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The Linacre QuarterlyVolume 34 | Number 1 Article 5February 1967Moderator's Message ... The Good of the BodyMarvin BordelonFollow this and additional works at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnqRecommended CitationBordelon, Marvin (1967) "Moderator's Message ... The Good of the Body," The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 34 : No. 1 , Article 5.Available at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol34/iss1/5.II Moderator's Message ... The Good. of the Body Primarily, this is what physidans are all about- the good of the body. F( r a person is not a person without a body. God thought enough of bodies to gh e us each one. Physicians go about their business of tending bodies through preventive an 1 curative means. Their dedication to the needs of all persons is impressiv ·. Truly, our society uses the dedication of the physician as the base of compariso. 1. ~'As dedicated as a doctor," is common currency in our society. Without getting too technical, it is becoming increasingly apparent that foe. d is the chief means of preventive medicine available ·to God's human fami y today; lack of proper nutrition on a world-wide basis is the chief cause :)f disease. Where then do Catholic physicians of America stand in the face of thi ;? What is their role? Father Yves Congar, O.P. makes a serious indictment n this regard: "We must fr~uJdy admit that it is the rich-'or, in any case tho:;e who are not exactly 'needy' who talk . about poverty. Sometimes they talk well indeed, but that does not change anything." (Concilium, Vol. 15, p. f 6, PaulistPress, N. Y.) But there is a dilemma. I am convinced that Catholic physicians by a· 1d large mean well, but don't know what to do. Just what shall we do abc ut the preventive medicine called food; about the disease called malnutritio 1? On the world-scale of God's human family? I suggest the following for your consideration as a Catholic physician: 1. Get involved seriously and to the extent of your talents in governmen~ al programs to alleviate poverty. The taxative power of government me"ns power, power to eradicate poverty. If abuses exist, your Christian preser ce will remedy that. 2. Sk~p a meal a week during 1967- to identify with the hungry by sufferi ~1g the pangs of hunger for a little while each week. Give the money saved to the poor. 3. Think about having your next Guild function in a second class hotel , w:th the banquet ticket not to exceed $1.50- a dramatic enough demonstration on behalf of God's poor. Distribute the money saved to them- to Christ who is hungry, and thirsty and naked and homeless in our brothers. VERY REv. MsGR. MARVIN BoRDELON 10 LIN ACRE QuARTERLY 

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