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Cincinnati parish program gives trash second life ‘Beyond the Bin’
… tubes. Batteries. Kitty litter buckets. Beverage can pull tabs. Corks. Prescription bottles. Plastic salad containers and planting pots. Those items and more have found salvation through St. … week could instead be recycled and reused: nearly 42 percent consists of paper, 15 percent plastics and another 15 percent compostable food waste. Additionally, a 2008 report from the …
Have a defiant Christmas!
… round into wreaths and bows. In the frozen front yard, there were figures of cardboard and plastic, even stone, ranging in size from a small child to an overgrown adult. They were the …
A light in the darkness of the botched pope-animal story
… for furniture and cattle-grazing land, and pollute waterways and poison marine wildlife with plastic and toxic poisons. We can drive species to extinction. In the Earth Island Journal …
Cyberslums where online abusers prowl need pastoral care, say speakers
… campaign this year will include giving children a 10-point guide to online safety and a plastic ruler to underline that there are rules in life that need to be followed. It's not true …
'The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns' is more 'reality' than reality
… and Mary went home. I'll never forget the postulant who entered wearing a bright green plastic rosary around her neck. Yeah, that didn't last long, but I am happy today that she had! I …
Ignoring God, not glorifying him, leads to violence, pope says
… 3 at his weekly general audience. Just a few thousand people -- huddled under umbrellas and plastic ponchos -- gathered in St. Peter's Square for a rainy Wednesday audience. Pope Francis …
Review: Walking God's Earth, Part III
… should not eating strawberries in the middle of winter, and not only because they taste like plastic. And, echoing Pope Benedict, Cloutier insists that the Church itself should lead by …
Little acts of love, kindness and faith add up to holiness, pope says
… Pope Francis said. "Some think that holiness is closing your eyes and making the face of a plastic statue, but that's not holiness," the pope said Wednesday at his weekly general audience. …
Living the Eucharist: resisting the destruction of Jeju Island
… Mun Jeong Hyeon, who has spent nearly three years in prison for his resistance, in sitting on plastic chairs stretched out across the base entrance. As grace would have it, I also became …
Winter's early arrival challenges Iraqi Christians who fled militants
… a premium. What is left of their worldly possessions is contained in some small suitcases and plastic bags. Babies cry as people talk loudly; silence is a rarity. A badly traumatized woman …
Puberty for girls is difficult enough without added shame
… black girls in my fifth-grade class: plaits decorated with barrettes and elastic bands with plastic balls on the ends that we used to call "knockers." In the post, the dad states that the …