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… this year to help people rebuild their homes and livelihoods, and clear areas affected by mines. Figures recently released by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reveal that nearly …

… and people terribly injured. But the day after that earthquake happened, some friends of mine who were there and whom I joined later described how they went into the heart of the city of …

… life, deserve such immediate condemnation? Maybe it's that Catholic Worker background of mine, but a moral teaching that full heartedly supports the destruction of war and its supposedly …

… say that these are falsehoods. Such classes, including those offered at universities such as mine where I teach in a Department of Chicano Studies, are scholarly efforts to make the study of …

… greatest statesmen, was a pioneer reformer. However, when he insisted on to regulating U.S. mining and lumber companies and sought loans from European countries, Washington overthrew his … family reunification, and a path to legal status and eventual citizenship. A friend of mine recently provided a stellar example of that. On May 1, along with her friends, Sister Patti … our iniquities" (Isa 53:3,5). In the present case, not strictly for your transgressions and mine, but insofar as they are the fruits of past U.S. foreign policy. The Servant is a "light to …

… I have that type of influence" on whom Marquette hires, but "the decision is Marquette's, not mine. ... I play no role in their hiring or firing." …

… he still boasts that he is glad he drank. “I’m glad I had the life I had, at least it was mine.” Was it? Any life held in thrall to a drug for 20 years can hardly be called one’s own. A …

… learned earlier this year when 29 coal miners died in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine -- that limited government can, and often does, lead to pollution and disasters as … While oil and coal companies rake in billions in profits, we are left to clean up. Recent coal mining and oil disasters should be a wake-up call and a turning point. It’s time to …

… had been welcomed prior to the Great Depression as booming industries in agriculture and mining welcomed this source …

… camps? She has wonderful words to say, words which should still be meditated upon and mined when the shadows, the darkness of our world, block all gaze upward toward the positive and …

… Bishop's pastoral letter hits close to home for mining families …

… of his episcopacy, Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston called attention to mine safety in West Virginia. In his letter, "On My Holy Mountain," released at a news conference … The disaster at the Upper Big Branch Mine raises concerns about the conditions within the coal mines across our state and the atmosphere existing in the coal industry's corporate culture." …

… kissing the earth as his predecessor did, perhaps fearing that it is seeded with the land mines of more bad news. Anne Burke, now a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, served on the …

… River. The government has little presence in the area, and illegal deforestation and illegal mining are rampant. …

… by the darkness, no matter how thick, no matter how choking." He said suffering -- "yours, mine, the pontiff's" -- is "the heart of personal holiness ... It is the means by which we are …

… me wasting my life on useless things. Meaning the place of women in the world. (Her words, not mine.) "A man," she went on to instruct me, "is the head; women are the neck" in the male-female …

… Kentucky. That town was built for only one reason, that of housing the men brought in to mine the coal field. The mines themselves long since gave way to the new coal mining process -- mountaintop removal. McRoberts hadn’t had a flood since 1927, then there were … What is mountaintop-removal coal mining? … coal companies because they displace the need for hundreds of jobs. It’s the cheapest way to mine coal. In the past, of course, they used conventional deep mines. This newer technology has …

… home for their outspoken criticism of the government, social elites, and powerful ranching, mining and energy interests. On Thursday afternoon, five Brazilian prelates met the press in …

… and Mike, to Arlirio Hernandez in Ysidro, now being stalked by killers for his opposition to mining, to Arnoldo Garcia Cruz, his wife Dinora and their daughters Jenny and Karen, my hosts in …

… time here, I believe in that motto. Its esprit is residual and contagious. A principal goal of mine as freshman adviser is to guide students to accept help without feeling weak, stupid, …