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The new retirement for America's seniors: Bankruptcy
… compared with younger bankruptcy filers, 44.8 percent of those aged 65 and older also had more plastic in their wallets. “They’re using credit cards as a maladaptive coping mechanism,” Pottow …
Green your autumn
… your spring garden or front and back yard trees bloom. Instead of cramming raked leaves into plastic bags that end up in landfills, use them to begin a compost pile. For information on how …
Preaching care of the Earth with poetry
… crude Chinese that workers used. His wage was $2.30 a day. “No air conditioning, it smelled of plastic and paint, but I learned a lot in there.” He spent some time in Latin America also, …
Churches step up relief work in Pakistan
… network has been destroyed. An official of Caritas Pakistan said some supplies, including plastic sheeting for shelter, water purification tablets, cooking utensils and food items, have …
The pope and La Curandera, the Healer
… and “the old teachers and old people”... that too much time spent in an injection-molded plasticizing culture means that one must swerve every day and hard against being absorbed by a … university to test one’s thoughts and discuss all sides doesn’t come from, as I stated above, plasticizing everything in sight so that everything is pleasantly dead instead of thrillingly …
Roles of bishop, cathedral intertwine
… that the decision to use a modern arena, with its industrial carpet, fluorescent light, and plastic seating, represents precisely the triumph of the modern, utilitarian, functionalist …
Being Catholic means finding God at every turn
… in our liturgies about using real candles, not the phony electric ones, genuine plants, not plastic greenery? Can we identify the turning of liturgical seasons by the choreography of …
A teacher and her students
… not to back down when you are challenged or frightened, but to move ahead. My Jesus is not the plastic statue Jesus, my Jesus is the radical Jesus. He died for us -- yes, we hear that all the …
Beautiful boys and fantastical toys
… irony of the conclusion of "Toy Story 3," however, when the toys are saved from oblivion, that plastic will outlast all of us -- and this is enough to make us weep as we applaud another …
Working to bring 'Reign of God' to Haiti
… to the car. As I opened the car door, he saw on the floor of the car, a container—one of those plastic containers that you might take home food from a restaurant—and he jumped right away and …
Why the World Cup is Good for Us
… when the goalie, another five-year-old, was looking the other way. Don’t worry; they all got a plastic trophy, because this is all about fun and sportsmanship, right? I have just now returned …
Not THAT Touchdown Jesus
… hands and ND's football tradition--destroyed? Turns out it was just a rather ugly 62-foot plastic foam and fiberglass statue of Jesus, called "King of Kings," outside a Protestant church …
Pequeña Comunidad: The road to New Hope in El Salvador
… Nohemy Ortíz, Hortencia Preza and Valentina Pérez join us in a large, covered courtyard with plastic chairs arranged in a circle, an all-purpose space for meetings, meals and prayer. At one …
Forced evictees still ignored
… the two groups said. “It is a scandal that five years on, victims are left to survive in plastic shacks without basic essential services. The needs of these victims are at risk of being …
Drones and democracy
… aged seven or eight. They couldn’t pick up the charred parts in one piece. Finding scraps of plastic they transported the body parts away from the site. Three to four others joined in to help cover the bodies in plastic and carry them to the morgue. But these volunteers and nearby onlookers were attacked by …
On the Catholic frontier
… At Behga, a village of a few hundred souls scattered among small plots of terraced farmland, a plastic canopy flaps in the breeze, supported by large bamboo poles. This is the parish church. …