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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1963
KENNEDY COSTA RICA VISIT REMINDS
Central America
No Better After Appeal
For Reform
The Central American presi
dents' meeting this week with
President John F. Kennedy at
San Jose, Costa Rica, comes
exactly one year after the Bis
hops of the six countries, in
an unprecedented joint pastoral,
pointed out the spread of com
munism because of social con
ditions.
"The majority of the rural
population lives at subsistence
levels, is paid low wages and
is poorly fed," the 38 Bishops
wrote.
"Their housing is poor, as are
school and hygiene conditions.
Their productivity is low. And
all this stands out in crude
contrasts with a economically
powerful minority."
RUNNING counter to the com
mon notion that communism is
merely a threat in the isthmus,
the prelates declared: "Unfor
tunately, communism is a real
ity among us already.
"Communism has infiltrated
our simple-minded peasants,
our city workers, professional
ranks, university students and
even secondary schools. Its
agents have gained jobs in news
papers, radio and television, as
well as in key education posts.
"With saddened heart we
must state that the gangrepe
of communism has spared no
region of this isthumus."
They then asked the leading
classes for a drastic, painful
reform. Their appeal made it
clear that economic and social
programs of a revolutionary
character had "immediate ur
gency."
THE Bishops added that the
programs must be coordinated
for all the six nations—totaling
12,200,000 people— by mutual
aid pacts, a redistribution of
population from overpopulated
areas to empty and fertile lands,
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and proper legislation to imple
ment social and economic re
forms.
The Bishops, who have met
annually since 1950 in their
Central American Episcopal
Conference at the various cap
itals, offered Church doctrine
and guidance for a solid pro
gram of common welfare.
"The social doctrine of the
Church," they said, "must be
studied and applied to the fol
lowing urgent points: private
property and its social function,
fair wages, industrial relations
and sharing of benefits, labor
and management organizations,
rural and urban labor condit
ions, migration and aid from
richer nations."
FOR A region which is more
than 90 per cent Catholic, these
words did not fall by the way-
side. In his inaugural address
last May, Costa Rica's Pre
sident Francisco Orlich declar
ed:
"We will not hesitate to ful
fill the social function that Ch
ristian teachings assign to the
state as part of its economic
programs, as it has been re
stated recently by Pope John
(in the encyclical "Mater et
Magistra"). In doing so, we will
respect the rights of the person
as long as such rights are not
misused to gain group privi
leges which detain or block the
achievement of common wel
fare."
Earlier President Romon
Villeda Morales of Honduras
also praised Mater et Magistra
as the inspiration and frame
work for Central America's
socio-economic reform. He was
addressing a joint conference
of ministers of foreign relations
and finance at Tegucigalpa.
IN THE main, conditions have
improved little since the timely
warning of the Bishops last
year. The Church has Intensi
fied its efforts at socio
economic betterment and edu
cation, but its means are li
mited. Briefly, these are some
of her outstanding works;
—The Costa Rican Bishops
have established a social action
secretariat and new school of
social studies, which has just
opened near San Jose. Catho
lics are a leading force in
vocational schools and in trade
unionism. Catholic radio broad
casting and the press reach
some 15 per cent of the po
pulation, which is better than
average for the region.
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By M. J. MURRAY
Copyright, 1961, N.C.W.C. New* iervtce
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eln El Salvador there is
an active social secretariat tr
aining leaders among workers
and peasants. Literacy cam
paigns through radio schools
have met good success. There
is a growing cooperative move
ment strengthened with spir
itual retreats.
•In Guatemala an influent
ial Young Christian Workers’
movement has sprung up In the
countryside. Indian leaders are
being trained at Guatemala City
and Soloma on community dev
elopment, catechetical work and
literacy campaigns. Parochial
schools—new institutions for
the country—are multiplying,
mostly under U. S. missio
naries.
•In Honduras the Church
has launched a powerful system
of radio schools, aided by se
veral lay apostolate movements
among workers, peasants and
white collar workers, who are
organized in 400 units. Industry
and commercial concerns are
financing the effort.
•Jesuits in Nicaragua have
opened the only Catholic univer
sity in the region. It has a
strong social program aimed at
the middle classes. Generous
scholarships are available. So
cial teachings in regular co
urses and in special institutes
and seminars are stressed, and
students engage in field social
work. Again industry has been
called In to help. There is a
good Catholic radio station, but
no radio school program yet.
