May 9, 2014

What was in the news on May 8, 1964?

A prediction for a fourth session of the Second Vatican Council, and a call for prayers

Criterion logo from the 1960sBy Brandon A. Evans

This week, we continue to examine what was going on in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through the pages of The Criterion.

Here are some of the items found in the May 8, 1964, issue of The Criterion:

  • Cardinal Suenens sees need for fourth council session
    • “CHICAGO—The Second Vatican Council will need a fourth session to complete its work, Cardinal Leo Joseph Suenens predicted here. ‘I have a feeling a fourth session will be necessary to conclude our affairs,” said Cardinal Suenens, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, Belgium. The council’s third session opens in September. … He called…for a ‘renewal of methods’ in the Church and said the Catholic apostolate too often has been characterized by ‘half-heartedness’ and ‘haphazard and improvised methods.’ ‘We have no right to be guided by caprice in the service of God or to employ outworn methods which have no contact with reality,’ he declared.”
  • Pope urges prayers for the council
    • “VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI has called on the world’s bishops to offer special prayers on Pentecost Sunday for the success of the Vatican council. He also asked clergy and laity to pray for the council, and to inform themselves about it and in particular to ‘draw closer to our separated brethren.’ ”
  • Chancery announces clergy assignments
  • Theology students stage ‘vigil’ for civil rights
  • Providence nuns name new Formosa superior
  • Bp. Grutka is keynoter
  • Laymen and the council: The dangers of dualism
  • Sees wider use of lay theology instructors
  • Colorado Knights vote to scuttle discrimination
  • Briscoe’s daughter takes veil
  • St. Francis Hospital Sisters wax an album
  • Pope warns workers on communism
  • Nuns outlive average woman by six years
  • Archbishop Alter names 5 laymen to liturgical body
  • Catholics now total 44.8 million in U.S.
  • Ecumenism, Italian style
  • Altar boy rite slated Wednesday
  • CYO Camp applications near 1,700
  • Seven young men from Archdiocese
  • given diaconate
  • Night softball for girls slated
  • Sharp hike predicted in vocations
  • Priest is named rights group head by Cardinal Ritter
  • U.S. liturgists press for practical changes
  • Precedent in Madrid
  • Millhousen plays host to Knights of St. John
  • Stick with the land, Pope urges farmers
  • May pilgrimages are being held at St. Meinrad shrine
  • Interracial Council slates card party
  • Dialogue is urged on family planning
  • Birth control views stir up controversy
  • Hospital chaplain training is urged

(Read all of these stories from our May 8, 1964, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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