A boy and his younger brother eat their free meals during a feeding program in late May at a slum area in Manila, Philippines. Pope Francis denounced widespread hunger due to wasted food as a symptom of a “throwaway culture” and called for greater effort to build a worldwide “culture of encounter and solidarity” instead. (CNS photo/Romeo Ranoco, Reuters) (Oct. 16, 2013) See POPE-FOOD Oct. 16, 2013.