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Bishops' lobbying for health care worker conscience protection stymied
… of the Committee for Religious Liberty. In a joint statement March 6, they urged Catholics to flood Congress with emails and calls asking for enactment of the measure and "to pray for this …
LifeSiteNews does harm with stories like 'Vatican financial scandal'
… every effort. What could possibly go wrong? When LifeSite started pushing this story with a flood of emails last week, I called a bishop who related that when he was a young priest, his …
You can't keep politics out of sports: That's a good thing
… Brady's pass fell incomplete, people of every age, race, religious, and political persuasion flooded the city's streets. (Some folks even headed outside to shoot off fireworks or honk car …
Dear Parkland students: This land is your land
… health, accident, home and auto insurance. You can insure your weaponry against loss, damage, flood, fire, and theft. You can get an NRA personal loan, and join the NRA Wine Club. You can get …
First Sunday of Lent
… they say to us today. We begin with the covenant God made with all the survivors of the Great Flood in the days of Noah. Walter Bruggemann comments that we should not regard the story of the flood as a myth in the sense of its being a culture’s attempt to understand life and natural …
Refugee groups fight Trump travel ban — and for their own survival
… throughout 2017 and into 2018. Representatives from CWS and other groups were among those who flooded airports after the ban was announced and have organized subsequent large-scale …
Mystery and grace in 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'
… kill her could be her own son and her whole demeanor changes. She sees him with love; she is flooded with grace just before she dies because her way of seeing has changed. Moments of grace …
Francis calls attention to increasing gang violence in northern Peru
… violence as part of a homily in which he also mentioned the area's susceptibility to dangerous flooding during the El Nino season, when the surface sea temperatures in the Pacific rise, … estimates that some 293,000 across the country needed temporary shelter in 2017 due to the flooding. The pope said the "painful consequences" of El Nino "are still present in so many …
Take winter as a time to slow down, find your soul
… — is where God comes most profoundly. After many months of great hurricanes, fires, mudslides, floods and one particularly loud leader of the free world, this winter may be the perfect time to …
Leadership style, a comparison between Dr. King and Pope Francis
… to find much evidence of such high-minded discussion. A tidal wave of heated, nonsense words flood the airwaves and riddle the internet, but who remembers a word of it? Thankfully, then, Dr. …
The left needs to shed cultish dogmatism, embrace universalism anew
… their ancient tribal circuits, preparing them for battle. Many students find it thrilling; it floods them with a sense of meaning and purpose." He reverts to this conservative fascination …
Build bridges to one another through love
… sons and daughters from afar. This sight will make your face radiant, your heart throbbing. A flood of camels will cover you, caravans from Midian and Ephah. Those from Sheba will come, …
Pope to hear from indigenous about ministry, land rights in Chile, Peru
… told CNS. Pacaya lives in Masusa, a riverside neighborhood of houses built on stilts, which floods each year during the rainy season. The houses lack running water and sewage systems, and …
8 tips for nurturing your body, mind and spirit in 2018
… While technology has innumerable benefits, every hour in front of a screen also dumps a flood of external input into your life. How can we be selective about our media intake? What …
Natural disasters prompt church to raise millions for aid, recovery
… large and small, signaling a massive loss of income and livelihood. Collapsed buildings, flooded homes and roofless structures offered testimony to the severity of the storm. The … of rain on some communities. Catholic parishes and schools were among entities affected by flooding. The storm was the first major hurricane to make landfall on the U.S. mainland since … With winds topping 160 miles an hour, both storms devastated entire islands. Irma also caused flooding throughout Florida. Beyond Puerto Rico, the U.S Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, …
Philip Pullman warns of absolute power in new novel
… inn asking about a baby living at the priory across the river. The baby is Lyra. And when a flood and a madman threaten Lyra's life, Malcolm and his friend Alice hop in his canoe and do … Dust itself — is material, not spiritual. And in the end, while Malcolm keeps Lyra safe, the flood-ravaged, tyranny-ridden nation is anything but. So there are more adventures to come. Like …
Whether Hollywood or the Vatican, patriarchy gives men license to abuse
… the New Yorker Radio Hour presented a series of interviews on the fallout from the unrelenting flood of sordid tales of sexual misconduct and assault by men. In one interview, feminist author …
In Puerto Rico, much work to do and much suffering remains, says cardinal
… large and small, signaling a massive loss of income and livelihood. Collapsed buildings, flooded homes, and roofless structures abounded. There were barely any stoplights in operation, … but the hurricane ripped open the roof of their building space like it was a piece of foil, flooding the parish hall and chapel, and rendering the structure completely useless. Out front on …
In coal country, Catholics testify in favor of Clean Power Plan
… , climate scientists expect to continue to see worsening droughts, more intense wildfires and flooding, and more extreme severe weather events. “The impacts of climate change are harming …
Pope praises Bangladesh's care for Rohingya, asks global leaders for 'decisive measures'
… Nov. 28, after the government announced a plan to relocate some 100,000 of the refugees to a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal. Critics say the plan to develop Bhashan Char Island, two … settlement, is unrealistic and likely to leave the refugees on the island subject to drastic flooding during the monsoon season. Francis arrived in Dhaka Nov. 30 to a formal welcome ceremony …