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'Sometimes a fire is just a fire'
… Cathedral was still aflame last week, the interpretations of what this fire meant began to flood the internet and Twitter. We Americans are nothing if not utilitarian and so we seemed … of the other warning shots, from glaciers melting, to exotic diseases spreading, to biblical floods, to the sharks invading my cherished Cape Cod beaches." It is true that the French state …
Do no harm: Catholic hospitals confront their own carbon footprints
… climate change. Climate change affects human health by altering exposures to heat waves, floods, droughts, and other extreme events; vector-, food- and waterborne infectious diseases; …
Our Lenten journey culminates in the vigil's powerful catechesis
… news. In some churches the story of creation is followed tonight by the story of the great flood, a story of what became of those two who were made in the image of God. God sweeps away all that God saw as good. But even the flood story ends with a new creation: a new covenant between God and humankind. And so through …
Holy Week services go on in Paris despite Notre Dame fire
… "It's not visible from the outside, so let's take advantage of new materials," he said. The flood of contributions has also led some French to ask how so much money could be found when …
The sacred triduum's symbols are sacraments that point to what is real
… he brought forth life. Water is also, as our friends who live and farm on the banks of the flooding waters of the Mississippi have learned, enormously destructive. The great Easter Vigil …
Where science warnings fail, can moral force push us out of climate inertia?
… a changing climate. Glaciers are melting. Intense storms are strengthening. Seas are rising. Floods are spreading. Heat waves and droughts are prolonging. And the destruction and disruption …
Cyclone Idai relief underway with help of sisters in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
… logs and big stones in muddy roads to help deliver food, water and basic health services to flood victims after strong winds and torrential rains hit the region in mid-March. "We need to …
A chasm of inequality: Lenten meditations on wealth
… hurt? Your torments track me down, your rage consumes me, your trials destroy me. All day they flood around me, pressing down, closing me in. You took my friends from me, darkness is all I …
Parish roundup: Students help with taxes; Floodwaters trap parishioners
… Hubert and Naoma Borgmann recount their experience of being trapped in their home by Nebraska flooding, said to be the worst in a half century. The Archdiocese of Omaha is carrying out a special collection for flood victims. Two bishops with Spokane, Washington, platforms come down on differing sides and …
Patient God, urgent message
… think that because certain Iowans and Nebraskans suffered so terribly in the record-breaking flooding this spring that they were greater sinners than all other Americans? Or the thousand …
Catholic Church in Austria to divest from fossil fuels
… on the planet and people become more prevalent — from melting glaciers and increasing coastal flooding, to devastating droughts, wildfires and powerful storms — and as scientists report that …
Historic flooding in Midwest threatening lives, destroying livelihoods
… March 19 expressed grief over the lives and livelihoods lost and threatened by the historic flooding in the Midwest and offered prayers for recovery. "We are deeply saddened by the loss of life and the damage caused by the flooding throughout the Midwest these past few days," said Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, … to begin receding until the end of the week. "It is our prayer that those affected by the floods will find the strength to rebuild," he added. "We trust that the Lord will console them in …
As cyclone slams Africa, churches, aid agencies coordinate response
… are already acute in Zimbabwe. At the Vatican, Pope Francis prayed those affected by the flooding, which has "sown sorrow and devastation," be able to find comfort and support. He … Malawi was also affected by the heavy rains. The government confirmed 56 deaths in the flooding, which caused rivers to burst their banks, leaving houses submerged and around 11,000 …
There's this thing about Lent
… accident. A neighbor is killed in ou Gulf War — and another friend loses everything in the floods of our own Gulf. A parent gets Alzheimer's. A divorce we never ever wanted has ripped us …
Faith community joins Florida congressman in opposing offshore drilling
… published Feb. 27 by First Street Foundation estimated property value losses from coastal flooding in 17 states, from Maine to Mississippi, at nearly $16 billion from 2005 to 2017. … New York-based foundation, which researches the risks associated with sea-level rise and flooding. Each of the three other participants in the program on the Hill also expressed concern … hurricanes in her state and elsewhere including southeast Texas and Puerto Rico, where record flooding has been recorded. She said her husband's livelihood as a fisherman in the eastern part …
Church advocates: Latin Americans understand God's presence in nature
… local communities, Miranda said. The most recent example was the collapse of a dam that sent a flood of toxic water and mud cascading through a valley in Brumadinho, in the Brazilian state of … that the collapse of a similar dam at another mine owned by Vale, BHP Billiton and Samarco flooded the town of Bento Rodrigues in November 2015, killing 19 people and sending a cascade of …
Workers furloughed during shutdown grateful for Catholic Charities' help
… agency for assistance because the two had worked together in the past during hurricanes and floods that hit the area. Catholic Charities learned about the hardships at the federal prison …
Copy Desk Daily, Feb. 21, 2019
… disappointed to not meet Francis; call Vatican summit conversational ______ With the unending flood of stories on this, new details emerge that hint at progress. … Read: … N.J. priest at …
Panama: Catholic sister considers dam a violation of indigenous people's right to religion
… — and those petroglyphs now lie at the bottom of a stagnant, foul-smelling reservoir. The flooding caused by the Barro Blanco hydroelectric project nearly three years ago constitutes an … in May of 2016, when the company began to fill the reservoir behind the dam, leading to flooding of the communities and weeks of significant and sometimes violent protests. She watched with dismay as the Panamanian government pushed the dam project through, flooding Kiad and two other riverside communities, their cemetery and ceremonial site included, …
Copy Desk Daily, Feb. 18, 2019
… in activism, since the Panamanian government pushed the Barro Blanco dam project through. This flooded Kiad and two other riverside communities, their cemetery and ceremonial site included, …