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Authors take the environmental movement to task
… with his family from urban England to a small acreage in rural Ireland. There, he plants trees, scythes and utilizes his self-built compost toilet. Though Kingsnorth believes that human …
St. John's Pottery supports artists, stewardship in Benedictine style
… kiln designs), each chamber specific for a certain type of glaze composition and appearance. Trees used to fuel the Johanna kiln are local, and no tree is gained from clear-cutting or nonsustainable systems, earning the studio certification …
Easter shows the power of love, which renews the world, pope says
… Easter morning dawned bright and sunny at the Vatican, highlighting the thousands of flowers, trees and bushes donated by flower growers in the Netherlands. The garden created on the steps of …
Good Friday street-level Stations in a city full of wealth and power
… of Century Link Field, home for the Seattle Seahawks. With a year-around mild climate and tree-shaded park benches, this particular part of Seattle is known across the country as an urban … to light, a star that burns forever in the sky.' " [Jon Magnuson is the director of the Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan, a nonprofit organization that provides services and …
Catholic campuses use bees to teach sustainability and engage local community
… like honeybees to the world — responsible for pollinating 90 percent of wild plants and trees — and also to develop more sustainable habitats for such insects to thrive. The United …
Pope: Present in the Eucharist, Jesus transforms those who receive him
… with an impromptu lesson about gardening and how to grow into being better Christians. "Does a tree or plant that is diseased bloom well? No! Does a tree or a plant that isn't watered ... bloom well? No. And does a tree or plant with no roots bloom?" he said before delivering his general audience talk March 21. …
Imitate St. Pio's life, don't forget poor, marginalized, pope says
… waited outside the square of the Chapel of the Stigmata which houses a piece of the elm tree Padre Pio sat in front of when he first received the stigmata — wounds on his feet, hands …
Fourth Sunday of Lent
… scene. The singers are sitting by a stream, a place where people should be as content as a tree planted near running water. But these singers say they can do no more than weep because they …
In Peru's Madre de Dios region, church helps indigenous peoples survive
… detention for failure to pay stiff fines originally imposed because illegal loggers cut down trees. And, recently, state officials have ordered that each of the 22 families living here must …
Know what your duty is, do it without hesitation
… next to me by the huge window with a direct view to a Buddha statue that sits under a cherry tree with Christmas ornaments tinkling in the wind on its naked branches. Silvia brings a bowl of …
Poland's Catholic Church takes on its critics
… a wide swath past shops, restaurants, bars and offices. Uphill in the distance, beyond the trees, the baroque spire of the Jasna Gora monastery points triumphantly towards heaven above a …
Massacre of Rohingya Muslims and mass graves in Myanmar
… in the east, said Mohammad Sha, 37, a shop owner and farmer. Sha hid in a grove of coconut trees near the river with more than 100 others and watched as the soldiers searched Muslim homes. … the soldiers just shot continuously," said Mohammad Rayes, 23, a schoolteacher who climbed a tree and watched. Kadir, the chinlone player, was shot twice in the foot but managed to drag … people from the area hid deep in the jungle, stranded without food except for the leaves and trees they tried to eat. More than 20 infants and toddlers died because of the lack of food and …
Nurturing the cosmic perspective of learned ignorance
… In Nicholas' words, we are "unwise fools," who in "their vanities fell short and embraced the tree of knowledge but did not apprehend the tree of life." Too often in the past year, it has seemed like our nation is being led by unwise …
Being a witness to election aftermath in Honduras
… took place in Tegucigalpa and other cities. Street blockages, burning tires and uprooted trees were used by demonstrators to express their discontent at what was widely-perceived as a …
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
… and his devastation that God did not decimate the people and yet destroyed his shade tree. (Such a man of God, more concerned for a plant than for the population of the city!) The …
From the Amazon, Francis decries policies that 'strangle' indigenous
… due to the consequences of climate change the land is spoiling, the animals are shrinking, the trees are disappearing, the fish are dying, [and] the fresh water is running out." Earlier this …
Take winter as a time to slow down, find your soul
… when our slower domesticated way of life can be a lesson in what is truly important. Icicled trees and expanses of white snow can make even the blandest of scenery beautiful. The real …
Amid attacks on churches, Francis tells Chilean indigenous to shun violence
… the wood-accented altar platform at the airfield wearing colorful headdresses and holding tree-branches. As several of the indigenous banged on drums, the rest of the group moved the …
Rosemary Haughton's contributions to Catholicism deserve rediscovery
… of passionate love that gives the best insight into God's love. There Is Hope for a Tree , published the same year, focuses on small liturgical communities, which Haughton sees as …
From Christmas to Candlemas, let the light last
… away. Fairy lights have been unwound and packed up, and even the most stalwart Christmas trees dragged out to meet an ignominious end on the curb. Eggnog and wassail have been retired in … merriment and cheer is telescoped and oriented toward the morning ritual of presents under the tree. For another thing, Christmas in the fall brings cheer to a season that doesn't need it. We … On the other hand, it is possible that I continue to be a stubborn holdout, watering my tree while my neighbors pack up theirs, and sending Christmas cards in mid-January. It is …