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Vatican speaking for voiceless global poor
… interest rates. Impoverished nations likewise face falling prices for agricultural and mining commodities, growing unemployment, and the threat of protectionist trade policies that …
The Marys of Mother Africa: Story of Greedy Boy
… of las hermanas y Marias. I hope our readers hearing this song rocks the soul as it did mine. Aptly for Africa and elsewhere, surely it is one of the most heroic Marian hymns of our …
'Free God language': fired parish worker's thesis
… of God. When we limit the metaphors used for God, we make the metaphors our idols.” Kolpack mines Second Isaiah for its use of feminine imagery, “the only place in the Old Testament where …
Madison's Morlino noted for othodoxy, controversy
… people about what I have an obligation to teach. They're stepping on the pope's turf and mine," Morlino said at the time. Morlino insisted his remarks were not intended to be political, …
A Lenten exercise in forgiveness
… reacts. Such visualization can be disarming. It has been commended by an activist friend of mine, a frequent visitor to the wrecked regions of Iraq, and having seen the suffering there, a …
First Sunday of Lent
… one another. It wasn’t “I keep everything for myself. I earned it. I worked for it. It’s all mine.” That wasn’t their attitude at all because that wasn’t the attitude of Jesus. That would be …
The God-given desire for connection
… met Marianne IRL (in real life). Marianne and I met through our blogs. Hers about her artwork, mine about knitting. The craft blogosphere is huge. Thousands -- maybe even tens or hundreds of …
Book excerpt: Life at close quarters
… mother's frail body. We had planned and almost unplanned our wedding as our emotions -- mostly mine, I'm sure -- ran wild. But there, waiting at the altar, was Fr. Robert Lott, tall, gaunt, …
New San Salvador archbishop says no to mining
… of San Salvador, perhaps the most frequently asked question here was, "What will he say on the mining issue?" A Canadian company, Pacific Rim, has been pushing to get government permission to begin gold and silver mining. The Catholic church has opposed the plan, urging the government not to grant permission, … he described as a "vehement call" to the government "not to permit the exploitation of the mines." He said mining would, "in an expanding and permanent way," damage the country's water …
Vatican criticisms mount despite containment efforts
… apologizing for the “tremendous media storm” triggered by “imprudent remarks of mine on Swedish television.” Notably, Williamson did not offer any apology for the substance of …
Legionaries of Christ founder said to father child
… his own hands...Know that you can always count on the Pope's esteem and support, as well as on mine." In recent days, Legion supporters have clearly been shaken. According to a former Regnum …
Hildegard Goss-Mayr: The greatest living peacemaker
… Archbishop Dom Helder Camara to the work of peace. Said Camara: "If the Nobel Peace Prize were mine to give, I would give it to Hildegard and Jean Goss-Mayr." In the 1970s, their work in …
Holocaust-denying bishop apologizes to pope
… Council (1962-65). "Amidst this tremendous media storm stirred up by imprudent remarks of mine on Swedish television, I beg of you to accept ... my sincere regrets for having caused to …
Fifty years ago today, Pope John called a council
… is Jesus Christ, and for a concrete, recent Christian example we have the Amish of Nickel Mines, Pa. In the fall of 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV, a truck driver, entered the Amish …
Pro-life, eco-feminists work for consist ethic of life
… and disqualify someone else as an eco-feminist because they have a different position from mine on abortion. "Now, I myself believe that eco-feminism is the most complete, the best it can …
Four historical forces reshaping Catholic-Jewish relations
… Whatever one makes of this particular case, symbolically it represents a canary in the coal mine in terms of the broader direction of Catholic/Jewish relations. Four historical forces are …
Documentary foresaw recent coal disaster
… 11, 2000, when a coal-sludge impoundment in Martin County, Ky., broke through an underground mine below, propelling 306 million gallons of sludge down two tributaries of the Tug Fork River. …
Essay: A prophetic legacy awaits fulfillment
… in Gilead, to make the body whole; there is a balm in Gilead, to heal the sin-sick soul. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. Jonathan Rieder, in his recent book The …
New Year's 2009: Time for renewed hope
… Convention on the Prohibition, Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, including landmines, called the Ottawa Treaty. Besides stopping the production and development of anti-personnel mines, a party to the treaty must destroy all the anti-personnel mines in its possession within …
Documentary eerily portends Tennessee disaster
… 11, 2000, a coal sludge impoundment in Martin County, Kentucky, broke through an underground mine below, propelling 306 million gallons of sludge down two tributaries of the Tug Fork River. …