October 2, 2015

What was in the news on Oct. 1, 1965?

The UN prepares for Pope Paul VI’s visit, a discussion of marriage at the council and the growth of Catholics

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 Oct. 1, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Host of top world government leaders to hear Pope at UN
    • “UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.Five prime ministers, five deputy prime ministers, two vice chairmen of councils of ministers, and 70 foreign ministers have so far announced their intention of attending the 20th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Pope Paul VI will address the assembly October 4. He will receive representatives of foreign governments and UN officials at a reception afterward. Presumably many of the foreign government leaders attending the General Assembly session will meet the Pope at that time. Meanwhile, it was revealed that the Mass to be offered by Pope Paul in Yankee Stadium at 7:30 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, will be a low Mass with participation in English from the 100,000 persons expected to attend. A leaflet missal will be provided with each admission ticket.”
  • Editor comments from Rome: Champagne flowed at the Villanova
  • Spirited discussion: Council tackles ‘marriage’
    • “VATICAN CITYThe attention of council Fathers, which had begun to wane, sprang to life again as debate began on parts of the schema on the Church in the modern world concerning marriage. While the council listened in unbroken silence (Sept. 29), an Eastern-rite prelate urged the Church to cast a merciful eye on the plight of husbands and wives who have been abandoned and left to live lives of perpetual continence. Could not the Church dispense the innocent party from the bonds of matrimony according to the practice of some Eastern churches, asked Archbishop Elie Zoghbi, Melkie-rite patriarchal vicar in Egypt. He declared that heroic virtue cannot be imposed on everyone. There was no visible or audible reaction by the council Fathers to this speech, which one churchman described as a ‘bombshell.’ ”
  • Secretariat urged for world justice
  • Religious liberty vote council ‘triumph’
  • What the schema means: Liberty declaration summary presented
  • Schema 13 approach has been ‘cautious’
  • Sterilization bills acme of crassness
  • Sentence is deleted from encyclical
  • Priest’s political movement is given Communist backing
  • Vocation heads told to stress sacrifice
  • ND and St. Mary’s launch program of ‘shared-time’
  • Support aims of UN, Americans are urged
  • ‘Sky pilot’ grounds himself
  • Cardinal lauds council decrees
  • Pope’s 68th birthday observed with gypsies
  • Adoration group opens campaign for new members
  • Double funeral held at St. Mary-of-the-Woods
  • World synod called collegiality symbol
  • Population ratio of Catholics on increase in U.S.
    • “CINCINNATICatholics in the United States are increasing more rapidly than the total population, but the ratio of Catholics to the total world population is gradually diminishing. These facts were reflected in the new World Mission Map published by the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade.”

(Read all of these stories from our Oct. 1, 1965, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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