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Deluges in Peru trigger flash floods, landslides; at least 85 dead
… had swept away two trucks. A video of a woman struggling out of a maelstrom of water, mud, tree trunks and rubble near a town south of Lima drew hundreds of thousands of viewers on …
On World Water Day, African church leaders highlight shortages
… bigger responsibility.” Munyaka blamed climate change for much of the problem and said more trees and sand dams are needed to keep water from flowing out to the Indian Ocean. He fears that …
Trump's immoral budget
… to be sure, and there are always cost savings to be had if you shake the Pentagon procurement tree. Adding $54 billion in defense spending makes no sense, it meets no need except Trump’s …
Myanmar's first cardinal: Democracy and religious freedom are advancing
… and paint designs on their faces with thanaka , a white or yellowish cream made from a local tree that protects skin against the sun. Buddhist monks, novices and nuns weave through crowded …
Cardinal Muller responds to Collins and defends not answering survivors' letters
… on the sidelines of an event in Florence , said he thought Collins' had resigned "to shake the tree," implying that she perhaps hoped her move might cause some bad fruit to fall to the ground. …
First Sunday of Lent
… Painting God as a petty tyrant, the snake asks why people are not allowed to eat from fruit trees. Eve corrected him saying that there was but one forbidden tree. “And why would that be?” asks the serpent. “Don’t you get it? That’s where God’s power is … serpent. “Isn’t God a bit arbitrary? Why aren’t you allowed to eat the fruit of the trees?” Eve passes the first test admirably as she contradicts the deceitful exaggeration: “We …
The way to life
… Painting God as a petty tyrant, the snake asks why people are not allowed to eat from fruit trees. Eve corrected him saying that there was but one forbidden tree. “And why would that be?” asks the serpent. “Don’t you get it? That’s where God’s power is hidden! Eat from that tree and you’ll be just like God — beholden to no one!” So Eve takes a closer look. She decides …
Situation for Iraqi refugees in Jordan 'critical and dangerous'
… and the Catholic charity, Caritas Jordan. Meeting at Our Lady of Peace Center on the hilly, tree-lined outskirts of the Jordanian capital, the leaders sought better cooperation and were …
Trump's Bannon believes in false narrative of history
… up in Connecticut, I learned about both events, and I have a piece of the Charter Oak, the tree in which the Connecticut patriots hid their charter from Andros, in my living room. Andros' …
We need Lent now more than ever
… effort. At Old St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia, they're pulling together a Lenten "Justice Tree," which will complement the parish's Advent Giving Tree. Instead of holding tags listing items to donate to families in need, however, the tree's tags will have different ways parishioners can act for justice during Lent, including …
The spiritual ecology of the Lord's Prayer
… spiritual ecology refers to the way something connects to its environment. The folk saying "A tree is only as strong as its forest" sums up what we mean by ecology. When you add a sense of … the environment, you get the hybrid term "spiritual ecology." Think of the Lord's Prayer as a tree in a forest. You can find dozens of versions of it. Often, when praying in different …
One-woman play uses biblical Mary's life to tell story of black mothers, sons
… him. Her lyrics span the sorrows of the centuries: A Saviour on a cross A Man swinging on a tree A Dead boy on the street. She wrote several songs as she developed the play. "Telling a …
Berta Caceres, Dorothy Stang remembered at Notre Dame de Namur vigil
… fought as well as other mining projects. Carrillo said the government has claimed that the trees in the mountains of Esperanza had a disease that required they be cut down. "They never …
Immigrant stories from the past echo those of today's newly arrived
… him from boarding his troopship. Hans was, by any reckoning, an enemy combatant. My family tree has soldiers who have fought in every war from the American Revolution onward, and always on …
TV is my drug, my escape
… with Johnny Weissmuller. I'd pretend that I was Boy and that I lived with Tarzan and Jane in a tree high above the troubles of the world; and when trouble did come, I'd be safe because Tarzan … learn to swim faster than an alligator, run quicker than a lion, eat bananas and berries from trees and soon take care of myself and others just like Tarzan and Jane took care of me. My …
Two painters, two styles, one city: Seville takes a lead in cosmopolitan 17th-century art
… the bottom of the frame. In the Seville painting, viewers can make out a ship on a wide river, trees, rolling hills and a fountain; the London work adds architectural elements to the trees and fountain. To Velázquez, the Immaculate Conception was doubtlessly a heavenly …
Jesus calls us to follow him, change our lives
… life, and so Zacchaeus can't see Jesus so he runs ahead of the crowd, climbs up a sycamore tree so he can see Jesus when he goes by. When Jesus gets to that point, he looks up and there's Zacchaeus. Probably everybody was laughing; here's this rich man up in a tree trying to see Jesus. What did Jesus do? He said, "Zacchaeus, come down. I must have dinner … the commandments very well. He really wanted to know Jesus, so he came down from that tree, stood before Jesus, and said, "Look, I'm ready to give half my possessions to the poor, and …
Discovering the true self in God with Merton's guidance
… my Creator." Merton thought that to live the truth of our own existence is to be a saint. "A tree is holy," he wrote, "simply by being a tree;" flowers are saints gazing up into the face of God. We humans are no less called to be …
The ecology of burial: Choices reflect beliefs about life after death
… prototype is an egg-shaped sarcophagus that can hold a corpse in the fetal position. A young tree, chosen ahead of time by the deceased, will be planted over the pod in place of a headstone. … that "a part of life has disappeared and can now sort of get mixed up in the ground and in the trees and in the plants," O'Callaghan said. "This particular person, who lived in this particular …
Peacebuilding partnership helps Central Africans heal after conflict
… tightly, more than a dozen men and women are led by their partners around leafy plants and trees in the compound of an international charity. The occasional stumble sends nervous laughter …