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BREATHITT AND
WOLFE COUNTIES,
Kentucky — Forty low
income farmers in this area
have doubled their incomes
over the past two years by
buying and selling together.
The farmers are members
of a pig cooperative being
aided this year by a $15,000
grant from the Catholic
Church’s Campaign for
Human Development.
The Campaign grant is
being channeled through the
Commission on Religion in
Appalachia (CORA), an
ecumenical effort by 17
denominations - including
the Catholic Church - to
alleviate poverty and build
community in the mountain
areas of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Virginia and West
Virginia.
The pig cooperative
involves feeder pigs, animals
which are raised to a weight
of 40 pounds and then
shipped to finishers where
they will reach their full
weight of approximately 250
pounds.
According to the Rev. Ben
Poage, CORA’s director of
Human and Economic
Development Projects, the
cooperative allows farmers to
buy both feed and medicines
at wholesale prices.
He said their increased
buying power also allows
them to purchase the most
adequately balanced feed in
the area by buying directly
from a mill which services
only them.
The cooperative has also
established a holding and
sorting facility where farmers
can bring their hogs to be
graded by weight and quality,
inspected and given a health
certificate, and eventually
marketed.
Perhaps the most unique
aspect of the project is the
system through which
members can increase their
stock.
Any member may receive a
sow free of charge from the
cooperative. He pays back
later “in kind” by giving the
cooperative three female pigs
from the first two litters.
(Litters in the cooperative
have been averaging about 7
Pigs.)
These pigs are then given
to other farmers to pay for
them in the same way.'
Technical assistance in
nutrition, sanitation,
bookkeeping and
management is also given free
to any member by an animal
husbandry specialist provided
by funds from the Campaign
for Human Development.
Funds from the grant will
also help to defray operating
expenses of the cooperative,
which, like most projects
funded by the Campaign, will
eventually become
self-sufficient. The target date
in this case is 1973.
The money from the
Campaign is part of
$8,500,000 donated last year
by the nation’s Catholics to
“Break the hellish circle of
poverty” in the United
States.
A second collection will be
taken November 21 in every
Catholic church in the nation.
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Senate Of Priests
The next meeting of the Senate of Priests will take place at
the Parish Hall in Dublin on Thursday, October 7th, at 10:30
A.M. Items for the agenda should be mailed to the Reverend
Joseph Costello, S.M., P.O. Box 1219, St. Simons Island,
Georgia. 31522. The election of a new president to replace
Father John Garvey will take place at the meeting.
Commission Extended
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope Paul VI announced that the
“experimental” life of the five-year-old Pontifical Commission
for Justice and Peace has been extended another three years. At
a meeting with members and consultors of the commission’s
sixth general assembly, the Pope also said the commission is “an
organism of the Church by the same title as the other Roman
offices.” The general assembly Sept. 22-28 forwarded to the
Pope a series of resolutions affecting the future activity of the
commission, which deals with and studies problems of justice
and peace throughout the world. Before the general assembly
met, many members were earful that the commission’s new
form might reduce a simple study group attached to the Vatican
Secretariat of State.
SOCIAL REFORM
Synod Of Bishops T o Hear
Pleas F or Radical Action
CARDINAL MINDSZENTY
l&YEAR EMBASSY STAY EmS
Cdl. Mindszenty Leaves
Hungary; Flys To Rome
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
Hungarian Cardinal Jozsef
Mindszenty, at the urging of
Pope Paul VI, ended his 15
years of self-exile within his
own country and described
his decision as “perhaps the
heaviest cross of my life.”
The 79-year-old Primate of
Hungary had lived in isolated
life within a few small rooms
of the American Embassy in
Budapest since 1956, when
Soviet tanks smashed a
Hungarian uprising and ended
a brief time of freedom for
the cardinal.
