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Index Abell, Aaron I., 360 Abourezk, James, 288 “Adaptive Program for Agriculture”(Committee for Economic Development), 306–307 Ad Hoc Committee on Agricultural Issues, 296 Adrian, Minn., 12 AFL-CIO. See National Agricultural Workers Union African Americans, 3, 62, 112, 127, 266, 282, 290, 313, 326, 329–34 Agar, Herbert, 103–4, 172 Agency for International Development (AID), 207 Ag-Land Fund I, 288 Agribusiness Accountability Initiative (AAI), 221, 288 Agribusiness Accountability Project, 305 Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA): 94–97, 116, 123, 125, 127, 275; second AAA, 123–24 Agricultural Credit Improvement Act, 283 Agricultural Fair Practices Act, 290, 300 Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits and Security Act, 324 Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act, 300 Agricultural Missions, 223, 269 Agricultural Profession, The (Edwin O’Hara), 61 “Agriculture in California” (California diocesan directors), 322 Agriculture, Iowa Department of, 254 Agriculture, U.S. Department of (USDA), 81, 150, 192, 258, 281, 283, 326, 333, 344 Agrimissio, 211–12, 243, 255 Aiken, George, 298 Allitt, Patrick, 341 America, 47, 52, 83, 94, 233, 277, 330 American Agriculture Movement (AAM), 279 American Board of Catholic Missions (ABCM), 8, 57, 144, 145, 170, 171, 174, 242, 252, 253, 255 American Catholicism and Social Action: A Search for Social Justice (Aaron Abell), 360 American Committee on Italian Immigration , 191 American Country Life Association (ACLA), 45–46, 48, 54, 103, 362. See also Country Life Movement American Immigration Conference, 191 Ames, Iowa, 43, 136, 293 Amos Award, 292 Ancient Order of Hibernians, 21, 34 Andrews, Brother David, C.S.C.: background , 260; and biotechnology, 352; and conservation, 345; on cooperatives, 291; director of Edwin V. O’Hara Institute, 241; and “eating as a moral act,” 310–12, 311f23; and ecumenism, 269–70; executive director of NCRLC, 260–65; on family farm, 274; and Farm Aid, 306; and Fund for Rural America, 285; and globalization , 220–21; and International Catholic Rural Association, 179; and international rural life, 223; and land use, 346; and NCRLC concern for the environment, 343, 350; on National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, 289; on NAFTA, 281; on Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life, 338; on principles and lack of success of NCRLC, 365–66; on rural living environment, 337; on subsidiarity, 339; on water, 348 383 384 Index Anglo-Catholics, 1–3 Antigonish, Nova Scotia, 46, 119, 149, 290 Appalachia, 79, 248, 266, 313, 328–29 Appalachian Development Program, 328–29 Appalachian Regional School for Church Leaders, 240 Appalachia—Science in the Public Interest , 343 Apostolate Library Service, 156, 172 Aquinas, St. Thomas, 25 Aquino, Corazon, 219 Arab oil embargo, 353 Arizona Highways, 228 Arnold, Cecilia, 339 Asian farmers (ethnics in U.S.), 282 Association of Belgian and Holland Priests, 12 Assumption, Ohio, 290 Assumption Parish (Granger, Iowa), 138 Atchison, Kan., 54. See also St. Benedict’s College At Home in the Web of Life (Catholic bishops of Appalachia), 248 Audubon, Iowa, 295n22 Aurora, Kan., 232 Australia, 46, 212 Austrians: ethnics in United States, 15, 16t2 Baer, Rev. Urban, 148 Baker, O. E., 81–82, 360 Baltimore, archdiocese of, 54, 55 Bankhead, John H.: 107; Bankhead farm tenancy bill, 132 Bartholome, Bp. Peter W., 336 Barzynski, John, 12 Basilians, 49 Bay St. Louis, Miss., 162 Beland, Mr., 111 Beldon Foundation, 261 Belgians: ethnics in United States, 3, 15, 16t2 Belgium, 26, 46, 62, 108 Belize, 223 Belloc, Hilaire, 103, 120 Belleville, Ill., 163 Benedict XVI, Pope, 275 Benedictines (religious order), 48, 49, 105, 112. See also Schmiedeler, Rev. Edgar, O.S.B. Bennett Law, 22 Benson, Ezra T., 306, 318 Berdyaeff, Nicholas, 105 Bergengren, Roy, 88 Bergland, Robert, 198, 298 Berrigan, Daniel, S.J., 265 Berrigan, Philip, S.J., 265 Berry, Thomas, C.P., 342 Berry, Wendell, 339 Bertels, Sister Thomas More, O.S.F., 304, 323 Better Rural Life, A (Edgar Schmiedeler), 148 Bishop, Rev. William Howard, 60, 62, 80f3, 142; on Agricultural Adjustment Act, 95; and anti-bigotry campaign, 74–75; and back-to-the-land movement, 93, 106–11; on cooperatives, 118; on Depression, 85, 91, 92–93, 99, 102; and Glenmary Missioners , 79; as NCRLC president in 1930s, 130–31, 136, 144; prospectus for diocesan directors, 146 Bishops’ Committee for Catholic Migrants, 318 Bishops’ Committee for Migrant Workers, 325 Bishops’ Committee for the Spanish Speaking , 318, 325 Bishops’ Program of Reconstruction, 29–30, 87 Bismarck, N.D.: 140; diocese of, 140, 255 Blacks. See African Americans Blobaum, Roger, 245 Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., 178 Boerenbond, 46, 108, 116 Bolivia, 196 Bolling, Ala., 112, 120 Bolton, Mary V., 48 Borsodi...

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