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We encounter God most in our moments of helplessness
… his slow, shuffling way toward them. The man carried a portable oxygen canister and wore the plastic cannula in his nostrils. His breath was audible and labored. At last he reached my friend …
New encyclical echoes a Green vision
… Rich Heffern … Workers prepare plastic bags for planting Jetropha seeds in August 2008 in Nairobi, Kenya. The plant is being … that mainly rely on kerosene for lighting. (Panapress/Khamis Ramadhan) Workers prepare plastic bags for planting Jetropha seeds in August 2008 in Nairobi, Kenya. The plant is being …
A gut check for American Catholicism
… and opportunities for the impoverished city of Araceli. Various firms resulted, including a plastics manufacturing business, a clothing company, and a pig farm. Building on that impulse, …
Turning life upside down
… things. “I have; therefore, I am” seeps into the psyche and shapes the soul into nothing but a plastic profile of myself. It is an empty existence. Humility, the grace not to put on airs, …
Indiana firm can claim a papal thumbs-up from new social encyclical
… and opportunities for the impoverished city of Araceli. Various firms resulted, including a plastics manufacturing business, a clothing company, and a pig farm. Building on that impulse, …
Hell-raiser in a collar wins fight for parish
… in Washington, D.C., to protest the company's manufacturing of napalm, Agent Orange and plastic body bags, all used in Vietnam. Known as the "D.C. 9," the protesters poured human blood …
The other cheek, the extra mile
… use the bathroom, the phone, get help with prescriptions, half-price bus passes, a toothbrush, plastic razor, a dry pair of socks. The House, known as Holy Family, or just the "Holy House" to …
An Earth-friendly printer font
… it does, websites like www.freerecycling.com make it easy – and economical – to keep your used plastic out of the dump. …
We Are All Immigrants: The Soul Demands Kinship
… round, his clothes and all he owns, tied into a black garbage bag... we have dozens of these plastic bolsas in our pantries, but he has bought the only bolsa he owns at a high price in the …
My Night in the Las Vegas Jail
… Vegas Metro Police Department arrived at the scene and placed us under arrest. First came the plastic handcuffs; then actual metal chains were tied around our wastes with metal handcuffs …
The Marys of Mother Africa: Story of Greedy Boy
… box was the most rare of magical objects ... one that would be magical to us too ... a little plastic radio with a crank ... in reality, a tiny receiver that was powered by ... the sun! Solar …
Sour economy: reason for churches to go green
… of the year, recycling bins have popped up throughout the building, paper plates have replaced plastic foam, and the secretary has started e-mailing the church newsletter instead of mailing …
Faithful Fools chip away at the boundaries
… any nearby. But the man, who later told her his name was Thomas, reached into one of the plastic bags he was carrying. “I can offer you this rice if you are hungry.” Three months later, …
Guadalupe: Transforming A Drunkard
… some real flowers around the porcelain where it meets the ground... but some strongly colored plastic flowers too, for Guadalupe miraculously made roses appear in the wintertime... and this …
Climate change part of the justice message at SOA
… locally produced foods saves energy. 3. Compost your food waste instead of putting it in a plastic bag and sending it to the landfill. A home compost operation requires about “five minutes a day” of labor. 4, Start a garden. 5. Cut solid waste in your diet -- plastics especially. Processed foods produce lots of waste, and plastics are the worst. Even when recycled, plastic bottles cannot be remade into new bottles, and about 90 percent of plastic cannot be …
Cardinal invokes Confucian wisdom at Bible synod
… blamed dairy suppliers for the scandal, saying they added the chemical, usually used in plastics and adhesives, to watered-down milk to make it appear richer in protein. The chemical … did not have a defined limit for acceptable levels of melamine, which can leach from plastic packaging into food products. …
Facing Evil: Qui tacet consentit. - Who keeps silent, consents
… BBC reports that naked men dressed in only the scraps of monk’s robes and naked women wearing plastic bags knotted together are trying to walk from the villages. There is no countrywide plan …
Catholic relief agency in Myanmar faces travel restrictions
… water for the whole neighborhood.” Despite these difficulties, Malteser is distributing plastic sheeting, cookware, mosquito nets and more water to households. The Malteser team said there is a great need for food and safe drinking water, tents, plastic sheets or other material for temporary shelter, household items, medicine, clothes and …