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f. . SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 19M MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON ecomid Session of Ecumenical Council To pen Sunday By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International More than 2,500 Catholic car dinals, patriarchis, bishops and abbots from all parts of the world will gather in Rome next week to carry out the dying wish of Pope Jonn xxin. As his life was ebbing away last June, Pope John repeat edly voiced his fervent hope for continuation ot tnc ,cumerv ical council which he had sum moned to "let a little fresh air Into the church.' The first act of his successor, Pone Paul VI, was to announce that the council would be re sumed. To Start Sept. 2!t The second session will start, in St. Peter's Basilica next Sun day Sept. 29, and continue through Dec. 8. It may well prove to be the most important religous meet ing of this century or of many centuries. The primary goal of the coun cil, slated by Pope John and forcefully reiterated by Pope Paul, is to bring about a far reaching "renewal" of the 500 million-member Roman Catholic church. The council fathers will take up a tremendous variety of problems, ranging from use of modern languages in the mass to the church's stand on birth control. They will seek, in Pope Johns phrase, to "nring tne church un lo date" without sacrificing any of its ancient truths. The Long Range Hope The long range hope is that the council will advance the cause of Christian unity by re forming some Catholic practices and clarifying others that are stumbling blocks to protestant and orthodox Christians. But no one expects the coun cil fathers to resolve all tne differences which divide the Christian family. They won't be trying to produce a "new Cath olicism" acceptable to Baptists and Methodists. Their purpose is to rediscover what is fundament al and enduring in the Catholic faith, and to prune away any accumulations of human error which collect around a church like barnacles on a ship. The determination of the council fathers to concentrate on the renewal of genuine Cath olicism rather than on Chris tian unity per se is heartily en dorsed by protestant leaders who have learned from their own experience in Ecumenical cooperation that the shortest road to reunion is for each body lo he obedient In its own vision of the will of Christ. Of kiwi JL5yan"s ytjkt 11 1 w p f p . role for the laity in Catholic life. A clear-cut statement up holding the right of every hu man being to worship according to the dictates of his own consci ence, and the duty of every government to respect this re ligious liberty. Modification of Canon A modification of the Canon law on mixed marriages, which requires the non-Catholic part ner to promise that children will be reared as Catholics. Abolition of the index of forbidden books, which dates back to the inquisition. A statement on divine rev elation which will encourage i the 17-item agenda for the sec- aiiivm uiuiLai oiuuj auu ono. session in aoumiui. nun clarity tne church s teaching that divine truth has been com municated both in written scrip ture and in the oral tradition of the church. A catch-all statement on "the church in the modern adjournment already set for Dec. 8 so that the bishops can return to their home dioceses in time for Christmas, some Vatican sources are predicting that it will be necessary to world" which will touch on such t hold a third council session in topics of current controversy as i the fall of 1964 birth control, racial justice, so cialism, relations with Commu mist regimes and ways to pre serve world peace. Action Seen Doubtful Whether the fathers can act One thing seems certain, Pope Paul will keep the council in session for as long as necessary to accomplish the "Aggiorna- mento, or renewal, which his predecessor launched, and for on all these and many other which he offered his last pray, important matters contained inlers on earth. Second Anniversary of Peace Corps Being Observed Today (Editor's note: The Peace Corps celebrates Its second an niversary today. How do the Peace Corps workers feel about their jobs? Many want to go back. Some are disillu sioned. A consensus is con tained in the following dispatch.) LOOK TOWARD THRONE Council fathers line Major where Papal throne is located. This pic stands in this general view of the main nave turc was taken during the first session of Ecu of St. Peter's Basilica, looking toward Altar menical Council II. (UPI) all churches more closer to their common center, these leaders say, they will inevitably draw closer together. Will Re Represented Major protcstaanl and ortho dox communions will be repre sented at the second session of the council, as they were at the first session, by annul 40 ot ft is generally anticipated that things will move much faster and more smoothly al the second session. During the first session, which lasted from Ocl. 11 to Dec. 8, 19112, the council fathers managed In take up only (our of 70 items on Ihoir agenda, and did not complete acnon on any Another reason for anticipat ing swifter action at the second session is that Pope Paul will insist on it. As Cardinal Mon tini of Milan, he made a stirring speech near the end of the lirst session, deploring the slow pare of the council and calling (or a wholesale revision of the cumbersome drafts which had The slow pace of Ihe first , hogged down debate. lamaaai BOBBIN WINDING! The amazing AUTO-REEL thread handling tyitem does away with bobbin winding. It has a real that fills In seconds at the push of a button. 