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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1956
Pages-1-6
Catholics, Protestants Praying for
Reunion of Family of Christendom
Editor' Note: The following dis
patch reDorts on the status of the
church unity movement. It coincides
with worldwide Catholic and Protes
tant observances which will continue
from Jan. 18 through Jan. 25.
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press Correspondent
"Washington (U.R) Catholics
and Protestants around the
world are praying this week
simultaneously but separately
for reunion of the long-divided
family of Christendom.
Both of the great branches of
Christianity have set aside the
period Jan. 18-25 as the time of
concentrated prayer for church
unity. But the special observ
ances are being held under cir
cumstances that demonstrate, not
so much the progress that has
been achieved toward unity, as
the depth of the gulf still to be
Abridged.
Catholics are emphasizing at
ell of their services their un
swerving adherence to the prin
ciple that unity can be achieved
only by the "return" of Protest
ants to the Church of Rome,
with full acceptance of the
Pope's authority as "Vicar of
Christ on Earth."
Protestants, who have been
trying to teal their own num
erous differences by steadily-increasing
inter denominational
cooperation, are pointing to this
Catholic stand as the biggest ob
stacle in the path of eventual
Christian unity.
Profound Cleavage
The profound cleavage that
exists on this vital point is re
flected in the different names
which Catholics and Protestants
apply to the annual "unity" ob
servance. Catholics call it the "chair of
unity octave." A spokesman for
the National Catholic Welfare
Conference said this name was
chosen purposely to remind
Catholics that they are praying,
"not for some vague concept of
church merger, but specifically
that all those who are separated
from the chair of Peter at Rome
may return to the one true
church."
The "octave" consists of eight
successive nights of prayer serv
ices for the conversion of groups
outside the Roman church. Pray
ers are offered on Jan. 18 for
"the return of all 'other sheep'
to the one fold"; on Jan. 19 for
"the return of all Oriental sep
aratists"; on Jan. 20 for "the
submission of Anglicans to the
authority of the vicar of Christ";
on Jan. 21 "that Lutherans and
all other Protestants of contin
ental Europe may return to the
holy church"; on Jan. 22 that
"Christians in America may be
come one in communion with
the chair of St. Peter"; on Jan.
23 for "the return of lapsed
Catholics"- on Jan. 24 for "the
conversion of the Jews"; and on
Jan. 25 for "the missionary con
quest of the world for Christ."
Although it is now celebrated
by Catholics throughout the
world, with the blessing of Pope
Pius XII, the unity octave orig
inated in America. It was in
itiated in 1908 by an Episcopal
clergyman, the Rev. Paul Watt
son, who shortly thereafter en
tered the Catholic church. A
monastic group founded by
Father Paul near Peekskill, N.Y.,
known as the Society of the
Atonement, has worked for
nearly half a century to make
the octave the major Catholic
event which it is today.
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United P'lf Faahiw Wif
Harmon Nichols
Washington (U.R) When Jim
Ryan of Jersey City, N. J., went
into the Marine Corps all he
knew a'b out
the Supr erne
Court of the
United States
was that it
was some
where in
Washington.
Now he has
just ' been
admitted to
practice before
the highest
court in the
land.
Not only can he appear before
the high court, but he is assist
ant corporation counsel for Jer
sey City. No small job, that,
either.
The young man, he's only
around 30, has Jerry Greene, a
Washington reporter for the New
York Daily News, to thank for
part of his growing up.
But Jerry didn't do the whole
job. He says that he discovered
the lad like people discover
things like uranium, dinosaur
tracks and rare pieces of bric
brac. By accident.
Anyhow, James Ryan wound
up as a clerk, private first class,
under Capt. Greene in the Fourth
Marine Air Wing in the Central
Pacific during the Gilbert-Marshall
campaign of World War II.
Eventually, under the fine
hand of a fine reporter-Marine,
Jim worked up to staff sergeant.
A pretty nice job for a kid with
only a spot of high school learn
ing. Eventually' he became a photo
interpreter. That means that he
looked over the pictures of
bombing raids and offered his
opinion of how the job should
be done in the second half of the
war.
After he left the service, Jim
kind of lost track of his old Ma
rine captain friend. So he went
out on his own. But Jerry had
put a burr under the lad.
