November 20, 2015

What was in the news on Nov. 19, 1965?

Changes called for in a Council text on marriage, the Vatican needs a press secretary, and ND fans are told to not be so rowdy

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. 19, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • 22 percent of council vote for ‘changes’ in text on marriage
    • “VATICAN CITY—Twenty-two percent of the council fathers voted for changes in the Second Vatican Council’s treatment of the purposes and problems of marriage in its schema on the Church in the modern world. … The exact nature of the proposed change would not be known until the commission dealing with amendments to schema 13 finished collating them. And even then, they will remain officially under council secrecy unless enacted or unless the commission’s reporter seems fit to say on the council floor why the commission rejected them. The vote was on chapter one of part two of schema 13, which deals with the dignity of marriage and the family. That schema states that marriage and conjugal love are ordained by nature to the procreation and education of children. It emphasizes that marriage was not instituted solely for procreation. The text merely skirts the problem of birth control, avoiding a direct confrontation. Pope Paul VI has explicitly reserved this problem to himself.”
  • ‘With deliberate speed’: Voting opened on Schema 13
  • NCWC revamping studied by bishops
  • ND to host top theology conference
  • NC denies report on parley role
  • Deny early drastic changes in Mass
  • Nativity Church is razed by fire
  • Council schema on Christian Education
  • Canon Law revision body is explained
  • Pope hails tradition role in seminaries
  • Shared time proposal is termed impractical
  • Vatican seen in need of a press spokesman
    • “ASSISI, Italy—Cardinal Franz Koenig, Primate of Austria, told journalists here that the Vatican should designate an ‘official spokesman’ to report its plans and activities to the world. Newsmen attending a forum on ‘Freedom of the Journalist in the Church’ said the cardinal had implied that the Vatican could well emulate the practice of statesmen by designating spokesmen qualified to speak for it. An illustration is the ‘press secretary’ employed by the President of the United Nations, and empowered to speak for him.”
  • Nun college head issues challenge to today’s women
  • St. Monica wins first Cadet grid crown
  • ‘Rowdiness’ warning given to ND
    • “Notre Dame, Ind.—Father Theodore M. Hesburg, C.S.C., has called upon University of Notre Dame students to put an end to ‘rowdiness, buffoonery or inhospitality to opponents’ on the part of a few, or other universities may not want to come here for athletic competition. ‘Notre Dame is famous for its spirit,’ the university’s president said in a letter to the student body. ‘But spirit is more than noise.’ ”
  • Job-finding program is started by parish
  • Prayer is always new, pope tells audience
  • Sets prayer day for war victims
  • Program is announced for closing of council
  • Liturgical texts have force of law
  • Urge new approach to sex education
  • Religious pavilion full of treasures
  • High court ruling: Commie registration provision revoked
  • Papal trip still rumor
  • Urges lifting of Luther edict

(Read all of these stories from our Nov. 19, 1965, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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