Courier-Journal — Friday, Dec. 20, .1969 '-11 CHILE: GUATEMALA: m MAY SANTA I 'Pomp,* Wealth Downgraded Bishop Tells of 'Great Task' LAND LIGHTLY ON YOUR ROOF Santiago, Chile —
HOLIDAYS IN PUERTO RICO URUGUAY: San Juan, P.R. — (N.C. — A Puerto Rican attorney proposed here that Thanksgiving Day be transferred to the Day of Dis covery of Puerto Rico, thus sep Social Action on Increase arating it from the history and culture of the United States. Montevideo, Uruguay — He also asked that the day be inflation and political unrest. olic Relief Services (CRS) is The missionaries have suc observed as a full holiday. Spurred by the worsening being increased and reorient ceeded in bringing modern socio-economic conditions in They issued a series of ed. A recent agreement be Uruguay, the Church is be recommendations stress techniques to farming and tween the government and cattle raising in the area. coming more deeply involved ing the need for greater par CRS calls for total exemp in development work through ticipation of the people in tion of taxes and duties for the efforts of 8,000 Catholics civic affairs, pressure for so Communities there have participating in social action cial and tax reforms, and all donations brought by the also been spurred to build groupa greater productivity. agency into Uruguay and in schools and roads, to start sures government coopera cooperative efforts in market These efforts started a year Catholic lawyers, economists tion in warehousing and dis ing their agricultural prod ago after Archbishop Carlos and social scientists, as well tribution. ucts, and to open health cen Parteli, apostolic administra as other lay leaders, had a ters. This CRS operation began tor of-Montevideo, issued a major share in the effort Catholic involvement is letter denouncing the steady Protestant and Jewish groups in 1959 during emergency re lief in the aftermath of severe further highlighted by the A Superb Gift deterioration of living condi also participated. growing efforts to provide tions among the poor because floods. Since that time a housing for low-income of "a system incompatible The session dealing with committee attached to the groups. Former Catholic Ac with Christian tenets." the state of the nation heard ministry of health has coordi tion leader Horacio Terra an outline from Auxiliary nated the flow of food, medi Arocena, an architect, for (But you'd never know it from the price.) About 450 delegates from Bishop AndTes Rubio of cal supplies and clothing. parishes throughout greater several years has headed the Montevideo on a 1969 National Institute of Housing Montevideo met here in the Church renewal program One of the first groups to first week in December to re benefit from the aid is the (NIH), which is now build geared to the civic and social ing 2,300 low-cost homes in view the findings of these action of Catholics. Northern Uruguay Mission Catholic social action groups ary Organization, which con this city and in 25 other popu centrates on development of lation centers, with the co on underdevelopment and The supply of foreign aid operation of "neighborhood human problems in agricul coming through such agen the poorer sections of the crews" of prospective owners. ture, industry, foreign trade, cies as CARE and U.S. Cath country.
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