July 3, 2015

What was in the news on July 2, 1965?

Pope Paul looks at problems of the Church, and a complaint about the translation of the 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 July 2, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Major problems of Church reviewed by Pope Paul
    • “VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI has appealed for a ‘happy conclusion’ of the Second Vatican Council, and has warned that a world conflict means ‘not the end of difficulties, but an end of civilization.’ The pope took occasion of his name day—the feast of St. John the Baptist [June 24]—to review the major preoccupations of his second year as pontiff. As the two major ones, he singled out the council and world peace. … In addition to the two major problems, the pope took note of other matters which have been of great concern to him in the past year. Among these he listed were the question of Church legislation on mixed marriages, and the Church’s teaching on birth control.”
  • Message to assembly: Pontiff hails United Nations
  • Council ‘preview’: Pope Paul comments on religious liberty
  • First in Indianapolis: Anti-poverty center proposed
  • Carmel novenas open Thursday, July 8th
  • Pope omits crown on anniversary
  • Winds damage church, convent
  • Priest who aided Selma marchers transferred
  • Mass translation termed ‘pitiable’
    • “LOS ANGELES—The ‘approved’ English translation of the Mass now being used in the United States ‘has so little to recommend it as to be pitiable,’ a Catholic bishop declared here. And Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno, Nev., added that 90 percent of the 240 bishops of the U.S. had not seen the current translation until it was ‘a published fact.’ Writing in his regular column which appears here in The Tidings, Los Angeles archdiocesan weekly, the prelate lamented the lack of outstanding translators in the U.S. He referred to the so-called ‘English’ Mass as ‘the poor thing that is currently foisted on the Church in America.’ He called for new translations to ‘remedy this unhappy situation’ of the editing of previous translations for general use. Bishop Dwyer said the translation was ‘manifestly intended to reach down to the common level, a laudable aim, as did the original Latin, but whereas the Latin managed to do it with dignity and a certain haunting beauty, with no hint of vulgarity, the Revised Confraternity succeeds only in being vulgar without touching the common chord.’ ”
  • Cleveland slates huge fund drive
  • ‘Updating’ urged for parish groups
  • Evict priest from reservation
  • Hospital Guild sets bus tour to shrine
  • Salvage Bureau head retires
  • Dutch seminaries to enroll women
  • Extension Society Volunteers will aid U.S. missions
  • Drop envoy set-up, Rome urged
  • Raps attack on Anti-Defamation League
  • Seminary dropout rate growing, Sulpician priest’s survey shows
  • Louisville priest ordained 75 years
  • Let’s sing along with Caesar
  • Love, not study, seen as chief route to unity
  • Sees eventual use of song at most Masses
  • Poverty Act rapped for neglect of aging
  • Diocese draws up ecumenical guide
  • Private school aid backed by Lutherans
  • Episcopal-Catholic talks get underway
  • Says Pope Paul VI may visit Fatima
  • Spirituality of celibates discussed
  • Appeal to pope on birth control
  • Father Ajamie to conduct retreat
  • Vatican bares financial status
  • The laity’s ‘witness’ discussed by layman
  • Progress noted in fight for educational rights
  • Asks a new approach to the Mass

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