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After Stockley verdict, Catholics asked to step up to "St. Louis' Selma"
… in the College Church group suggested the two parishes join forces to pick up litter, plant trees or otherwise clean up the neighborhood. One of the Rock Church members thought they ought …
President Trump has some success working with Democrats
… out Tropical Storm Irma. We were without power for 24 hours, and there were plenty of small tree limbs everywhere, but compared to what so many others experienced with Harvey and Irma, we …
Climate change is real: We must act
… as it crept up the west coast of Florida, drenching everything in its path and devastating trees and property. Just two weeks ago, I watched Hurricane Harvey wreak incredible damage in …
Irma weakens as it heads north, but leaves path of destruction
… It destroyed everything that was in its path," he said. Nibbs said roofs were torn away, trees were toppled, government buildings were destroyed, and cell towers were snapped in half, …
Aid workers see humanitarian crisis as Rohingya flee to Bangladesh
… services. "We wanted to get into Myanmar to get some essentials and found some uprooted trees and displaced soil. We realized landmines had been planted, and we returned back after … military started firing at our backs and we ran for our lives. Johar stumbled, his head hit a tree and got injured," a neighbor of Johar's family told ucanews.com. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal said …
Steve Bannon is right: Church does need immigrants
… The Body of Christ in the United States and Western Europe is shedding members like a maple tree sheds leaves in October. This is not the consequence of secularism being newly attractive. …
Wisdom to hike by
… or the times when everything is quiet and all you hear is the rustle of the wind in the trees, the trail brings a solitude that's rare and complete. The book of Kings talks about how …
Eclipse thrills, inspires viewers to admire the precision of creation
… University, sat with his daughter, Lilley, 16, enjoying a slight breeze in the shade of tall trees. He said he brought his daughter and her boyfriend along so they could see something rare … festival over the weekend before the skies darkened. Vendors hawked T-shirts, Christmas tree ornaments, plaques, jewelry, posters and anything else they could creatively tie to the …
Chicago sisters work to bring peace to streets torn by violence
… lived in for nearly 30 years. Their smiles, the room in the old brick structure and the lush trees outside suggest an oasis of peace in a busy city. But Englewood, 8 miles south of downtown …
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… liturgy doesn’t tell us that when his flight wore him out, Elijah lay down under a shade tree and begged God to just let him die in peace (1 Kings 18:21-19:8). While Elijah was thus …
Fordham endures disputes over faculty health care, unionizing
… the New York Botanical Garden, visitors chance upon religious sculptures and crosses. Even the trees on this well-manicured campus have identifying tags revealing their species, and crimson …
Circles of women strengthen development efforts
… the investment of a dollar or two. Yunus traveled from village to village, sitting under a tree with the women, opening the possibility of buying chicks or embroidery thread. Village men …
Pope names coadjutor to Hong Kong as Cardinal Tong retires as bishop
… in November, he said he was grateful for having two predecessors who stand "like two big trees offering shelter" while storms rock Hong Kong society. Hong Kong has a charged political …
'This Other Love' stages Dorothy Day's early doubts, tensions, loves
… Day tells Maurin that Batterham is "a great teacher. We study the stars, moss growing on trees, the skeletons of sea gulls and fishes. The problem seems to be that everywhere I look, I …
A day with space to not rush, but to be present
… eucalyptuses include tall gums with pale trunks and gray-green leaves, and shorter trees with bark that is dark and rough and makes you wonder if it met a bushfire in recent years. … of God and I feel that I am held safe and protected. Traipsing through the bush among the gum trees, smelling the sweet eucalyptus in the air, my spirit is rested and renewed. I know myself …
'All of us together': Sex abuse survivor seeks healing within the church
… I'd go crazier, and I'd hurt them too. Two weeks into the school year, my father fell out of a tree and broke his back. We didn't know if he was going to live. He was in the hospital for a few …
'The Big Sick' is a touching love story and true American tale
… my dad was "sprinkled by a passing preacher" and not raised anything, much of his family tree is Catholic as is my mom's. They married whom they wanted; they didn't even ask their … in particular, seems implacable. As far as I know, the biggest challenges people in my family tree faced were economic. But they found jobs, owned land and worked their way up, though for … a millionaire after World War II (OK, that's an interesting story, but in this gigantic family tree made of toast, her story is a pat of real, salted butter on the side.) What Muslims today …
The Price of Gluten
… wider considerations was another equivalent of inability to see that legendary forest for the trees. …
St. Matthew keeps Jesus at center of its megachurch-style campus
… few other outward signs, unless one looks closely. The parish has planted hundreds of trees on the grounds, which this summer day are in full shady bloom. The campus boasts the Giving … read aloud from the pulpit. It's early summer, but the church lobby is filled with Giving Trees reminiscent of Christmas, all done to promote the hunger drive. That emphasis on fighting …
Why did Donald Trump Jr. lie?
… a lie," affirmed young George Washington when he confessed to having chopped down the cherry tree. The injunction against lying enjoys both religious and secular sanction. Yet, of course, we …