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World citizens.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Kudos to Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs. His guest editorial "Third World Disease" (May 1, 2004, p. 6) should be reprinted every so often.
We who thrive in the industrial world, especially here in the United States, must be constantly reminded of our part in inflicting on the rest of the world the reasons for their being mired in the throes of ill health, starvation, and illiteracy. They all go together. Dr. Sachs harshly but correctly admonished us for our part in such horrors as unnecessary, hegemonic, and soluble, Amen.
But I suggest he shortchanged us on that part of the equation. It deserves reinforcement. While he pointed out that the costs of managing the world's correctable illnesses are partly reflected in our squandered finances on "military operations in Iraq," more must be made of that point because of its seminal role and enormous ...
- Faith, power and the poor.(Bishop Dom Helder Camara)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Serbin, Kenneth P. September 22, 1999 700+ words
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- Picture from: Magnum Photos Martine Franck January 1, 1985 700+ words
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- Camara's preference was for the poor.(Dom Helder Pessoa Camara)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter MacEION, GARY September 10, 1999 700+ words
...oppression as an `insult to creation' Dom Helder Pessoa Camara, retired archbishop of...Vatican Council assembled in Rome in 1962 Dom Helder participated as an auxiliary bishop of...weeks before the end of the council, Dom Helder summed up the group's findings...
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- Magazine article from: Social Policy September 22, 2002 700+ words
...to give counsel about what happens on earth. Christ came to free us from sin and the consequences of sin, from selfishness and the results of selfishness." Dom Helder Camera, former Bishop of Recife, Brazil, died in 1999 at age 90.
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- Magazine article from: Catholic New Times Reilly, Christopher February 12, 2006 700+ words
...he helped organize talks by Jean Vanier, Mother Teresa, Caesar Chavez, Henri Nouwen, and Dom Helder Camara. Sullivan remembers, "Dom Helder spent a week at our house--it was the most sacred week of our family's life." Sullivan also...
- The red bishop.(The Last Word)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Rocha, Flavio January 30, 2009 700+ words
...the phone. No bomb exploded. Dom Helder quietly lobbied for a less ostentatious...to the hearts of the people." Dom Helder died in 1999 at ninety, but his...Flavio Rocha is the author of Dom Helder Camara: Meditations for the Integrity...
- THINGS TO PONDER
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) November 17, 1987 700+ words
...deliverance from what one of the marchers, Archbishop Dom Helder Camara of Brazil, called the "darkest" evil. Two hundred...However, I believe we'd all do well to ponder what Dom Helder Camara said years ago when he worked for land reform in Brazil...
Source: HighBeam Research, World citizens.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)