September 28, 2012

What was in the news on Sept. 28, 1962?

Final preparations from the Second Vatican Council and what Catholics expect

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 Sept. 28, 1962, issue of The Criterion:

  • Pope pays special tribute to Archbishop [Schulte] on jubilee
  • Colorful procession will open Council
    • “VATICAN CITY—On the morning of October 11, Pope John XXIII will intone the Veni, Creator Spiritus—the ancient hymn of intercession to the Holy Ghost—before some 2,500 cardinals, patriarchs, archbishops and bishops gather in the great Hall of the Benedictions of the Vatican Palace. The prelates will then move in procession down the hall, pass under a staircase through a bronze door leading to the great square of St. Peter’s Basilica and finally enter the great mother church of Catholicism. This, the Vatican Radio reported, is how the long-awaited Second Vatican Council, more than three years in preparation, will begin.”
  • Moral complexities in surgery cited
  • Vatican cautions on use of mass media
  • Open experiment in ‘shared-time’
  • The laity reveal their hopes: Results of U.S. survey on the Council
    • “To capture some of the hopes and expectations of American Catholics, Eucharist magazine conducted a sample survey of their opinions on some of the subjects which will be discussed. The most important conclusion of this survey is that Americans are ready to follow the Holy Father and the bishops on the road to renewal. They are looking for a strong voice to lead and guide them, a mother willing to trust their generosity, and to use their talents.” Read this whole story here
  • Airport center to serve bishops
  • Three-year ND project: Indiana diocese will be pilot for U.S. Catholic school study
  • Bar distortion in church art
  • Catholic Action groups under attack in France
  • ‘Ecumenical World Series’
  • First bishop consecrated in Sweden in centuries
  • World’s largest mosaic installation underway
  • Nothing sacred about football
  • Parents and First Communion
  • 14-man fire department keeps watch in Vatican
  • Support prayer ruling ‘with reservations’
  • Public school officials in St. Louis ‘worried’
  • Britain sees council aid to conversion efforts
  • Shared-time draws doubt
  • Prayer in schools: Predict clarification of High Court ruling
  • Magazine articles explain Jewish stand

(Read all of these stories from our Sept. 28, 1962, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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