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Solar program to power up Stockton, Calif., diocese
… said Dermot Hikisch, director of new partnerships for Sungevity. That equates to 7.7 million trees planted or 757 million miles not driven. [Related: " … Solar power: Let the sunshine in … …
The Culture of Death on Display at WaPo
… that unborn child is not human, what is it? It is not an acorn and will not grow into an oak tree. What is most chilling to me is that Harris seems to be encouraging women to deaden their …
Pope’s quotes: It’s brave to live in the world
… Kingdom might come, grow and be great, and that it may protect many people, like the mustard tree. Think about this. A small life, a small gesture; a normal life, but it is leaven, it is a …
The Middle East: where one catastrophe begets another
… in the decades after 1948 into a socialist-modernist one: Tens of thousands of olive trees, a central figure of Arab-Palestinian culture and the source of its two primary exports, soap and oil, were uprooted. Whole forests of other trees were then planted to make the land look more European. Some of the conclusions Roberts …
Garden of Eden exhibit takes artists back to where it all began
… Couples solely wearing fig leaves remain “instantly recognizable as Adam and Eve and fruit trees inhabited by snakes as the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil with the serpent,” she writes in the exhibit catalog. Yet even …
Three o'clock and all is well
… the prophet had to flee into the desert. There, he began to despair. He sat under a broom tree and prayed for God to take his life. CEL_August_10_2014.jpg … Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary …
With no pope in residence, Vatican opens gardens of summer villa
… the apse is made of carefully trimmed evergreen bushes; the columns are tall, thin cypress trees; and the nave is a lily pond, complete with gold fish. Welcoming visitors to "our outdoor …
Words lie at the heart of poet's worldwide social justice ministry
… recently sat on a stoop in Brooklyn to rest my legs. As I sat there in the shade of a huge oak tree, I spoke to an old woman about God. We laughed and debated for an hour. At the end of the …
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… From the beginning, our faith ancestors regarded food as God’s gift. Recall the many fruit trees in the primordial garden of Eden (Gen 2). Recall the manna, quail and water from the rock …
Feeding every hunger
… From the beginning, our faith ancestors regarded food as God's gift. Recall the many fruit trees in the primordial garden of Eden (Genesis 2). Recall the manna, quail and water from the …
Many Filipinos sought shelters before Rammasun struck, CRS adviser says
… that peaked at 115 miles per hour, knocking out power in 13 provinces and three cities. Broken trees littered streets and crumpled cars beneath them in the Manila capital region. Four of the …