March 18, 2016

What was in the news on March 18, 1966?

A rebuke on U.S. policy in Asia, and more English in the Mass hopes to add more meaning

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 18, 1966, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Religious conference is critical of U.S. foreign policy in Asia
    • “WASHINGTON—A position paper prepared for the National Inter-Religious Conference on Peace here accused the U.S. government of pursuing an ‘indiscriminate anti-communist crusade in Asia.’ It called this approach the ‘height of folly,’ and warned that it ‘stultifies American foreign policy and prevents it from taking advantage of the new opportunities presented by the new dynamism of the communist world.’ It calls on the U.S. to give spiritual encouragement and material support to ‘revolutionary movements directed against morally intolerable social conditions’ anywhere in the world, despite the risk that such movements might come under communist control.”
  • Collection for Bishops’ Relief set
  • More English due: ‘Social’ impact seen in new Mass changes
    • “WASHINGTON—The increased use of English in the Mass which becomes general in the U.S. on March 27 has as its basic goal the creation of a deeper sense of community responsibility among the people at Mass, Father Frederick R. McManus said here. The priest, who is executive secretary of the U.S. Bishops’ Commission on the Liturgical Apostolate, said the underlying purpose of the further change is to spur the people to go forth from Mass spurred to positive Christian approaches to the world around them. He noted that the prayers now to be recited or sung in English are those of the priest, the presiding minister. They include not only the collect, prayer over the offerings and the post-Communion, but also the preface of the Canon and the extension of the Our Father. With their changeover from Latin to English, it now becomes imperative for the priest to speak them ‘in a meaningful way so that the people will be encouraged in sentiments similar to those expressed in the prayers,’ Father McManus said. It is ‘mechanically easy’ to translate the prayers, he said. But he said it takes serious thought in order to get the people to understand the biblical teaching involved in them, and to bring about a real sense of community and an awareness of the mission and apostolate of all Christians.”
  • Notre Dame to host parley on Vatican II
  • Meeting set for synod of bishops
  • Revised Mass calls for period of silent prayer
  • Father Berrigan, ‘free to speak,’ now back in U.S.
  • Academy teachers among 15 named for foreign study
  • Music workshops slated for clergy
  • Text of Church in Modern World Schema
  • Floyd County Sister given mission post
  • Feed-the-hungry appeal by pope hits $5 million
  • Society named for ecumenist
  • Procreation and love ‘equal in marriage’
  • Set 100 percent clergy goal in Medicare
  • Franco nominee urged to turn down bishopric
  • Bishops study broadcasting
  • $100,000 donated for famine relief
  • Toward more fruitful dialogue with Jews
  • Episcopalian action raps marital pledges
  • Say Reformation still justified
  • Fewer Catholic colleges urged
  • One-Act play contest moving into high gear
  • Volunteers accepted for one-year terms
  • Pope elevates Curia officials
  • Seek canonization of Father Damien
  • Panel sessions set Richmond group
  • Sex education talks draw vocal reaction
  • Glenmary nun barred from acting in play
  • Women lectors?
  • Peace parley filling vacuum, bishop says
  • Notre Dame to confer honors on twenty religious leaders
  • Recalls papal filibuster
  • Catechism ‘bias’ target of scholars

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