{"id":975,"date":"2010-02-10T16:14:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=413"},"modified":"2010-02-10T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:14:51","slug":"feeling-vague-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"feeling ‘vague compassion’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently gave a talk at the University of Notre Dame. \u00a0 It was sponsored, in part, by ND’s Center for Social Concerns.<\/em> \u00a0 The Center is recognized nationally for it’s community-based learning courses. \u00a0 What’s more, students do “immersion experiences” in gang war zones in Chicago, migrant farm labor camps in Florida, in the back woods of Appalachia… \u00a0 Students also go throughout the Third World to help with providing food, health care, adequate housing, education… for those in dire need of all of these. \u00a0 In addition, the Center sponsors seminars on such subjects as: human trafficking, authentic human development, poverty… \u00a0 Executive Director Rev. William Lies, points to Catholic Church teaching that explains: \u00a0 “Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. \u00a0 On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good…” \u00a0 Average Joe translation: \u00a0 If we know 24,000 people are starving to death every day in the world, we in America need to be sacrificing our butts off (way less food, way less energy use, way less entertainment…), so people in the Third World can have at least the basics in adequate food, medicine, shelter… \u00a0 That is, if we’re taking the Gospel message seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently gave a talk at the University of Notre Dame. \u00a0 It was sponsored, in part, by ND’s Center for Social Concerns. \u00a0 The Center is recognized nationally for it’s community-based learning courses. \u00a0 What’s more, students do “immersion …<\/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-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","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=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}