Remembering Our Responsibility to the Hungry

(12 Nov 06 - RV) Pope Benedict XVI says that the global economic system must be radically altered if the world is to start reducing the number of people who live in hunger. Addressing a crowd of thousands gathered in a rainy St Peter’s Square for the Sunday Angelus, the Holy Father marked Italy’s liturgical Feast of Thanksgiving by remembering the tragedy of hunger that, he said, remains very serious. Catherine Smibert was on the scene...