March 11, 2016

What was in the news on March 11, 1966?

Ecumenism in Great Britain, a new birth control commission, and the value of Catholic schools

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 11, 1966, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Why ecumenism is lagging badly among British
    • “LONDON—Cardinal John Carmel Heenan, in one of his noteworthy speeches at the Second Vatican Council, pledged that the bishops of England would do everything in their power, short of denying their faith, for ecumenism in their country. In point of fact, the bishops have not been noticeably enthusiastic since the council ended to convert their oratory into action. The English are cautious about ecumenism.”
  • New birth control commission includes three U.S. prelates
    • “VATICAN CITY—Sixteen prelates, including three from the United States and a score of experts, are included in the new commission, headed by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, to study the birth control issue. … The 16 prelates come from 11 nations, The three from the U.S.—more than from any other country—are Cardinal Lawrence Shehan of Baltimore, Archbishop John Dearden of Detroit and Archbishop Leo Binz of St. Paul, Minn. Cardinal Ottaviani told the NCWC News Service that the new commission has been charged with analyzing the information prepared by a group of some 70 experts, who have been studying the birth control problem since they were commissioned by Pope Paul in June 1964. The new group will then prepare a statement based on their findings which will be submitted to the pope for his decision, the cardinal said.”
  • Shifts made among U.S. hierarchy
  • Missals not obsolete, Holy See emphasizes
  • Parental vigilance termed key to avoiding teenage disaster
  • High schools planning to form ‘junior’ bands
  • Text of Church in Modern World schema
  • Polls priests on desire to work in ‘inner city’
  • Christian communities spread slowly in Israel
  • Hibernians will strut up boulevard of green
  • Editorial: Doing enough?
    • “The burden of maintaining a Catholic school system has become such an agonizing financial concern in so many areas of the country that it overshadows the parallel problem of providing religious education and training for those Catholic children attending public schools. … Neglect in facing up to this problem, to map provisions and to investigate all proposals which might offer solutions would be shortsighted. And it is an almost foolproof method of losing many Catholics through default. … Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines of Indianapolis is quoted in the current issue of Christianity Today magazine as saying that ‘a half-hour or so instruction 25 to 30 times a year will not adequately educate a young person in anything.’ ”
  • Poverty not synonymous with unemployment
  • The population issue
  • Marian to present Becket play
  • Irish play set at Bloomington
  • Archdiocesan ‘Progress Fair’ winners listed
  • Prayer Apostleship intentions listed
  • Plan Institute of Ecumenism
  • To German Bishops: Publish wartime letters of Pius XII
  • Radiologist given cancer study grant
  • Richmond symposium hears famed liturgist
  • Japanese movie slated at Marian

(Read all of these stories from our March 11, 1966, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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