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Common Core: Catholic school community gives standards mixed grade
… faith." He said parents' concerns about the overreach of the federal government or its data mining efforts turn Common Core into a political issue. "As private schools, we can harness the …
Catholic Workers rely on grace, guts, luck in 80-year-old mission
… You have to give me a break: It was, after all, 1973 and, really, the marijuana was not mine. In the meantime, Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker and my hero, had just been …
When Things That Someday Converged First Arose
… God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story -- just like the typewriter was mine." But the inexorable struggle between Self and Ultimate Selflessness, which occupies artists …
'Shall we strike with a sword?' No to war in Syria
… is not the way to end those means; it makes us their equal, or worse. Several friends of mine visited Syria recently, and they report what one always hears from the grass-roots peace …
A church that requires a different kind of bishop
… a largely theoretical matter in the pulpits of the developed world. He has opposed gold mining and other extractive industries as well as mega-hydroelectric projects because of their effect on the environment and impact on water supplies. The mining operations, he has said, use inordinate amounts of scarce water, depriving indigenous … to expose coyotes who exploit people attempting to migrate; and fighting international gold mining companies. Any of those issues -- and he is still involved in all of them -- could have …
Union father inspires priest's stand with miners
… health care benefits as part of the Patriot Coal bankruptcy proceedings. On Aug. 16, Patriot mine members of United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) voted to ratify a settlement amending a … The themes from each resonated with what he had learned of West Virginia's often contentious mining history, filled with grueling chapters, including the late-1980s Pittston strikes where …
In confronting a violent past, Guatemalans find miracles in present
… to organize themselves and as they organize they stand up against the exploitation of the mining companies," she said, referring to clashes between mostly indigenous communities and mining companies over land use and environmental issues. "It is amazing. How is it possible that …
Hierarchy's Mary is vastly different from ours
… ... or resolve them to her own personal satisfaction." There was, we're told here, no "no" or "mine" in her. The Mary of this homily is a passive receptacle of what she understands to be the …
Whistleblowers shine necessary light on US shadows
… On Aug. 21, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. By many people's lights, including mine, the truly sinister aiding is to be found in the American interventionist foreign policy of …
What Bayard Rustin's role in the March on Washington teaches us about the church
… personal animosities and often antagonistic politics. He had to maneuver through the mine field of an opposition that ranged from liberals who were counseling moderation to …