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With no resettlement plan, Haitian camps take on semi-permanent feel
… camp can just as easily spring up in the communities, so let's accelerate the process." In a tree-shaded clearing amid the tents, surrounded by clotheslines hung with paintings and … of a roulette-style game popular in Haiti. His wife, Marie-Michelle Similien, sits beside a tree, painting a silhouette on a colorful background, while three other painters work at canvases …
The beauty that serves no purpose
… and simple cause-and-effect were in charge of things, we wouldn't have autumn's colors. Trees are models of efficiency in most of their processes and activities -- the photosynthesis … is waste, sheer excess and leftover. It is created by substances revealed only when the tiring tree seals off the sap circulation and no longer charges up the chlorophyll in the leaves. The …
Want to help Middle East Christians? Reach out to U.S. Muslims
… world. What we have to do is stress that we’re so close to you, we’re fruits of the same tree. If we reach out to Muslims, then Muslims will see affinities with Christianity, instead of …
New York archdiocese calls for school closings
… McNiff, archdiocesan superintendent of schools, told Catholic News Service. "When you prune a tree, you're prepared for growth." McNiff said the short-term target is to reduce by half the …
Everyone loves a love story
… Lord replied, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. Father began his homily by …
Sculpting mashed potatoes
… nightmares of falling from high places, and he even tried to meet this fear by jumping out of trees. Did his deepest innards know even then he was destined to first solo the Atlantic? … and help older people. Each human life must be, after all, an organic thing, like an oak tree. That tree begins with a blueprint built into genetic material in the lowly acorn and, obedient to that …
Can any good come out of Chicago?
… the candelabra of the city lights softly beyond him I asked him why he had planted so many trees and flowers throughout Chicago. “I can’t solve people’s personal problems or their other …
Q & A: Rocco Palmo
… want a nominee to be on learning of his appointment. But, indeed, it was while chopping down trees on a Monday off last year that Etienne got the call telling him that B16 had named him to … process: if you’re seeking a good fit for Wyoming, someone whose idea of relaxing is cutting trees (and who gave his priest-brothers hunting rifles as ordination gifts) would be hard to …
Autumn gemmed and jeweled
… canopies, city sidewalks everywhere begin to be decorated with colors in the plants, weeds and trees. "Autumn will soon be gemmed and jeweled beyond a rajah's wildest dreams," wrote Hal … of lapis lazuli and turquoise and aquamarine. God that will be heaped and drifted beneath the trees, new-minted gold and Roman gold and antique gold, more gold than the Incas and Aztecs ever …
The falling leaves
… body will wear out, the age-old law is, “Everyone must die.” Like foliage growing on a bushy tree, some leaves falling, others growing, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies, …