He reached Rome by air
Sept. 28 from Vienna to be
met by a Vatican welcoming
committee lead by the
cardinal-secretary of state,
Jean Villot. From the airport
the aging prelate was driven
to the Vatican for a warm
and emotional embrace by
Pope Paul VI.
A brief official notice in
L’Osservatore Romano
announced that “following
intensive negotiations
between the Holy See and the
government of the Peoples’
Republic of Hungary,
Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty
today left the territory of
Hungary for Rome.”
An accompanying article
made it clear that it was only
at the Pope’s insistence that
the cardinal finally agreed to
leave, an act he has long
opposed.
In an article, the Vatican
daily quoted the cardinal as
saying: “I would have liked
to have lived the rest of my
life among the people whom I
love so much, but that was
not possible because of the
passions aroused against me
and because of higher
considerations of the Church.
I will accept what is for me
perhaps the heaviest cross of
my life. I am ready to say
goodbye to my beloved
country, to continue in exile
a life of prayer and penance.”
Upon the cardinal’s arrival
in Rome, the Vatican also
announced that an apostolic
administrator responsible
directly to the Holy See has
been appointed for the
cardinal’s archdiocese of
Esztergom.
He is Bishop Imre Kisberk,
65, who will also remain
apostolic administrator of the
Szekesfehervar diocese.
The first synod following
the Vatican Council was
convened in 1967. It studied
doctronal perils and structure
reforms needed by the
Church.
The 1969 synod discussed
practical aspects of
collegiality, the shared
authority of the Pope with all
the bishops.
Synod 71 will not be
merely an ongoing study by
the Church for self-improve
ment. The two principal
subjects for this synod look
out mainly to the world in an
effort to improve it by being
of service to it.
The intense preparation
that has gone into Synod 71
on a worldwide basis has
included official and public
preparation by bishops’
conferences and priests’
associations.
In the plush new
surroundings of the synod
hall, located high above the
$6 million papal audience
hall, synod participants will
hear position papers that cry
for justice for the world’s
downtrodden.
A radical call for justice
runs through the official
documents of bishops’
conferences as disparate as
Brazil and Indonesia, or
Canada and Peru. In
summary, those document
state that action for justice is
a must for the Church of the
1970’s.
The documents say that if
the Church is to be a sign of
salvation for men, then the
Church must openly fight
institutionalized injustice.
Liberation, they say, is the
only solution. And by
liberation they mean
i ndependence - social,
political and religious -- for all
people. To achieve liberation,
the documents say, the
Church must be on the side
of the poor and oppressed
and take a firm stand against
foreign and domestic
exportation.
Documents emanating
mostly, but not exclusively,
from the Third World of
underdeveloped nations call
for a Church-backed
revolution - a non-violent
revolution, if possible, but
nevertheless a revolution.
“The Gospel cannot be
announced in a situation of
oppression,” the Peruvian
bishops’ document stresses.
“If the Church remains
aloof from the anguish of
men, it risks not being
worthy of them.
“Let the Church sustain
governments that aim at
constructing a Socialist
society, with a human and
Christian content. . . .Let it
condemn the repressive
methods of governments that,
in the name of Christian
civilization, have recourse to
violence and torture.
“Let the Church recognize
the right of the oppressed to
fight for justice. Let it
express solidarity with their
ideals, even though it does
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ROME (NC) — Delegates to the 1971 Synod of Bishops will hear that the attainment of world justice -- even
through radical means - is more important than solving problems of the priesthood, according to sources who have
evaluated over 200 documents from bishops’ conferences and priest associations.
Human Development Campaign
Helps Farmers Double Income
The ministerial priesthood and world justice are the twin topics on the agenda for the third worldwide synod
convoked by Pope Paul VI.
BY FATHER LEO E. McFADDEN
Pendleton roundup in Pendleton, Ore. (NC PHOTO, courtesy
the Catholic Sentinel)
WESTERN BISHOP — Bishop Thomas J. Connolly of Baker,
Oregon, rides in the Westward Ho parade during the annual