September 4, 2015

What was in the news on Sept. 3, 1965?

Women religious want a voice at the Council, penitential ceremonies called for across the world as the fourth session nears opening

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 Sept. 3, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Procession through Rome to open council session
    • “ROME—The pope and the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council will mark the opening of its fourth session with a penitential procession through the streets of Rome bearing relics of Christ’s passion. Pope Paul VI announced this [on Aug. 28] while exhorting ‘the whole Church’ to penance and prayer for the success of the council, which he described as ‘this God-given opportunity that the Church and the world have for the salvation of mankind.’ … The pope called for a ceremony of penance in every Catholic church in the world. He said that children, young men and women, and fathers and mothers of families should be invited to the ceremony. He urged the sick, ‘our most cherished children,’ to unite their spiritual and physical sufferings to the worldwide penitential ceremonies.”
  • Historic resolution: Ask voice for nuns in Vatican Council
    • “DENVER, Colo.—Representatives of 180,000 nuns in the United Sates have unanimously supported an historic resolution proposing that sisters have a voice in Vatican council deliberations which affect their lives. The proposal, which will be submitted to the bishops of the United States, the Sacred Congregation of Religious in Rome, and to the Vatican Council, culminated [on Aug. 27] the five-day meeting of the Conference of Major Superiors of Women here. … Sister Mary Luke, conference chairman, speaking on behalf of more than 400 major superiors from 44 states, said there is ‘a serious concern’ on the part of leaders of women religious that ‘women should have something to do with the regulars that bind them.’ … She said she was ‘very optimistic’ that the resolution would be favorably received in Rome and elsewhere, basing her optimism on what she called ‘a fine, open attitude’ on the part of the world’s bishops.”
  • Statement issued for Labor Day
  • Classes resume Sept. 7: High school students expected to hit 8,300
  • Grade schools expect 36,000 enrollment
  • Native of Tell City in ordination class
  • Labor Day Mass slated
  • Bequests in will total $146,000
  • Council not sudden inspiration for Pope John, confidant reveals
  • Do not ‘compromise’ beliefs, Church told
  • Three St. Meinrad priests to mark jubilees
  • Wounded priest said improving
  • ‘Disarm’ hearts, speaker urged
  • ‘Crisis of Faith’ is radio subject
  • ‘High rise’ church
  • Close animal shelter, Delegate orders nun
  • Missions, ecumenism link cited
  • First parish 400 years old
  • Results listed for St. Philip bowling event
  • Convent splits gallows, machine gun tower
  • Unique ‘apartment apostolate’ launched by 4 Detroit priests
  • Catholics seen failing in ‘internationalism’
  • Plans announced for international Liturgy Congress
  • Two Pennsylvania parishes decided to ‘bury hatchet’
  • Sister quits post as college head
  • Abp. O’Boyle scores birth control plan
  • New immigrant law voted by House
  • Ecumenical help for poor
  • Catholic schools and the laity
  • ‘Updating’ of retreats seen vitally needed
  • The future role of Catholic education
  • Cooperative planning seen school goal key
  • Fourth century portrait of Christ in mosaic unearthed in England
  • ‘Total commitment’ to race justice asked
  • Head of the NCEA sees bright school picture
  • Course scheduled in Protestantism
  • Birth rate dip noted in June
  • Greeks losing heads for vernacular Bible
  • English monks seek ‘updating’

(Read all of these stories from our Sept. 3, 1965, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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