Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Many a thoughtful Catholic is worried by present-day results of this old policy. From 1920 to 1938, the birthrate of half-Catholic, largely urban Massachusetts fell from 23.7 to 13.8. The rate in one-third-Catholic New York City fell from 23.4 to 14.4. Parochial-school enrollment of elementary pupils has slumped on almost exactly the same curve as public-school attendance since 1930-despite increased church pressure to have Catholics send their children to church schools...
...only Wilfred Overend walking his tigress, Fenella. Wilfred roundly declared that Fenella was entitled to exercise, night or day, that she was no more dangerous than the average dog. But by last week most of Holmfirth had decided that, if Wilfred had Fenella, they would take chocolate. The Urban Council had put the matter in the hands of its lawyer. Said one councilman: "I understand this tiger is going to have young in the spring. Then we'll have a whole street full of tigers...
...memorable comment on the Cardinal's own death came from an even higher dignitary and was even more cryptic. "When the news of [Richelieu's] passing was brought to Urban VIII, the old Pope sat for a moment in pensive silence. 'Well,' he said at last, 'if there is a God, Cardinal Richelieu will have much to answer for. If not, he has done very well...
...Yangtze, black-market prices of rice were 30 times pre-war prices last spring. Last year, to make matters worse, Szechwan, Chiang Kai-shek's base province, had a crop failure. Its yield fell off almost 50%. To prevent hoarding, to make certain of Army and urban rice supplies, Chiang's Government this summer decided to collect the land tax in grain (almost exclusively rice), not money. With a better 1941 harvest in the offing, Free China is faced with no immediate famine...