March 22, 2013

What was in the news on March 22, 1963?

The pope works to help end world hunger, and takes a new approach to six curial appointments

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 March 22, 1963, issue of The Criterion:

  • Work to wipe out hunger, pope urges science leaders
    • “VATICAN CITY—One of the most distinguished groups ever received in audience by Pope John XXIII heard the pontiff urge international organizations to help promote better utilization of human and material resources to banish hunger from the world. Pope John greeted 30 eminent scientists, authors and sociologists, including nine Nobel Prize winners, who were in Rome for a special assembly on ‘The Human Right to Freedom from Hunger’ sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. … ‘Considering the prodigious increase in transportation and travel facilities in the modern world,’ [the pope] said, ‘one can no longer say that the hunger and undernourishment prevalent in certain regions of the globe are due solely to an insufficiency of available natural resources. What is missing is organizing a coordinated intelligence capable of ensuring fair distribution,’ he stressed, adding the hope that world organizations might strive to promote everywhere better utilization and better sharing of human and material resources.
  • 3 Harvard talks slated by cardinal
  • Plans are announced for NCCW institute
  • High honor accorded to patriarchs
    • “VATICAN CITY—His Holiness Pope John XXIII has named six Catholic patriarchs in the Middle East to associate membership in the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church. Until now, only cardinals have been admitted to membership in any of the dozen Roman congregations, which serve as the administrative organs of the pope’s authority and jurisdiction. The patriarchs—five heads of various Eastern Rites, and the sixth and only Latin Rite patriarch in the Middle East—have been made what is called ‘aggregate members’ of the Congregation for the Oriental Church. The congregation is headed by the pope himself as prefect and has 28 cardinals as members. Two of the 28 are cardinals of Oriental Rites.”
  • Exam papers awaiting Hoosier Peace Corpsman
  • Latin American efforts applauded
  • Time article draws fire of Chicago churchmen
  • Editorial: Pope soft on Reds?
  • British writer critical of Church in America
  • Church as peacemaker ‘not morally neutral’
  • At beatification rite: Pope hails work of Mother Seton
  • C.U. ouster draws fire from priest

(Read all of these stories from our March 22, 1963, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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