Be One in a Million: Catholics Confront Global Poverty
Yesterday morning the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services launched a major campaign to confront global poverty. Dubbed Catholics Confront Global Poverty, the Campaign aims to mobilize one million U.S. Catholics to advocate to end poverty, hunger and disease around the world.
Bishop Howard Hubbard, Chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace at the USCCB and Bishop of Albany, NY, launched the campaign along with Mr. Ken Hackett, President of Catholic Relief Services. Bishop Fernando Bargallo of Merlo-Moreno Argentina and Ugandan Archbishop John Baptist Odama took part in the event as well. Archbishop Odama closed his message with a charge for “people of good faith and good will to advocate for the promotion and defense of human dignity.”
The launch took place at the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, held on Capitol Hill here in Washington. I attended the event along with hundreds of leaders from across the US. They are in town this week to share, learn, advocate and strategize. It was an exciting moment where local and national leaders joined together “in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the developing world.”
The Catholics Confront Global Poverty initiative is built on the foundation of the earlier Catholic Campaign Against Global Poverty that started in 2005. To learn more about the initiative, visit www.usccb.org/globalpoverty and www.crs.org/globalpoverty.
I was able to talk with Bishop Hubbard after the event and he offered his thoughts for you in this video message:
-Adam Phillips
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February 24, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Adam I was happy to see this posting. You probably know that Archbishop Timothy Dolan–who will be our next Archbishop in New York–has an article in the Commonweal Review entitled Blueprint for Peace–Pope Benedict’s Call to Fight Poverty.
He invokes the Catholics Confront Global Poverty campaign above and summarizes some of Pope Benedict’s most recent writing on global poverty. He ends on an inspiring note stressing that now in times of economic distress, Catholics must urge our government leaders to keep this issue first and foremost.
It is an inspiring article