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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 …
EarthBeat Weekly: We need a new relationship with the rest of creation — and with our stuff
… the riverside communities, and there's pressure to hunt or fish, gather certain plants or cut trees to sell to pay for medicine, school supplies, a boat motor or other necessities. Around …
War drives Kenya's Aweer from the forest where they find God
… the most amazing relates to the "honeyguide" bird that chatters to the Aweer as it flits from tree to tree, guiding the human figures (who sing a melodious response to the bird's tweets) to … where the ancestors live, where prayers for the Aweer community are offered, where certain trees and shrubs are imbued with the essence of those who have died, and the wood and bark of other trees can be fashioned to become the voice of spirits — is the real world that constitutes the …
Amid Catholic opposition, states are legalizing composting of human remains
… fossil fuels and releases carbon dioxide. Proponents say families can use the soil to plant a tree or a garden to honor their loved ones. In public testimony , the Oregon bill garnered …
Let's build a post-pandemic church worth going back to
… twice when they appealed for money). I knew about some parishes that had organized phone trees to reach out to older or sick parishioners. Sometimes that gave an opportunity to pray or …
Descendants of enslaved people join dig on former Jesuit plantation
… except when she served in the Air Force for a decade. A lot of the surnames in her family tree appear on the GU272 list. "I'm sure at some point I will make a connection from my family tree to the list," Wilson said. Wilson, a lifelong Catholic, believes the Jesuits should marry …
Hundreds of bodies found at former Saskatchewan residential school
… of Regina agreed to pay $70,000 to help mark the unidentified graves and add fences and trees to the Cowessess cemetery. At the time, Archbishop Donald Bolen of Regina said he was …
Dialogue demonstrates connections across faith and science
… Brian Roewe … Ever since she was young, Nalini Nadkarni has loved trees. As a kid, she spent days climbing them, and she swore an oath to herself that as a grownup … true to her childhood promise, has done what she can to raise awareness about the values of trees and why their preservation matters to everyone. That mission has led her to speak with …
Bad apples and hungry wolves
… ignore it and see what the person does. Good or bad outcomes reflect the source. Good trees produce good fruit; rotten trees produce bad fruit. A corrupt leader will infect those around him or her. They set the …
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: How it is with the kingdom of God
… in returning. Added to that, their faith proclaimed that the just would flourish like palm trees; instead, Christians were being martyred in Rome and rejected in Jerusalem. These ugly, …
Catholic groups call for Panama to reverse plan to expand mining
… how small and fragile it is." The terrain is very steep, and if the hillsides were stripped of trees, they would erode quickly. Although mining companies promise to offset deforestation by planting trees elsewhere in the country, "it ends up being tree farms" rather than true reforestation, Fitzgerald said. The statement opposing the new …