July 17, 2015

What was in the news on July 16, 1965?

A plea from religious leaders for peace in Vietnam, and encouraging a papal visit to the South

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 July 16, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Religious leaders ask UN-negotiated peace in Vietnamese war
    • “NEW YORK—Members of a religious leaders’ peace mission to Vietnam found ‘no indication’ of an early end to the war there through military victory on either side. They called instead for a negotiated settlement under United Nations auspices. ‘We do not equate peace with the simple absence of military conflict; true peace is inseparable from justice,’ three members of the group declared in a statement said to represent the views of all. ‘We recognize that there are issues in Vietnam of justice, freedom and the need for social change, but we deplore the way in which major powers have used and are using the villages of Vietnam as a testing ground for ideological positions such as ‘wars of national liberation’ or ‘containment of communism by military force.’ ”
  • Accord and dissent: Catholic-Lutheran dialogue ‘fruitful’
  • Episcopal priest who baptized Luci not consulted, paper says
  • Papal visit to the South is suggested
    • “ATLANTA, Ga.—Ralph McGill, publisher of The Atlanta Constitution, has declared that it would be ‘helpful and socially therapeutic’ for Pope Paul VI to visit the South if his proposed trip to the United Nations takes place. McGill said in his nationally syndicated column that there would be opposition to the pope’s presence in the United States, and ‘some of it will be strident, some ugly. But these qualities of the dissent will identify it for what it is—unreasoning prejudice handed down and made more grotesque with each handing down,’ he said.”
  • St. Vincent de Paul official will speak
  • Lafayette bishop to be enthroned on August 23
  • Father Rocap to offer first Solemn Mass
  • Brothers take over stadium operation
  • Won’t send observers to council
  • Religious upheaval in France
  • Liberalism labeled force in Yugoslavia
  • Love-based authority ideal, sisters told
  • Urges laity to help promote vocations
  • New college head has Hoosier ties
  • Vietnam bishops clarify position on ancestor cult
  • Foreign students in U.S. top 7,700
  • Will success spoil Martin Luther King?
  • Nuns are glad to be ‘squares’
  • Charges birth control petition ‘misstated’
  • 27 Providence nuns note Golden Jubilee
  • Judge annuls marriage on birth control issue
  • Pastor is asked to resign in tiff over new liturgy
  • Priests to attend world session of Protestant sect
  • Texas college to enroll women
  • 1,100 expected to participate in swim meet
  • Selma marcher heads seminary
  • Ask beatification for stigmatic
  • Fourth session outlook: Reaction seen over issue of authority
  • Pope sees advantages in family life changes
  • Vatican replacing statue of Pius XI
  • Oldenburg Sisters at ‘summer school’
  • Convert minister to become priest
  • Diocese ‘proper judge’ in conditional baptism
  • Deanery retreat slated at Fatima
  • Cardinal Shehan gets council post
  • $5 million suit: Priests charge libel in magazine story
  • Theologian’s view: Hope for agreement seen on Mary’s role
  • Reopen missions in Congo diocese
  • St. Louis revises men’s council format
  • Pontiff discusses ‘aggiornamento’
  • Dialogue with world is urged

(Read all of these stories from our July 16, 1965, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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