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A church that requires a different kind of bishop
… and say, 'Oh hell, I've done it for so long, I'll just go off and have a glass of wine under a tree and nobody bother me.' " It is in the HIV patients, in the sex workers, in the transvestites …
In confronting a violent past, Guatemalans find miracles in present
… of it. Blown-up restaurants and buses, bullet-pocked and exploded police stations, huge trees felled as a means of blocking roads, all mostly the work of armed resistance to the …
Lasting bonds: Vatican invites extended families to join pilgrimage
… of keeping intact the bonds between the beginning of life and the end of life. After all, a tree without roots is a tree without leaves and without fruit; it's just a trunk and that's sad to see." Highlighting the …
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 …