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Book provides interfaith spiritual perspective on our ecological disaster
… are sounding," Buddhist master Nhat Hanh writes. "All over the earth, we are experiencing floods, droughts, and massive wildfires. Sea ice is melting in the Arctic and hurricanes and heat …
Catholic Press Association honors NCR with eight first-place awards
… newspaper Third Place National Catholic Reporter, Kansas City, MO, "" New priest discord floods island parish" ” by Brian Roewe An unflinching and well documented look at discord from …
Medical journal urges military physicians not to cooperate with Guantanamo force-feedings
… a procedure that entails strapping a detainee to a chair, inserting a tube in his nose and flooding his stomach with liquid protein. In April, President Barack Obama said he did not want …
Obama set to unveil climate plan
… conserving natural resources, agricultural sustainability and managing drought, wildfire and flood risks; and making climate-related data publicly available through a Climate Data Initiative …
Canada tar sands issues show how important Keystone XL pipeline conversation is
… University will include any references to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Recent major flooding in and around Calgary and near Fort McMurray in Alberta, the site of the tar sands … evacuate 50 homes near the pipeline while they contained the rupture. DeSmog Canada says the flooding in the heart of the Alberta tar sands "dramatically illustrates the threat to Canada's 'Serengeti,' " the Mackenzie River basin. Days before the flooding in Fort McMurray, a panel of international science experts said the almost 80 square …
Morning Briefing
… Myers didn't act on sexual abuse allegations … Uttarakhand, India -- … 5,000 feared dead in floods; Church rushes aid … Lourdes, France -- … Cleanup begins at Lourdes after worst floods in 70 years … but … parts of shrine will be closed for months. … Calgary, Canada -- All of Calgary’s public and Catholic schools will be out early this summer … after significant flooding in the city late last week. … Editorial: … Affordable housing still a necessity: … …
Shifting plates in Rome and Tehran; Francis in Brazil; and St. John Paul
… festival and Lollapalooza: World Youth Day. At least a million high-octane Catholic youth will flood Rio de Janeiro, potentially running headlong into a brewing storm. That coincidence invests …
Morning Briefing
… Dennis Coday … Francis at 100 days: 'the world's parish priest' … Floods close Lourdes Catholic pilgrimage site in France … As Spain's people drift from Catholic …
The evolution of the committed life in the 21st century
… that she had so many candidates applying to be co-members, she was stretched for time! She was flooded with work responding to requests for information and managing the co-membership process …
Beyond the caricature, the poor people’s president
… the marchers in cold blood. Then, after Chávez was kidnapped and thousands of his supporters flooded the streets for two days to demand the return of their democratically elected president, …
The value of community in today's 'everyone-is-special' America
… time for us to once again pull together and tackle problems in a cohesive way? According to a flood of recent writings, it just may be. A recent Time magazine cover story by Joel Stein looks …