August 22, 2014

What was in the news on August 21, 1964?

A prelate calls for participation at all Masses, and reaction to Pope Paul’s first encyclical

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 August 21, 1964, issue of The Criterion:

  • Participation at all Masses mind of Church, prelate says
    • “ST. LOUIS—Cardinal Joseph Ritter said here that changes in Catholic worship must be carried out as soon as possible, and parishes should make every Mass a participated service. Priests and people must work to understand and accept the forthcoming changes as the work of the Holy Spirit, said the St. Louis archbishop, adding: ‘We dare not reject the Holy Spirit.’ ”
  • To work among poor: Nun, layman to enlist in social apostolate
  • ‘Modest in scope’: Encyclical seen baring pope’s mind to bishops
    • “NEW YORK—Pope Paul’s first encyclical, “Ecclesiam Suam” (His Church), has a surprising modest scope. The world expected a program paper, detailing the policies his pontificate would espouse, indicating the major orientations it would impose on world Catholicism. It got what many deem an inconclusive causerie. Those expectations were based on forgetfulness. Paul VI had already set forth his program and announced his aims. In his first radio message to the world following his election, His Holiness had declared: ‘The chief task of our Pontificate will be the progress of the Ecumenical Council, Vatican II, on which the eyes of all men are fixed.’ ”
  • Supreme Knight urges K of C rules change
  • Lay alumni fund aids needy seminarians
  • Implementing the poverty battle in our communities
  • Bishop urges women to wage poverty war
  • Center seeks answers to social problems
  • Reds refuse to give visa
  • At Lanesville picnic
  • American Airlines receives special Friday ‘permit’
  • Plan film on Pope John’s life
  • Our economic system and ‘justice for all’
  • CSMC parley to draw 4,200 at Notre Dame
  • Gary bishop assails slums
  • Liturgical Week Masses will be in vernacular
  • [Daughters of Isabella] delegates renew pledge of ‘no discrimination’
  • Papal Volunteers rise 25 percent
  • Garfield Park to be scene of Talent Contest
  • Junior CYO Mission topics are announced
  • Pope lauds idealism of today’s youngsters
  • Protestants ‘hire’ priest
  • Opus Dei given 25 new priests
  • Style show slated at St. Bernadette
  • Respect for the aged is vanishing virtue
  • Former banker is now abbot
  • Oldenburg nuns teach 3,200 in ‘vacation schools’
  • Theatre Guild plans four plays in 1964-65 season
  • Orthodox couple wed in Catholic Church
  • Annual recollection set by Terre Haute DCCW
  • Council Preview: Pastoral mission of bishops
  • ‘Lack of Reality’: Bishop answers critics of seminary training
  • Seen interfaith aid: Encyclical is praised by Protestant leaders
  • Greek Orthodox head has ‘mixed feelings’
    • “NEW YORK—Archbishop Iakovos, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, expressed ‘mixed feelings’ over the first encyclical of Pope Paul VI and questions the document’s effect on Christian unity efforts. The encyclical, the archbishop said in a statement issued here, is ‘marked by a polite attempt … to reconcile the courageous ecumenism of John XXIII with the traditional Roman Catholic ecumenism …’ Also, he said, it introduces ‘a new concept of dialogue or relationship with all Christian and non-Christian peoples, tinged with a very peculiar solution of syncretism.’ ”
  • Evening classes announced by Marian College

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