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COUNCIL COVERAGE COUNCIL COVERAGE Orothodox Watch 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. 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PHONE AD 6-8616 —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 and Belgium five. 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