Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blending spiritual and temporal concerns, the 1976 theme was "Hungers of the Human Family." Each day's meetings emphasized a different hunger -for God, Jesus, truth, understanding, freedom and justice, the spirit, peace...
...most impassioned messages to those assembled dealt with the basic world hunger for bread. In the Civic Center auditorium, Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe said that if each U.S. Catholic fasted for one meal a week, the money saved could buy $2.5 billion worth of food for the needy each year. (By such fasting over the past year, U.S. Catholics had already saved enough money to buy a shipload of rice, which they sent to Bangladesh during the congress.) Brazil's activist Archbishop Helder Camara called the world's unequal distribution of wealth "the greatest scandal...
Breaking Bread. Clad in her spotless blue-bordered white sari, Mother Teresa, who ministers to the starving people of Calcutta (TIME, Dec. 29), was the cynosure of the congress. At the world-hunger symposium, the diminutive nun prayed over a table laden with bread, then broke a loaf of bread and invited those in attendance to do likewise to symbolize the sharing of food. To her, both the U.S. and India are in deep trouble. "There is spiritual poverty and there is material poverty," she told her audience of 6,000 faithful, "and I think each...
...topper was last month's stunning blow to the Ford Administration's bid to eliminate $1.2 billion in food stamps. Ruling that the proposed action was probably illegal, Federal Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. blocked the food-stamp cut until the case is finally resolved. Said Smith: "Hunger and deprivation might result, which could hardly be cured through any retroactive relief...
...principles and the potential on the one hand and the reality on the other is still frighteningly wide, even within America. Americans of non-European descent are still having to struggle to achieve for themselves their full rights as American citizens, equal with all others. Extreme poverty, and even hunger, exist among a sizable minority of American people. There appears to be almost a breakdown of many of the public and communal services which are vital to civilized life and in respect of which we would expect America to be an example to the rest of struggling humanity...