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Irish prime minister challenges the Vatican -- and us
… the most trusted members of society. The Vatican and various elements of the hierarchy have flooded the Catholic world with countless words, all very carefully nuanced and wordsmithed, to …
The road to 'Carmageddon'
… of Southern California's main freeway arteries, and for weeks now predictions of disaster have flooded the media: frantic drivers pushed off the 405 would choke adjacent neighborhoods and …
A revolution of friendship
… calls us to? After Hurricane Katrina, I served people affected by the storm and the subsequent flooding of New Orleans. Throughout my five years in New Orleans, I became friends with a guy in …
Dealing with misfortune
… story here . St. Mary’s Church in Joplin, Mo., was destroyed by the May tornado. Last year a flood damaged Sacred Heart Church in Rhode Island around Easter. Have you dealt with rebuilding a parish church or parish hall after a fire, flood, etc.? What were the challenges and what were the positive outcomes? …
Job creation should take precedence over deficit reduction
… pivoting from job creation to deficit reduction. Worse yet, many of the budget proposals flooding Washington are nothing but reverse Robin Hood plans to redistribute wealth from working …
Battle over the harnessing of Amazon's rivers
… of American States to halt the Belo Monte project, which will rechannel the Xingú River and flood nearly 260 square miles of land, displacing some 20,000 people, including indigenous … gas -- from its reservoir because of the large amount of vegetation that will decompose after flooding. Bishop Erwin Kräutler (CNS/Paul Haring) Local people have mixed opinions, with some … Inambari dam and others, including one planned for the Ene River in central Peru, which would flood some 15 Asháninka communities. He will also inherit a plan for 20 dams on the Marañón River …
Hospitality and generosity: Opening the 'universal door'
… The Cirque of the Towers, where granite faces and spires a thousand feet high circled a lake flooded by snowmelt. One night while we sat by our campfire an enormous meteor flashed over the …
Morning Briefing
… Coday … Calif. bishop quits amid abuse cases … Catholic Charities Continues to Assist Minot Flood Victims … Louisville, Ky. … Catholic priest indicted on seven sodomy charges … Philippines …
Carl Pope: America's nuclear power plants far from safe
… Rich Heffern … The Missouri River floods have threatened Nebraska's Ft. Calhoun and Cooper nuclear power plants putting tremendous … Sierra Club writing on The Huffington Post Green Blog says it's also clear "that if these same floods had occurred a year ago, before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission forced plant operators … safety standards, Ft. Calhoun, at least, would have been at serious meltdown risk. If the floods recede with no further damage to these plants, President Obama could, quite legitimately, …
Obama's Impressive Press Conference
… people about the economy, Afghanistan, Libya, Greece, emergency responses to wildfires and floods, all issues that are vital. Gay marriage is a secondary issue, and I am not going to let …
Josephites elect first black leader
… in 2005. "My church and my school were completely destroyed. My rectory and the convent were flooded with 4 feet of water," he said a few weeks after Katrina devastated much of the Gulf …