The Middle Way
The National Catholic Rural Life Conference and Rural Issues in the 20 th and 21 st Centuries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7579429 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David S Bovée (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 762-808 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajes.12155 |
| OpenAlex | W2345469526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article explains how the National Catholic Rural Life Conference (NCRLC), from its founding in 1923 to the present, applied basic Catholic principles in response to a succession of changes in American rural society. In doing so, it proposed a middle way between capitalism and socialism and between the Democratic and Republican parties. In the 1920s, the Reverend Edwin V. O'Hara founded the NCRLC mainly to bolster the demographically weak rural Church. In the 1930s, the NCRLC turned to economic concerns in response to the Great Depression. It supported many New Deal programs that helped farmers as well as cooperatives and a “back‐to‐the‐land” movement. The Conference consistently supported the family farm as the basic institution of a morally and economically sound rural society. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Conference entered the realm of international affairs under Monsignor Luigi G. Ligutti and addressed problems of world hunger, land reform, and underdeveloped countries. Under Monsignor Edward W. O'Rourke, who became director in 1960, the NCRLC joined in the movement for social justice and campaigned for the rights of the rural poor and migrant farm workers. Starting around 1970, the Conference became increasingly interested in environmental and energy issues. The NCRLC is in harmony with the 21 st ‐century pope, Francis, on rural and ecological issues
Capitalism · Communism · Democracy · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Great Depression · Political science · Politics · Realm · Socialism · Sociology · Catholicism and Religious Studies · History · Law
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940.
Church and Society
Poverty and Politics
Born in the Country
The Farm Crisis 1919–1923
Immigrants and Politics. The Germans of Nebraska, 1880-1900
George N. Peek and the Fight for Farm Parity
Hibernia America
The Resisted Revolution
Decentralist Intellectuals and the New Deal
American Catholicism and Social Action
The Reception of Leo XIII's Labor Encyclical in America, 1891–1919
The Greening of America, Catholic Style, 1930-1950
American Catholics and Social Reform
Rural Roads to Security
Shake-Out
César Chávez
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |