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...next fall's Vatican Council, men and women who are not Roman Catholics will play two significant parts. About a hundred top Protestants and members of the Orthodox Church will attend as observer-delegates. And millions of Protestant churchgoers will be praying for the council's success...
...observers for the Vatican Council is rapidly getting filled up. So far, the World Presbyterian Alliance, the Anglican Communion, the World Methodist Council, the International Convention of Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ), the International Congregational Council, and the Lutheran World Federation have agreed to send observer-delegates, who will attend all public and some private sessions of the council. Last week in Berlin, the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, named as its delegate Dr. Edmund Schlink, a Lutheran ecumenical scholar from Heidelberg University. Meeting in Paris, the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches agreed to send...
Fortnight ago, at the Vatican, Augustin Cardinal Bea's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity announced that a limited number of religion experts would attend the council as its special guests, distinct from the appointed observer-delegates. First three named: Prior Roger Schutz and Pastor Max Thurian, both Calvinists from France's famed Protestant "monastery" at Tarze, and Lutheran Biblical Scholar Oscar Cullmann...
Whether Jewish groups will attend the council, even in an unofficial capacity, is up in the air. At its annual convention in Miami last month, the Rabbinical Council of America, the largest organization of Orthodox rabbis in the U.S., passed a resolution disapproving any Jewish participation in the theological councils of Christian churches. But many Reform and Conservative Jews remain open to the idea...
...from there the audience follows them through their day and their night, as they separate, come together to attend a literary cocktail party in honor of Giovanni's new novel (The Sleepwalkers), and again separate as Lidia leaves early, unable to stomach the lionizing throng ("I'd love to know what goes on in a writer's mind"). She walks through the city, fails in an effort to stop a child from crying, passes unnoticed beneath Giovanni's window, breaks up a fist fight between two teen-age toughs, finally calls up to ask her husband to meet...