What was in The Criterion in 1961?
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- What was in the news on Jan. 6, 1961? Latin America, the pope and much more
- What was in the news on Jan. 13, 1961? The pope and the Church in the Congo
- What was in the news on Jan. 27, 1961? Cardinal Ritter and integration
- What was in the news on Feb. 10, 1961? Indiana Supreme Court sides with archdiocese
- What was in the news on Feb. 17, 1961? Archbishop Schulte honored by pope
- What was in the news on Feb. 24, 1961? President Kennedy and schools
- What was in the news on March 3, 1961? Housing bias and Queen Elizabeth II
- What was in the news on March 10, 1961? The dark future of Poland and Ghandi's position on birth control
- What was in the news on March 17, 1961? A controversial award and a priest arrested
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March 24, 1961? Trouble in Hungary and musings on Lenten fasting
- What was in the news on March 31, 1961? New high schools in Indianapolis and more trouble with federal school funding
- What was in the news on April 7, 1961? Those rising hemlines and predictions of the future
- What was in the news on April 14, 1961? A request for the whole Mass in English
- What was in the news on April 21, 1961? Nuns asking for more education
- What was in the news on April 28, 1961? Castro and Cardinal Ritter
- What was in the news on May 5, 1961? Historic priesthood ordination for Archdiocese of Indianapolis
- What was in the news on May 12, 1961? The Second Vatican Council and is there a ‘lady-like’ way to chew gum?
- What was in the news on May 19, 1961? The need to fix the race problem
- What was in the news on June 9, 1961? A lay-led retreat and the most inspiring experience in entertainment history
- What was in the news on June 16, 1961? Warnings about secularism in academia and more lay involvement
- What was in the news on June 23, 1961? Supreme Court rules that states cannot mandate belief in God to hold public office
- What was in the news on June 30, 1961? The need for prudence among Scriptural scholars and the Civil War centennial
- What was in the news on July 7, 1961? Pope speaks of unity, Serrans urged to seek social justices and bishops defend Protestant ministers
- What was in the news on July 14, 1961? Statistics share a picture of the archdiocese 50 years ago, and pope urges Catholics to ‘influence’ movies
- What was in the news on July 21, 1961? A new papal encyclical, Mater et Magistra, is released and the threat of communism in Poland increases
- What was in the news on July 28, 1961? A rare justification for waging a pre-emptive war, and a condemnation of birth control as the ‘solution of misers’
- What was in the news on Aug. 4, 1961? Religion helps determine a family’s size, and Finland plans for its first priestly ordination since the Reformation
- What was in the news on Aug. 11, 1961? Public welfare legislation and should mom stay home?
- What was in the news on Aug. 18, 1961? A bigger role for laymen, and a suggestion by a Boston pastor to close Catholic grade schools
- What was in the news on Aug. 25, 1961? Papal advice to the rich and poor, a eulogy to modern age and an appeal for calm after cross burning
- What was in the news on Sept. 1, 1961? A request to return religion to public schools, and German sister’s cure at Lourdes ruled a miracle
- What was in the news on Sept. 8, 1961? A warning against both ultra-conservatives and an overemphasis on the number of children
- What was in the news on Sept. 15, 1961? A plea from the pope to negotiate for peace, and religion in the German election
- What was in the news on Sept. 22, 1961? Red China’s ‘terrorist tactics’ on Catholics, and a plea to remove birth control from the political arena
- What was in the news on Oct. 13, 1961? Mixed neighborhoods, a Rosary Crusade, the Reds’ biggest fear and the continuing battle of the sexes
- What was in the news on Oct. 20, 1961? The hope that school aid tensions will ease, and advice to lay people about getting along with their pastor
- What was in the news on Oct. 27, 1961? Communion rules eased for the sick, a smut arrest and the Holy Father urging a family rosary
- What was in the news on Nov. 3, 1961? Words of praise for Pope John, and an update on the number of Catholics worldwide
- What was in the news on Nov. 10, 1961? Father Hesburgh says denial of civil rights is an act of subversion, and Pope John XXIII promises a new encyclical
- What was in the news on Nov. 17, 1961? Warnings about false ecumenism and praise for youth in the fights against racism
- What was in the news on Dec. 1, 1961? A warning to movie makers from the U.S. bishops, and ecumenical council hopes to aid Christian unity efforts
- What was in the news on Dec. 8, 1961? Predictions on when the Council will open, and news of a microfilm archive of U.S. Catholic history
- What was in the news on Dec. 15, 1961? Pope John XXIII appeals for Christian unity and for the primacy of Latin