Monsignor Dimaculangan (Observer for the Holy See), referring to the statement by the representative of El Salvador, said that the Catholic Church did not require constitutional or legislative provisions prohibiting abortion.

Vichy France embraced Catholic Corporatism, as did German protectorates over Belgium and the Czech lands, as well as nominally independent Slovakia under Monsignor Jozef Tiso. By the 1960 s, most Latin American countries were avowedly corporatist dictatorships.

Monsignor Chullikatt (Observer for the Holy See) said that humanitarian and social institutions of the Catholic Church, such as the Pontifical Mission for Palestine, Caritas Internationalis and Catholic Relief Services, had been working in the region for a long time and in the past three years had been finding it increasingly difficult to carry out their mission.