January 29, 2016

What was in the news on Jan. 28, 1966?

Pope Paul VI is concerned about a startling rise in invalid marriages, and the cause of canonization for Blessed John Neumann is opened

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 Jan. 28, 1966, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Sees peril in chasm between rich, poor
  • Keep Latin, Rome tells seminaries
  • In Argentina diocese: Prelate agrees to start council changes after clergy ‘revolt’
  • Seek Red ‘dialogue,’ Spain urged
  • Increase in invalid marriages is noted
    • “VATICAN CITYPope Paul VI expressed concern over the ‘startling increase in cases of invalid marriage.’ The pope expressed his concern during the annual audience granted to judges and officials of the Sacred Roman Rota, the Church’s high court which deals mainly with matrimonial problems. The dean of the Rota, American-born Msgr. Francis Brennan, delivered a brief speech of homage, and in it touched on the increase of matrimonial cases which have come before the court. … ‘We make our own the cry which you, my lord dean, raised in your illumined speech regarding the startling increase in cases of invalid marriage. We also regard this phenomenon as a characteristic sign of a weakened sense of the sacredness of the law on which the Christian family is founded, of the restlessness of modern life, of the precariousness of the social and economic conditions in which it is lived, and therefore of the danger which can threaten the firmness, vitality and happiness of the institution of the family.’ Two new developments, Pope Paul said, can improve the present situation: The results of the Second Vatican Council and the revision of the Code of Canon Law.”
  • Delegate has warning about seminary reform
  • Home for the Aged campaign enters ‘clean-up’ stage
  • Marian Lectures to cover wide range
  • Marian College hosting Play Festival
  • Text of Church in Modern World schema
  • Cardinal Ottaviani: consistent, candid
  • Cites baptismal bond with Episcopalians
  • ‘Day off’ for Sisters seen as possibility
  • 821,000 visited Belleville shrine
  • Four cancel out of lecture series at Saint John’s
  • St. Roch girls cop most prizes in Style Show
  • Most CYO cage races are already decided
  • Bosco observance plans detailed
  • Priests sign up for Medicare
  • Fr. DePauw levels charges at bishops
  • Father Baum is critical of Jesuit action in Berrigan case
  • ‘Put up or shut up,’ union leaders are told
  • Lutheran will study at Pontifical Institute
  • Appeal to Holy See for married deacons
  • Votive Mass prepared for post-council jubilee
  • Announce assistant bishops for NCWC
  • Bishop Neumann’s cause set to open
    • “PHILADELPHIAThe Canonization cause of Blessed John Neumann, fourth bishop of Philadelphia and first U.S. male citizen to be beatified, will open in Rome this month. This was disclosed here after Archbishop John J. Krol of Philadelphia, Bishop Neumann’s sixth successor, announced that formal petitions had been sent to Pope Paul VI for opening of the cause. Blessed John Neumann was born in 1811. Coming to the United States, he worked as a missionary among German Catholics near Niagara Falls. In 1852, he became bishop of Philadelphia. He died here in 1860.”

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