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Timeless messages and the new media
… predictably intensify after the release of any new technology that threatens to save more trees. Will everything eventually be “printed” only on a screen? Can publishers afford to …
Seven days that shook the Vatican
… Faced with such a deluge of news, the obvious temptation is to miss the forest for the trees. Here, I’d like to step back from the details and ponder the question, “What does it all …
Seven days that shook the Vatican
… future. Faced with such a deluge of news, the obvious temptation is to miss the forest for the trees. Here, I’d like to step back from the details and ponder the question, “What does it all …
The Sacrament in the Gulf
… our spiritual cleansing. From the muddy bottom of the Gulf where the rig lies like the fated tree of Eden, a spiritual revelation speaks from behind the headlines to us. Religious leaders …
Fr. Louie's letters from prison
… the ride delightful -- through the high desert, across the fertile citrus groves and avocado trees. We then had a beautiful drive up the Pacific Coast past Ventura and Santa Barbara, seeing …
'My home is being destroyed, and I don't mean my house'
… The state highway wound its way through the marshes bordered by beautiful moss-draped live oak trees. With the car windows down, we heard red-winged blackbirds and many other bird sounds we … death I cannot bear!” I think that to see your place -- the woven quilted mosaic of weather, trees, vegetation, landforms, rainfall, trees, birds, animals and wildflowers particular to that one place that nourishes you and gave …
The Tea Party Wins in Nevada
… were sure that moderate voters would not risk their votes on someone who had once blamed trees for most air pollution, opposed the Civil Rights Act, and supported an economic agenda that …
The Final Journey
… Joyce Rupp … Companion of Life, Guardian of Death, more and more I resemble an old gnarled tree, wrinkled bark, gray boughs, thinning leaves. The ground around my roots is weakening. My … … What do you see as the blessings of aging? What is most difficult for you? What kind of tree do you envision yourself to be at this time of your life? Sketch this tree. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ … SIGN UP NOW … to receive an …
The catechism of our senses
… route for the spice trade. His first hint that a new land was near was the scent of sassafras trees wafting out to sea and picked up by his crew’s noses. There is a rare medical condition …
New gifts from the Spirit
… the many problems facing our society today through an ecological lens, we can see that, like tree branches, they have common roots. For example, the global concentration of wealth and power …
Angels, redemption and Grace
… anything about church? You can go to temple, go to a mosque, heck, Grace -- go sit in a dang tree if that’ll get you closer to God.” But Grace is not just another “spiritual but not …
Teaching a chicken to walk backwards
… way he can escape sin is to have no soul. Haze has visions of a ragged figure that moves from tree to tree in the forest of his mind. He thinks salvation is a type of punishment. He comes home to …
Reawakening the inner child
… I reflect upon my early years growing up on a farm in rural Iowa, I often recall the grove of trees west of the house. Those trees seemed like a huge forest to me. The thickly leafed summer branches hid much of the sun, … mystery. It was the playhouse of my older sister and myself. We would spend hours among the trees making up games, playing house, baking mud pies, telling wild stories – and, of course, …
Pope, Bolivian president discuss ecology
… of an international court of "climate justice," and he has pledged to plant 10 million trees -- equivalent to Bolivia's population -- by April 2011. Morales told reporters that the …
A trace of reality in hierarchy's take on abuse
… to be changing it remains to be seen what actions will follow. It is easy to get lost amid the trees of details of individuals and horrific acts of abuse; of who knew what when. The details …
Congo sister's talk offers new light in a time of darkness
… us grow as individuals and as a group? Does a Bashi proverb not state in fact that “a single tree does not give much shade?” It is by pooling all our efforts and moving beyond all that …
American decay
… by how much a student can pay. In 2008 the University of California destroyed 40 huge oak trees to build an athletic training gym. One of Hedges’ classmates, now on the Harvard Divinity …
American Catholic demographics and the future of ministry
… news, sometimes it’s useful to step back and focus on the forest rather than its individual trees. Journalists are, of course, famous for bringing bad news. As the old joke goes, the …
The commonplace magic of Spring
… cards she had up her sleeve all winter long. Spring is a quickening of forces as complex as a tree’s buds and as simple as flowing water. By the simple fact of being alive we participate, for …
Just enough
… a deep sense of dread. I started to walk toward the house, but stopped. I ducked behind a palm tree (even the gas stations have palm trees out here), and pulled out my cell-phone camera. I was prepared -- honestly, fully -- to …