April 10, 2015

What was in the news on April 9, 1965?

Changes to the local Catholic Charities agency, and rumors about mixed marriage laws

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 April 9, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Pontiff raps divisive elements in Church
  • Lay board enlarged: Catholic Charities adopting new name
    • “The ‘updating’ process underway throughout the universal Church has reached still another major organization in the archdiocese—the Catholic Charities Bureau. Father Donald Schmidlin, M.S.W., archdiocesan director of Catholic Charities, this week announced a new name for the agency and the appointment of nine additional people to its board of directors. ‘Catholic Social Services’ has been chosen as the new title for the well-known ‘Catholic Charities Bureau,’ which has carried on humanitarian activities in Indianapolis since 1919. ‘The name Catholic Social Services more accurately describes our function,’ Father Schmidlin stated. ‘The agency is not simply a charitable organization to aid the needy. Our staff consists of trained social workers. They give skilled help to families and individuals who can’t solve their problems alone—and these problems can be of an infinite variety.’ ”
  • Crucifixion is repeated, pontiff says
  • Blessing of the palms will open Holy Week
  • Job Corps program to get ACCW assist
  • Slate first Mass in Franklin church
  • Many parishes holding Lenten evening Masses
  • Report denied
    • “VATICAN CITY—Vatican officials have denied a report that Pope Paul VI soon will issue a decree altering the present canon law on mixed marriages. The matter has been under study by canonists and theologians since it was brought up during the Second Vatican Council. But the council Fathers voted that the whole schema on matrimony should be turned over to the pope for his decision.”
  • Recalled at St. Patrick’s: Pioneer teaching Brothers left deep, lasting impression on Indianapolis
  • Clergy Conference for Negro Welfare schedule in Gary
  • Catholic and Orthodox theologians to meet
  • Collective absolution experiment is dropped
  • Cogley joining New York Times
  • Slate dedication of Shrine organs
  • Notre Dame sets tuition hike of $50 per semester
  • Plan Palm Sunday cantata
  • Sound of Music great despite minor flaws
  • Editorial: Foot dragging
  • Jesuits may limit term of top official
  • LBJ stand applauded
  • Cardinal Cushing leaves hospital
  • 700 applications already filed for camping program
  • ‘Aggiornamento’ role of seminary stressed
  • Interfaith rites mark dedication
  • Oppose Church changes: They’d rather fight than switch
  • Find student interest in religion growing
  • Nursing students present play
  • Infirm priests allowed to concelebrate Mass
  • Pope again boosts unity in Europe
  • Grandfather of 16 ordained
  • Assumption sets dual card party
  • See new Bible focus in studies on Mary
  • Dutch bishops issue norms for cremation
  • New schema on missions completed

(Read all of these stories from our April 9, 1965, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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