Why is this so hard for people?

Saying that the quest to eliminate hunger is “one of the most serious challenge of our time,” the Pope notes with regret that existing programs “do not seem to have significantly diminished the number of hungry people in the world.”

Pope Benedict notes that many people find themselves starving after poverty or warfare forces them to leave their homes, and they cannot find food in their new locations. Every society should provide migrants and refugees with access to food, he writes, saying that the failure to do so is “an evident violation of human dignity.”