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Cambodian Killing Fields, yesterday and today
… axes and hoes. Some bled to death, their necks cut with the sharp leaves from local palm trees. Executioners took children by the feet and smashed their heads against the trunk of a large tree. Bodies were then buried in mass graves, some 400 or more in a grave. To ensure certain … landscape. Visitors are asked to watch a 15-minute documentary before visiting the graves. The tree, against which uncounted children’s lives ended, is a particularly chilling site. Memorial …
Morning Briefing
… sites. Psychology textbook on cooperation grew out of projects planting flowers and trees: … Hudson professor writes a textbook on cooperation … Mom wonders about priest’s stipend …
Vietnamese Benedictine seeks new religious order after prohibition from working with drug addicts
… Many of them returned to the church and joined religious orders. They plant vegetables, fruit trees, and bonsai and raise pigs, fish, and poultry for their food. They also produce rosaries, …
Review: "The Church in the Modern World" Part II
… they are looking at have a reality of their own. To the person on the lower floor, the tree may loom large and to the person on the fortieth floor it may appear puny. But, with further investigation, we can determine the truth of how large the tree is. And, all the time we are looking at the tree, making it the object of our knowledge, making it “the known,” the tree is still busy being …
Morning Briefing
… Dennis Coday … Alabama church ties scarves, hats and gloves around trees for those 'stuck out in the cold' … Global Sisters Report looks at vows that wake up the …
Kathy Kelly: An essay from federal prison
… thought of my younger self, this morning, while gazing out of a third floor window at fields, trees and farms outside. In 1989, when this prison was a maximum security prison for women, I …
Real freedom is giving of yourself, over and over again
… spending his days caring for others. In a lovely montage , he catches a kid who falls out of a tree, changes a flat tire for some elderly ladies, and saves a man’s life with the Heimlich …
Mercy sister: We can make things better with the spirit of Catholic social teaching
… of Nazareth, with 140 other people and a fair number of deer, birds, squirrels, and 1,600 trees live on campus in this county (Nelson). It's one of three designated as Kentucky's Catholic …
Vacc-Insanity
… of the Gold Standard, which many libertarians also embrace, or the idea that mammoth new trees can be genetically created to deal with climate change. Libertarianism seems almost …
Al-Qaida, Islamic State have led to misperceptions of Muslims
… the harming of women, children and invalids, the demolishing of houses and even the burning of trees. Responsibility for correcting misrepresentations of Islam falls primarily on moderate …
Italian filmmakers: 'Life can be very different...things can change'
… Paul. Luca: He quoted Saint Paul about bad times [2000 years ago], and he gave a metaphor, “A tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.” And that was perfect. It was the …