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Georgia parish's Disaster Relief Ministry ready when needed
… people need water," said Zander, and, in the woodsy outer-Atlanta suburbs, they found that trees needed to be removed as well, particularly when they blocked the homes of seniors who had …
Morning Briefing
… complaining that retail stores had already begun Christmas promotions, complete with Christmas trees and minced pies. The station contacted Melbourne auxiliary Bishop Mark Edwards for comment. …
The post-forum fun house
… aborted fetuses into its products. I suppose the rotten apple did not fall far from the rotten tree. Later on, the nation found itself discussing intelligence briefings. Call me silly, but at …
At Pax Christi conference, volunteers clean up Baltimore lots
… director, contacted to set up the work project. I opted to pick up trash in a thicket of thin trees, shrubs and weeds. The overgrowth gave me a little cover from the heat. The clouds were a … look at this," Kelly said, pointing to the now freshly mowed lot that featured some shade trees and would soon be used for a cookout and mini-music festival for the locals and Pax Christi …
Violent summer pushes US to once again deal with racism
… witnessed. A choir sang "Strange Fruit," a poem that later became a song and whose "Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root" lyrics reference lynching. …
Learning to think like a leaf
… Thinking Like a Plant, was teaching us how to look at a leaf. We all picked one from the same tree, each of us staring at our individual leaves for 10 minutes. Then we passed our leaves …
God, religion and the Olympic Games
… to a patron god. Even the prizes were religious -- crowns of olive leaves made from trees in a sacred grove dedicated to Zeus. And the winners, Cartledge continued, were revered in …
Days in the life of a pastor
… with the help of another man, I led the most hysterical woman down a hill to a chair under a tree where other family members gathered. We gently led the woman to a metal chair to sit down. …
Francis to world's youth: Be vanguard of a 'new humanity'
… collector named Zacchaeus hears Jesus will be coming to visit his town and climbs a sycamore tree in order to get a better view of the famous Nazarene. Seeing the publican, Jesus tells him: …
Vatican Gardens' gruesome past grows into green haven
… at mealtime while hopping down to peck at crumbs. Today, green parrots nesting in palm trees and a small sampling of cats are the only free-range fauna easily sighted in the Vatican …
Exhibit charts Brazil's untrodden historical and religious ground
… red robe with gold trim, her hands clasped in prayer above a dangling cross. Flanked by two trees, she wears a crown with a cross upon her haloed head, as she stands in front of a … man leads a horse with one hand and prepares with the other to strike a black slave. Tied to a tree, the latter's pants hang at his knees, and red gashes already crisscross his head, back and …
World Youth Day pilgrims share victims' space at Auschwitz-Birkenau
… of shade were large, blown-up photos of prisoners standing, sitting and waiting in the same trees we were now resting in. While the photos were haunting, it was the caption that put … often waiting hours in these woods, passing the time. This very space we occupied, the very trees that surrounded us and kept us safe from the sun's harsh rays, were the same trees that felt so many people's last breaths. It was an emotional day. One that I am still …
Upcoming visit highlights contrast between Francis and Poland's hierarchy
… the group marched to the city center, singing, "Zionists instead of leaves will hang from the trees." A spokesperson for the church apologized, saying, "Nationalism is a stranger to the …
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… picture. As the story opens, Abraham is seated “by the terebinth of Mamre.” A terebinth is a tree like an oak. Mamre seems to refer to a region that may have been named for a chieftain …
Sisters of Earth convention brings together women committed to caring for the planet
… July 7-10 at Presentation Center, a retreat and convention spot nestled in the redwood trees of the Santa Cruz Mountains, about a 90-minute drive south of San Francisco. …
Waiting in the belly of a whale
… Mary Ann McGivern … As I write on Monday, July 11, people in India are planting trees. Their goal is to plant 50 million trees in 24 hours. Chairman Mao said that to plant a tree is to believe in the future. I think to plant a tree is also to help create the future. …
Journalist digs into the 1912 lynching in her family history
… Diane Scharper … 06172016p16pha.jpg THE FAMILY TREE: A LYNCHING IN GEORGIA, A LEGACY OF SECRETS, AND MY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH By Karen Branan …
God in the beauty of the moment
… bee balm and hyssop stand root to root with the daylilies, and along the stair railing tree lilies waft their powerful scent down the block. For about three weeks, our front garden is …
Morning Briefing
… Council opens with call for unity … Native forests threatened by genetically engineered trees … Retired priest surveys adult nieces, nephews about their faith journeys … One Catholic …
Native forests threatened by genetically engineered trees
… so too living species are part of a network which we will never fully explore and understand." Trees are one of those interconnected nodes in that network inhabiting the universe that know … age, he added, 'Sometimes pairs like this are so interconnected at the roots that when one tree dies, the other one dies, too.'” I've been holding onto the article for weeks, waiting for …