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Copy Desk Daily, Nov. 19, 2019
… in my life: as a teenager and just last year." Laudato … see … : The Vatican's Christmas tree will be adorned with energy-saving lights this year. Want to keep updated with the latest …
Irish priest addresses climate crisis in Pakistan
… be as severe." O'Callaghan welcomed Prime Minister Imran Khan's announcement of a national tree plantation drive to fight the effects of climate change. The plan calls for up to 10 billion trees to be planted across the country over the next five years. One of the challenges for the …
Come on down
… in Jerusalem. As noted in earlier reflections, Jesus’ encounter with Zacchaeus, a man up in a tree, may have seemed like an omen of his own fate. He quickly orders the notorious tax collector … his sinful past and embraced discipleship. What is the cost of discipleship for us? What tree or high horse might we be ordered down from to dine with Jesus and examine ourselves in the …
Energy-efficient lights to adorn Vatican Christmas tree
… Carol Glatz … Catholic News Service … The Vatican's Christmas tree will be adorned with energy-saving lights, the governing office of Vatican City said. … come from the high plateaus of the Veneto region in northeast Italy and another 20 smaller trees will be donated by communities in the region's province of Vicenza. About 40 trees will be replanted in an area in the northeast that had been seriously damaged by severe …
What I found in the labyrinth
… Tucked behind the cabins is a tiny chapel and humble labyrinth with walls made from small tree stumps and woodchips. Soaking wet and feeling unreal, I approached the entrance of the …
Veterans Day
… his Apostles that if they had faith the size of a mustard seed, they could order a mulberry tree to uproot itself and be planted in the sea. He chose the impossible to describe the power of …
How four dioceses are actually doing something about the climate crisis
… recognition of the Season of Creation. As part of its celebration, it planted more than 200 trees at 13 parishes across the archdiocese. "It takes a while to gather steam and decide what …
Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus
… is too large. They don't like him anyway and so they don't give him a chance. But he sees a tree and he climbs the tree. I think because Jesus was fully human, you can easily imagine Jesus looking up and smiling. … It's kind of a ridiculous thing to see this rich man clad in beautiful garments climbing a tree and sitting on a branch. But Jesus, when he looks up, fulfills what Isaiah had said (If you …
The Latin Mass becomes a cult of toxic tradition
… fallen-away Catholic who hadn't been to church in over 30 years. In the branches of my family tree were relatives who might best be described as atheists, and others of a more traditional …
On the train to Omaha: Why individual action on climate change matters
… of fires blazed across the Amazon, releasing yet more heat-trapping gases while destroying the trees that are most effective at capturing them. Record heat was on track to melt at least 440 …
'Come down, Zacchaeus!'
… it was the thought of his crucifixion that caused Jesus to stop and look up at the man in the tree. He will soon change places with the man in the sycamore tree. Zacchaeus will be saved because Jesus is lost, his life given for the life of a sinner. …
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time: A precarious position
… Mary M. McGlone … What was he thinking? A short, petty but powerful man shinnying up a tree to spy as Jesus and friends passed through Jericho. There must have been advance publicity; … change everything. So, without having any clue of the symbolism of his action, he climbed up a tree to see what Jesus' salvation was all about. Zacchaeus surely didn't expect Jesus to look up … under his perch, but that's what happened. Funny how these things evolve: There's a man up a tree, a prophet glances his way, then lo and behold, the shifty onlooker becomes the honorable …
Your thoughts on imagining God, cardinal leadership, climate change and more
… notice of their prophetic voice. A Syrian refugee in Amman tells me how much he misses the trees in his neighborhood, which lovingly gave him shade in his little outdoor garden. A refugee … in this life. I give thanks for the small breezes, the delicious fruits, and the shade a lone tree might be able to offer me. Then, I offer a prayer to those who gave me the grace to see with …
Amazon governors, meeting after synod, support 'green economy'
… nuts, plant extracts and fibers — that generate an income without requiring the felling of trees. When a similar proposal was made during the synod, critics warned that it could constitute … in South America except Chile. Half of that rainfall is produced by evapotranspiration from trees, he said, so continued deforestation is expected to reduce precipitation. More frequent …
Pope Francis apologizes 'as bishop of Rome' for vandalism of indigenous statues
… 4 to mark the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The pope was in attendance and participated in a tree planting. The theft has garnered much attention in the final week of the synod. The …
Amazon synod's critics distort Catholic tradition for their convenience
… be counted on for this kind of ridiculousness, as he and Fr. Gerald Murray fretted about a tree planting ceremony that they, and other papal critics, considered pagan . J.D. Flynn at the …
Women of the Church takes stock of Catholic chaos, urges women's leadership
… is the unexpectedly clear-eyed perspective from the forest floor or from the top branches of trees," she said, comparing the need for "an eruption of women into history" to the current …
Editorial: Desecration of Amazonian mother statues was a racist act
… Gospel is suited to only one culture, Western culture circa 1955. Since Pope Francis planted a tree on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, and indigenous peoples of the Amazon brought some of their spiritual symbols to the brief prayer service that accompanied the tree-planting, the pope's critics have been in a lather, complaining about the presence of pagan …
A gracious overnight with an indigenous Catholic family in the Amazon
… I listen from a wooden bench while William sits in a chair carved from a single piece of a tree trunk and speaks before a thin flame in a raised bowl. He talks in a slow, whisper-like … he says, is destroying the Amazon, violating the "work of the Creator." He added: "The trees are living beings. That is why they were created. God maintains life. Our lives. God maintains the trees." While speaking, he dips a finger into a container of a carefully-prepared mix of the coca …
Catholics in the Amazon await the synod's decisions
… whose ranks number in the thousands and are thriving. Plant life includes some 390 billion trees in rich diversity — 16,000 species. The region also presents a gift of survival to every … voices to be heard over the clattering din of thousands of jungle parakeets descending upon trees across the street. People in the central plaza could look up and see the huge sign the …