TY - BOOK AU - Bovee,David S. ED - National Catholic Rural Life Conference (U.S.) ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The church & the land: the National Catholic Rural Life Conference and American society, 1923-2007 AV - BX1407.R8 B68 2010 U1 - 282/.73091734 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Catholic University of America Press KW - Catholic Church KW - United States KW - National Catholic Rural Life Conference (U.S.) KW - Rural churches KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface -- Catholic rural America to 1920 -- O'Hara and the formation of the conference -- The Catholic rural population problem -- The Great Depression -- Programs to meet the crisis -- Inside the NCRLC -- Ligutti takes the helm -- The conference becomes international -- Helping developing countries -- The end of the Ligutti era -- Organizing for social involvement -- For the family farm in the age of agribusiness -- Fighting poverty -- Stewardship of the planet -- Catholic and American : the NCRLC over eight decades; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3135046 ER -