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‘Earth Sabbath’ helps activists tend spiritual side of environmentalism
… are already swapping incandescent light bulbs for compact fluorescents, eliminating foam and plastic coffee cups, planting gardens and installing solar panels, few have paid attention to the …
The kingdom of heaven is like a big car wash
… in the waiting or walking area there were all kinds of things for sale. Most were wrapped in plastic and attached to large, colored pieces of cardboard. There were car deodorizers galore, in …
Catholicism's central teaching: how to be imperfect
… ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life. Perfection is found, for example, in plastic reproductions that gave off a faint whiff of death, as Norman Mailer used to say, …
Papal butler says he's innocent of theft, but guilty of betraying pope
… pope to show his children. "I didn't know its value," and, in fact, he carried it around in a plastic bag, he said. Ganswein testified he only began suspecting Gabriele in mid-May after a …
Xavier University's focus on sustainability impacts students, environment
… Meatless Mondays. The guide talks about Xavier's food service operation, which is providing plastic Green-To-Go boxes instead of Styrofoam. Ann Dougherty, campus sustainability coordinator, …
The sorrows of our September
… would be no love if we were immune to loss or if we were perfect, the way, say, a stack of plastic chairs reflects the spurious perfection that can be stamped into dead material but never …
Sustainability in season at Illinois college
… help prevent run-off and flooding; hydration stations installed on campus to reduce the use of plastic bottles. Last year, Sodexo, the school's food services program, donated 800 plastic cups to staff so they could stop using paper ones. About 137,000 paper cups were saved … reached 38 percent of its ultimate goal of recycling 100 percent of common throwaways, like plastic bottles, cans and papers. The campus aims to recycle 50 percent of such items this year, …
Saying yes could help save our planet
… Other threats include wild predators, dogs, infection, dehydration, starvation, ingesting of plastics from balloons or bags and human interference. Adults will treasure Peterson's book just …
On the brink: How Ignatius can offer you care today
… of Eucharist because he feels so deeply. A friend of mine told me he carries an empty plastic container for facial tissues in his pocket to remind himself that his work as a chaplain …
Supportive crowd greets Nuns on the Bus in Indiana
… by "ordinary" Catholics, including many families. "Even the little kids were passing out plastic forks and napkins," she said. Campbell also talked of the nuns' visit to a low-income …
Kathy Kelly: More from Kabul -- The legacy of the Butter Battle
… made by the Italians, Czechs, Chinese and Russians, Soviet fragmentation bombs, Soviet plastic explosive fragmentation bombs, US Claymore fragmentation bombs, plastic land mines from Iran and Pakistan, British and Egyptian anti-tank mines, plastic explosives from Italy, Belgium and Pakistan, plus mortar bombs, rocket propelled grenade …