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A Climate-Conscious Lent: World's freshwater supplies are shrinking
… Charitable Trusts' Trend Magazine. Both too much water and too little are dangerous, as both floods and drought can displace millions of people, kill their livestock and ruin their crops. …
Faiths institute asks Gates Foundation to change tactics in Africa
… innovations that can help them adapt to stressful conditions like high temperatures, droughts, floods, pests and diseases, which continue to intensify due to climate change," the foundation …
Limbaugh: The indispensable man in the forging of Trumpism
… years ago (until they failed to get a ticket on Noah's Ark and were wiped out by the great flood) into the political mainstream introduced a capacity for credulity without which it is hard …
Rainbow connection
… the Prophets to his own ministry. He set out to recapitulate the Bible from the creation, the flood, the patriarchs, the exodus and desert sojourn, the entry into the promised land, the … a new age. The first Sunday of Lent also forms us in same Word of God with readings about the flood and the desert temptations, personalized by Jesus in the Judean wilderness following his … of the Exodus story and a theophany that confirmed him as God’s “beloved Son.” The flood story fills our imaginations with the destructive and life-giving nature of water, the …
Advocates: Central American migrants choose hope over hunger, violence
… Central America twice in just two weeks in November. He also listened to their frustrations as floods wiped out their homes and livelihoods and government officials provided little assistance … have departed since Hurricanes Eta and Iota soaked Central America, provoking widespread flooding and homelessness and claiming more than 250 lives. The caravans set out from San Pedro …
Deluge
… leaven of the Pharisees … and of Herod” (Mark 8:15). Gen 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10; Mark 8:14-21 The flood story in Genesis, like the Mesopotamian saga it borrows from, is about the collapse of the …
What happened at the Capitol was not civil disobedience
… entered the gallery legally and peacefully, on passes obtained from the office of Sen. Harry Flood Byrd Jr., the "political boss" of Virginia at the time. Our only weapon was our words. My …
Catholic leaders urge TPS for Central Americans, aid for storm-ravaged nations
… them." Both storms brought heavy winds and rain across Central America, causing landslides and flooding as well as severe damage to roads, homes and other infrastructure. The United Nations …
A day that begins with prayer is a good day, Pope Francis says
… or were injured Feb. 7 in northern India when part of a glacier broke off, setting off a major flood that smashed two hydroelectric dams that were under construction. More than 200 people were …
Laudato Si' Platform rollout, diocesan farm for poor highlighted at social justice conference
… are being forced out as developers buy up land for people fleeing low-lying areas at risk of flooding as sea levels rise because of climate change. "My neighborhood, which was once deemed an …
Catholic bishops answer Biden executive orders with flood of press releases
The American Catholic bishops have responded to the extraordinary number of executive orders from President Joe Biden with an extraordinary number of press releases of their own. The press releases are noteworthy not only in their number but also in their positive tone. The day Biden was inaugurated as president, he was greeted by what even some bishops saw as a very negative statement from Los…