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Morning Briefing
… sentiment here? " Eco-Catholic columnist Donna Schaper is suffering from Post-Traumatic Tree Disorder after losing two ancient trees on her property. … Listen up! … A lot of podcasts take a production break during summer, …
The trauma of losing trees: a memorial
… state of mind. The microburst, which contained three tornados, had uprooted the two largest trees on our property, both over 75 years old. The two huge trees were blown out by the root ball, while 21 others also went down. We also lost a lilac bush. … a mild version of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. I could respell that post-traumatic tree disorder, PTTD. How dare I? Haven't I seen what happened in Puerto Rico? Was I not in New …
Church goes 'wild' as believers and seekers head for the trees
… ridge around a valley so lovely it doubled as Shangri-La in the 1937 classic "Lost Horizon." Trees exploded and countless wild creatures died in the California wildfire. Victoria Loorz … is typically a dozen people who gather to pray and "look to the Psalms where the land and trees are singing God's praises," Blackmer says. Wild Church leaders are careful to distinguish …
Robins' nest-building reminds me of parents at border
… first year. The world is filled with their predators. Hawks, raccoons, cats, rats, even the tree squirrels who seem most interested in the seeds in our bird feeders, all of them are …
Dorothy Day offered herself as she was to God
… much more meditative and complex: not the portrait of a single person but of a family tree. It's a portrait of the relationship between a mother, a daughter and a granddaughter, …
Three new films explore father-daughter relationships
… to be kind, they only want to normalize Tom and Will. A man (Jeff Kober) who owns a Christmas tree farm reads about the pair in the newspaper and offers them a home and work for Will. Social …
Simple action of carrying water in the desert prevents migrant deaths
… in late 2017 when she and other volunteers encountered a human skull under a mesquite tree in the desert near Ajo. "Silence fell over our group as we realized what we had discovered," …
Two new art exhibits address earthly spirituality
… is created by the ancestral beings," Skerritt said. "Everything has ancestral presence: Every tree and animal has ancestral identity." That is why, he added, the artists used materials from …
Seeking Refuge: Jordan takes in masses of Syrians but prefers they don't stay
… Azraq refugee camp is located in the desolate desert, two hours southeast of Amman. Without a tree in sight, everything in the camp is brown, coated by a desert dust so prevalent even the …
NCR awards from the Catholic Press Association 2018
… and their teachers bring the principles of "Laudato Si" into their schools — from the "ID a Tree" challenge to taste tests of fair-trade chocolate — are told in lively anecdotes, providing …
Poor People's Campaign rally ends with vows to keep organizing and protesting
… and have worked with Put People First PA!, seeking universal health care in their state, while Tree Muldrow's cause was the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration. "We all have similar …
Jew, Christian, Muslim: 'See the Beloved everywhere'
… recipe of persimmons with goat cheese! One of the most treasured ornaments on my Christmas tree is a tiny crèche made in Bethlehem that my Muslim friend Maram brought from her native …
Parishioners in Kenya disappointed after priest suspended for rapping
… priest attracted hundreds of young people to church, where they would stay. He also initiated tree planting and other community projects, she said. "We are happy that his style of preaching …
Pope: Commandments are God's loving words, not oppressive commands
… of Adam and Eve, which was meant to convince them that God forbade them to eat from the tree to keep them submissive, is a challenge for Christians today who must choose "between a …
Nearly 600 institutions back Catholic Climate Declaration
… carbon footprints through activities like air travel by donating to projects that have planted trees in Uganda and installed solar panels at schools and convents in Bangladesh and India. The …
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
… The end of Chapter 17 finally proclaims the promise of redemption, comparing Israel to a tree that God will cultivate by taking a graft from a mighty cedar, a tree that can grow to a … capacity to shelter all peoples. Somewhat surprisingly in this allegory, all the other trees — the other nations — recognize the grandeur of this one and yet they neither convert nor … from Ezekiel 17 compared the chosen people to a shoot taken from the greatest of foreign trees and replanted by God in Israel. Seeing the kingdom of God start as a mustard seed is a far …
Ken Langone, my favorite right-winger
… with him at three of his golfing haunts — the Sands Point Club on Long Island, Burning Tree in Maryland and New Jersey's Pine Valley — he is finally in the nation's bookstores with I …
Pope shares childhood memories with Italian children
… Francis urged the children always to remember their first school and first teacher. "Can a tree whose roots have been removed produce flowers?" the pope asked. The children shouted, "No." …
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… and giving him the garden of Eden, God only gave him one prohibition: He was not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Then, seeing that Adam was lonely, God formed creatures and … stock. All was well until the serpent came to Eve who had presumably heard about the forbidden tree from Adam. Eve’s temptation was really a dilemma about whether to believe Adam or the … caught it in a gross exaggeration about God’s moral demands (Genesis 3:1-2). Eve ate from the tree because the serpent said it would make her like a god. “She saw that the tree was good for …
Chilean Catholics weather clergy sexual abuse crisis fallout
… at their church, a peaceful white chapel built in a garden full of orange-colored autumnal trees, Correa and Concha discussed their faith and their role as parents. They said they face … people are seeking to be confirmed, largely because of what has happened. In Plaza de Armas, a tree-lined square in the center of Santiago, the striking brown stone Metropolitan Cathedral …