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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, Alterations Tuxedos Rented "Clothes Tailored For You" TAILORS - CLEANERS Men’s Wear 106 W. Court Sq DR 3-2366 Decatur, Ga. Peachtree Road Pharmacy Pick Up and Delivery Service CE 7-6466 4062 Peachtree Rd. Atlanta 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. 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J r\ Modelled after.-a LIGHTSHIP 1 , THIS UNUSUAL SANCTUARY LAMP HANGS/NINE CHAPEL AT THE APOSTLE SNIP OF THE SEA'S HEADQUARTERS IN LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND. . 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. CHEATED DEATH Boy Named Joe Back To Brazil 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 Vatican Issues New Stamps VATICAN CITY (NC)—Vati can City will issue a special 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. College Honors PHILADELPHIA (NC)—Ch- 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 lege conducted by the Christian Brothers, presented Colling wood with the plaque. The award, established by the college student newspaper, was bestowed for "distinguish ed public service in the field 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. 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