This version of The Weekly Benedict covers material released in the last week from 16 October 2012 – 28 October 2012 (subscribe here; get as an eBook version for your Kindle, iPod, iPad, Nook, or other eBook reader):
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The Message for World Food Day made me think as as I said grace and enjoyed my dinner and thought of … give us this day our daily bread … .
Some passages from B16 which struck me:
” .. fundamental right of each person to sufficient and healthy food … demands the commitment of national and international institutions to free humanity from hunger through agricultural development and the growth of rural communities. The gradual disengagement and excessive competition that are in fact being brought to bear on malnutrition, risk causing people to forget that only shared, common solutions can provide adequate responses to the expectations of people and peoples.
… guaranteeing freedom from hunger … through actions and structures inspired by solidarity and geared to participation. In this regard agricultural cooperatives are a practical example …
… guaranteeing freedom from hunger … through actions and structures inspired by solidarity and geared to participation. In this regard agricultural cooperatives are a practical example … … put an end to the speculative trends that are now even affecting basic staples destined for human nourishment and can contain the monopolization of cultivable areas which in various regions is forcing farmers to abandon their land since, as individuals, they have no possibility of imposing their rights.
… Catholic Church … considers work and cooperative enterprises as ways to live an experience of unity and solidarity that can overcome differences and even social conflicts between individual people and between the various groups. …
… cooperatives … true subsidiariety … correct relationship between people, society and institutions … keeping in the right perspective the promotion of the common good and the protection of the individual’s rights.
… cooperatives … represents this new type of economy at the service of the person, … sharing … free-giving … fruits of solidarity and brotherhood (Caritas in Veritate, n. 39). …. public authorities, working at the national and international levels, prepare the legislative and financial instruments to ensure that in rural areas cooperatives may be effective tools for agricultural production, food security, social change and a greater improvement of living conditions. …”