There is also an excellent Ca
tholic-oriented daily, La Pre-
nsa.
some extent in Costa Rica—
aminiature picture of overall
continental problems, with their
one-product economies, fast
population growth, insufficient
industry and capital investment,
and the land tenure system.
BUT THEY offer a good num
ber of positive aspects. Out
standing among these is the
present movement toward an
economic and cultural in
tegration that is substantially
improving conditions of the re
gion.
•Panama is working toward
a Catholic university with the
help of President Roberto Ch-
iari, a practicing Catholic.
There are renewed efforts to
organize social weeks and to
train labor leaders, religion
teachers and lay apostles, mo
stly under young Auxiliary Bis
hop Mark McGrath of Panama
City, a member of the Second
Vatican Council’s Theology
Commission.
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IN SEVERAL countries Cat
holic charity and social assi
stance programs are carried
out with the help of Catholic
Relief Services—National Cat
holic Welfare Conference.
The Church in these lands—
were Catholicism was in
troduced in 1500—has some 11,
400,000 faithful in 730 parishes
and 33 ecclesiastical jurisdic
tions.
For their spiritual care these
Catholics have 1,760 priests,
one for every 6,500 souls (ave
rage for Latin America is one
for 4,750). This alarming pro
portion is complicated in some
areas by vast distances or in
clement climate.
The 270 students in major
seminaries do not seem to point
to a brighter future. Even if
27 were ordained each year—
this is the average since 1958
—they could hardly keep pace
with the rapid population growth
of three and even four percent.
If one priest to a thousand faith
ful is considered ideal, then
there is a shortage of almost
9,000 priests now. And al least
15 priests die or retire each
year.
TO RELIEVE the situation
there are some 360 American
Catholic missionaries in the
area: over 200 priests, 100
Sisters, 34 Brothers and close
to 30 lay missionaries.
Besides the literacy camp
aigns through radio and other
means, the Church supports in
Central America 362 schools—
many at the secondary level—
and the Central American Un
iversity at Managua. Students
total some 80,000 . Much of
the lay apostolate at present
comes from alumni of these
institutions.
CRS-NCWC aid has been par
ticularly welcome in an area
were caloric intake goes from
a low of 1,975 calories a day
to a top of 2,555 —U. S.
average is #1) - and where
wages of 60 cents-a-day are
almost the rule for the rural
population. There are 83 Cat
holic institutions of welfare,
directly aiding over 9,000
people. Hospitals under Cat
holic auspices number 154 with
8,540 beds.
These Central American
countries, once known as the
"banana republics", form a
vital link in the inter-American
system. They offer—save to
KANSAS CITY, Mo (NC)—A
10-year-old Brazilian back-
woods boy is heading home, his
body repaired from near fatal
burns and his head full of new
ly acquired English words.
With him is a Cape Girar
deau, Mo., nurse, who admits
she is homesick for the back-
woods country of Brazil. Nurse
Ann Nenninger has been the
chaperone of Joao Ribiero all
during his nine-month stay in
Missouri for medical treat
ment.
MISS NENNINGER, 24, an
alumna of St. Louis University,
was the first Papal Volunteer
from Missouri — is the only
one from the Springfield-Cape
Girardeau diocese. She was as
signed with some 20 of the Kan
sas PAVLA corps of volunteers
toward in public health and
sanitation as well as cateche
tical Instruction and home visi
tations for miles"around Belem,
Brazil.
While on a home visitation
tour about 100 miles from Be
lem, Miss Nenninger found the
boy. He had been burned nearly
fatally when a pot of boiling
beans fell off a stove in his
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series of stamps supporting the
Campaign Against Hunger of the
United Nations' Food and Agri
culture Organization (FAO) on
March 21, 1963.
The stamps will be of four
values: 15, 40, 100 and 200
lire.
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arles Collingwood, veteran
"newsman of the Columbia
Broadcasting System television
network, was presented with the
15th annual Journalism Award
of La Salle College here.
Brother Daniel Bernian,
F. S. C., president of the col
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Brothers, presented Colling
wood with the plaque.
The award, established by
the college student newspaper,
was bestowed for "distinguish
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of journalism,"
home and scalded him. "Some
how his family had been able
to keep him alive," the nurse
said.
