Showing posts with label hunger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hunger. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

... and deliver us from hypocrisy

World leaders convened at the FAO Headquarters for the World Summit on Food Security today unanimously adopted a declaration pledging renewed commitment to eradicate hunger from the face of the earth sustainably and at the earliest date.
The article ends:
Addressing FAO's Member States in all their official languages, the Pope concluded: "God bless your efforts to ensure that all people are given their daily bread."
Addressing the Pope, I conclude:
Cha líonann beannacht bolg.

A blessing does not fill a belly.