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The Best Time of Year
… Christmas carols on the piano. I love going into the forest to find the perfect Christmas tree and decorating it. But, the real reason this is the best time of the year is different from …
Amid Sandy, symposium pairs papal teaching and climate change
… and sacramental life he stresses, saying he asks those he baptizes or confirms to plant 10 trees as a way to give new life but also curb climate change, according to Catholic News Service …
Syrian refugees who fled fighting live in limbo in neighboring Turkey
… his city to the Syrian border. Along the way he reported seeing "entire families living under trees, cooking leaves for their kids to eat and asking passers-by for clothing." "I could not …
Liberation theologian's Call to Action speech focuses on feminism, interreligious work
… a parking meter and fell down. But he just stayed on the ground where he was, gazing up at the trees. "Mommy, what do you think that God is trying to tell us?" Mommy waited. Observed little …
Hurricane Sandy reveals fissures in New York
… overlooking the East River, it looked as if a Cyclops had come by and swept several enormous trees away with the back of a hand. Of course, in ways that mattered, chaos was kept at a …
A media roundup of climate change stories
… New Guinea, performs a baptism, confirmation or ordination, he asks churchgoers to plant 10 trees to promote new life. Unabali considers the link between respecting the environment and the … the church as inseparable, writes Dennis Sadowski in a Nov. 9 Catholic News Service article . Tree-planting is one way this bishop encourages people to respond to the rapid pace of climate …
Interrupted lives
… I lost a lot, but not that much. The house itself withstood the surge; the garage did not. Two trees went down; one clipped the house. The Catskill (N.Y.) Fire Department pumped out the crawl …
After Sandy, 'people need everything,' says Catholic Charities official
… Sandy, which made landfall Monday in New Jersey, caused flooding, power outages, downed trees and other calamities over a large swath of the East Coast and into the Midwest. As of …
In running and in life, one foot in front of the other
… to break up large tasks into smaller, more measurable goals: "I will run until I get to that tree ahead"; "I have already done two miles, what's one more?"; or "I can do ANYTHING for 30 more …
Queens residents face travel troubles after Hurricane Sandy
… the East River overlooking Manhattan from Queens were puddles of water. Still, several large trees in Astoria Park were uprooted down to their roots, as if a Cyclops had come by and swept … away with the back of a hand. The curious were out taking photos and posing next to the fallen trees. Fall had come late to New York City this year, and the fall leaves still have not fully … or brown; in some areas, the sidewalks were inundated with leaves of mixed colors and fallen tree branches. Meanwhile, the hurricane's high winds claimed some large signage, which lay on the …