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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… as "Our Lady of the Amazon" to Pope Francis on the first day of the synod (Oct. 4), at a tree-planting ceremony at the Vatican Gardens. A video of the event immediately created a …

… and safe. I loved the sturdy feel of it, and took it in with the comfort I would a maple tree back home in Indiana. When I leaned on the saguaro, it didn't topple over, the way for some …

… and pain and beauty and jaggedness of life. To really see, for instance, the sunlight on the tree leaves on the branch swaying in the wind, the shifting shades of green, the shifting shadows …

… end to oil drilling, mining and indiscriminate logging in Ecuador. Stripping the mountains of trees, he said, robs indigenous communities of the water and clean air they need to survive. …

… end to oil drilling, mining and indiscriminate logging in Ecuador. Stripping the mountains of trees, he said, robs indigenous communities of the water and clean air they need to survive. …

… the peoples who inhabit it." Nor has logging or agribusiness treated the territory any better. Trees have been cut down with no concern for sustainability of the forest. Cattle ranchers have …

… of Spirituality in Rome, told Catholic News Service. "Pantheism means to believe that a tree is a god, the sun is a god," said Moema Maria Marques de Miranda, a lay Franciscan who is an … into Spanish or Portuguese with the word for "mother." That does not mean they see the trees or animals as gods, but it reflects their belief that the sacred is present in the world, …

… changes.  “Faith the size of a mustard seed,” he said, “can move mountains and uproot mulberry trees and cast them into the sea.” So why are we of so little faith? There is more to the …

… to Guatemala, Colombia to Nigeria, New Zealand to Barbados vowed to plant more than 11 billion trees. More than 100 leaders in the private sector committed to accelerating their move into the …

… church workers and indigenous people Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, to plant a tree in the Vatican Gardens. He also consecrated the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon to St. … the pope and Cardinal Claudio Hummes of Brazil to spread the soil around a small holm oak tree from Assisi and sprinkle it with water. "Pope Francis is sensitive to our people," Viana … to the earth as a common home, "he speaks a great deal about our life." In a reflection on the tree's significance, Sr. Liliana Franco of the Company of Mary, president of the Latin American …

… it in our language, the birds put it in theirs. We can read the story of the Universe in the trees. The winds tell the story, literally.  Everything tells the story of the Universe. What …

… Earth teach me caring ~ as mothers nurture their young. Earth teach me courage ~ as the tree that stands alone. Earth teach me limitation ~ as the ant that crawls on the ground. Earth …

… or inflammation of the nasal cavity, congestion and post-nasal drip. "It used to be that tree pollens were only in spring, grasses were just in summer, ragweed was just in fall," Tummala …

… said. "His are calm and farsighted words," part of a process that urges people to "judge a tree by its fruits" rather than acting hastily, the pope said. Francis asked people at the …