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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 …
Belgium archbishop's press officer calls it quits
… position. But now he heads out, uneasily, in a new direction. "Yes," he said, "there was a flood of tears when I finally made my decision on Monday night. I am angry because I wanted what …
Prayer can stop mountains from moving
… miners, sustainable jobs for the unemployed, healthy forests, clean water and security from flooding and property damage caused by the aggressive mining practice known as mountaintop … and most cheaply, scooped up by front-end loaders. The price paid by the local residents: flooding exacerbated by denuded mountains, cracked foundations from blasting and water polluted …
With no resettlement plan, Haitian camps take on semi-permanent feel
… and the ground under the tents becomes soggy. Petionville camp managers moved people out of flood-prone areas, and CRS pays camp residents, who work on a rotating schedule, to dig drainage …
Urban monk works to see 'the church we dream of'
… and funny, with the twangy delivery and timing (if not the content) of a Jeff Foxworthy -- is flooded with invitations to speak. The road and the adulation of devotees has been the undoing of …
Q & A: Catholic Charities in New Orleans
… Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In 2005, the entire Archdiocese of New Orleans was crippled by the flooding caused by the failure of the federal levees after Hurricane Katrina. All services were …
Latina Magnificat: What women know about immigration
… adapting to new customs and a new language. When NAFTA rules let cheap North American corn flood markets in Mexico, subsistence farmers could not compete, were forced to sell their land to …
30 years later, Salvadoran martyrs' struggle for justice lives on
… people. During one of those trips, on Aug. 23, 1980, the two women were caught in a flash flood as they crossed a little creek in their jeep. The surge capsized their jeep, filled it with … the future in the Circus Master’s hands,” she wrote another friend. Ita barely survived the flood, and certainly would not have survived had Carla not pushed her up through the jeep window. …
Life is too short to waste on speed
… even 30 miles per hour over the posted limit. My car was like a stationary stone in a rushing flood of folks anxious to get to the red traffic light a few seconds ahead of everyone else. …
Cesar Chavez's wisdom: Remembering how to be human
… have to find people and help them to act. Without action, you’re kidding yourself. It all came flooding back to me several weeks ago while driving across the southwest on my way to a retreat …
Vatican's new congregation of clichÈs doesn't help beleaguered pope
… other church personnel. Why has this obviously sincere and gentle man been unable to calm the flood waters of a crisis that threaten to engulf him? While these waters swirl around the pope’s …