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Christmas in America: belief in the virgin birth and visits from Santa
… were children. Other notable shifts from the past include: 79 percent say they'll put up a tree, compared with 92 percent who recall doing so in their childhood. 65 percent expect to send …
Being asked and asking for money at Christmas
… all these asks are recounting wonderful accomplishments. Meals served, surgeries performed, trees planted, newspapers published. Nonprofits do a lot of work. My small organization …
To frack or not to frack: Debate examines America's quest for energy
… that allows her to appreciate being part of God's creation -- the breezes rustling the trees, the wildlife, the food she raises, the star-studded night sky and yes, her two friendly …
"Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending"
… Robed in dreadful majesty; Those who set at naught and sold Him, Pierced and nailed Him to the tree, Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing, Shall the true Messiah see. Every island, …
The War on Advent
… can do to cultivate the season of Advent in the heart. In my family, we may buy the Christmas tree a few days in advance, so the branches can drop, but we decorate it on Christmas Eve only. …
Why we call for the closure of the School of the Americas
… the Pentagon hoped, from Latin demonstrations. In 1983, Father Roy and two other men climbed a tree near the new barracks and played a tape of Archbishop Oscar Romero's final homily, spoken …
Francis and a church that breathes with both lungs
… just like four years ago, that the microscopic examination could miss the forest for the trees. In both cases, the real novelty is that the documents are acts of synthesis, weaving …
Black Saints: Toussaint L'Ouverture
… words, “In overthrowing me you have to cut down in St. Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty; it will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep.” …
A Filipino prophet
… to safer ground as wind and water threatened all he had: rice fields on 2 acres, some coconut trees and a little house. He stayed there as the tempest wound its gnarled hand around a coconut …
Religious orders in Philippines rush to help typhoon victims
… the region's Leyte Island, inundating villages and leaving them scattered with rubble, felled trees and posts, and scores of corpses. Much of the relief efforts have been focused on Tacloban … the retreat center. Most of the families rely on coconut and rice farming, and "even coconut trees have been knocked down, so they are helpless right now," he said. Ombrog appealed to Lite …