The Criterion celebrates 50 years of sharing the faith
In October 2010, The Criterion celebrated its 50th anniversary and continues to do so throughout the next year. Click below to view some of our special features to honor the anniversary.
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Timeline
50 Years Ago in The Criterion
- What was in the inaugural issue of The Criterion? Lots of news
- What was in the news on Oct. 14, 1960?
The Church in Cuba, Cardinal Newman
and seminarians studying atheism in Rome
- What was in the news on Oct. 21, 1960?
- What was in the news on Oct. 28, 1960?
- What was in the news on Nov. 4, 1960?
- What was in the news on Nov. 11, 1960?
- What was in the news on Nov. 18, 1960?
- What was in the news on Nov. 25, 1960?
- What was in the news on Dec. 2, 1960?
- What was in the news on Dec. 9, 1960?
- What was in the news on Dec. 16, 1960?
- What was in the news on Jan. 6, 1961? Latin America, the pope and much more
- What was in the news on Jan. 13, 1961? The pope and the Church in the Congo
- What was in the news on Jan. 27, 1961? Cardinal Ritter and integration
- What was in the news on Feb. 10, 1961? Indiana Supreme Court sides with archdiocese
- What was in the news on Feb. 17, 1961? Archbishop Schulte honored by pope
- What was in the news on Feb. 24, 1961? President Kennedy and schools
- What was in the news on March 3, 1961? Housing bias and Queen Elizabeth II
- What was in the news on March 10, 1961? The dark future of Poland and Ghandi's position on birth control
- What was in the news on March 17, 1961? A controversial award and a priest arrested
- What was in the news on
March 24, 1961? Trouble in Hungary and musings on Lenten fasting
- What was in the news on March 31, 1961? New high schools in Indianapolis and more trouble with federal school funding
- What was in the news on April 7, 1961? Those rising hemlines and predictions of the future
- What was in the news on April 14, 1961? A request for the whole Mass in English
- What was in the news on April 21, 1961? Nuns asking for more education
- What was in the news on April 28, 1961? Castro and Cardinal Ritter
- What was in the news on May 5, 1961? Historic priesthood ordination for Archdiocese of Indianapolis
- What was in the news on May 12, 1961? The Second Vatican Council and is there a ‘lady-like’ way to chew gum?
- What was in the news on May 19, 1961? The need to fix the race problem
- What was in the news on June 9, 1961? A lay-led retreat and the most inspiring experience in entertainment history
- What was in the news on June 16, 1961? Warnings about secularism in academia and more lay involvement
- What was in the news on June 23, 1961? Supreme Court rules that states cannot mandate belief in God to hold public office
- What was in the news on June 30, 1961? The need for prudence among Scriptural scholars and the Civil War centennial
- What was in the news on July 7, 1961? Pope speaks of unity, Serrans urged to seek social justices and bishops defend Protestant ministers
- What was in the news on July 14, 1961? Statistics share a picture of the archdiocese 50 years ago, and pope urges Catholics to ‘influence’ movies
- What was in the news on July 21, 1961? A new papal encyclical, Mater et Magistra, is released and the threat of communism in Poland increases
- What was in the news on July 28, 1961? A rare justification for waging a pre-emptive war, and a condemnation of birth control as the ‘solution of misers’
- What was in the news on Aug. 4, 1961? Religion helps determine a family’s size, and Finland plans for its first priestly ordination since the Reformation
- What was in the news on Aug. 11, 1961? Public welfare legislation and should mom stay home?
- What was in the news on Aug. 18, 1961? A bigger role for laymen, and a suggestion by a Boston pastor to close Catholic grade schools
- What was in the news on Aug. 25, 1961? Papal advice to the rich and poor, a eulogy to modern age and an appeal for calm after cross burning
- What was in the news on Sept. 1, 1961? A request to return religion to public schools, and German sister’s cure at Lourdes ruled a miracle
- What was in the news on Sept. 8, 1961? A warning against both ultra-conservatives and an overemphasis on the number of children
- What was in the news on Sept. 15, 1961? A plea from the pope to negotiate for peace, and religion in the German election
- What was in the news on Sept. 22, 1961? Red China’s ‘terrorist tactics’ on Catholics, and a plea to remove birth control from the political arena
- What was in the news on Oct. 13, 1961? Mixed neighborhoods, a Rosary Crusade, the Reds’ biggest fear and the continuing battle of the sexes
- What was in the news on Oct. 20, 1961? The hope that school aid tensions will ease, and advice to lay people about getting along with their pastor
- What was in the news on Oct. 27, 1961? Communion rules eased for the sick, a smut arrest and the Holy Father urging a family rosary
- What was in the news on Nov. 3, 1961? Words of praise for Pope John, and an update on the number of Catholics worldwide
- What was in the news on Nov. 10, 1961? Father Hesburgh says denial of civil rights is an act of subversion, and Pope John XXIII promises a new encyclical
- What was in the news on Nov. 17, 1961? Warnings about false ecumenism and praise for youth in the fights against racism
- What was in the news on Dec. 1, 1961? A warning to movie makers from the U.S. bishops, and ecumenical council hopes to aid Christian unity efforts
- What was in the news on Dec. 8, 1961? Predictions on when the Council will open, and news of a microfilm archive of U.S. Catholic history