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Your thoughts on Pope Francis' criticism of EWTN
… *** I did not like Mother Angelica's rough edges. She was not a favorite of mine. I did not like the iron fist with which she ruled everything. I once called into the live …
At Vatican trial, defense questions the legal system itself
… he hopes "with all my heart," that Becciu is found innocent. "He was a collaborator of mine and helped me a lot," Francis told COPE. "My wish is that it turns out well." …
At Home in Creation: Blessing in the burning
… We are part fire, and part dream. — Firedog, Cheyenne Fire, brother of mine, before all things, the Most Holy has created you of extreme grace, powerful, magnificent, …
I am a domestic abuse survivor. Parish priests must do more to support people like me.
… their parish and their priest may be the only moral havens from a home life that, like mine, inexplicably turned into a place where right and wrong no longer existed. In entering the …
EarthBeat Weekly: The US budget bill will have consequences for the global climate, too
… and other important ecosystems, but also the human activities — especially unregulated gold mining and poorly managed agriculture — that lead to the fires, writes Eduardo Campos Lima. Those …
Catholics decry fires in Brazil and their underlying causes
… destruction and its impacts on people, but also the underlying causes, mainly activities like mining and the expansion of industrial-scale agriculture. According to the Instituto Nacional de … the region have few options for earning a livelihood and often engage in illegal logging and mining. "Public policies that could help them have been totally paralyzed. What the church can do … He also declared on many occasions that he thinks those territories should be opened to mining and other extractive industries. "The government incentivizes invasions and thus thousands …
Catholics in Africa celebrate Congo Basin as Earth's second lung
… the virtual conference that most national budgets in Congo Basin countries are funded through mining, oil and forestry, but such activities were harming the countries and the people. … the basin's wetlands from degradation, drainage and drying up due to human activities and mining. These include a cross-border agreement between the Republic of Congo and Congo on the …
John Garvey, Catholic University of America president, stepping down in June
… his tenure, Garvey said that the work "must employ younger minds and stronger lives than mine." He added that for him personally, "the time has come to turn the responsibility over to …
Should Pope Francis get a third COVID-19 vaccine shot?
… risk. If he were a simple Jesuit, his religious superior could order him to get the shot, as mine has ordered me. But nobody can order the pope to do anything. If everyone in the Vatican …
Religious accompany Brazil's Indigenous people as Supreme Court considers case
… could rule against their claims to traditionally inhabited territories, opening vast tracts to mining operations and agribusiness. "They want to remain in these territories. They are concerned …
New bishop in Philippines pledges an environment-focused ministry
… has "always been found on the front line of social and environmental issues such as open-pit mining, land grabbing, unjust and abusive land use and illegal logging." "The agricultural motif …
EarthBeat Weekly: Defending healthy ecosystems is a matter of life and death
… they live. That's an average of more than four a week. Many were protesting projects like mining or dams that would affect the quality or quantity of water available to their communities. … Nicaragua and the Philippines, which had some of the highest per-capita murder rates, logging, mining and industrial agriculture, including cattle ranching and oil palm plantations, were the …
More than 200 people were killed last year for defending their land, environment
… worse." Of the cases in which causes were clear, most were related to logging, water and dams; mining and other extractive industries; illegal crops such as coca (the raw material used to make … and industrial farming or ranching, the report said. Many conflicts are related to dams and mining involve transnational companies, or domestic industries such as timber or agriculture that … Communities of African descent on the Colombia's Pacific coast are among those targeted by mining companies, as well as paramilitaries, drug traffickers and sometimes members of the …
Finding new solace in Bruce Springsteen's 'The Rising' 20 years after 9/11
… joined by backup singers: "Come on up for the rising / Come on up, lay your hands in mine." Spirits above and behind me Faces gone, black eyes burnin' bright May their precious blood …
Are Francis' critics scared of the Holy Spirit?
… as Pope Francis. Over at The Pillar , Ed Condon was fretting about the synod too (emphases mine): Some critics will raise the prospect that the synodal process is set up to produce …
The Beatitudes revisited: a template of the good life
… over human rationality are dying out. Who would have thought? In one lifetime — yours and mine — the world we were told to expect to live in has totally disappeared. We live from screen …
New book 'God's Diplomats' unveils the secret history of Vatican diplomacy
… medicine, and defended indigenous people losing land to extractive industries such as mining?" Gaetan asks in the book. This pope and the United States have seen their positions drift …
New group discerning the future of a female diaconate
… says it brings her "so much courage to know there’s other women with journeys very similar to mine and it helps me to recognize that this has been going on for so long." …
Pope addresses Vatican reforms aimed at curbing corruption, abuse
… all my heart that he is innocent," adding that the Italian prelate was "a collaborator of mine and helped me a lot." Cardinal Becciu is someone "whom I have a certain esteem for as a …
The US accepted my family as refugees from Vietnam. Now we must welcome Afghans.
… into the folds of our communities, into our homes, as God welcomes us into his — "The land is mine, you are but strangers resident with me" ( Leviticus 25:23 ). In supporting the resettlement …