University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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if if fr 'Q' With the Vatican Council spearheading 6'C'ZllH6'l'l1l'IH non Catholics Iake a look ar CwCIll1Uf1'C'l'.i'l7I. ill idealism win? 1964-65 was, a year of great change. The Second Vatican Council opened the way for Mass in the vernacular. Lyndon B. Johnson was elected President in a landslide and began calling for a Great Society. Khrusehev was deposed in Russia. Nehru died in India. One can't, without error, predict the events of tomorrow. but this doesn't stop one from won- dering where western civilization and the world is heading and what influence the New Breed will have in its getting there, The social concern of this group has been evidenced, but it takes more than concern to solve the dilemmas of modern society. In addition, the New Breed must resolve its incon- sistencies. Rev. Andrew Greeley, SJ., admitting some puzzle- ment over the groups, probes them in this way: They are a paradoxical bunch, supremely self-confident, yet anxious and restless: they are organizationally efficient and yet often diplomatically tactlessg they are eager to engage in dialogue and yet frequently inarticulate in what they want to say: they are without ideology and yet insistent on freedom, they are generous with the poor and suffering and terribly harsh in their judgements of their elders and superiors: they are ecu- menical to the core and yet astonishingly parochial in their tastes and fashions: they want desperately to love but are not sure that they know how to love. The New Breed has its problems. Fr. Greeley doesn't believe there are too many of them, but they are making so much noise that one hardly has time to notice the majority. One can only hope they won't lose the idealism college students are noted for,

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