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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 …
No free will, no ideas: Physicist Brian Greene reduces everything to 'particles and fields'
… in the reductionist armor. He asks why the particles that make up a big rock remain inert as a tree limb falls, threatening to land on someone, while the particles that are "you" or "me" will …
Indigenous youth lead on climate action, Loyola Chicago audience hears
… since Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017. The small team has delivered fruit trees and seeds to nearly 5,000 families across Puerto Rico. More recently, they've shifted to helping communities create fruit tree parks, with 16 planted so far. Odeh said that Puerto Rico's colonial status makes it reliant …
NCR readers share their thoughts on returning to in-person Mass
… Mass feels very Franciscan. We are in a courtyard with statues of St. Francis and St. Clare, trees and flowers. It is simple and sacred. I like to think that Francis is smiling. … SUSAN …
The city as a shelter for bees
… sleep. As heatwaves become more frequent, droughts last longer and blossoming time changes on trees, stingless bees, or "señoritas" (young lady in Spanish) are having a hard time to adapt to … bees in Bolivia. They are responsible for the pollination of more than 70% of the country's trees. Numbers say that more than 80% of the 250 thousand plants known with flowers depend on … down. This can be an opportunity to teach and raise awareness on bees. If you see a mango tree in the city, without the bees, it will produce only 1 or 2 fruits. That's how much we depend …
Links: Conservative working class myth, visitation at the Vatican, Waldorf-Astoria history
… woman who was forced to sell it and who died in the Shoah. The painting, "Rosebushes Under the Trees," was one of his best and one of my favorite paintings in the entire collection at the …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: India chokes on its air
… partitioned. "Those forests once acted to absorb the pollution of the plains. Now, with the trees gone … all that smoke from burning fields, busy highways, and outdated thermal power plants …
Why Oak Flat in Arizona is a sacred space for the Apache and other Native Americans
… for all of us," she added. For Marina Thomas, who is O'odham, there's life in the mountains, trees and rocks at Oak Flat. To stand in solidarity with the Apache people, she and other …
Come to the water
… of life-giving water flowing in every direction to support every form of life, including fruit trees with medicinal leaves. The fourth Gospel presents Jesus as the fulfillment of this imagery …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Record numbers of species face extinction
… half-billion years —is already under way . In the Amazon Basin, scientists fear that half the tree species — including some that bear fruit that is commercially valuable to local communities, …
Hope and despair in Rembrandt's 'The Good Samaritan'
… is being helped down from the animal. A woman gets water from a nearby well. Birds are in the tree above her, leaves drift down to earth, two chickens stand just in front of the well, and the …