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Heaven and earth
… he meets Jesus, he is astonished when Jesus tells him he has seen him at prayer “under the fig tree.” Nathaniel has apparently been reflecting on the text about Jacob’s vision at Bethel of a …
This tension is a holy thing
… pressure of warming temperatures causes the sap to flow through "a wound or tap hole" in maple trees — (a description I came across on a maple tree farm website). All these metaphors and images arose to help me understand that the …
Holy waters: Prayer and protest against Line 3 pipeline at Mississippi headwaters
… either. Driving out of New Orleans each morning, I passed exhausted estuaries full of leafless trees. Activists in the river communities, many of them women, have been fighting industry's … folding chairs. Others, including families with small children, are camped in nearby groves of trees. The Treaty People Gathering marks the biggest convergence of people to date in the …
Priest killed, one missing as church assesses damage from Haiti quake
… five years. "The population is desperate and beleaguered. They are sleeping outside under the trees, in open public spaces, to protect themselves from aftershocks arriving every few hours," …
Dominican conference highlights diversity of Latino college students
… In an effort to emphasize acculturation over assimilation, Rodríguez displayed her own family tree to highlight the mestizaje in her own life. Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Germany, Vietnam …
First Nations, Catholics work at North Vancouver residential school site
… begun at the former St. Paul's. Some landscaping and construction due to damage done by tree roots has been underway on the property in collaboration between the Squamish First Nation, …
Indigenous leader Ted George was a 'fire carrier' who bridged cultures
… from the earth will be laid gently on his gravesite. Twenty yards away, near the cemetery's tree line, falls a shadow from another grave marker: Chief Sealth, a signatory of the Point … Ted and Karlene lived in a modest home on the Suquamish Reservation, surrounded by cedar trees — one of the few pieces of property still owned by tribal members with a view of the Sound, …
EarthBeat Weekly: New Peruvian bishop shaped by 'the Amazonian face of the church'
… for not learning to respect the beauty of the forests, and for exterminating vast areas of trees. ... Forgive us for staining the rivers with our selfishness and greed, for wanting to gain … it can be very reverent. We came from dust (earth) and we are returning to it. Composting a tree or garden in the backyard is a sacred place and closer to visit than a public or 'Catholic' …
South American church network forms for Gran Chaco zone, Guarani Aquifer
… don't understand exactly what 'integral ecology' means. They think it's about planting trees. But it's not something secondary; it's an integral part of our commitment to creation," …
Time to put the 'catholic' back into the Catholic Church
… or not happen as the Spirit moves and we will only see the rustling of the leaves on the tree which is the church. No, it is a time for growth in charity toward one another, an openness …
Conference primes US church for bolder responses to Laudato Si', climate change
… the current Congress, including the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act, the Trillion Trees Act, the Nonprofit Energy Efficiency Act and a bipartisan bill on carbon pricing. In the …