September 18, 2015

What was in the news on Sept. 17, 1965?

Defending the Eucharist, supporting St. Thomas Aquinas, and sharing concerns over the arms race

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. 17, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Pope plans formation of bishops’ senate
    • “Pope Paul VI opened the fourth and final session of the ecumenical council by announcing that he will establish a senate of bishops to consult and collaborate with him in governing the Church.”
  • Pope reaffirms doctrine on the Eucharist
    • “VATICAN CITY—Prompted by ‘serious pastoral concern and anxiety’ over recent theological discussions, Pope Paul VI has issued an encyclical defending the Church’s traditional doctrine on the Eucharist. The document, nearly 7,000 words long, defends: The practice of celebrating private Masses when a public ceremony is not possible; the preservation and adoration of the Eucharist outside of Mass; the traditional doctrine on the Eucharist exactly as it was set down by the Council of Trent in the 16th century.”
  • ‘Common prayer’ with Catholics is backed by Episcopal bishops
  • New York itinerary set for pontiff
  • Papal UN visit might include ‘summit’ meeting
  • Papal throne is waiting
  • Convent to seek $225,000 damages
  • The editor comments from Rome
  • Terre Haute native: Fr. McKenzie, Biblical scholar, to join Chicago U. faculty
  • First ever in U.S.: Catholic-Orthodox meeting is historic
  • Editorial: Pope and UN
  • 280 participate in shared-time plan
  • 500 elephants in one crate
  • Pontiff believes unified Europe will be reality
  • Camp attendance hits 1,759
  • Theologian program is defended
  • New PAVLA home blessed in Mexico
  • Dutch bishops lift ban against Socialists
  • Vocations, but no space
  • Marian lecture series offers variety of topics
  • Seymour to host catechists’ course
  • Instructions to be offered in Catholic faith
  • ‘Universal’ doctor: Pope backs Church’s reliance on Thomism
    • “CASTEL GANDOLFO—Pope Paul VI has asked how the Church can afford to throw the weight of its authority behind the teaching of a single philosopher-theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas. The answer, he said, lies in the ‘permanent value of Thomistic metaphysics.’ The pope, addressing participants in the sixth International Thomistic Congress which had been meeting in Rome, emphasized that the preference—‘preference and not exclusivity’—which the Church gives to St. Thomas does not prevent the Church from recognizing the value of other thinkers of the East and West, particularly St. Augustine.”
  • Cardinal Ritter alarmed on arms race
    • “ST. LOUIS—Cardinal Joseph Ritter of St. Louis said here he is giving ‘serious consideration’ to speaking out at the ecumenical council’s fourth session against the use or stockpiling of nuclear weapons. ‘The people of the world are just scared to death,’ he commented in an interview before leaving for Rome. ‘People try to justify nuclear weapons by saying that they would only be used in a limited way, but we all know things could get out of hand.’ ”
  • DCCM will honor Nocturnal Adoration
  • Pope’s UN visit will be televised
  • Teachers’ payroll: $123,446
  • St. Meinrad has 530 students in 104th year
  • Benedictine monk to start office for race meeting
  • New York receives episcopal changes

(Read all of these stories from our Sept. 17, 1965, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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