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'Vos Estis' expires in one year. What works and what changes are needed in version 2.0?
… later, Hoeppner held a farewell Mass in the diocese. While he apologized "for any failures of mine in governing as bishop," others questioned why, after losing his job for allegations of …
The GOP, the big lie and the Avignon papacy
… I would vote to elect Cheney to office: Her positions on basic issues are very different from mine. But her positions are those that have characterized the Republican Party for 40 years. She … to vote to impeach a president of his own party. Romney's politics, like Cheney's, are not mine, but as an American and as a believer in an almighty God, I could not but be moved by his …
Links: Corporations and politics; reuniting families; the 'big lie' continues
… for posting this photo, which he said was his favorite image from the pandemic. It is now mine too: …
I'm a Filipina American and racism makes me afraid for me, for my family
… the histories we tell through our documents. How would such a document center experiences like mine? *** My earliest experience of racial trauma happened in a Catholic school. I was testing … in a way that rejects a Black/white binary that excludes how racism affects communities like mine. The Catholic Church's anti-racism lens must evolve. I need my son's world and church to be …
EarthBeat Weekly: Continuing challenge for people of faith: turning climate concern into action
… cost of many products — like a wedding ring made of gold that came from an unregulated mine carved out of an Amazonian forest, or crackers made with palm oil from an Indonesian island …
Your thoughts on reforming the liturgy, part two
… *** I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine (we have known each other for over 50 years) concerning liturgical issues. I commented that …
What Biden got right in his approach to climate change
… lines for a clean, modern, resilient grid; workers capping abandoned wells and reclaiming mines and stopping methane leaks; autoworkers building modern, efficient, electric vehicles and …
Fourth Sunday of Easter: Mirroring those we love
… out of love. Jesus carries the Creator image a quantum leap further when he adds, "I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father." With that statement, he …
EarthBeat Weekly: Earth Day treaty seeks to protect environmental defenders in Latin America
… examines why some conservative legal scholars are taking up the Apache people's opposition to mining on a sacred site in Arizona as a religious freedom case . And Isobel Whitcomb at Gizmodo, … The United Mine Workers of America have decided to support a "just transition" from coal and other fossil …
Parishes cannot obstruct sex abuse investigations
… No one wants to believe the worst about someone they love. I remember when a priest friend of mine was sent to become pastor of a parish at which the previous pastor had been removed under …
Now playing: Pope Francis' ecological encyclical set to music
… wave. During a subsequent residency at the Grand Canyon, she explored the legacy of uranium mining on Indigenous lands. "The pope says, 'We are not God,' and we have to be responsible with …
Hoeppner apologizes to Crookston Diocese during farewell Mass
… He apologized "to you and everyone, as I've apologized to the Holy Father, for any failures of mine in governing as bishop," he said. "At the same time," he said, "I hold dear the many good …
Conservative legal experts take up Apache Oak Flat religious freedom case
… have sought to protect and preserve the Oak Flat area in Arizona from a potential copper mine, they have drawn support from other Native American tribes, conservation organizations like … in the Tonto National Forest, which includes Oak Flat, to Resolution Copper, an Australian mining company. The San Carlos Apache Tribe and its backers say the copper mine will create a 2-mile-long, 1,000-foot-deep crater that will destroy Oak Flat and make it …
Links: The women of NPR, 'Atlantic Crossing' and post-modern architecture
… Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg and Cokie Roberts in the afternoon. I realize that mine is the first generation for which it was entirely natural to hear intelligent women …
Catholic groups pressure Brazil, US to protect the Amazon and its people
… und Caritas in Germany, along with the Brazilian bishops' Commission on Integral Ecology and Mining and the Global Catholic Climate Movement. It was signed by more than 90 Catholic … and indigenous rights in Brazil. According to Comboni Fr. Dario Bossi of the Churches and Mining Network in Brazil, top U.S. officials are already meeting with officials of the Brazilian …
Lessons from the Amazon unionizing defeat
… Workers. When people in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, who were left behind when the coal mines closed, realize that there are good-paying, union jobs in the clean energy sector, the …
Environmental justice award winner: 'We have the right to live in a territory that for us is sacred'
… 1996 did not end the violence. A leader in her people's struggle to defend their land against mining, dam construction and illegal logging, she has been accused of being a guerrilla and a … economic projects. Because the area is mountainous there are also minerals, so there are mining leases. But community organizations opposed them. There were various community … but autonomous, and we managed to block many leases. One of the actions to block the mines was in 2010 … and that's when the logging companies moved in. We realized that the …
Charles Curran remembers Hans Küng
… I first met him in person in Washington in 1968. Küng was in a town for a talk. A colleague of mine at Catholic University and friend of Küng's invited me to a 40th birthday luncheon in his …
University to change some procedures after report on composer David Haas
… several Twin Cities parishes and schools. He has composed well-known hymns including "You Are Mine," "We Are Called" and "Blessed Are They." He also directs the Emmaus Center for Music, …
Environmental groups mobilize to make sure 'build back better' isn't just a slogan for Biden
… effort also includes support for the Reclaim Act, which is aimed at restoring abandoned coal mines and coal communities, primarily in Appalachia. Other groups participating in the #ACTNow …