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In global fight against fracking, faith community should lead
… removal went forward. Still, what had been a beautiful landscape became hugely deformed. Trees, brush and mounds of soil were pushed and deposited into rivers and streams, polluting …
'Doing nothing' a place of surprising activity
… spaces throughout the world. One steamy day in Bodh Gaya, India, while standing near the tree where Siddhartha first sat still and saw with the eye of his soul, Harrison realized: "There …
Catholic congresswoman Lindy Boggs dies at 97
… Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who sang “Ave Maria” at the Aug. 1 Mass, heralded her as an oak tree with roots as deep as the nation itself who provided branches to rest on, shade to protect …
Who Should Be Barred From Catholic Forums?
… manner of a farmer, planted a paradise eastward in Eden, and set in it a visible and palpable tree of life, of such a sort that anyone who tasted its fruit with his bodily teeth would gain …
Marking the Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombing anniversaries in New Mexico
… leaving, I noticed the beautiful suburban neighborhood surrounding Dachau. The houses, green trees, streets, shrubs, shops -- it could have been any suburb in the U.S., and it was right next … It's also one of the most stunning locations in North America: the steep red cliffs, the pine trees, the Rio Grande down below, the distant mountains. And on the mesa, this beautiful, normal …
Jonah and the mission of peace (part 3)
… it's much more pleasant to be people of peace and nonviolence than sitting under a dead gourd tree, nursing our rage, feeling depressed and begging for death. The story of Jonah exposes the …
Pope on homosexuals: 'Who am I to judge?'
… to work in a parish. As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise ... a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't." … Resistance to reform … "If …
The model of Gaviotas, a sustainable village
… with aluminum, so food is grown in hydroponic gardens. Experiments in 1982 suggested that pine trees would grow on the millions of acres of grassland. Villagers planted 10,000 seedlings the … mild breeze windmills, low-energy deep-well pumps, resin and other bioproducts from the pine trees. Gaviotas has many friends telling its story. Yes magazine published a long account of the …
Become a friend of Jesus, and Jesus will fill you with blessings
… a chance to rest and wash their feet and then have something to eat; rest in the shade of the tree." This story -- if we're going to understand the deepest meaning of it, we have to go back …
Sights and sounds of the papal trip
… setting indeed, with the mountains looming in the background and a courtyard framed by palm trees and fountains. On a sunny day, it would have been a delight; Thursday, however, it was a … shock troops to drive people out.) I eventually spotted a patch of dry ground under some leafy trees and set up shop there while waiting for the pope to arrive. The photo above, taken by one …