September 5, 2014

What was in the news on September 4, 1964?

Pope Paul VI calls for peace, and Catholic school enrollment hits a new high in the archdiocese

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 September 4, 1964, issue of The Criterion:

  • Pope Paul VI voices plea for peace among nations
    • “CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy—In a plea for peace among nations, Pope Paul VI denounced nationalistic pride, prestige politics, the armaments race, and social and economic antagonisms as symptoms of a ‘regrowth of divisions and oppositions among peoples.’ The pope called on all nations to remember that ‘security rests … on an effort toward mutual understanding, on the generosity of loyal mutual trust, on a spirit of collaboration for common advantage, and on aid, particularly to developing countries’ more than on ‘the hypothesis of a lawful and collective use of armed force.’ ‘In a word,’ he said, ‘it rests on love.’ ”
  • ‘On non-partisan basis’: Labor Day statement urges poverty push
  • Bell rings September 8: Archdiocesan schools enroll record 42,000
    • “A record 42,000 students will be on hand next Tuesday, Sept. 8, when the doors open for most archdiocesan elementary and secondary schools. Of this total, about 6,000 are enrolled in 16 diocesan and private Catholic high schools. Although no new parish schools are opening this fall, new construction is completed or is near completion at five grade schools. These include: St. Gabriel’s and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Indianapolis; St. Malachy’s, Brownsburg; St. Peter’s, Franklin County; and St. Mary’s, Lanesville. Many other parish schools have done extensive remodeling and have added temporary classrooms in parish halls or cafeterias until permanent facilities can be erected or until the parish enrollment crisis is eased.
  • Cost figures are released on high school operation
  • Labor Day Mass slated
  • 1964 Labor Day Statement
  • Nun-panelists discuss ‘Sister of the future’
  • Anti-poverty unit is established in Philadelphia
  • Bishops to report by radio from council
  • Pope urges young people to enter teaching field
  • 170 freshman enrolled: New Ritter High School to open doors Sept. 8th
  • ‘Most Reverend Big Chief’
  • Adaptation seen need in Africa
  • Report Czech prelate may be given freedom
  • Bedford golfer grabs top KC links honors
  • Sees more awareness of vocations problem
  • Given in 1957: Reveal Kennedy speech on ‘spiritual’ crisis
  • May rename park for Rosary Crusade

(Read all of these stories from our September 4, 1964, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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