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Forest loss drives viruses as well as climate change, indigenous leaders warn
… peoples "vital" to tackling the climate crisis. Indigenous lands experience a rate of tree-cover loss less than half of what other lands experience, according to the World Resources …
In Tennessee, unity in response to vast tornado devastation
… of the tornado's path — and he went to the church immediately to assess the damage. "I found trees all over the schoolyard, and our roof had been lifted up where it meets the bricks in the …
In California, residents may be able to compost their bodies after death
… and contributes to climate change. Proponents say families can use the soil to plant a tree or a garden to honor their loved ones. The process for composting a body was first … burial alternative "just makes sense," Ponoroff said. At Larkspur, the body can feed the trees and wildflowers and also help conserve new land, Ponoroff said. For Chavez, although a …
Who holds the Catholic key to Florida's 2020 election?
… union leader for Unite Here. Sipping a morning coffee from a Brazilian food truck beneath the trees outside the office park that houses the organizing effort, Mejias would soon be off to …
Travel light
… on these to support his preaching about love and forgiveness: You will reap what you sow; Good trees produce good fruit; Live by the sword and you will die by the sword; The measure you …
Opting for cloth, saving some trees
… napkin in my lunch bag, then decided we could do that at home, too. Maybe we’ll save a few trees in our lifetimes. We pull out paper napkins for big parties because we don’t have enough …
New book meditates on Emily Dickinson's acute awareness of natural world
… and relentlessly on the natural world around her. As a gardener she was entranced with trees and flowers. In nature she found God, and it was from that experience she could proclaim …
Fall in Love with Creation
… you notice for 5 minutes Delight in a beloved pet Watch the afternoon light filter through the trees Embrace the weather today, no matter the conditions … Lenten Daily Food Reflections … pause …
EARTH DAY: Prayer for the Earth & Blessed Tree Saplings Giveaway
… Vespers, celebrates the glory of God's Creation in song. It will be followed by a Blessing of Trees. Sponsored by the Parish's new Laudato Si' of Saint Augustine ministry, the event is intended to raise awareness of the Pope's message to care for our common home. Planting a tree is both a symbolic and practical response to the Holy Father's call to action. Trees clean …
Who am I to reign over the natural world?
… Caitlin Faulds … The tree hit the ground 20 feet from me. Gravity grabbed hold of its tallest piney boughs and dragged … “corridor of sacrifice,” to give up a slice of wilderness to spare the rest. But felling this tree, I felt an undeniable, unwieldy power surging – a power I wasn’t proud of. Who was I to …
GOP apostate aims to school Democrats on beating the devil on the ballot
… or more favorable regulations, is an American who doesn't see the forest fire for the trees. Wilson builds this argument — touching on the destruction of everything from democratic …
Guam residents compensated for war atrocities decades later
… canes, walkers and wheelchairs. Jesus Meno San Nicolas, 86, recalled his sister hiding in a tree to escape soldiers looking for women to rape. He was forced to work six days a week in the …
Mercy sisters cook up recipes for a less-meat Lent (and not just on Fridays)
… amounts of water and land. As forests are cleared for pastures, carbon dioxide stored in the trees is released, and fewer trees remain to absorb the planet-heating emissions from the atmosphere. While many parts of the …
One child
… of treating children as cheap labor, the 18th century adage “As the twig is bent so grows the tree” shows that adults have long understood that early influences had lifelong effects. Children …
It is time to ask, formally, for married priests and woman deacons
… neutral writers enter their own spins, everyone is forgetting about the forest and the trees. It is about the Amazon Basin, not about married priests or women deacons. Except it is. …
I want to see
… before and needs to learn to identify what he is seeing. He sees people, but they are like “trees walking.” Jesus then touches his eyes and he sees clearly. What a fascinating moment this …
Activists killed in Mexican state where illegal logging threatens butterflies
… sacred firs of the wooded forests that border Michoacán and Mexico states provide a blanket of trees for the insects where temperatures stay regulated. When the monarchs arrive, the tree branches droop from the weight of the butterflies, camouflaging the trees in a breathtaking splattering of black and orange. The monarchs then wait out the winter …
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The point of the law
… register while you called the Pharisees blind guides and hypocrites? And the poor accursed fig tree?" A look at Jesus' life leads us to question whether he really meant we should never get …
In 'Querida Amazonia,' Francis defends vital ecosystem with stern indictment of its defilers
… He presents a vision of the Catholic Church in the Amazon united in defense of its tribes, trees, tradition and tributaries, offering an example for the wider church to adopt in other …
Pure of heart
… disciples only to corrupt their minds and prevent them from knowing the truth. They are like trees that produce bad fruit instead of the good fruit their roles as guides intended. The …