May 20, 2016

What was in the news on May 20, 1966?

A record number of high school graduates, the role of women in Catholic journalism, and mixed marriage reactions

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 May 20, 1966, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Ask Congress to pass civil rights program
  • Fifteen ceremonies: Record 1,800 students set for graduation
    • “Nearly 1,800 boys and girls will be graduated from 15 Catholic high schools in the archdiocese during the next three weeks. Archbishop [Paul C.] Schulte will confer diplomas at all the commencements.”
  • Barcelona priests ask for changes
  • 50 years a priest: Msgr. Sheridan to note jubilee
  • School board enlarged to 18 pastors, laymen
  • Tiny Missouri monastery draws Ottaviani censure
  • Four Providence Sisters receive grants to inaugurate non-Western studies
  • Scecina graduate to be ordained at Maryknoll, N.Y.
  • High Court to review Church tax exemption
  • Notre Dame outlines new theology program
  • CYO, ‘Y’ representatives examine future relations
  • Says homes need peacemakers
  • Priest-psychologist raps ‘male mystique’
  • Layman to head Press Association
  • Diocesan school to be renovated
  • Evansville group announces plans for housing units
  • Journalist wants new leadership ‘from the center’
  • Catholic press ignores women—NCCW head
    • “SAN FRANCISCO—Catholic editors and publishers of the nation were told here that they are not giving Catholic women a proper break. Delegates to the national convention of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada were asked why more women are not elected to the CPA board of directors, why women are not given more responsible work to do on Catholic publications, why their important achievements are relegated to the woman’s page, along with ‘Catholic recipes’ and the like. Margaret Mealey, executive director of the National Council of Catholic Women, Washington, said women want the privilege of choice—‘the privilege that guarantees them the stature and dignity they deserve as human beings and as People of God.’ ”
  • Third Order plans two events
  • For delinquent girls: Marydale School—a haven of hope
  • Pontiff asks U.S. support to Near East
  • Rio priests to experiment
  • Archbishop Ramsey is not satisfied with new ruling
    • “LONDON—‘Stick to your consciences’ when asked to make promises about bringing up children of marriage with Roman Catholics, Anglicans were advised by Anglican Archbishop Michael Ramsey of Canterbury. The archbishop said that the ‘few small concessions’ made by the Roman Catholic Church in its new instructions on mixed marriages failed to meet the consciences of other Christians.”
  • Protestant theologian: Asks honesty, frankness from Catholic media

(Read all of these stories from our May 20, 1966, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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