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Pilgrims celebrate lives of US churchwomen
… flowers at a river where a vehicle driven by Maryknoll Sr. Carla Piette overturned in a flash flood on Aug. 23, 1980, as she drove herself, Ford, two seminarians and a war prisoner late at …
Between a lifestyle and a life
… Haiti. He is always grateful for any help we offer. But today he sounds weary. Nightly rains flood the tent. He and his sister spend hours in the darkness standing on a wooden box, trying to …
Spirit of compromise has settled over climate conference, AP reports
… in the number of people affected by extreme temperatures, forest fires, droughts, storms and floods growing from 5 million over the 1970s to more than 40 million in 2000-2009. It also said …
The world prays for success in Cancun
… than normal. That was a massive climate change. In China, Pakistan, and India, devastating floods resulted; millions were and are still homeless living on handouts. Perhaps the unusual …
Fr. Charles Brandt: The land as sacred commons, sacramental commons
… War and others). In Norwich where Juliana lived there was great poverty (Peasant’s Revolt) flooding and disease. In the midst of this seemingly hopeless situation there was a great spirit …
Advent & the New Evangelization
… sun rose in the east. Some people were born slaves. Might made right, whether considering a flood or an army. Does that brief (and admittedly, apologetically, superficial) summation of the …
Climate change conference begins in Mexico
… speech, Mexican President Felipe Calderón cited last year’s hurricane in Mexico, this year’s floods in Pakistan and fires in Russia as examples of increasing incidences of natural disasters …
'The women won't let us go'
… a just-released prisoner to his village, despite a looming rainstorm. They got caught in flash flooding that upset their vehicle. Piette pushed Ford out the window to safety, and Ford and the …
Catholic AIDS workers on pope and condoms
… and treatment in Africa, told Catholic News Service Nov. 22 that Africa has been virtually flooded with condoms, yet the disease continues to spread because of a lack of responsibility on …
It's not just about male prostitutes
… few years. As if things weren’t bad enough, once the pope-condom-male prostitute story began flooding newsrooms, Vatican spokesman Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi personally asked the pope if …
World food systems called unsustainable for planet
… matters, Andrews added, is that U.S. subsidies for certain crops allow foreign markets to be flooded with those crops at prices that are cheaper than what local farmers can produce. Such …