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As a veteran of the Vatican bureau racy, he knows all about the strategies which Curia profes sionals can employ to slow or sidcrack reform movements of debate without stifling opposi-1 which they disapprove. And he tion. Most important, there had is not likely to be as tolerant ficial observers who will he , session was nrobahlv inevitable free lo attend all the secret 1 Since this is the first such debates. I worldwide meeting of Catholic oisnnps in nearly a century, none of the participants had any previous council experience. It look them time to get or ganized, work out rules of pro cedure and learn how to limit to be a feeling-out period, to test sentiment and determine whether a majority of the bis hops really shared the Pope's desire for renewal. Essential Preliminaries These essential preliminaries were accomplished at Ihe first session. And it was made clear on every test vote that the ad vocates of renewal vastly out numbered the stand-pat faction led by the conservatives of the Roman Curia. of genteel footdragging from his own official household as was the infinitely patient Pope John. The first completed work to emerge from the council pos sibly within a few days after the second session convenes is likely to be a statement of liturgy which the bishops de bated for three weeks last fall. The general outlines of the statement already have been approved hy a nearly unanimous vote and the fathers have only During the past nine months, i . ur while the council was in re- T, . . Vh. p f . :,, u . . the document to the Pope for cess committees have been: . , rf promuRati'on. hard at work in Rome, boiling 11 . ' down Ihe unmanagable agenda '!,lin ls Retained and rewriting draft statements It retains Latin in the main too reactionary or stuffy. The parts of the mass the offertory, central coordinating commis-: consecrealion and communion sion, headed by Amleto Cardi nal Cicogani, the Vatican secre tary of state, succeeded in re ducing the agenda (or the sec ond session to 17 items. Draft statements of "Schema ta" which will serve as the ve hicles for council debate on these 17 items have been cir- service but authorizes the use of modern languages in other portions of the service, including scripture lessons and prelimin ary prayers and chants. Other major issues scheduled to come before the second ses sion of the conucil include: A "decentralization" plan culaled to all the bishops of i which would grant considerably the church for advance study, i more local autonomy to bishops In several countries, bishops j and to national Episcopal con have held national conferences ferences, enabling them to de le discuss the issues before go-; ride many matters which now ing to Rome. American bishops have to be referred lo Ihe Ro me! in Chicago in early Au- man Curia gust for this purpose -Defining a more important TUESDAY i SEPT- 24 i '",-"u.-. ......... rtilltlil "-j.,, eol " .,i. Ot. iieiil -srTe-i- COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. MEOfORO SHOPPING CENTER By GEORGE WEEKS United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) -With two years of work behind them, most Peace Corps volunteers (eel the job was worth the doing. Those who don't, found the program blocked by red tape in underdeveloped nations. Some were bitter. They said they could not break through the in ertia ot the people they were sent to help. Still others were disappointed with their recep- iiuna in uie nations iney were supposed to aid. Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver told United Press Inter national that the corps asked for comments and criticisms from more than 700 volunteers who have completed their tours of duty. Here is a sampling of what they found: James Welcome, Bloomington, III., said "for actual accomplish ments we may have been a fail ure, but maybe some of the ideas we tried to give them will iaKc noin. Doug Darling, of Tulsa, Okla., said his work in the Philippines convinced him the Peace Corps was a "wonderful vehicle for winning new friends, and keep ing tne triends we already have." In Tanganyika, Jerry Parsons of Albany, N.Y., said he was so well liked that he was offered a wife and a farm if he would stay on the job. But in Ethiopia, one volunteer said the government tried to dis courage the Peace Corps work ers "because they are afraid we will acquaint the common masses with a better way of life." Susan Johnson of Sausalito, Calif., reported that in the Phil ippines the people "were very dubious at having the great white Americans descend upon them ... There was no hostil ity. . .Rut we could never over come their underlying doubts about our mission." Today the Peace Corps is two years old. It has 6,6.34 volunteers assigned to, or training for, 49 countries. The Philippines has the great est number of workers in the Far East. In Africa, there were about 2,208 volunteers either training for African assignments or already on duty. Wants Ex-Volunteers Shriver said it is the goal of the corps to some day have the entire program managed by ex volunteers. He said they have seen its shortcomings and suc cesses, and that their help will be invaluable for a "flexible, dynamic Peace Corps.". The consensus of the returning volunteers indicates that most of them feel their service was worthwhile. But the most frequent com ment heard was that the public has the wrong "image" about the corps. One Peace Corns volunteer said the "volunteer is portrayed in silhouette against a sun going down behind the palms. He has a shovel over his shoulder, a child at his feet, and he is look ing onward and upward." 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