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New Jersey diocese turns to renewable energy in response to encyclical
… dumped into landfills and will be the equivalent of the carbon sequestered by nearly 7,500 tree seedlings grown for 10 years. Special equipment allows for optimizing the power output for …
Hurricane Ian is affecting jobs, housing for many in Florida, not just coastal area
… leaks. To check on parishioners and their welfare, the church used its ministries' phone trees to contact them. "We more or less know about everyone through that," Pacheco said, adding …
More than two dozen reported dead after Julia lashes Central America
… bridges washed away by Julia as authorities scrambled to look for people trapped under fallen trees and structures. Five soldiers in El Salvador, who had been monitoring a community for …
Tribes ask US Supreme Court to hear case over destruction of sacred land in Oregon
… said. The sacred site at issue is known as Ana Kwna Nchi Nchi Patat (the “Place of Big Big Trees”), an acre of land — formerly on tribal grounds — that consisted of a burial ground, campground, old-growth trees and an ancient stone altar, according to the petition. The turn lane was built atop this …
Ojibwe author writes about Indigenous peoples, Christians 'Becoming Kin'
… which we have relationship with not only other humans but other beings — the Bible talks about trees clapping their hands with joy and the stars singing. Those are not metaphors. They're …
Environment degradation imperils Kenya's Subukia Shrine and healing waters
… and used to host much wildlife, has not been spared as illegal loggers cut down more and more trees — including endangered ones — for timber or for charcoal burning. The forest's once thick, … other stakeholders should just stop illegal logging in this forest," he said. "There are some tree-planting exercises that normally take place around here but are not enough. You cannot plant …
Catholic Relief Services campaign aims to engage US Catholics on climate change
… grandfather and ancestors farmed it for generations. What were once beautiful landscapes of trees and grass along steep slopes dissected by rivers and streams has become a region stricken …
Links: Runoff vote in Brazil; rewilding a river; Waffle House and Hurricane Ian
… away from homes. It came through Ian with only some roof shingles torn off and some trees uprooted. Are there lessons here for Puerto Rico and other hurricane-prone regions? …
For Jesus, home was a journey
… neighbors lost their homes because we took down some invasive species infected decomposing trees. Did the creatures feel sad when they fled the tiny but powerful emerald ash beetle's … religious community — no members below 60, median age 80. Religious orders, like once sturdy trees, are decomposing. And those words, "but this is our home," hold fear. Yes, many families … Passover and the first Eucharist. That night he slept in a garden. And then on a makeshift tree, he died and was buried in someone else's cave. Jesus never, in the Gospel story, stayed …
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: Grain-of-mustard hope
… of mustard [the Greek text doesn't say anything about size], you could uproot this mulberry tree and send it to the sea." This is the second time that Luke's Gospel mentions a mustard seed. … becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Obviously, it's impossible to verbally uproot a mulberry tree and send it to the sea. It's also pretty useless. But Jesus is talking about a faith that …
Acorns and mustard seeds
… the ones I need to listen to if I want to get started moving mountains and casting mulberry trees into the sea. Besides, someone already got there first to produce the “acorn rosary” and …