May 27, 2016

What was in the news on May 27, 1966?

Condemning Marxism, Supreme Court rules on obscenity, and a great local religious education program

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 27, 1966, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Pope Paul VI voices warning on Marxism
    • “VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI has reminded Christian workers that the Church has not and cannot adhere to the ‘false conception of man, history and the world which is typical of radical Marxism.’ ‘The atheism it professes and promotes,’ he said, ‘is … a blindness which man and society will have to pay for in the end with the gravest consequences. The materialism which derives from it … extinguishes man’s true spirituality and his transcendent hope.’ ”
  • At St. Simon’s, Indianapolis: Saturday religion classes ‘booming’
    • “On Saturday morning, the sight of several hundred children with books in hand alighting from buses and station wagons at school is likely to surprise the passerby. Can it be a pep rally, school play, or graduation practice? At St. Simon’s School on the far northeast side of Indianapolis, the children—412 of them—are arriving for Saturday religion classes. The parish, under the direction of its pastor, Father Earl Feltman, has organized one of the largest and smoothest running religious instruction programs for public school children in the archdiocese.”
  • State Knights to push for ‘fair bus’ laws
  • 88 teachers are needed for grades
  • Novitiate returning to Oldenburg
  • Women have long played active role in Vatican City operation
  • Archbishop O’Boyle: Pastoral stresses ‘fair housing’ duty
  • To fill empty school seats
  • St. Vincent’s slates commencement rites
  • St. Pius X wins overall trophy in girls’ track
  • CYO kickball season runs into overtime
  • Mental health needs priests
  • Native of Oldenburg in ordination class
  • Jubilee observance slated at Oldenburg
  • North Vernon man will be ordained Saturday, May 28
  • Cathedral scholarship offers top $100,000
  • 23 Oldenburg nuns to get graduate grants
  • By Supreme Court: New actions are taken on obscenity cases
    • “WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court, heading toward adjournment for this term, continues to act on cases involving obscenity and censorship issues. … The court reversed a ruling by a U.S. Court of Appeals and directed a U.S. District Court to dismiss charges against a Nashville, Tenn., man and wife convicted of violating the federal law against mailing obscenity by sending nude pictures of each other through the mail. The court cited a policy of the Justice Department against prosecuting senders of allegedly obscene private correspondence who are not repeat offenders. The court dismissed without comment an appeal by a New York man convicted of sending obscene phonograph records through the mails. A U.S. Court of Appeals held last December by a 2-1 margin that the recordings were obscene by the tests established by the Supreme Court. In another development, the high court has been asked to review one of the first cases to arise under a 1958 federal law permitting prosecutions for sending obscene material through the mail at the point of delivery as well as the point of origin.”
  • Radio schools pioneer eyes educational TV

(Read all of these stories from our May 27, 1966, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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