an elected member
of the council’s Commission
on the Sacred Liturgy, told En
glish-speaking reporters cov
ering the council that “there
have been very few extremists
in the debate. Every one of the
speakers has conceded the mer
its of the other side.”
He denied reports in Euro
pean newspapers that the U. S.
bishops are not interested in the
liturgy. Neither are the Ameri
can prelates adopting a unified
position in the debate on the
liturgy, he added.
Archbishop Hallinan spoke at
a regular meeting of the U. S.
Bishops’ press panel.
Asked how the council Fa
thers as a whole seem to feel
about proposed changes in the
liturgy, he replied: “The words
‘wide open’ would describe it
best.”
He said he had been amused
to hear bishops speaking in
elegant Ciceronian Latin to de
fend the use of the vernacular
in the liturgy. He also reported
that the 10-minute limit on
speeches, which council regu
lations ask the Fathers to ob
serve if possible, was largely
ignored.
But, he remarked with a
smile, "a certain restraint is
imposed on speakers by the ex
pressions on everybody else’s
face.”
He continued: “Occasionally,
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VATICAN CITY, (NC) - A
program designed to assist
newsmen of U. S. secular pa
pers in covering the ecumeni
cal council has been started
here.
Each day on which there is
a council session, newsmen will
meet afterward with a panel of
U. S. priests, experts in various
fields, who will answer ques
tions and esplain points relating
to Church terminology and
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as they are brought before the
council. He emphasized that the
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ering the council that he hoped
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