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'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 …
Shut in, locked down, no green space? Six tips to connect with nature
… lives in the Franciscan-inspired Assisi Community in Washington, D.C., has a favorite dogwood tree in her neighborhood, which she visits throughout the year, "always looking forward to its … although it could also be indoors, with house plants, or even at a window with a view of a tree. "Have one place where you just spend some time, in a sense doing nothing except being …
EarthBeat Weekly: Most of the world's people are caught in an 'ecological poverty trap'
… is trying to change that, reports Sumon Corraya. Church groups set a goal of planting 700,000 trees during the fifth anniversary year of Pope Francis' environmental encyclical. Weighing in on …
In Bangladesh, Catholics plant Laudato Si' trees to buffer against storms
… since 1970. Now the Catholic Church is trying to change that, with a goal of planting 700,000 trees to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care … people, which has only about 400,000 Catholics. Each Catholic is asked to plant at least one tree, Bishop Gervas Rozario of Rajshahi, who is vice president of the Catholic Bishops' …
A plant-based diet is about much more than not harming animals
… tradition, states, "Ether, air, fire, water, earth, planets, all creatures, directions, trees and plants, rivers and seas, they are all organs of God's body. Remembering this a devotee …
In Lee Isaac Chung's 'Minari,' faith is difficult but persistent
… the many structural barriers that prevent mustard seeds from growing into large, flowering trees the way Jesus' parable suggests. "Minari" tells a different story of a faith that is …