August 21, 2015

What was in the news on August 20, 1965?

A call to avoid future riots, Catholic high schools considered a bargain, and St. Meinrad denies moving

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 20, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Social action is urged to avert future riots
    • “BALTIMORE—Cardinal Lawrence Shehan called here for joint action by all forces within the community, especially those of religion, to avert future nightmares of violence like the Los Angeles riots. … Cardinal Shehan said the heart of the problem is poverty, which breeds ‘crime and racial tension.’ ‘These are social problems of the greatest magnitude,’ he declared. ‘They need the joint action of all the forces within the community, and of those forces, none should be more effective than religion.’ ”
  • ‘Effective and fair’: Mission appeals now an organized basis
  • Protestant patriarchate envisioned
  • Clothing, profession rites held at Woods
  • Theologate superior is named
  • Father C.O. Bosler dies at the age of 84
  • Fr. Herman Romoser dies at St. Meinrad
  • Catholic edition of Protestant Bible is planned
  • Reports are denied on pope’s health
  • Plan new parish for Mooresville
  • St. Meinrad denies report on ‘move’
    • “ST. MEINRAD, Ind.—Officials at St. Meinrad Archabbey here have denied a published report in the National Catholic Reporter that the Benedictines will move their School of Theology to the University of Chicago campus with two other major religious orders. The story was termed ‘very harmful to the development of the School of Theology here.’ ”
  • After the council: Greater voice for the laity is predicted
  • La Leche League: Global organization promotes the breastfeeding of infants
  • Brebeuf priest helps run unique institute
  • Team of observers will be appointed by Bishop Carberry
  • Ordination held in Hebrew tongue
  • Editorial: Still a bargain
    • “A bit of arithmetic [Old Math] shows that Catholic high school education in Indianapolis remains one of the hottest bargains in town, despite the increased operating deficit of Marion County’s six archdiocesan high schools. The total operating costs of these six outstanding high schools during the past school year were $780,261. This figures out at around $266 per pupil, or less than half of the per-pupil operating costs in the public high schools. This economy of operation is made possible only by the donated services of more than 60 priests and religious. … Actual tuition per pupil a year remains at $120, so the per-pupil subsidy in meeting operating costs alone amounts to $146 a year.”
  • Lay theologian who converted 300 ‘throwing in the towel’
  • Bishop gives new look to ‘Catholic action’
  • Ever ancient, ever new, pope says of Church
  • In 1952: Says pope ‘consulted’ on Italian elections
  • To commemorate Fr. Serra’s death
  • Sees end of evening devotions

(Read all of these stories from our August 20, 1965, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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