Word: ruralization
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Many a churchman sees a Catholic decline ahead unless the Catholic Church can strengthen itself in the rural areas, where families are still big enough to keep church membership growing. With Protestants outnumbering Catholics in rural areas by nearly five to one (the national ratio is less than two to one), falling urban birthrates (ten adults now rear only seven children) threaten to make Catholicism relatively less important in the next generation. The cities depend for survival on immigration from the countryside or overseas. In 1941 urban Catholic churches are not drawing much new strength from either source...
...Catholic organization most directly concerned with this problem met last week to do something about it. This was the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, which gathered in Jefferson City, Mo. for its 19th annual convention. It discussed dozens of ways to strengthen rural Catholicism...
...founder, Father Edwin Vincent O'Hara, now Bishop of Kansas City, says that Catholicism urgently needs 10,000 strong country parishes. Instead, 1,022 of the U.S.'s 2,952 counties have no resident Catholic priest at all and another 500 have no Catholic priest in their rural sections...
This shortage of nurses, said Surgeon General Thomas Parran last week, is a "definite menace" to U.S. health. At least 30,000 more nurses, he admitted, are needed right now for the Army, Navy, hospitals, public health work in rural areas. At present, there are 300,000 working nurses in the U.S., about 100,000 retired. Last year 38,000 new nurses enrolled in training schools; this year 50,000 are needed, says the Public Health Service. Reasons for the shortage: 1) Government health funds have greatly expanded State health programs, have provided more nurses' jobs; 2) more people...
Zimmerman has recently been the recipient of much publicity because of his pessimistic predictions about the "drastic" decline of our population. The soft-spoken southerner, also one of the best-known authorities on, rural sociology, has attracted wide attention because of indictment of the wealthy and more privileged families that refuse to have their allotted number of children and instead leave that undertaking to the slum folks who can ill afford...