October 23, 2015

What was in the news on Oct. 22, 1965?

More English is coming to the Mass, and Pope Paul VI considers reducing the days of fasting in the Church

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 Oct. 22, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Commission weighs proposals for more changes in the Mass
  • Editor comments from Rome: Why a statement on the Jews?
  • Bp. Grimmelsman, Evansville, resigns
  • Additional English in Mass due
    • “VATICAN CITY—Increased use of English in the liturgy, so that virtually all parts of the Mass recited aloud or sung are in the vernacular, has been decided on by the bishops of the United States and confirmed by the Holy See. … [The change provides] for the use of English in the Collect, Prayer over the Offerings, Preface, the prayer for peace and deliverance from evil which concludes the Lord’s Prayer, and the Post-communion [prayer]. All the dialogue prayers—the salutations and responses between priest and people—are also to be in English.”
  • Boycott ban obeyed, but ‘with protests’
  • Dialogue is slated in Indianapolis
  • Missions need $50 million more
  • Advances date for schema vote
  • It’s ‘beginning of the end’ for Vatican II
  • Jewish official lauds council declaration
  • In council proposal: U.S. bishop pushes for rights of women
  • Congo prelate explains silence at the council
  • Lay consultants named by pope to secretariat
  • U.S. bishops set meeting dates
  • Marquette OK’s off-campus social, political action
  • Archbishop Hannan formally enthroned
  • Franciscan head named by pope to post in Holy Land
  • St. Christopher captures Cadet kickball title
  • Priestly asceticism and modern world
  • Family Clinic: Says her boyfriend smokes marijuana
  • Pope not pressing for Red China in UN
  • Bishop bans votive candles
  • Asks end to stipends, raise in clergy pay
  • Departure rites slated Sunday at Oldenburg
  • ‘Protestant’ Bible ‘best in English’
  • New liturgy given a warm reception
  • Thomistic philosophy defended by pontiff
  • Papal legate’s trip to America in 1117 recorded on Yale map
  • Pope weighs reduction of fast days
    • “VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI is weighing the advice of representatives of the bishops of the world on a plan to reduce drastically the number of fast and abstinence days for lay people and parish priests. The pope decided to meet with the chairmen of the bishops’ conferences of the world to hear their opinions on an apostolic constitution he proposes to issue of the penitential discipline in the Church. The proposed decree would require fast and abstinence of all only on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and the forenoon of Christmas Eve. Only Fridays of Lent would remain days of abstinence for everybody. But the current laws of fast and abstinence would remain in effect throughout the year in seminaries, and for Religious houses, including those of secular institutes—with the exception of priests who are engaged in parish work. They would be dispensed along with the secular clergy. … Catholics would be urged to compensate for the relaxed laws by striving to lead virtuous lives and by increasing their active works of charity.”

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