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Read Pope Francis' speech at meeting with bishops in Philadelphia
… that he has to calmly keep considering the matter, an older publican will come down from the tree and give fourfold to the poor, to whom, before that moment, he had never even given a …
Why Do You Harden Your Hearts?
… author seems to be one of those moralists who sees cooperation with evil lurking behind every tree. Newsflash : If you have been paying attention to the whole controversy over the HHS …
Meeting in Jerusalem, European bishops call on nations to support migrants
… to stop work on the project. Bulldozers and tractors began uproot hundred-year-old olive trees and clearing dirt paths in the valley Aug. 17. "In the Holy Land, the Christian community …
Land grab in the Cremisan Valley
… settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo. Much of the land consists of olive orchards where some trees are said to date back to the time of Christ. After an earlier April 2 decision that seemed … land is important to people," he said. "Not just for those who make a living farming their trees, but because with so few parks, it is an important open space." Families in Beit Jala had …
Tree trunk sprouts prayerful inspiration in sculptor
… Sharon Abercrombie … Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) saw trees as examples of living prayers. “Silence my soul these trees are prayers. I asked the Tree: Tell me about God -- then it blossomed,” wrote the winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in …
Intergenerational grief on Cheyenne River Indian Reservation
… they flooded our land." "They" were the Army Corps of Engineers. The land was the low-lying, tree-filled valley where the old agency, or reservation center, used to sit, land that so many … hoop is broken and scattered," he wrote. "There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead." Le Beau, whose Lakota name is Pretty Rainbow Woman, put the sad trail of history …
Katrina odyssey brought many blessings for New Orleans priest
… helicopters were flying up and down each street, pulling people to safety from rooftops and trees. Spotting an upended canoe stranded on a nearby rooftop, Hayes climbed out of a … priest to help him minister to people the authorities were still rescuing from rooftops and trees. He joined him with the two religious items he had, his rosary and a St. Benedict crucifix. …
Links for 08/28/15
… ain't no relativist! And, why those who think he might be are barking up the wrong doctrinal tree. …
Seeing the past with the grateful eye of the soul
… dozed down. Now when my husband and I go for drives through our Minnesota heartland, we see trees growing up through the middle of silos. Barns cave into piles of rubbish, while some, still … the illuminated past, when small family farms were vibrant, alive and commonplace. A craggy tree still stands on the grassy rolling hill of the pasture, overlooking what used to be our …
Over the mountain and through the woods
… excursion: … Gratitude. … There was much to be grateful for on our trek: the splendor of the trees, mountains, glacial lakes and skies surrounding us; time spent with loved ones in a fresh …
Pope Francis welcomes election of new Armenian Catholic patriarch
… our gaze is full of hope and mercy because we are certain that the cross of Christ is the tree that gives life." At the time of his election, Pierre was the retired bishop …
First U.S. exonerated death row prisoner dies
… as a gentle and stoic devout Christian. He lived a simple life, working as a landscaper and tree trimmer until he was injured and needed a wheelchair. He often spoke with students about his …
I could use a transfiguration
… Merton or Peter experienced. One of those moments when you can see the veins on the leaves of trees a block away, and all the planets and all the people and all the squirrels are just where … everything is exactly the same as it was before, except that now wherever I go, the dead trees come to life." I look out the window at what might be an emerald forest but see only the same old trees. I'm still the Zen seeker for whom mountains again are mountains and rivers are rivers. So …
Peruvian parish follows the flow of the river
… and a woman was very thirsty. A woodpecker took pity on her and drilled into a giant lupuna tree. Sap flowed from the tree and became the river, while the lupuna's leaves became fish. Since then, the Marañón River … high-water mark showed as a dark line on the vegetation. "The river is leaving its face on the trees," said Melita Cangoa, who had been attending a course for village leaders at the parish and …
With $4,000 a month, sister feeds Nairobi's destitute, disabled elderly
… was nothing for the elderly people. They saw people dying in huts, houses, on streets, under trees. They decided to start something for the destitute elderly. When they started they opened …
At Vatican, world's mayors vow to tackle climate change, poverty
… to make a living," she said. "They say, 'If I need fuel, don't tell me not to cut down my trees because that's the only way I am going to be able to cook my food.'" Communities will need …
Ignatius and Islam: Uncovering interfaith intersections
… in the ninth century: The initiate will capture what is being said when the wind blows, the trees sway, water flows, flies buzz, doors creak, birds sing, or in the sound of strings or …
People of faith are responsible for serving as society's conscience
… and their backers say must be saved. It is an ancient theater of life in which new trees shoot out of dead trunks. Fungus and moss upholster spreading branches. Ferns and wildflowers quilt the ground. Fallen trees lean at crazy angles amid the pounding, powerful force at work here, the force of life. … miles an hour? Are we incapable of staring -- really staring -- at a 150-foot-tall Douglas fir tree arrowed toward the clouds and of meditating on the creation and our part in it? I took my …
Bishop Morrie says it's not about the soup
… you are, Father!" "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" Morrie sings badly. "She climbs a tree and scrapes her knee and waltzes on her way to Mass and dooby dooby doo, what are we gonna …
Pope to archbishops: Live what you preach, give authentic witness
… or a Christian without witness is sterile: a dead person who thinks they are alive, a dry tree that does not give fruit, an empty well that does not give water," Francis said. Monday's …