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NCR contributor on five years since Katrina
… Katrina and now, despite a smaller human footprint, poverty and crime still run deep. The flood hit hardest in downriver neighbourhoods like the Lower Ninth Ward, which today has pockets … It Right Foundation. A movie star did more to rebuild the Big Nine than city hall. After the flood, Mayor C. Ray Nagin, an African-American and nominal Democrat (he gave $1,000 to Mr. Bush's … from the Urban Land Institute in Washington, D.C., endorsed in the early weeks after the flood. The population is smaller, with large areas under-populated and under-serviced. The …
Bishops lead aid convoy to flood victims
… … News from Catholic News Service … Catholic, Protestant bishops lead aid convoy to Pakistani flood victims … MULTAN, Pakistan (CNS) -- A Pakistani Catholic bishop and his Protestant … of relief items. "This is our diocese. We have seen death with our own eyes in visits to flood-hit areas," Bishop Francis told flood victims on their arrival. "We came through these deadly waters to bring you food and show …
Some Latin quibbles over the new missal
… Jerry Filteau … I’ve gotten a small flood of e-mails and referrals to blogs about the final Vatican approval of the new Roman Missal, …
Police raid on Belgian church called unlawful
… the fight. They will not accept this. And a lot of things will soon float to the surface. The flood gates are now wide open!” [John A. Dick is a retired historical theologian and long-term …
Churches step up relief work in Pakistan
… vitally needed relief supplies to some of the millions of people affected by the worst flood in the South Asian nation's history. The response gained momentum as Pope Benedict XVI … that more than 1,600 people had died and about 14 million people were directly affected by the flooding. "Raging floodwaters have washed away homes, bridges, schools, water systems and medical … more people could die of disease and food shortage," Holmes said. "With continuing rains and floods spreading to more areas, the challenge before us is growing by the day," Carolyn Fanelli, …
Closing the gap between law and justice
… 12, 2007. Demolition of the B.W. Cooper complex had been approved before Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans in 2005, scattering residents and damaging most public housing. … 12, 2007. Demolition of the B.W. Cooper complex had been approved before Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans in 2005, scattering residents and damaging most public housing. …
Holocaust film produced by Jesuit possible Oscar contender
… a severe stroke. During his rehabilitation, he quietly asked for a pencil – and immediately a flood of images from Auschwitz poured out onto paper. Kolodziej soon had more than 300 drawings, …
CRS in Pakistan
… Catholic Relief Services teams are hiking through mudslide areas to reach survivors of massive floods that have killed more than 1,200 people and affected an estimated 1 million people in Pakistan. "For tens of thousands of people, these floods have been a catastrophe,"says Carolyn Fanelli, Head of Programming and Acting Country …
Watershed moment for clerical culture: more bishops than monsignors in Chicago
… be eliminated by a church out of the shadow of the broken down seesaw of clerical culture and flooded with the sun of wholeness, wholesomeness and holiness. [Eugene Cullen Kennedy is emeritus …
Burma: Light and hope amid brutality
… girl’s hand. She is ready to listen. Two years ago, Aung’s parents were swept away in the floods when Cyclone Nargis tore through lower Burma. They were just two of the estimated 100,000 …
Go below the surface of the Gulf oil disaster
… ecology. It appears that only a fraction of the millions of gallons of crude oil that have flooded into the Gulf of Mexico rises to the surface. A lot of the oil remains dissolved or …
'Let's not let anyone think we're soft'
… again, like they did in the 1960s. He shudders as he recalls guitars, drums and tamborines flooding a space once only filled by organ music back at his local parish in those days. Not …
The abomination of desolation
… Lk. 21:20) Often when I ponder the violence of our times, the apocalyptic words of Jesus flood my mind. Here is Jesus, not talking in parable, but about sobering historical reality. He …