November 14, 2014

What was in the news on Nov. 13, 1964?

The council continues with debate on ban on nuclear weapons

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 November 13, 1964, issue of The Criterion:

  • Council Fathers hear pleas for nuclear ban, reject missions draft
    • “VATICAN CITY—Pleas to ban all use of nuclear weapons, and a vote which sent the propositions on the missions back to commission for complete revision highlighted the ecumenical council’s 118th meeting as it began its second to last week of discussions of the third session. … Auxiliary Bishop Alfred Ancel of Lyons, France, went even further and asked the council to propose that all nations renounce the right to make war and entrust weapons of war to an international authority which would have the task of defending countries from attackers.”
  • Editor comments from Rome: Schema 13 has opened windows of Church
  • Collegiality is approved by council
  • Cardinal Meyer gets post in Roman Curia
  • Archbishop Rummel dies at 88
  • Liturgy Study Day set for teachers
  • Church doomed in Evansville
  • Hoosier among 39: Council’s priest-ushers are kept busy
  • Proposes council for Protestants
  • Priest lauds role of Martin Luther
  • Ask ‘vernacular’ for deaf
  • Methodist minister will address DCCM
  • Question Box: Liturgy changes ‘disturb’ reader
  • Changes in hierarchy made in Puerto Rico
  • Unbeaten Notre Dame faces Michigan State
  • Cardinal Ritter pens unity plea for Protestants
  • Plan Bombay demonstration
  • Plan televised memorial to JFK
  • Criterion quiz to start Nov. 29
  • Pontiff emphasizes authority of Church
  • Pope sets precedent, addressed the council
    • “VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI, breaking age-old tradition by presiding over a working session of an ecumenical council, threw his own influence behind the council’s draft document on mission work. It had been expected that the drastically abbreviated series of propositions on the missions would encounter heavy weather in the Council hall: Many missionary bishops and missionary superiors were known to be dissatisfied with it. At least two substitute documents on the missions were on the sidelines ready to be offered to the council in place of the official document. The pope, however, said that in examining the document which actually had been put before the council: ‘We have found many things worthy of our praise, both for its content and its order of exposition.’ ”
  • NCCW council theme lauded by Pope Paul
  • Variations in Mass: Latitude in the liturgy
  • New effort to resolve school aid issue seen

(Read all of these stories from our November 13, 1964, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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