{"id":1457,"date":"2005-10-07T09:43:57","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T09:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/strike-breaker.html"},"modified":"2005-10-07T09:43:57","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T09:43:57","slug":"strike-breaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/strike-breaker.html","title":{"rendered":"Strike Breaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazilian bishop ends hunger strike as officials agree to discuss<\/a><\/p>\n

I didn’t read all of the comments on this below – I’m sorry,but look at my word meter – I wrote 2000 words yesterday! 2000 more today, I hope, but I don’t quite get those who might want to heap scorn on this bishop’s concern. Yes, a hunger strike might be a bit much, but if you read the interventions at the Synod, you see a great deal of concern for the environment and ecological concerns from developing-world bishops. Why? Because the quality of land and water is important to their people, and it is not uneard of for nations to make decisions regarding their resources that might increase their ability to provide a)a higher standard of living for the middle and upper classes or b)trade with the developed world at the expense of<\/em> those who engage in subsistence farming and so on. (I’m not saying that encouraging trade and sale of agricultural products is necessarily always a negative, but there have been times, historically, in which the desire to quench a large thirst ends up hurting a lot of people, in the end. Enclosure Acts, anyone?<\/a>)<\/p>\n

It is not inappropriate for bishops to be concerned about such things, and not incorrect or trendy for them to make connections between the Bread of Life in the Eucharist and the relationship of their people to physical bread.<\/p>\n

CWNews reports that the Vatican had a role in ceasing the fast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brazilian bishop ends hunger strike as officials agree to discuss I didn’t read all of the comments on this below – I’m sorry,but look at my word meter – I wrote 2000 words yesterday! 2000 more today, I hope, but I don’t quite get those who might want to heap scorn on this bishop’s concern.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nStrike Breaker - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/strike-breaker.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strike Breaker - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brazilian bishop ends hunger strike as officials agree to discuss I didn’t read all of the comments on this below – I’m sorry,but look at my word meter – I wrote 2000 words yesterday! 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