June 3, 2016

What was in the news on June 3, 1966?

Post-conciliar work comes to a close, a call for theologians to ‘go home’ and new music for youth Masses

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 June 3, 1966, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Assignments completed by post-conciliar bodies
    • “VATICAN CITY—The post-conciliar commissions have completed their work and their suggestions for implementing the decisions of the Second Vatican Council have gone to Pope Paul VI. … The pope likened the Second Vatican Council to a new Pentecost for the Church. He praised the postconciliar commission for their hard work in reducing conciliar decrees to juridical norms valid for the whole Christian world, in elaborating new norms according to the directives of the council Fathers and in drafting documents that he will publish.”
  • Anglicans set council in 2 years
  • Unity talks embrace wide topic spectrum
  • ‘Theologians, go home!’ is Dan Herr plea
    • “CHICAGO—The time has come for theologians touring the American lecture circuit to go home and study or write, insists Dan Herr, president of the Thomas More Association, a nonprofit organization of Catholic laymen. Writing in the current issue of the Critic, a national Catholic magazine of which he is publisher, Herr calls for a ‘moratorium’ on public appearances of the ‘new theologians.’ His reason is that theologians ‘have become celebrities, and being a celebrity and a theologian just doesn’t mix.’ … ‘No lectures, no symposia, no interviews, no master-minding. Let’s give the theologians time to think, to study the results of the council, to write the books that are so urgently needed in the turbulent years ahead.’ ”
  • Woods gets grant for $600,000
  • Commission approval: Okay non-organ music for youth’s Masses
    • “WASHINTON—The use of guitars instead of organ music at special Masses for young people has been given a green light by the U.S. Bishops’ Commission on the Liturgical Apostolate. The commission did not mention guitars by name. But it said that the choice of ‘music which is meaningful’ to youth of high school or college age should be considered ‘valid and purposeful’ for worship. But the commission held at the same time that the liturgical texts should be respected and that ‘the incorporation of incongruous melodies and texts, adapted from popular ballads, should be avoided.’ ”
  • Mrs. Archie Smith: Holy Angels parishioner given honor as ‘Mother of the Year’
  • End Marian sentimentality, bishop asks
  • New stories about Pope John
  • The Detroit plan: ‘Rich’ parishes to help poor
  • Anti-evolution law is ‘unconstitutional’
  • Work in New Guinea brings joy to Sisters
  • New administrator named for Hermitage
  • Scores undermining of bishops’ authority
  • A grave threat to the religious press
  • What’s so important about our schools
  • Cursillo movement holds first Congress
  • To expand exchange of faculty
  • Kickball crown on the line tonight
  • Common Bible project dropped
  • Mission Crusade convention set at Notre Dame
  • Marian details plans for Waring Workshop
  • Russian education not superior to U.S. system, priest asserts
  • Extension Volunteers open to non-Catholics
  • Churches damaged by jets
  • 114 to be presented with degrees at Marian College graduation
  • Cardinal Cushing makes plea for clergy unity
  • New edition of Bible launched in England
  • Graduate theology school to close

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