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Q & A: Rocco Palmo
… energy and conviction that’ve gotten it through a hundred generations and more. Given the flood of challenges, conceptions and potential storylines, it always helps to make a reporter’s …
Vatican Culture & The Spirit Blowing
… what the Supreme Court is to the Constitution: The final arbiter. His reporting on the flood on new appointments at the Vatican hits the nail(s) on the head. Benedict is choosing …
Interview with Archbishop Jerome Listecki
… am responsible to try to reflect that voice in my community. All those thoughts were flooding through my mind when I was there before him, which made it hard just to get words out to …
Reconciliation on the ball field
… conflicts, and within the halls of politics, business and religion. The news outlets are flooded with politicians trying to direct morality within the family unit but cheating on their …
My oldest daughter's first car.
… car. We got it last week, in one of those rites-of-passage for parents that brings memories flooding back. In my case -- having come of age in the 1970s -- the memories are not good. They …
'Cut your oil consumption' tips from the Sierra Club
… the BP oil disaster makes us sick is the news that 11 workers died in the explosion, then the flood of heartbreaking images of dead or dying wildlife and despoiled wetlands coupled with an …
Struggling to understand a bishop's murder in Turkey
… whether subtle or overt. I should add that since Bishop Padovese's death, I have been flooded with e-mails and phone calls from Muslims in Turkey, extending their condolences and …
Global women religious: the new Catholic leadership
… who were attending to the needs of the dislocated and dispossessed of the 2005 hurricane and floods. The women came to offer solidarity, give encouragement, and check out the fruits of the …
Living our faith above ground
… I went to Eucharistic adoration every week. Hundreds of Catholic University students would flood into every crevice of a darkened Caldwell Chapel. We knelt together in silent prayer before …
Charity starts in Nashville
… News Service web site to go with a story headlined Parishes, schools in Nashville serve flood victims . I do a quick scan of the CNS photos, and download a photo (See Left). Only after … and Cindy Crocker gather food May 10 at St. Henry Chapel for two families displaced by flooding in Nashville, Tenn. More than 15 inches of rain fell in some areas of middle Tennessee as May began, causing unprecedented flood damage in the area and killing at least 19 people. (CNS photo/Rick Musacchio, Tennessee …
Parishes, schools in Nashville serve flood victims
… News Service … NASHVILLE, Tenn. … (CNS) -- Once Charlene Garrett got a close look at the flood damage that left so many of her neighbors surrounded by piles of ruined furniture and … to help move volunteers and supplies to those in need after the unprecedented rainfall and flooding in middle Tennessee in early May. "Now I have a new definition of what stewardship is," … the worst natural disaster in the modern history of middle Tennessee, causing unprecedented flood damage, killing 23 people and leaving thousands displaced. Professionals and volunteers …
Abuse of creation
… lack of faith, a type of despair, or even a blasphemy.” Bouchard’s letter has since provoked a flood of reactions, both positive and negative, from Canada as well as from the United States and …
On the Catholic frontier
… whole roads -- including the one highway that connects Sikkim to the rest of India -- are flooded or washed out for days, weeks, sometimes months at a time. We leave the sisters’ jeep …
Carry your work to God as true worship
… down. tSeek the deepness and water the plants in time. tContinue this labor and make sweet floods run tMake noble and abundant fruits to spring. tTake this food and carry it to God as your …
Archbishop Borders of Baltimore, dies at 96
… third of seven children, Archbishop Borders was born at his parents' home in Indiana during a flood that lifted the family's house from its foundation. He began his studies for the priesthood …
Witness to Appalachian apocalypse
… since gave way to the new coal mining process -- mountaintop removal. McRoberts hadn’t had a flood since 1927, then there were five major floods in 18 months. In 1998 Tampa Energy Company began clear-cutting all the vegetation then … the loss of mountains and community. The protest site overlooked the wreckage of the recently flooded town. We called it the “Prayer on the Mountain.” The event was aimed at educating folks …
Few certainties as Haiti rebuilds
… be overlooked given what some have called the “tsunami” of international assistance that has flooded the country during the last two months. “It’s about planning, it’s about talking to the …
A moment in the dark
… and revelations were just around the next bend in the path. I could feel the blood’s flood pounding through my veins. At the same time I was conscious of being filled with a sense of …
Fools rush in
… cement drainage channels needed to handle the summer rains and the swollen Lempe River that floods the town each season on its way to the Pacific Ocean, an hour’s drive to the south. The …
Rains complicate mission to homeless Haitians
… people each. Seven of those sites -- including the Petionville Club -- are in zones prone to flooding and mudslides, and relief workers are rushing to find alternatives for residents. Boyd … Warner said that unless the debris is cleared, rainwater will back up and cause serious flooding. "In my view, it tends to be a very frustrating process because we'll clean a canal and …