November 13, 2015

What was in the news on Nov. 12, 1965?

The pope seeks a ‘new Pentecost,’ Cuban refugees coming to Indianapolis, and support grows for government funded birth control

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 Nov. 12, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Pope seeks ‘new Pentecost’ from ecumenical council
    • “VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI has issued an apostolic exhortation on the ecumenical council, urging all Catholics to ‘beg for a new Pentecost’ that will renew the Church and the modern world. In the document, dated November 4 and published two days later in the Vatican City newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Pope Paul said the council Fathers will return to their dioceses from ‘a long and fruitful labor, taking with them the legitimate satisfaction of having prepared providential instruments for the true renewal of the Church, for the union of Christians and for the pacification and elevation of the temporal order.’ He urged Catholics to thank God for the help he has given to the council.”
  • Aid asked for Cuban refugees coming into the archdiocese
    • “A fresh flood of refugees from Communist Cuba is expected to include parents of Cuban children now being sheltered in the Indianapolis Archdiocese, and many of those parents will hope to rejoin their youngsters here, the director of the Cuban refugee program stated this week.”
  • Declaration on laity approved, 2,201 to 2
  • Campaign for clothing announced
  • Formation program to aid teachers
  • Church groups praise plan for Cuban refugees
  • Pope asks global triduum of prayer
  • Mountain of documents make Vatican II history
  • ‘Old policeman’: Cardinal Ottaviani pledges to protect new Church laws
  • An evolving pattern: Council decrees show Church’s ‘new look’
  • Council Fathers will honor Dante at special rite
  • Greene leaving Catholic Reporter
  • British exhibit spurs vocations
  • Theologian defends Teilhard de Chardin
  • Holy See donates $5,000 to UN
  • Diocese to build modern cathedral
  • Cardinal defends Jews against deicide charge
  • Interfaith chapel set for hospital; fund drive opened
  • Brazilian elected Franciscan head
  • New Albany Serrans to hear Franciscan
  • White House conference: Strong backing is given birth control at parley
    • “WASHINGTON—Only one session during the White House Conference on Health focused on family planning, but it provided a national platform for outspoken advocates of government birth control. Speakers during the panel discussion [on Nov. 4] described government-supported birth control as a necessity, particularly among the poor. There was general support for giving birth control information and devices to anybody who wants them, and for starting birth control education early—even in the elementary grades. … The tone of the session was pretty well summed up by one doctor who said the ‘shibboleths’ in this area have vanished and the time is now at hand for large-scale government ‘implementation’ of birth control programs. The impression was strong that, at least in the minds of many of those who spoke, the battle for government birth control is already all but won.”
  • Calls family planning session ‘insulting’
  • Preaches retreat to council Fathers

(Read all of these stories from our Nov. 12, 1965, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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