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Holding on to hope when you're not sure things will get better
… won't be in line at a food bank at Christmas. Our names won't be on the Salvation Army Angel Tree. We have our health. It's not that bad. It's not that bad, but it is that complicated. I …
Religious leaders in Colombia form coalition to defend rainforests
… are crucial to slowing down climate change, due to their massive concentration of plants and trees, but these ecosystems are increasingly threatened by mining, illegal logging, oil drilling … by the University of Maryland found that, in 2017, the world lost 39 million acres of tropical tree cover, or an area the size of New York state. The study said it was the second-worst year on …
Shrine to Vietnamese Lady of La Vang rises in Southern California
… shrine in Quang Tri. And in the landscaping, Torrence said, he's using rocks from Vietnam and trees with yellow flowers similar to those in the jungle surrounding Vietnam's shrine. The common …
Resting with autumn gives attention to the created world
… nutty beer or good tea from a round yellow pot. See a pale sliced moon glitter behind the trees, November's most reliable source of light. See the shadows move over the ground, hear the … company with the dead. Walking through a run-down part of town, learning the species of its trees and calculating costs for restoring the trim around leaded windows. Passing a day alone, …
Indian bishop promotes peace in Miao, but sees church enemies in allegations
… urges Catholic school students to stop killing birds with darts, and to focus on planting trees. Catholic schooling has paved the way for social change in the region, said the bishop, as …
'Boy Erased' depicts the casualties of gay conversion therapy
… rather than exploring nature. In "Boy Erased," each participant must make a family tree chart and designate people as alcoholic, homosexual, someone who had an abortion, or other …
'Listen to the heart of our people,' Sr. Teresa Maya tells US bishops
… Soli Salgado … A lesson for U.S. bishops lies in an oak tree in San Antonio — one with a healthy exterior but a rotten core unable to sustain its own branches, a core that will cause the slow death of an otherwise beautiful tree. Contemplating the connection between this tree and the church, Sr. Teresa Maya , past president of the Leadership Conference of Women …
Parish roundup: Catholics support Tree of Life Synagogue
… Bede Church in Pittsburgh walk in prayerful solidarity , in support of their neighbors at the Tree of Life Synagogue, while Catholic parishioners throughout the Diocese of Pittsburgh come to …
My pilgrimage to 365 churches on five continents in 365 days
… the example of the squirrel that runs around everywhere and finds a home in the trunks of trees as well as its tallest branches, in forests and parks and cities and sure, suburban attics. …
Justice Action Bulletin: El Paso breaks voting records; sanctuary updates
… in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, and the shooting deaths of 11 Jewish people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. It cites hospitality, human dignity, honestly and humility …
100 years after World War I's armistice, recounting the human cost 'over there'
… Nothing is more uplifting than seeing Flanders' fields on a beautiful spring day when floral trees disguise the granite corridors of buried corpses. Men who died within a few meters of one … young man eager to embark on his first adventures abroad. Among them was perching himself in a tree observing enemy movements through a pair of field glasses. Luckily for Jack, his commanding officer ordered him out of the tree when he perceived the enemy advancing. Seconds later, the tree was blown to bits by a German …
Links for 11/8/18
… explains that we shouldn't too easily universalize a tragedy like the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. The murderer did not hate religion; he hated Jews. Yes, …
Voting day is a new beginning
… perfect fall day. The ones that come only a few days a year before all the leaves fall off the trees. Everything was golden and the temperature — a cool 55 degrees — was refreshing. I took a …
Parish roundup: Audio-visual tech connects incarcerated mothers with their children
… of St. Bede Parish in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, made a spontaneous half-mile walk to Tree of Life Synagogue Oct. 28 following the Catholic congregation's 11 a.m. mass to show support …
Jewish groups decry Messianic Jewish rabbi's prayer at Pence rally
… Michigan" and asking him to deliver a prayer for those killed during the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday. Jacobs again invoked Scripture from the … of such claims, Jacobs simply does not represent mainstream Judaism practiced at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue. "There are lots of different ways to measure someone's status in the …
Links for 10/30/18
… Michael Sean Winters … People can be shocked at the murders committed at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, but let no one be surprised. In Western societies, when a …
Why Pittsburgh matters
… the police officers who were injured defending Jewish lives and common decency. The attack on Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh was not only an attack on Jews. It was not only an attack on … want to live, because it is a place where your soul would want to live. And then, of course, Tree of Life Synagogue itself — a place, like many of its neighbors, that has nurtured the … the midst of fulfilling the covenant — were ending. Fourth, sacred values. The gunman attacked Tree of Life Synagogue's building of the institution's linkage to HIAS. HIAS began its noble …
Bishops conference president condemns shooting at synagogue, all 'acts of hate'
… Catholic Bishops said Oct. 27 after a horrific shooting earlier that day in Pittsburgh at the Tree of Life Synagogue, described as a hub of Jewish life in that city. The shooting occurred … country." "Words cannot adequately express my sorrow at this morning's horrific massacre at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh," another Pennsylvania bishop, Greensburg Bishop Edward …
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… miracle in Mark’s Gospel — as long as we don’t count the anti-miracle of Jesus cursing the fig tree (11:12-14). While it is the last, and therefore by some measures, the greatest, what is more …
Pope, meeting South Korean leader, says he's open to visiting North
… people." Among the gifts the pope gave Moon was a split medallion held together by an olive tree which he said was "a symbol of peace in the Korean Peninsula." Before departing, Moon …