{"id":712,"date":"2007-09-27T16:01:46","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T16:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=147"},"modified":"2007-09-27T16:01:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T16:01:46","slug":"92307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"9\/23\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

We traveled to Peebles, Ohio, where I talked with Fr. Paul Donohue who is a Comboni Missionary for the Catholic Church. \u00a0 He was stationed in Kitgum, Uganda for a time. \u00a0 When I asked him about the poverty he saw, he said “poverty is a cultural concept.” \u00a0 He said many in Kitgum were part of subsistence farmer families who were just getting by. \u00a0 He said at one point he took a boy from the Sudan (Third World) to Italy (First World). \u00a0 \u00a0Going \u00a0down a street the first day, the boy stopped and stared at a woman — with an obvious \u00a0mental disorder — walking down the street animatedly talking to herself. \u00a0 The boy later said to Fr. Paul that his country would never be so poor that a person wouldn’t have “someone else to talk to.” \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> During Campaign 2000, we interviewed a priest in Hart, Michigan, who takes upper-middle class American suburbanites to some of the poorest parts of Mexico. \u00a0 He doesn’t take them there to help. \u00a0 He takes them there to experience the solid sense of faith, family and community that can develop in places where people are unfettered by all kinds of material pursuits. \u00a0 The priest calls it a: “reverse mission.” \u00a0 (This doesn’t mean, of course, that people in the Third World shouldn’t have all the basics in food, medicine, shelter…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We traveled to Peebles, Ohio, where I talked with Fr. Paul Donohue who is a Comboni Missionary for the Catholic Church. \u00a0 He was stationed in Kitgum, Uganda for a time. \u00a0 When I asked him about the poverty he …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}