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A Year of Paradox
One thing that may be said of the year that just slipped into the limbo of history is that it has been a year of paradox. In many areas, giant strides have been taken toward man’s highest aspirations, spiritually and materially. The Ecumenical Council that came to a close in 1965 and the Pope’s unprecedented visit to the United Nations were clear signs that the Christian world is working toward a unity never before known. As the year closed, American achievements in space lifted men’s eyes and minds beyond the confines of earth. A window, however small, has been opened on the mysteries of the universe. This has come about through the finest efforts of a free nation. We have progressed in space and elsewhere because the “Team* has never lost sight of the individual. And so America hit new heights in 1965. But the year of the paradox has brought many good American citizens who love their country to the edge of despair. They see around them an unthinking acceptance of a spreading bureaucracy. In the midst of apparently unprecedented prosperity, they see a war on poverty with a potential for waste and corruption that is truly dismaying. They see at home much cynical indifference to the war in Viet Nam which is demanding an ever-increasing price in men material and money. There we meet In combat a,people who hold fanatic convictions and will go to any length
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