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Is Kamala Harris anti-Catholic?
… in 1928 of Al Smith, the first Catholic major-party nominee for president, was met by a flood of anti-Catholic propaganda. In 1960, John Kennedy's presidential bid was opposed by an …
At Mexican camp near U.S. border, asylum-seekers grow more desperate
… use become battered by the elements—Hurricane Hanna stormed through in August, nearly flooding them out—and the COVID-19 pandemic postpones their U.S. court appearances for the …
States are doing what big government won’t to stop climate change, and want stimulus funds to help
… considering an array of plans to protect homes and businesses from increased climate-related flooding, storm surges and sea level rise, hoping for either state or federal funds to do everything from buying out flood prone homes to possibly building large floodgates to protect its shoreline. In Norfolk, …
These big city mayors want green stimulus spending to counter COVID-19
… that seeks to develop long-term resilience for the city, including against sea-level rise, flooding, and hurricane storm surge. That means building seawalls, installing stormwater pumps … bodies is clean and doesn't damage local ecosystems), and physically raising some city roads. Flooding in the city is already routine , putting billions of dollars in property at risk and …
How to become a climate-resilient church
… have pummelled communities along the coast, wildfires have devastated land in the West, and floods ravage the midwest. The climate crisis is here and it is affecting our communities. In the …
EarthBeat Weekly: A legacy of rollbacks
… websites are mum on the topic, NPR's Rebecca Hersher found that Realtor.com is including flood risk in its listings. With so many crises in the news this week, it's reassuring to know …
Care of the earth, concern for migrants are connected, cardinal says
… their homes by the climate crisis, which takes many different forms around the world: fires, flooding, drought, storms, etc.," the cardinal told Catholic News Service Aug. 26. And, he noted …
At least 12 dead as tropical storm lashes Haiti, Dominican Republic
… Haiti and the Dominican Republic with strong winds and torrential rains, causing widespread flooding in low-lying communities. The dead included at least nine in Haiti, according to the … Haiti's civil protection authority to assess damage and determine where aid was most needed. Flooding in some areas posed the most serious challenges, he said. "I think the country came …
Links between theology, COVID-19 and climate change
… and climate change. In the past week, unusually heavy rains have wreaked havoc in China and flooding has displaced millions, while tens of thousands of people in California have been … These climate-fueled calamities are happening with the backdrop of COVID-19. Fires and floods shine a spotlight on how the vulnerable among us suffer far worse when disasters strike. …
Who are we?
… Like the rock in the desert Moses struck to find water, Peter would be broken to release the flood of tears that would baptize all the Apostles for their ministry. The temptation to …
EarthBeat Weekly: Wildfires blaze a climate warning
… residents of 27 provinces in China's Yangtze River Valley have evacuated to escape the worst flooding since 1961 . Climate change will make that problem worse, as Lili Pike reports for …
EarthBeat Weekly: How Isaias, COVID-19 and Beirut connect to climate change
… links to climate change. Some years back, when I was covering a landslide caused by a flash flood, which had destroyed homes and displaced residents of a small town in the Andes, I referred … decisions and could have been avoided if the community, which had suffered a landslide from flooding in the same ravine years before, had been rebuilt outside of the danger zone. Every time …
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: When the disciples do as Jesus did
… as sports figures. Of course, we've seen similar responses after a hurricane, tornado, flooding, etc., but COVID-19 is unique in human history because it happened in the age of mass …
EB Weekly: EarthBeat gets a big boost in funding and a new editor
… University found that extreme heat is causing more deaths than hurricanes, tornadoes or floods in most years . Mary Durran of Catholic News Service reports on a virtual assembly of …
How the global climate fight could be lost if Trump is reelected
… up their ambition levels until the more extreme ravages of climate change, such as dire flooding, heatwaves, crop failures and the loss of coral reefs, are avoided. "There's been less …
Deadly heat is killing Americans: Inaction on climate puts lives at risk
… heat caused at least 10,000 deaths between 1999 and 2016 – more than hurricanes, tornadoes or floods in most years. Scientists link the warming planet to a rise in dangerous heat in the US, …
Editorial: A justice department that doesn't act justly
… But one move is a direct contradiction of Catholic teaching. The same week that federal agents flooded Portland, the Department of Justice, under Barr, resumed capital punishment, putting to …
Theologian praises Ireland's green new deal but questions: Will it happen?
… look at the amount of money that the U.S. has had to plow in every year because of drought, flooding and fires." But despite these signals from nature, none of the six parishes he attended …
US bishops' anti-poverty program puts Laudato Si' into action with $500,000 grant
… land farther from the coast currently used for affordable housing as stronger storms push flooding inland, Aeschbury told EarthBeat. And as climate change fuels more powerful hurricanes, …
Mary
… she arrives. Peter, broken by failure, full of fear, opens the door and lets morning light flood the room and the huddled enclave of men who still refuse to imagine what a woman’s tears …