| A wire service report this week showed a single | | | | because the problems are so overwhelming that |
| mother in Bangladesh who had advertised to sell | | | | we don't know where to start? |
| one of her eyes to buy food for her starving | | | | We burn down the rainforests, clear the jungles, |
| daughter. | | | | despoil the environment so that we can create |
| Try to think about that without your blood running | | | | new soil-poor farms to feed more mouths. There |
| cold: human beings selling parts of themselves as | | | | are just too, too many of us but our leaders |
| a final act of desperation. And that woman is only | | | | ignore the problem at the root of the world's |
| one of the hundreds of thousands who are slowly | | | | burgeoning troubles: overpopulation. |
| starving to death each day. | | | | And in Rome, the new Pope will continue the |
| What happened to the concert fundraisers for | | | | traditional church doctrine against contraception. |
| Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa? Have | | | | How ironic that the horsemen: death, disease, |
| we exhausted our capacity to care and to give? | | | | famine, and pestilence, should be loosed on the |
| Have we become numb to the plight of millions | | | | world by the City of Faith. |