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Oregon church activities curtailed by smoke from wildfires
… … Catholic News Service … Catholic churches and homes in southern Oregon are safe so far amid wildfires, but persistent smoke has suppressed activities — and spirits. "It is horrible. It is …
Catholic groups disagree with Trump EPA 'Affordable Clean Energy' rule
… change — including increased droughts and more intense heatwaves, extreme storms, flooding and wildfires — will continue to worsen and likely become irreversible once the planet crosses the …
Church goes 'wild' as believers and seekers head for the trees
… classic "Lost Horizon." Trees exploded and countless wild creatures died in the California wildfire. Victoria Loorz feared for the fate of her "church" — a grove of shrubs under a generous …
Pope Francis challenges fossil fuel execs to act now
… call our planet, is indisputably warming up, causing more frequent, more intense, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts and heat waves. The Holy Father reminded corporate oil executives …
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
… a home for birds. As I write this column, countless trees in California are being destroyed by wildfires, a disaster presumably exacerbated by the effects of climate change. And around the …
Pentecost: Uncaging the spirit, uncaging ourselves
… and millions at once, guiding them in the work of justice and healing, it can become a wildfire for social transformation. Then descriptions of Her as Sanctifier or Consoler, while …
'Catholics Are Still In' campaign recommits support for Paris climate pact
… is the point scientists predict the effects of climate change, among them increased droughts, wildfires, intense flooding and extreme weather events, will become most extreme and likely …
Natural disasters prompt church to raise millions for aid, recovery
… was slow and deep pain remained from a string of natural disasters as 2017 ended. Hurricanes, wildfires and earthquakes from August through December caused widespread destruction and claimed … 474 deaths and more than 6,300 injuries. The temblors were followed in October and December by wildfires in California, driven by hot winds and fueled by hundreds of thousands of acres of dry … to the fires. In addition, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles began collecting funds even as wildfires raged in early December for families, parishes and schools affected by the fires in Los …
Parish roundup: 500 creches; fire relief; celebrating Our Lady of Guadalupe
… of protection and gratitude for the thousands of persons involved in fighting the multiple wildfires wreaking massive destruction and evacuations in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, San Diego … Diocese. The archdiocese has established a relief fund . This is California's second set of wildfires. In the northern part of the state in October, the blazes killed 31 people, burned some …
Philippine Congress extends martial law in southern Philippines
… human rights lawyers also warned that extending martial law in Mindanao would only "stoke the wildfire of rights violations." Edre Olalia, president of the National Union of Peoples' Lawyers, …
Campus Notebook: Wildfire evacuation; contraception coverage; 'pop-up' courses
… Calif. — Thomas Aquinas College was evacuated and canceled classes Tuesday, Dec. 5, as wildfires threatened the area. The school has yet to reopen. The fire began in the hills near the …
In coal country, Catholics testify in favor of Clean Power Plan
… F) since 1901 , climate scientists expect to continue to see worsening droughts, more intense wildfires and flooding, and more extreme severe weather events. “The impacts of climate change …
Fighting wildfire with prayer, Catholics turn to Eucharistic adoration
Five minutes from here, the landscape is all ash and ruin. But inside this small chapel, there is a kaleidoscope of stained-glass light and a single man sitting bathed in that light. The man is Stephen Morris, director of youth ministry for the Diocese of Santa Rosa, and the chapel is down the hall from his office. In October, the most destructive fires in California history swept through this…
Civility must guide debate on social challenges, USCCB president says
… disasters including hurricanes in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, wildfires in California and earthquakes in Mexico. Such tragedies have brought the church in …
COP23, led by island nation Fiji, aims to buoy urgency for climate action
… to climate change, as they often experience the impacts of harsher droughts, floods and wildfires first and most acutely, said Wesley Cocozello, communications and outreach coordinator …
Parish roundup: Black Elk up for sainthood; World Series win lifts spirits
… of the Catholic Health Association of British Columbia . In Northern California, where wildfires consumed dozens of lives, hundreds of livelihoods, and thousands of homes last month, … which was heavily damaged by the Oct. 8 Tubbs Fire. In conjunction with Northern California wildfire coverage, a moving reflection by Mercy Sr. Toni Lynn Gallagher: "Residents return home: …
Feeling crisis fatigue? Here are 3 do's and 3 don'ts
… in too much wind and rain, and Las Vegas joins Orlando in raining down too many gunshots, and wildfires — absent rain — take out some of the most beautiful country in the world, people …
Documenting profound shifts
… in the pews. Here are a few examples, chosen pretty much at random: Parish roundup: California wildfire crisis; helping stranded Puerto Ricans Methodist experience in closing congregations …
Nature has resilience and so do students and all humans
… students. Should we put more obstacles in their way? Should we throw more hurricanes or wildfires, metaphorically speaking, at them? Should helicopter parents turn in their pilot's …
Parish roundup: New app for the hearing impaired, faith in running for office, welcoming with pie
… the Blessed Sacrament has gone viral. Updates on response and help needed in the wake of the wildfires that devastated much of Sonoma County and other areas of the Santa Rosa Diocese can be …