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Afghanistan war veterans 'depressed' about withdrawal, worried about Afghans
… not OK. It's frustrating," said Tetreault, who lives in St. Robert, Missouri, and co-owns a tree, lawn and landscape company. Chris Pereira , an Air National Guard tech sergeant who …
Heaven and earth
… he meets Jesus, he is astonished when Jesus tells him he has seen him at prayer “under the fig tree.” Nathaniel has apparently been reflecting on the text about Jacob’s vision at Bethel of a …
This tension is a holy thing
… pressure of warming temperatures causes the sap to flow through "a wound or tap hole" in maple trees — (a description I came across on a maple tree farm website). All these metaphors and images arose to help me understand that the …
Holy waters: Prayer and protest against Line 3 pipeline at Mississippi headwaters
… either. Driving out of New Orleans each morning, I passed exhausted estuaries full of leafless trees. Activists in the river communities, many of them women, have been fighting industry's … folding chairs. Others, including families with small children, are camped in nearby groves of trees. The Treaty People Gathering marks the biggest convergence of people to date in the …
Priest killed, one missing as church assesses damage from Haiti quake
… five years. "The population is desperate and beleaguered. They are sleeping outside under the trees, in open public spaces, to protect themselves from aftershocks arriving every few hours," …
Dominican conference highlights diversity of Latino college students
… In an effort to emphasize acculturation over assimilation, Rodríguez displayed her own family tree to highlight the mestizaje in her own life. Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Germany, Vietnam …
First Nations, Catholics work at North Vancouver residential school site
… begun at the former St. Paul's. Some landscaping and construction due to damage done by tree roots has been underway on the property in collaboration between the Squamish First Nation, …
Indigenous leader Ted George was a 'fire carrier' who bridged cultures
… from the earth will be laid gently on his gravesite. Twenty yards away, near the cemetery's tree line, falls a shadow from another grave marker: Chief Sealth, a signatory of the Point … Ted and Karlene lived in a modest home on the Suquamish Reservation, surrounded by cedar trees — one of the few pieces of property still owned by tribal members with a view of the Sound, … Thank you, Ted, for being that gift to us all. [Jon Magnuson is director of the Cedar Tree Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides services and initiates projects in the …
EarthBeat Weekly: New Peruvian bishop shaped by 'the Amazonian face of the church'
… for not learning to respect the beauty of the forests, and for exterminating vast areas of trees. ... Forgive us for staining the rivers with our selfishness and greed, for wanting to gain … it can be very reverent. We came from dust (earth) and we are returning to it. Composting a tree or garden in the backyard is a sacred place and closer to visit than a public or 'Catholic' …
South American church network forms for Gran Chaco zone, Guarani Aquifer
… don't understand exactly what 'integral ecology' means. They think it's about planting trees. But it's not something secondary; it's an integral part of our commitment to creation," …
Time to put the 'catholic' back into the Catholic Church
… or not happen as the Spirit moves and we will only see the rustling of the leaves on the tree which is the church. No, it is a time for growth in charity toward one another, an openness …
Conference primes US church for bolder responses to Laudato Si', climate change
… the current Congress, including the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act, the Trillion Trees Act, the Nonprofit Energy Efficiency Act and a bipartisan bill on carbon pricing. In the …
EarthBeat Weekly: We need a new relationship with the rest of creation — and with our stuff
… the riverside communities, and there's pressure to hunt or fish, gather certain plants or cut trees to sell to pay for medicine, school supplies, a boat motor or other necessities. Around …
War drives Kenya's Aweer from the forest where they find God
… the most amazing relates to the "honeyguide" bird that chatters to the Aweer as it flits from tree to tree, guiding the human figures (who sing a melodious response to the bird's tweets) to the site … where the ancestors live, where prayers for the Aweer community are offered, where certain trees and shrubs are imbued with the essence of those who have died, and the wood and bark of …
Amid Catholic opposition, states are legalizing composting of human remains
… fossil fuels and releases carbon dioxide. Proponents say families can use the soil to plant a tree or a garden to honor their loved ones. In public testimony , the Oregon bill garnered …
Let's build a post-pandemic church worth going back to
… twice when they appealed for money). I knew about some parishes that had organized phone trees to reach out to older or sick parishioners. Sometimes that gave an opportunity to pray or …
Descendants of enslaved people join dig on former Jesuit plantation
… except when she served in the Air Force for a decade. A lot of the surnames in her family tree appear on the GU272 list. "I'm sure at some point I will make a connection from my family tree to the list," Wilson said. Wilson, a lifelong Catholic, believes the Jesuits should marry …
Hundreds of bodies found at former Saskatchewan residential school
… of Regina agreed to pay $70,000 to help mark the unidentified graves and add fences and trees to the Cowessess cemetery. At the time, Archbishop Donald Bolen of Regina said he was …
Dialogue demonstrates connections across faith and science
… Ever since she was young, Nalini Nadkarni has loved trees. As a kid, she spent days climbing them, and she swore an oath to herself that as a grownup … true to her childhood promise, has done what she can to raise awareness about the values of trees and why their preservation matters to everyone. That mission has led her to speak with …
Bad apples and hungry wolves
… ignore it and see what the person does. Good or bad outcomes reflect the source. Good trees produce good fruit; rotten trees produce bad fruit. A corrupt leader will infect those around him or her. They set the …