October 3, 2014

What was in the news on October 2, 1964?

The council restores the permanent diaconate, and our editor reports on the historic nature of the vote on collegiality

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 October 2, 1964, issue of The Criterion:

  • Restoration of permanent diaconate wins approval
    • VATICAN CITY—Restoration of the permanent diaconate to the Church won overwhelming approval of the Second Vatican Council by a vote of 1,903 to 242. The vote was one of six taken during the 89th congregation on phases of the third chapter of the schema De Ecclesia (On the Church). Amendments approved the following day [Sept. 29] provided that the authority to introduce the diaconate be entrusted to national conferences of bishops with papal approval, and that it be confined to ‘older married men.’ An amendment permitting the diaconate to be conferred on younger men without the obligation of celibacy was voted down, 839 to 1,364.”
  • Editor comments from Rome: Why collegiality vote was an historic move
    • By Rev. Raymond T. Bosler: ROME—In a business-like fashion,the council Fathers voted themselves into a prominent place in history. It took nearly the whole week of September 20 to do it, but the cardinals, patriarchs, bishops, apostolic prefects and heads of religious orders who make up Vatican Council II clearly and overwhelmingly proclaimed their conviction that bishops share in the supreme authority of the pope. … They kept the electronic computer humming each morning as they scratched with their magnetic pencils a placet [it pleases] or a non placet [it does not please] to the most important statements of the whole council.”
  • Ft. Harrison Commandant: Lawrence Markey, General and Knight
  • Latin School Foundation now on own
  • Enrollment nears 46,000
  • Pope Paul meets with observers
  • How Hungarian Cardinal was granted U.S. asylum
  • Marquette University opens press study center
  • Nun-auditor hails women’s council role
  • Offer Mass for Anglican cleric
  • In wake of election: Church-state relations seen bright for Chile
  • Meaning and impact: Concelebration
  • Scripture scholars cautioned by pontiff
  • Thirteen added to Woods faculty
  • Diocese bars lavish yearbooks
  • Taiwan Catholic total 265, 564
  • Honor FBI head
  • Question Box: Where do women stand in the world?
  • Common sense and communism
  • U.S. nun-auditor is native of Denver
  • Subterranean chapel is planned
  • Football picture garbled in wake of early upsets
  • Family Clinic: Relatives give poor treatment to aged mother
  • Parley speaker raps ‘missionary ghetto’
  • Movies better than ever? This makes you wonder
  • Sending relic to Orthodox reflects quest for unity
  • High school enrollment in the archdiocese: 8,041
  • Priest from St. Meinrad to address Tell City KC
  • Traditional pilgrimages slated at St. Meinrad
  • Pope names 15 women auditors, more laymen
  • Malaysia-Indonesia strife perils future of Church
  • Council tidbits: Bishops join confession line

(Read all of these stories from our October 2, 1964, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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