{"id":1167,"date":"2011-04-01T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T08:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2011-04-01T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T08:40:02","slug":"katolsk-nodhelpsarbeid-ma-vaere-katolsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2011\/04\/katolsk-nodhelpsarbeid-ma-vaere-katolsk\/","title":{"rendered":"Katolsk n\u00f8dhelpsarbeid m\u00e5 v\u00e6re katolsk – del 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeg skrev for akkurat en m\u00e5ned siden<\/a> om at Vatikanet ikke har tillatt lederen av Caritas International \u00e5 kunne gjenvelges for en ny periode. Jeg har ogs\u00e5 lest at Vatikanet burde ha h\u00e5ndtert dette bedre; konsultert med Caritas bedre om dette problemet i forkant etc. – og det kan det sikkert v\u00e6re noe i. I dag leser jeg at George Weigel om sp\u00f8rsm\u00e5let i First Thing, og fokuserer p\u00e5 de ideologiske problemene i denne saken. Konfliken har oppst\u00e5tt, skriver han, fordi:<\/p>\n

…. it will be because the INGO (International non-governmental organizations) world is dominated by an unbending \u201cprogressive\u201d orthodoxy on development and health care questions that sits poorly with Catholic understandings of how people are empowered to break out of the cycle of poverty. INGO shibboleths are also in sharp conflict with Catholic understandings of the best way to fight the AIDS plague in Africa and other poverty-stricken parts of the world. There is very little public evidence that Caritas International, under Ms. Knight\u2019s leadership, challenged the rigidities in INGO thinking that are a real-world obstacle to empowering the poor and to driving down the incidence of HIV\/AIDS. A case in point was her address to a \u201cCatholic Networking Session\u201d at the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna.<\/p>\n

There, Ms. Knight asked. \u201cIs there a uniquely Catholic approach to the global HIV pandemic? And if so, what is it?\u201d Her first answer: \u201cI fear that there may be people here in Vienna this week who would answer that it is one characterized by dogma, hypocrisy, moralizing, and condemnation.\u201d …. did Ms. Knight challenge this caricature? Not really. The best she could manage was to lament that Catholic AIDS workers (the largest group of non-governmental care-providers for people suffering from AIDS) \u201care still dogged by these criticisms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nor, in answering her own question, did Leslie-Anne Knight say what she might have said, which is this: \u201cYes, there is a uniquely Catholic approach to the global HIV pandemic. It is an approach that takes seriously the dignity of the human person, which includes the capacity of men and women to change patterns of behavior that put themselves, …. And it is an approach that refuses to burn incense at the altar of the false god latex, where the real votaries of rigid dogma are to be found among those for whom condoms are instruments of salvation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Knight, I hardly need add, said none of this. To the contrary: she put the authority of her position behind a reiteration of the poverty\/stigma\/low-educational-levels mythology. Which is to say, she reinforced the rigidities that are the true obstacles to the \u201cdevelopment innovation and collaboration\u201d for which she called.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean to suggest that Ms. Knight is singularly wrong-headed. What she said (and didn\u2019t say) in Vienna expressed what is quite likely the consensus among many Caritas International-affiliated agencies. These agencies have absorbed from the INGO atmosphere in which they work, and from the governments and international agencies on whose funding they have come to depend, the approach to development and AIDS that shaped Ms. Knight\u2019s speech and rendered it strangely anemic in its Catholic identity.<\/p>\n

That identity is what the Holy See is determined to reassert in global Catholic development and health care efforts. As the drama of that re-set unfolds, support for the Vatican\u2019s efforts by the leadership of the U.S. bishops\u2019 Catholic Relief Services would be in order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeg skrev for akkurat en m\u00e5ned siden om at Vatikanet ikke har tillatt lederen av Caritas International \u00e5 kunne gjenvelges for en ny periode. Jeg har ogs\u00e5 lest at Vatikanet burde ha h\u00e5ndtert dette bedre; konsultert med Caritas bedre om dette problemet i forkant etc. – og det kan det sikkert v\u00e6re noe i. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katolsk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}