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SECRECY BESTRICTIO) RELAXED 11011 SECOND SESSION V ATICAN CITY.—The rule of secrecy will be lifted for the second session of the Ecumenical Council in regard to discussions on the Council floor.
This is the highlight of a new plan for press information which is in the final stages of p reparation and is expected to be announced shortly. The rule of secrecy, according to the plan, will apply only to what takes place at meetings of council commissions, where various proposals are prepared for consideration by the full assembly of council Fathers. It is also expected that the rule of secrecy will be retained for speeches and remarks of those council Fathers who express the wish that their remarks not be given to the public. NEWSWORTHY According to information provided by high officials, the officers of the various language sections of the Council Press Office will be permitted to attend general council sessions and will be free to release without restriction any newsworthy information they gather.
In the interests of speedy and efficient operation, it is expected that two experienced priest - journalists from Vatican Rado will make summaries of councl proceedings as they progress. These summaries will be available to language officers in mimeograph form almost immediately after a council session ends. VATICAN RADIO Language officers will use the Vatican Radio summaries as the basis for their oral briefings for newsmen. But they will add to the summaries material they consider of special interest to a particular language group, such as fuller summaries of remarks by council Fathers from that language area. It was not immediately clear whether the official
POPE PAUL SAID THE C URIA HAS "GROWN PONDEROUS WITH ITS OWN VENERABLE AGE." The Pope announced his plan to the cardinals, Priests and laymen of the curia at a special audience. The reforms of the curia, he Stated, "will be formulated and promulgated by the curia itself." He outlined some of the reforms: Members of the curia will be recruited on a "supernational" basis. At Present its membership is predominantly Italian. Members will receive what the Pope called an "ecumenical education" in preparation for the curia work. Local bishops will take
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press bulletin which will follow the oral briefing, will be identical for all languages or whether variations will be permitted. The plan evolved by Vatican officials does not enlanguage press visage officers answering specific questions by journailsts. News men will be asked to direct their queries to the various n a ti o n a 1 press panels where experts. can answer them without the bar of secrecy. It is expected that there will be weekly press conferences under official council press auspices. Plans call for complaints and suggestions by journalists to be referred to the special co?.-.• mittee of bishops from various nations who will meet to discuss them under Archbishop Martin J. O'Connor, rector of the North American College in Rome and president of the newly established Press Committee of the Council.
TO SESSIONS? There is no immediate plan to admit newsmen to council sessions. Howev3r, consideration is being given to a plan to admit newsmen to the ceremonial part of sessions such as the daily celebration of Mass. Another proposal is being considered to admit a small select group of journalists to general discussions for limited periods. But if it is adopted, it is not expected that the plan to admit selected newsmen to general sessions will be introduced until several weeks after the council's second session, which began on September 29.
SWEEPING CHANGES SUGGESTED BY POPE FOR ROMAN CURIA V ATICAN CITY.—His Holiness Pope Paul V1 has announced he will simplify and decentralise the Roman Curia, the Church's central administrative body.
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The second session of V atican Council 11 opened last Sunday, September 29. Bringing togethcr more t han two thousand cardinals, archbishops and bishops who, with the heads of religious orders and certain others, constitute the Fathers of the Council . This picture, shows the council hall, the nave of St. Peter's Basilica specially adapted to the purpose of t he meeting. Here the archbishops and bishops, in white copes and mitres, are already assembled in tiers of seats extending from the centre of the basilica almost to the great frontdoors.
CAMILLIAN FATHERS TAKE CHARGE OF CARLISLE PARISH
ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, HIS LORDSHIP BISHOP McKEON WILL INDUCT PARISH NEW THE PRIEST OF CARLISLE. This act will also serve as the introduction of the latest Religious Order to
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over functions now performed by the curia which can be handled more efficiently on a local basis. • Local bishops may be brought into the curia. NO OPPOSITION 'Pope Paul stated: "And We shall say more: Should the Ecumenical Council show a desire of seeing some representatives of the episcopacy, particularly prelates who direct a diocese, associated in a certain way and for certain questions . . . with the supreme head of the Church in the study and responsibility of ecclesiastical government, the curia will surely not oppose it." The Pope spoke in the Hall of Benedictions over the front porch of St. CONTINUED P. 7.
come into the Archdiocese. The priests are Father John Cleary, 0.S.Cam.. the superior and parish priest, assisted by Father Sean Bredin, 0.S.Cam., members of the Order of St. Camillus from the Anglo-Irish Province of the Order. Last May, the Provincial of the Anglo-Irish Province was the guest of His Grace the Archbishop and arrangements were begun for the Order to be established in the Archdiocese.
Future Hope The Fathers will take charge of the parish of Carlisle and in addition to parochial work the Order hopes in the future to bring trained nursing Brothers to Perth to work among chronically ill aged men in the community. This Order was founded by St. Camillus de Lellis in Rome in 1591. Since then houses have been established all over Europe, North and South America, Formosa and Thailand. The Brothers of AngloIrish Province spend four years in training for their State Registration at centres in London and Hexham.
SEE PAGE THREE FOR M.P.'s STATEMENT Mrs. R. S. Jolley, Western Australia's delegate to the National Council of Catholic Women conference in Adelaide this week (left); pictured with Bishop James Gleeson, Auxiliary Bishop of Adelaide; and Father W. Bustelli, of Kapunda, S.A., national Chaplain to the A.C.C.W. SEE REPORT PAGE 5
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