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Revisiting wedding readings, for my first Father's Day as a dad
… into the air and water. They stayed with us for over a week and decorated our first Christmas tree. Since then, the guests have kept coming, as our proximity to Philadelphia and the highways …
Parishes around the globe work to implement pope's eco-encyclical
… focusing on discussions of the encyclical; community action, such as a recycling project and tree planting; and a Mass for creation. The St. John Neumann Creation Care Team of the Atlanta …
Scotland's assertive Catholics weigh up independence
… so quick to judge and dismiss it now." Back at St. Andrews, the North Sea wind rustles the trees and bushes outside the ancient Divinity School, where a statue of the university's founder, …
The horrors and hells of Hieronymus Bosch
… Paradise or images of Jesus, but images of demons, flying fish, bodily torment, a cryptic tree-man and a great bird-devil who consumes humans and then defecates them into a gaping hole in … Waldo?" but with darker colors and beasts scattered around a surreal landscape of dead trees, burning cities and ruined castles. And also: There's no Waldo. Part of Bosch's appeal is …
A year after the Charleston church shooting, what has changed?
… started, the family donated $5,000 and a stack of the children's classic "The Giving Tree." It tells the story of a selfless tree that sacrificed its leaves, limbs and trunk for a boy. "Even when the tree had nothing to …
Sisters facilitate food trading program that spreads nutrition around Vietnam
… said I'hon, who is thin and dressed shabbily. She and her husband cultivate some 50 banana trees on their farm. She gives the nuns five to seven bunches of bananas each time (about 100 …
'The meeting is the message,' pope tells head of al-Azhar
… encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" and peace medallion depicting an olive tree holding together two pieces of a fractured rock. After meeting the pope, the grand imam was …
We talked about love, but we used hawk words
… and complicated. Brothers start out in competition and some never stop. Brothers are like trees that start out adjacent but have to grow apart to eat enough light. Brothers worship each … by hawks and we always would be, even after one of us was ashes in a stone box under an oak tree. We talked about how often you can see better with your soul than you can with your eyes in …
Statement guides me on my mission
… a writer needs readers and in this era of Google Analytics, a writer knows when she's that tree that falls in the woods when no one is around. Additionally, a writer's name is rarely …
Biden and Boehner at Notre Dame
… "Catholic identity" at Notre Dame, again besmirched the name of one of the most beautiful of trees. The best response to these critics came in the speeches given by Biden and Boehner. Both …
Take and Read: Confessions
… to the point where, teetering on the verge of conversion, he flung himself down beneath a fig tree and cried out, “Why not now?” and the dramatic tension gave way. My history class assignment … I was enlightened by a student's observation that the Confessions is a "story about two trees." As a Christian spirituality scholar, I have been taken aback by the number of recorded …
Pentecost and Berrigan, a double portion of God's Spirit
… to gaze in fascination as freshening breezes blew through the tall oak, elm and catalpa trees that lined our slumbering street. I sensed a secret presence there for which I had no name. … if this experience was a throwback to my archetypal German reverence for the sacredness of trees (!), I now intuit that something greater is afoot. Something ineffable, gentle and …
Philippines archdiocese, concerned by coal, joins campaign to 'break free' from fossil fuels
… in a Break Free march to a local sporting complex where they celebrated Mass. Under shade trees and umbrellas, emblazoned with messages of “no coal” and “break free,” they sought relief …
Remains of Spanish explorer's cross believed discovered at Arkansas dig
… Diocese of Little Rock. An Italian carpenter on the expedition ordered the men to chop down a tree that he could make into a cross. Once built, about 100 men helped stand the cross upright, …
The ultimate profession of faith
… blessed those who had washed their robes, and also said that these had the right to the tree of life and the right to enter the holy, eternal city through its open gates (Revelation …
Readers write: Practicing the Corporal Works of Mercy
… his best friends at a beautiful lake high in Rocky Mountain National Park and sat down under a tree and passed peacefully. At other times, they are difficult and tragic, like the ice climber …
Nearing 97, interfaith dialogue pioneer still a 'trailblazer'
… father," the priest wrote in a book co-authored with Levine in 1974, Wild Branch on the Olive Tree . The pair collaborated on eight books. Treacy said that Levine was fond of pointing out … of that hour with the priest on Sunday morning," he writes in Wild Branch on the Olive Tree . "While still in grade school, I decided that to offer Mass for people would be the …
Yoga makes me a better Catholic
… the separation of church and state. It's true that for many -- including those doing the "tree pose" with 6-year-olds in gym class -- yoga is merely a physical exercise. That may also be …
Climate scientist-turned-psychologist seeks paths toward more compassion for the earth
… build the largest house in town. To complete his ambitious project, he cuts down the largest tree in the sacred forest -- an action he took despite a warning from Demeter, the forest … array of ships to expand their control over the Mediterranean Sea. They cut down most of the trees on the Greek Peninsula, leading to deforestation and the loss of agriculturally valuable … I must arch backward to see its top.” Standing quietly in awe, Kiehl ran his hand along the tree’s trunk,” the bark soft and fibrous.” “The contours of the red, corrugated surface reach out …
Bishops: Attack on Nigerian cardinal's car shows need for more security
… down the vehicle so that he won't wake up," he said. Three men emerged from the local palm tree plantation and started shooting at the vehicle," he said. Since only one was behind the car, …