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Garden offers healing to abuse victims
… tucked into an area just west of Holy Family Church and features more than 25 kinds of plants, trees and flowers arranged around a statue of the Holy Family donated by the Sisters of the Holy …
Hal Borland: 'Now it's summer'
… of the bee and the wasp, the surge of green across the Earth. Then the first rush is over, the trees are vast canopies of cholorophyll, the meadows tall with grass, the fields thick-bladed …
Reflections after the American Catholic Council meeting
… before. If the Church is a garden, new sprouts are proliferating. There have always been tall trees and shrubs (cathedral and parish communities) in the church. But now, there are new …
Catholics see the same thing differently: Malick's \"The Tree of Life\"
… Rose Pacatte … A couple of weeks ago "The Tree of Life" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival though some audience … 's Rich Heffern got a jump-start on Catholics reviewing Terrence Malick's latest film "The Tree of Life" that opened this past Friday in limited release. Heffern is obviously taken with … it totally. The way to life, therefore, is a path of surrender and acceptance. I think that 'Tree of Life' is communicating this same difficult but vital lesson." Then John P. McCarthy, …
A lesson from nature
… a group of young squirrels. Half grown siblings, they scurried up the trunk of the highest Ash tree and when they reached the top, came to an abrupt halt as they hit a dead end. The next tree was a considerable distance away, which seemed daunting to me. With barely a pause, the … not been tethered for months, drifting amidst the seed pod casings shed from the overhanging trees following recent thunder storms. I liken the seeds to the spiritual potential we all have, …
Brood XIX brings a deafening chorus to the South
… was the last time they held their One of the gazillion-member Brood XIX infamous two-month, tree-level mating frenzy. After their long nap, these periodical cicadas woke up and emerged from … Second, after their two-month breeding cycle, the dying cicadas will help support the very trees they feed off of: "When they die, their carcasses essentially decay and provide a nice nutrient injection back into the soil for the trees," Gene Kritsky, editor-in-chief of the journal American Entomologist, told National Public …
The geologians: Stalking the divine in the real
… and about late at night. Her descriptions of a praying mantis eating her mate during sex, or a tree filled with natural lights, or a water bug eating a frog by dissolving its insides and …
Paper or plastic?
… bags take up less room. Either option is a bad choice for the natural world. Paper bags mean trees felled, while plastic takes forever in the landfill to self-destruct. Both contribute to … strategies for right living in the ways of the natural world. Lao Tzu, a Taoist sage, wrote: “Trees and animals, humans and insects, flowers and birds. These are active images of the subtle …
'The Tree of Life' asks 'Who are we to You?'
… Rich Heffern … Terrence Malick’s new film, “The Tree of Life,” is at once a wide-ranging meditation, an elegaic cinematic rendering of what it’s … but is actually the crux of the film. The mother is a loving presence, photographed with trees and butterflies; the father is a businessman shown at work amid steel gantries and …
The rush toward summer
… summer annuals, between peas and corn and beans and the annual crop of weeds. Meanwhile, the trees spread their green canopy, hurry their blossoms to maturity and seedling, and the …