THE U.S. volunteers party
moved the boy to Belem but the
treatment available there
wasn't sufficient to fend off
the deadly danger from the
burns. There Father Vincent
Lovett, director of PAVIA in
the Kansas City-St. Joseph Mo.,
diocese, came on the scene. He
arranged for skin grafting sur
gery here, so the boy and Miss
Nenninger came by plane last
July.
There were necessary delays
for clearning infections and
building up the boy physically
so he could withstand the sur
gical techniques. The boy un
derwent two operations for skin
grafting and muscle repair.
BETWEEN operations and
while recuperating in St. Mary’s
Hospital here, the boy tackled
English. Said Nurse Nenninger:
"He knows how to read and
write, and he speaks English
perfectly, but he’s not very
good in Portuguese, his na
tive language." While the boy
recuperating, Miss Nenninger
took additional missionary
training and formation cour
ses at a Grail center in Cali
fornia.
On her return to Belem, the
nurse said she probably will
be assigned to a new 30-bed
hospital now being established.
She said reports from the pro
ject indicate plans for the hos
pital are complete but more
equipment, supplies and medi
cal help are needed. Five nur
ses are on the staff, so the
hospital will offer bed and nur
sing care, but little else, she
said.
Before leaving, the nurse ad
mitted she is more homesick
for Belem and her work there
than she was for the Unived
States when she first went to
Brazil as a Papal Volunteer.
Serra To Meet
SAN FRANCISCO —(NC)—
The 1963 convention of Serra
International, laymen’s organi
zation which seeks to promote
vocations to the priesthood, will
be held here July 7-10. More
than 2,000 persons are expect
ed at the meeting in the Fair
mont Hotel. Emile Maloney of
San Francisco is general chair
man for the convention.
Then, while the nearness to
Castro’s Cuba makes them vul
nerable to new onslaughts from
the Reds, as the Bishops point
out, these peoples have twice
defeated communist attempts
at grabbing power once in Costa
Rica in 1948, against the Van-
guardia Popular Party which
had gained control of the Teo-
doro Picado administration; and
again In 1954 in Guatemala when
Jacobo Arbenz and his commu
nist allies were defeated by a
nationalist uprising.
Communications between the
once-isolated countries have
multiplied impressively in the
last few years: roads, trade,
radio broadcasting, and reg
ulations easing travel and com
merce. Fading rivalries have
been supplanted by cooperation.
You can even secure a "Cen
tral America" license plate.
CENTRAL America produces
fine coffee, good bananas and
hardwoods. It is also the
strategic location of the Panama
Canal. Much good-will and
many hopes accompany the pre
sent meeting, and several in
fluential publications and com
mentators, while cautions of
immediate commitments, hope
that on one line the Central
American presidents’ meeting
will bear some fruit. That is
in regard to trade. More than
Alliance for Progress funds,
these countries want better
prices for their commodities,
and more of the benefits to
stay at home and not to slip
into the hands of foreign in
vestors. Since 1957 these
countries have suffered losses
of $560 million because of a
steady drop in coffee prices.
Costa Rica obtains 54 per cent
of its dollars from coffee, and
Guatemala and El Salvador al
most 60 per cent. Honduras de
pends heavily on banana exports
and Nicaragua on coffee, gold
and bananas. The canal is the
lifeline of Panama. In turn the
countries import from the Un
ited States over $315 million a
year in manufactured goods.
DESPITE their problems and
shortcomings, Central Ameri
cans are proud of two "firsts"
in their history. Forty years
before Abraham Lincoln fought
against slavery, a Salvadorean
priest, Father Jose Limeon
Canas, secured freedom for all
slaves of Central America, both
Indians and Negroes.
And in the last century—
when few dreamed of an inter
national court of justice or a
United Nations— these peoples
opened the Central American
Court of Justice, not only to
settle intercountry differences,
but also to hear and straighten
any grievances of private citi
zens against their governments.
And as a precedent for what
the Church is trying to do to
improve the lot of the people
today, it was its priests who
in many instances started the
young countries in their ec
onomic growth. Father Felix
Velarde went from farm to farm
in Costa Rica a century ago
to promote the planting of coffee
trees. And Bishop Thomas de
Berlanga, of Panama City in
troduced the banana plant in the
New World in the 16th. cen
tury.
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