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World ignores warming, pollution of oceans at own peril, say speakers
… activities include over-fishing and pollution from oil, sewage, fertilizer, detergent, plastic and marine debris. Rising, warming, acidifying, polluted seas contribute to migration, … the U.N. Secretariat building, there were depictions of various fish constructed entirely of plastic and metal pieces found floating in the seas. Visitors also waited for an opportunity to …
Ignatian Carbon Challenge brings 'Laudato Si'' to life in Catholic schools
… January challenge had students count how many days they can go without purchasing a single-use plastic item, while another asked them to find entrepreneurs in their community who were turning … if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I made it five days without buying a single-use plastic item! #iggycarbon #:) — Quinn Carr (@quinncarr123) January 15, 2017 One of the more … that day, dumped it onto tarps inside the school commons, and began sorting it between plastics, trash and uneaten food. The visual caught the attention of their peers as they walked …
Mercy2Earth seizes the weekend Earth Day, Divine Mercy Sunday align
… highlighted by Francis in the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation message — avoiding plastic and paper items, reducing water usage, recycling and composting, carpooling, planting …
Fake trees on Houston Street
… Bowery in New York City. You can spot them by their enormous height and their ever-so-slightly plasticized deep green. When I see them, I think of the cemeteries filled with plastic flowers, the Halloween decorations that fill up landfills in November, or Christmas wreaths that do the same in January. I wish my grandkids didn't prefer the plastic Easter eggs to the ones I dye with beet juice. In posh New York City apartment buildings, …
Egyptian artist Ayman Fayez finds his mission in icons
… and this attracted me," said Fayez, who until then had been more interested in surrealist and plastic arts. Fayez said he soon started painting icons, as well as replicas of the wooden …
Trump sworn in amid protests and a large assortment of clergy
… a sign of God's blessing," he said. The rain forced many in the crowd to cover themselves with plastic ponchos, since umbrellas were not permitted for security reasons. Rodriguez read from …
Francis denounces resistance to Vatican reform in Christmas speech to curia
… was not like applying make-up as a "trick to beautify the old curial body" or like undergoing plastic surgery to remove wrinkles. "Dear brothers, it is not wrinkles that the church must fear, …
My brother's long road trip
… West of car travel, the 1960s. Back then, only the brand-new baby was strapped into a flimsy plastic car seat in between our parents in the front. Once a kid could sit up, our Mom tucked the …
Repeat viewings of 'Departures' yield inspiration anew
… of fried chicken. The camera pulls out to reveal that they are gathered in the office, a plastic Christmas tree conspicuously blinking in the background. When the eating frenzy winds …
My acts of kindness always yield craziness
… building and saw a homeless lady sleeping on the lawn, her body partially covered by a blue plastic tarp. The only way I knew she was under there was that one of her hands and some of her …
Post-election church services aim to reconcile Christian voters
… idea for an Election Day church service came to the pastor as he was pouring juice into little plastic cups. Mark Schloneger was preparing for Communion that day in 2008 in the kitchen of …
Kansas City parish celebrates Salvadoran students
… to El Salvador, where they built 65 homes for families there. Before, the houses were made of "plastic and tin," said Acevedo. Scholarship recipient Ernesto Josué Henríquez Joachin is in his …
Three years after super typhoon, survivors share stories of rebuilding
… evacuate. But when the storm hit and they were forced to leave, Esorcadas wrapped his son in a plastic bag with his head exposed, put him in a tote bag that he slung over his shoulder, and …
We don't take her breath for granted
… years ago and, as she says, she's been living with "a hose in her nose" ever since. A 50-foot plastic cord connected to an oxygen-producing concentrator in our living room gives her access to …
My 48,180-pound trash pile
… and I ended up investigating our own trash. For one week, we tracked all our waste production: plastic bags, banana peels, straws, toilet paper and more. At every turn, I seemed to generate more waste. Never before had I thought twice about fruit produce stickers or plastic clothing tags. Seven days later, our lists revealed a stunning quantity of trash. The … of garbage are not going anywhere. Hundreds of my baby diapers, chip bags and countless other plastics will never biodegrade. My produce bags are going to exist for centuries after my death. …
Why do men insist on telling women what to wear?
… and more worried that some woman is going to stroll along the Mediterranean coastline with a plastic bomb strapped to her waist. Yet the problem is less about terrorism and more about …
Pope Francis' care for Creation message
… do to improve the planet's chances of surviving, from reducing our consumption of paper and plastics to turning off the lights. The funny thing is that since reading Laudato Si' , I …
At Pax Christi conference, volunteers clean up Baltimore lots
… of broken porcelain that I surmised was once a toilet. I loaded up my bag with glass jars, plastic bottles, all things Styrofoam, candy wrappers and dozens of empty chip bags, many filled …
'Hi, God.' 'Hello, Amy.'
… immediate what-I-need-this-exact-second sort of way. One day when Mary handed me the shiny red plastic receiver from her toy telephone, I grabbed it from her like it was the first time, every … state of worry and feeling of aloneness. Hi God, Hi God, Hi God. Just like handing him that plastic phone receiver, over and over and over. Talk to me. Play with me. Keep me company, and … God. To trust. To keep breathing. To shut up and listen. And so I keep holding up that big red plastic receiver, over and over, saying: "Hi, God." [Amy Morris-Young graduated from and taught …
Brewing up ethics-based business
… thing and not fake meat. In reality, animal flesh is what's actually fake: the falsity and plasticity that denies the cruelty and hellishness of factory farming. If we're going to have …