{"id":149,"date":"2006-07-18T21:35:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T01:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/07\/18\/giving-charity-a-good-name\/"},"modified":"2006-08-22T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T13:17:44","slug":"giving-charity-a-good-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/07\/18\/giving-charity-a-good-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Charity a Good Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; This debate over <strong>charity<\/strong> and philanthropy is crucial for America\u2019s foundations. A new and perhaps surprising figure entered the debate in January, when Pope <strong>Benedict<\/strong> XVI issued his first encyclical, <em>Deus caritas est<\/em> (\u201cGod is love\u201d), and insisted that there is no substitute for <strong>charity<\/strong>\u2014for the direct, personal involvement of individuals and communities in the lives of those who are suffering, those in need of material or educational assistance, or those simply needing the consolation of human contact. <em>Deus caritas est<\/em> is not, to be sure, a broadside aimed from one side at another in the philanthropy wars. It has things to say, however, that deserve reflection by all concerned, because they challenge us to re-examine our understanding of modern philanthropy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philanthropyroundtable.org\/magazines\/2006\/marapr\/blessingsofcharity.htm\">http:\/\/philanthropyroundtable.org\/magazines\/2006\/marapr\/blessingsofcharity.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; This debate over charity and philanthropy is crucial for America\u2019s foundations. A new and perhaps surprising figure entered the debate in January, when Pope Benedict XVI issued his first encyclical, Deus caritas est (\u201cGod is love\u201d), and insisted that there is no substitute for charity\u2014for the direct, personal involvement of individuals and communities in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-international-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}