January 20, 2012

What was in the news on Jan. 19, 1962?

Catholics, Protestants and non-Christians together in fellowship, and opposition to St. Joseph’s name in the Mass

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 Jan. 19, 1962, issue of The Criterion:

  • Catholics and Protestants in Rome join non-Christians in fellowship
    • “ROME—An agape—a feast of brotherly love—has been held here by Catholics, other Christians and adherents of non-Christian religions. … The event took place at Rome’s Pro Deo University of Social Studies, whose students include hundreds of non-Catholic Christians and non-Christians. Each year, the Catholic-oriented university sponsors an agape and asks its students to invite as their guests the diplomatic representatives of their home countries and the leaders of the religious groups to which they belong.”
  • Anglicans ‘back’ cause of martyrs
  • ‘Rash, unjust judgments’: Vatican paper critical of Lombardi proposals
  • Priests, nuns murdered in the Congo
  • Public schools balk: Airborne TV classes face a dubious future
  • Speaker hurls challenge at U.S. legal profession
  • Protestant and Jewish groups study encyclical
  • 41 Church-related aid programs passed by Congress, study shows
  • ‘Shared time’ proposal seen worthy of study
  • Opposes move to include St. Joseph’s name in Mass
    • “Rome—The movement to have the name of St. Joseph included in parts of the Ordinary of the Mass could possibly create misunderstanding among non-Catholic Christians, according to a Jesuit commentator. Commenting on a petition requesting a more prominent place for St. Joseph in the Church’s public worship, Father G. Caprile, S.J., said: ‘It should not be concealed that this undertaking, though sincerely pious and praiseworthy, meets with understandable restraint from those people who favor simplifying rather than complicating the liturgy, as well as with the conviction on the part of many people that the honors rendered to St. Joseph are already full sufficient. It should be added that the separated brothers have difficulty in understanding similar undertakings and that one must strive to avoid increasing obstacles confronting them unless it is absolutely necessary.’ ”
  • Jesuit comments on use of contraceptive pills
  • Prelate defends design of Liverpool Cathedral
  • ‘Pious association’ of women is given cardinal’s approval
  • Hits ‘downgrading’ of family
  • Stresses need for laws on equal job opportunity
  • Protestant leader high in praise of
  • ‘Mater et Magister’
  • Says Pope backs ‘common market’
  • Small farm seen bulwark of religion, democracy
  • Third phase opens: Council commission tackles moral issues
  • Religious tortured in Czechoslovakia
  • Learn from Protestants, Catholics are reminded

(Read all of these stories from our Jan. 19, 1962, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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