He poured cement. He wore
his fingers to the nub laying
bricks. He painted bathrooms
and foyers by the dozen, hung
a lot of wall paper and stirred
up a few cookies in a bakery.
All of this was night work.
Jim spent the daylight hours in
law school.
It took five years, but as Jim
my says, it was worth it. He's
balding now. Hard work, maybe.
But his head is high, as high as
5 feet, 8 inches can go.
Jimmy and Jerry hadn't seen
one another much until the other
night. Greene's doorbell rang
and when he opened the door
there was the sergeant. Dressed
fit for big things, ready to ap
pear before the high court.
You can guess who was in the
cheering section wishing the lad
luck the next day when he was
formally authorized to appear
in cases before the nation's high
est tribunal.
The Protestant observance,
which is on a much smaller
scale, is called "the universal
week of prayer for Christian
unity." It has been officially
sponsored, since 1940, by the
World Council of Churches, an
organization in which 164 Pro
testant and Orthodox commun
ions in 47 countries have
achieved a loose but growing
unity.
Despite the world council's
pleas for widespread participa
tion, many Protestant churches
mark the "week" only by a sin
gle special prayer at the regu
lar Sunday worship service, and
others ignore it altogether."
. The influential Protestant
magazine Christian Century said
recently that this tendency to
ward aloofness reflects a feeling
among many Protestant leaders
that Catholic emphasis on papal
supremacy has made the annual
observance a source of "friction"
rather than unity. The magazine
suggested that Protestants "find
another week" to pray for unity.
Long Deadlock -
Roman and "non-Roman Chris
tians have been deadlocked on
the issue .of papal supremacy
for a thousand years, since the
"great schism" of 1054 split the
Western church under Rome's
pope from the Eastern church
headed by the patriarch of Con
stantinople. R e p u d iation of
papal claims was a. fundamental
aspect of the Protestant refor
mation which further fragment
ed the Western church five cen
turies later.
The Roman position, on which
Catholic theologians believe that
no compromise Is possible, is
that Christ explicity appointed
St. Peter head of the church,
and that the sweeping authority
conferred on Peter has passed
to his successors as Bishop of
Rome.
Protestant and Orthodox theo
logians assert that Jesus was not
speaking to Peter only, but to
all the apostles, when he said
"I will give to thee the keys of
the kingdom." They say that
St. Peter was .never recognized
as ruler of . the , church during
the apostolic era recorded in the
scriptures, and that it was -not
until hundreds of years after
that the Bishops of Rome began
to assert a claim to supremacy.
CENTRAL POINT
Visitors Are Entertained
By MURIEL W. SHORTRIDGE
Central Point Mr. and Mrs.
John D. Shortridge entertained
Mr. and Mrs. Carol Nelson of
Minneapolis, Minn., D. E. Car
rier, San Diego, Calif., and Mr.
and Mrs. D. W. Robertson of
Medford last week end. Carrier
is father of Mrs. Robertson and
Mrs. Nelson is her sister. The
Nelsons and two sons, John and
Charles, had been visiting in
Tucson, Ariz., San Diego and
Berkeley.
While in California they at
tended the Pasadena Rose Pa
rade and the Rose Bowl game.
They especially remarked on the
many parade spectators who
spent the previous night at their
posts, with at least some of the
comforts of home such as camp
stoves and cots, and one luxury
loving group with an old over
stuffed chair and davenport.
The Rev. and Mrs. H. James
Krieder, one of the Pilgrim Holi
ness church, left last week for
Charleston, W.Va. With them
were their two children and Mrs.
Kieder's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Easter, whose home is in
Charleston. While in the east
they will visit Mrs. Krieder's
parents, in Orlando, Fla.
Mr." and Mrs. George Byron
Backus and two daughters ex
pect to move to Central Point
from California about Jan. 20.
Backus is brother to Mrs. George
Van Galder of Central Point.
Mr. and Mrs. Backus are both
teachers and will be teaching in
Medford.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Carrigan,
of Freeman road, report that
their children are all on the road
to recovery after a bout of ill
ness. Men and equipment are busy
at the site of the new Central
Point elementary school on Pine
st. The ground has teen pre
pared and the foundation is
now being poured.
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