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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 …
Working groups help Vatican prepare Laudato Si' Action Platform for launch
… journey. In the case of biodiversity protection, suggested activities include planting native trees and grasses and protecting pollinators. The dicastery has outlined a general roadmap for …
How to respond to evil: Vengeance must stop, says sister of murder victim
… since [the Oklahoma City bombing]. We've had Newtown and Parkland and El Paso and Dayton and Tree of Life Synagogue and Mother Emmanuel Baptist Church in Charleston. And we know that we have …
With world still in knots, pope turns to Mary with prayers
… for the prayer in the gardens. A total of about 300 people sat under umbrella pines and palm trees, gazing past arches of jasmine toward the Marian image and the dome of St. Peter's Basilica …
Learning to pray
… human. By interweaving the story of Jesus’ cleansing the temple with the parable of the fig tree, Mark seems to offer us a view of Jesus at a moment of deep frustration that he resolves by … head into the city, something odd occurs. Jesus is hungry and looks for fruit on a fig tree. Finding none, he curses the tree, though, Mark tells us, it was not in season. Was Jesus seeing the tree as Jerusalem’s …
'Religion entered into me': A talk with Jane Goodall, 2021 Templeton Prize winner
… for subjects that’s led to so much cruelty to animals. Now, we’re even learning how these trees communicate. It’s such a fascinating world to live in. There’s always something new to … Here I’m lucky. We have a lovely garden and every day I spend half an hour under my favorite tree that I used to climb as a child. I’m joined by a robin and blackbird. The robin today …
I am a bird, waiting: How to find God's presence in nature
… outside the walls except for work assignments such as clearing brush in the fields or planting trees in the woods. His days were spent in cycles of prayer, study, and writing. Even today on … fellowship of his monastery brothers toiling with him under the sun. Three or four grand old trees stood out in the distance, rising up from the fields with their bare branches and straight trunks. They reminded me of the tree in the field Red (Morgan Freeman) is looking for when he seeks out Andy's (Tim Robbins) gift …
Artist paints icons of endangered species to 'foster ecological conversion'
… Every stage is symbolic," she said. The board on which the image is painted represents the tree of life. Preparing it by adding 13 layers of gesso, a white paint, "puts you into a …
Inside the campaign to divest the Catholic Church from fossil fuels
… Tiber River, the Global Catholic Climate Movement's Rome headquarters is tucked away atop a tree-covered hill in the working-class Trastevere neighborhood. In late October 2019, the office …
EarthBeat Weekly: Amid climate change, a week to commit to caring for our common home
… other climate news: … Ecologist Suzanne Simard says forests are not collections of individual trees, but complex webs of life that humans have been unraveling for years — and which we must …
Catholic action on environment set for massive multiplication this Laudato Si' Week
… unfolded "even beyond our expectations." He highlighted numerous projects, among them a major tree-planting initiative in Bangladesh , the creation of Laudato Si' Gardens, countless webinars …