May 15, 2015

What was in the news on May 14, 1965?

School aid, nuclear deterrence, and a defense of the ‘Hootenanny Mass’

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 May 14, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Problems predicted in school aid plan
    • “OXFORD, Ohio—The new federal aid to education law makes traditional Church-state arguments over help for private schools largely obsolete, but raises new and difficult questions, a law school dean said here. The most crucial issue—which ‘virtually no one really wants to face’—is whether the government should encourage growth of non-public schools, said Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J., of Boston [Mass.] College. His own answer was affirmative because he thought competing private schools could ‘unlock creative energies’ now inhibited in public schools by the ‘establishment.’ … The Jesuit held that President [Lyndon B.]Johnson’s aid plan, adopted overwhelmingly in Congress, had met traditional Church-state objections head-on. It gives aid only for secular subjects to parochial pupils under a shared-time arrangement, and makes the public school the exclusive recipient of public funds, he said.”
  • 25 assignments: Chancery announces clergy appointments
  • Indianapolis man will be ordained
  • Defends use of nuclear deterrents
    • “FRIBOURG, Switzerland—Cardinal Charles Journet, a Swiss theologian, has stated that the Western nations cannot afford to deprive themselves of nuclear deterrents, unless they want to surrender to armed and militant communists. … The cardinal declared that without a nuclear deterrent in the West, communists could achieve world domination without war, just by threatening to use atomic weapons. He said uncompromising condemnations of atomic warfare by some Christian groups are ‘abstract,’ and do not provide any practical guidance to individual citizens or their governments.”
  • Mrs. Day new head of ACCW
  • Hail new center: IU grad students fill academic void
  • Predicts ‘drastic’ reform of curia
  • Mystery surrounds stairway
  • Concelebration to mark 25th Jubilee observance
  • Buckley speech seen ‘basically unsound’
  • Bishop Carberry cites Mary’s role
  • 750 boys to vie for track honors
  • Oriented to youth: ‘Hootenanny Mass’ defended by liturgist
    • “NEW YORK—The ‘Hootenanny Mass’ may not be as irreverent as it sounds. In fact one of the nation’s top liturgists said here it is, perhaps, very much in keeping with the intent of the Constitution on the Liturgy as approved by the Second Vatican Council. Father Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., of St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minn., drew thunderous applause at the 62nd annual National Catholic Educational Association convention here. … ‘Are we perhaps sinning against our high schoolers, depriving them of lawful celebration which according to their culture and talents would foster faith, if we simply exclude folk song, spirituals—or “Kum ba Ya”?’ ”
  • America editor backs ‘folk Mass’ for young people
  • Catholics in U.S. top 45.6 million
  • Hail council decree on intercommunion
  • Tri-parish dance set for Richmond area
  • St. Meinrad graduation is scheduled
  • Seminarian wins 1965 state KC oratory contest
  • Castro has Holy Week ‘plans’
  • Pontiff urges Jesuits to combat atheism
  • Marital disorder cited at Canon Law meeting
  • Need for new music for liturgy cited
  • Student at Ladywood wins music honors

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