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Airline executive meets the pope, praising Francis as 'inspiration'
… of the company's most recent sustainability report translated into Spanish and a note that 100 trees had been planted in Francis' name, along with a check with $100,000 for papal charities. …
Cardinal Sodano, once powerful Vatican prelate tarnished by support for abuser Maciel, dies
… 1917, three Portuguese shepherd children said they saw the Virgin Mary appear above an olive tree and she told them three secrets. The first two were said to have foretold the end of World …
Volunteers remove trees to restore San Antonio's only nature sanctuary
… nature preserve: the Headwaters Sanctuary . Volunteers walk down a dirt path and through dense trees to arrive at the zone they will tackle that day. Some cut down small Ligustrum trees at the base of their trunks; others drag the discarded trees into a large pile. The felled … driven out of the sanctuary and discarded. Saw, drag, repeat. After three hours, more than 100 tree stumps dot the land. For the first time in years, sunlight stretches through this area of …
Vatican's major sustainability campaign the main focus of Laudato Si' Week 2022
… make sense for their communities, from using sustainable transportation in Europe to planting trees in Sri Lanka to holding outdoor masses in Peru." One of the highlights of the week will … Laudato Si' Week will include Laudato Si' Masses in the Archdioceses of Atlanta and Chicago, tree plantings in Uganda, a youth forum hosted by Caritas Oceania, a vigil at the shareholders …
Spreading trees
… of humor and his memory for poetry he had memorized during detention in high school, reciting “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer toward the end until a stroke took his voice. A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has …
What does it mean to live well on an overheating planet?
… walking along that trail. My friends soaked in the lush green landscape, shrubs sprouting from tree trunks 20 feet in the air, while my attention returned over and over to fresh wounds. The … be very different in only a few decades. Instead, they saw plate-sized mushrooms growing on tree trunks and lichen dripping from branches like tattered birthday streamers. But the world is … where glossy-needled hemlock saplings grow mere feet from brown patches beneath gaps in the tree canopy, where delicate moss roasted under direct sunlight during those sweltering days. This …
Fire-ravaged New Mexico villages cling to faith, 'querencia'
… had just minutes to reach her parents and ensure they evacuated in time. Her hands grazed the trees as she spoke to them, thinking the least she could do is offer them gratitude and prayer in … Ledoux. He's unsure about his current residence in Mora amid a valley prized for its Christmas trees. "Sometimes when things are beyond your control, you have to lean on that faith," Trujillo … a frozen pond in the yard and sledded down the hills. They watched the full moon rise over a tree next to their playhouse as her dad played "Bad Moon Rising" on vinyl. Flames destroyed the …
Ideology obstructs beauty of family, pope says
… are not imposed upon them, Pope Francis said. The family is the "primary planter of the tree of gratuitousness," and when civilization "uproots" that gift, "its decline becomes …
Born again
… know where it comes from or where it is going but know it by its affect in the movement in the trees. We have been given an Easter season of 50 days to begin to grasp the need for the rebirth …
Lessons learned from a Lent without Twitter or Facebook
… platforms are positioned to learn the news much later, if at all. Gone are the days of phone trees or even large group emails. If you want to know the news alongside everyone else, you have …
How to pray the Lord's Prayer with all creatures
… humans. Scripture furnishes numerous moments when nonhuman creatures honor God's goodness. The trees of the field clap their hands, the mountains and the hills break forth in singing ( Isaiah … It points to God as the one who makes springs gush forth, who causes grass to grow, who waters trees and feeds young lions: "These all look to you to give them their food in due season / when …