June 22, 2012

What was in the news on June 22, 1962?

A warning about over-optimism regarding Church unity, and faiths joining the fight against racism

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 June 22, 1962, issue of The Criterion:

  • Three faiths to join in study of racial bias
    • “CHICAGO—Major Protestant, Catholic and Jewish groups will jointly convene a ‘National Conference on Religion and Race’ here on January 14 to 17, 1963. The conference—the first such meeting across religious lines—will work to bring the joint moral forces of Churches and synagogues to bear on the problem of racial segregation.”
  • More vernacular: Changes are authorized in adult baptism rite
  • Flexibility in baptism was needed
  • Aims in life emphasized by pontiff
  • Commissions set up: Vatican implements decree on Latin, Greek
  • Use vacations: Laity serve as part-time monks
  • Responsible parenthood: The hardest job a man or woman will ever have to face
  • Germany’s Protestants issue social manifesto
  • Catholics voice anxiety over new Laotian regime
  • Ribicoff cites methods to aid private schools
  • 40-pupil limit ordered for parochial classrooms
  • Kennedy comments on overpopulation
  • Drop ‘trivialities’: Fight poverty, hunger, ND head urges science
  • Catholic scholars take a new look at Luther
  • Scores conservatives for ‘negative slogans’
  • Protestant to speak at theology parley
  • Colombian prelates act to stem Commie advance
  • Hits over-optimism about church unity
    • “MINNEAPOLIS—Despite trends toward religious unity in some matters, there are trends away from unity on moral issues and civic questions, a Catholic editor said here. Robert Hoyt, editor of The Catholic Reporter, newspaper of the Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., diocese, warned of ‘groundless optimism’ about religious unity. ‘Unity is growing in many areas, notably appreciation of liturgy,’ he said. ‘But divergence is steadily increasing in moral areas—birth control, euthanasia, divorce—and we’re also parting farther on civic issues like government aid to religious schools.”
  • Important rules for confession
  • 1962 Marian graduate will teach in Japan
  • Governor deplores Ohio sterilizations
  • Benedictines list 10 changes among school principals
  • Group to promote school bus rides
  • Five Spanish bishops deny backing strikers
  • Council commissions make final proposals
  • First officials of Council may be named in July

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