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Brazil may soon have married priests, says Leonardo Boff
… plundered and desecrated. To hear the cry of the poor means to hear the cries of animals, trees and the whole of tortured creation and Pope Francis says we must hear the cry of both the …
Scorsese, my dad, and Christmas
… Christmas, it is the grace of Christmas. The baubles can wait for another year. This year, no tree, no lights, just waiting for the Son of Justice, the messenger of the Father’s mercy, to …
Repeat viewings of 'Departures' yield inspiration anew
… The camera pulls out to reveal that they are gathered in the office, a plastic Christmas tree conspicuously blinking in the background. When the eating frenzy winds down and Daigo is …
Bethlehem's declining Christian population casts shadow over Christmas
… Square in Bethlehem to eat hot cups of sweet corn and take selfies next to the 50-foot high tree in Manger Square. Christmas lights festoon the old stone alleyways, and the falafel sellers … between Israel and the Palestinian territories, cutting down his family's old growth olive trees and ruining his livelihood. "We feel like there is no future for us in this land," he said. …
Morning Briefing
… finds three El Salvadoran priests guilty of sex abuse … Slide show: … Americans have Christmas trees; Russians, New Year trees … DailyBreadBanner.jpg … Start your day inspired with daily scripture reflections. Join NCR …
Pope meets with Colombian leaders at odds on peace deal
… orchids are a symbol of peace." The pope gave Santos a peace medallion depicting an olive tree holding together two pieces of a fractured rock along with a copy of his message for the …
Missionaries taught theology in Imagery
… robed reclining figure of St. Peter Nolasco cannot be sleeping soundly or dreaming sweetly. A tree has sprouted from his left side, and no fewer than 36 friars stand on leaf platforms formed … such as the Tree of Jesse and the Tree of Life, which also mapped out families or dynasties on trees, this mid-18th century “Genealogical Tree of the Mercedarian Order” by an unknown painter …
The only way to overcome violence is love
… raise children for Abraham from these stones. Look, the axe is already put to the roots of the trees. Any tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down, thrown in the fire." John was a prophet …
Sharing stories of sexual abuse 'helps to heal the hurt'
… area near our homes. One of the boys decided he needed to relieve himself and peed against a tree. Another boy followed. One of the boys who was there lived across the street from me. He was …
Author Frida Berrigan encourages 'modest work' in wake of election
… bring back the basketball court, build small houses, turn it into a vegetable garden, build a tree house, plant a blueberry patch. A meeting was called. The organizers were hoping for 10 …
Climate action gets smaller, one oasis at a time
… Hurricane Sandy four years ago, placing us among the impacted, but there are still lots of trees, plenty of water, decent air quality. (There is often a strange competition for "most … cartoon terms. You surely know the stubble-bearded man, stranded on an island with only a palm tree and himself. He may fully represent American individualism, run amok. Oases are actually … management of water and ground resources as well as a close partnership with the date palm tree. RADDO, "the voice of the oases," speaks of the way climate change is adversely impacting …
Mary Daly exposed the slimy underbelly of religion's treatment of women
… charges: that Christianity is inherently necrophilic because it worships a dead man on a dead tree, that Shel Silverstein's classic children's book The Giving Tree is really about how men destroy women with their greed and selfishness, that American …
Second Sunday of Advent
… better not pout…” but the reward he promises for conversion is not at all like a tinseled tree surrounded by toys and electronics. John is indeed promising a reward, but it’s one that … then calls us to take all of those lofty ideals and make them as concrete as the fruits of the trees to which the world looks for nourishment. We don’t have to live like John the Baptist to be … mindset. He wasn’t saying that there was no good in his society. There were fruit-bearing trees, and there was wheat as well as chaff, but it was time for a major shakeup. John wanted …
Announcing the coming
… better not pout ..." but the reward he promises for conversion is not at all like a tinseled tree surrounded by toys and electronics. CEL_Dec042016.jpg John is indeed promising a reward, but … then calls us to take all of those lofty ideals and make them as concrete as the fruits of the trees to which the world looks for nourishment. We don't have to live like John the Baptist to be …
Store on busy road invigorates Nairobi women's peacemaking group
… of Nairobi, used to sit on a blanket and make their beaded handicrafts under the shade of a tree in the church courtyard. But with the arrival of a new store in a converted container, …
Trump and the 'War on Christmas'
… or to NCR ! Sing Advent hymns and make an Advent wreath and don't decorate your Christmas tree until Christmas Eve. Oh yes, and pray for the country. [Michael Sean Winters is NCR …
Louisville Catholic school partakes in Green for Good research project
… There's a lot there," Bhatnagar said. Once preliminary data had been collected, several large trees and shrubs were planted along the front of the school. Bhatnagar said the idea was to …
In some countries, St. Barbara's Day helps kick off Christmas season
… three weeks, the sprouts will be plentiful, accenting the Nativity scene under the Christmas tree. There are different versions of St. Barbara's story. Legend says she was the beautiful … of the Trinity. During her time of imprisonment, St. Barbara kept a branch from a cherry tree, which she watered from her cup. On Dec. 4, when her father decapitated her for refusing to … Trinity — are green, they are used to decorate the creche, usually placed under the Christmas tree. The French saying is "Quand le ble va bien, tout va bien." or "When the wheat goes well, …
St. Ignatius Fellowship invests in young adults
… where hiking through mountains and along rivers was easily accessible. He once planted 200 trees on a friend's property for an eighth-grade science project as a way to reduce carbon. "I …
Editorial: Are you ready? God is being born again
… us like a thief in the night. To resist needed change is to risk an ax to the root of the tree, a winnowing fan that separates the wheat from the chaff. A door has opened. The poor hear …