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Conservative legal experts take up Apache Oak Flat religious freedom case
… in 2008 bulldozed sacred sites, including a sacred altar, burial ground and old-growth trees, as part of a highway expansion near Mount Hood in Oregon. The Slockish case has been on …
Therapists are reckoning with eco-anxiety
… can add to the emotional turmoil of clients coping with overwhelming grief and anxiety, said Tree Staunton, a climate psychotherapist in Bath, England. For example, a therapist's own grief, … to their local environment. For Hickman, her relationship to the planet is embodied by two trees in her childhood backyard, an oak and an ash, which she used to sit under when things were …
Macron visits Notre Dame 2 years after devastating fire
… the cathedral also had to be stabilized. In a sign of the work to come, though, 1,000 oak trees were felled in some 200 French forests this spring to make the frame for the cathedral's …
Mystagogia
… Marrin … “The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree” (Acts 5:30). Acts 5:27-33 ; John 3:31-36 The late theologian James Cone’s 2011 book, The Cross and the Hanging Tree , posed the inexplicable question of how and why white Christians in America seemed unable …
Environmental justice award winner: 'We have the right to live in a territory that for us is sacred'
… is a false green. They plan forestry [plantations] with companies that eliminate ancestral trees like the teun uman pine, which is a tree very specific to Quiché. … In what ways do you still feel the effects of the war? … The war … that also coexist, and we must listen to them. When we say that the plants speak, the trees speak, the stones speak, the mountains speak, it's because we listen to them. What we ask …
10 years later, 'Journey of the Universe' film more relevant, urgent than ever
… ways, where you have animal cognition, that the animal world is a sentient living world, that trees communicate with their roots and fungi and so on. This is something that Indigenous peoples …
A season for resurrection arrives for El Salvador's Catholic war victims
… of rain and scorching sun puts much of the vegetation to sleep, painting a landscape of barren trees and plants, visual reminders of a Lenten season. In this arid setting in the 1970s and … remaining members of her family consider a proper goodbye. Near a grove of mango and coconut trees, Fr. Manuel Acosta, a Catholic priest and head of the Commission to Search for Persons …
Scientists: Humans must respect these 9 boundaries to keep Earth habitable
… of ancient sequestered carbon, exacerbating climate change, leading to more drought and more tree die-off — a vicious, self-multiplying cycle. "There is growing concern that, with the recent … example shows how disruptions to regional processes — such as the cycling of water by trees — can add up and push us toward planet-wide tipping points. Another tipping point example: …
Easter Sunday 2021
… so rich it overwhelms us. The new Adam is about to be revealed in a garden, after turning the tree of the cross into the Tree of Life. The first witness to this triumph over sin and death is a woman, who first mistakes …
Coffee and catechism
… up the side of the mountain, between 1,500 and 2,500 meters high, one looks out over long tree-lined valleys where corn, beans and coffee grow. In San Joaquin, which is a part of the … The farmer takes us across the mountain on a steep and slippery path that leads to his coffee trees. He knows each of his trees and enjoys this life without the Internet, but with the possibility of having a telephone …
Maryland Catholic leaders back dropping state song that hails Confederacy
… has come this far. Set to the tune used in the Christmas song "O Tannenbaum" ("O Christmas Tree"), the song wasn't officially adopted until 1939. In written testimony submitted in favor of …