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Korean War POW Fr. Emil Kapaun's last Easter Mass speaks to this Good Friday
… "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," sung by the Americans, echoed through the damaged church. "Mine eyes have seen the glory / Of the coming of the Lord ... Glory, glory, Hallelujah! / His …
Coffee and catechism
… the Eucharist, which he gets from the priest in Pantelho. He also celebrates weddings. "For mine, he asked the deacon of another zone to do it," says Manuel with a smile. … continues to follow the struggle of the Zapatista organization. The others, including mine, are in the resistance, but not in the fight." …
Links: Catholic identity at universities, meritocracy and the 'working class'
… Gerson is a national treasure, this time focusing on the fact that some GOP governors have mined political gold by embracing a disastrous COVID-19 response. It is not just that people are …
No free will, no ideas: Physicist Brian Greene reduces everything to 'particles and fields'
… were just a mass of particles, there would be no way to connect Greene's consciousness with mine or yours. That's the difference between a rock and me and Greene and you. Jesuit Fr. Pierre …
Life on Earth depends on healthy oceans, Vatican panelists say
… he said. Amelia Ma'afu, director of Caritas Tonga and member of Caritas Oceania, said mining and extracting black sand are threatening fisheries and fragile ecosystems in the Pacific, … and cosmetics. She said gold, copper and other minerals are also sought after with deep seabed mining, which decimates marine life and pollutes. Caritas is endorsing the call for a global ban … protect it, Minchin said. Other threats include "sonic pollution," caused by ship engines and mining equipment, which hurts marine vertebrates' ability to communicate, said Antonio Di Natale, …
Memo to the Vatican: Same-sex couples find God's love in marriage, too
… by the two people "standing before God" with the priest as a witness, he said. "A friend of mine today said, 'Don't forget that the Vatican doesn't get to decide who God blesses,'" Canavan …
What Biden's climate justice pledge on leaking oil wells means
… emissions, oil and brine leaks, and other environmental harms from tens of thousands of former mining and well sites.” Advocates have long argued for exactly this objective: fossil fuel legacy …
As we pollute the oceans, sea life isn't alone at risk — our health is, too
… to marine life, such as increasing plastic pollution, pollution from ships and underwater mining and drilling, and water acidification due to climate change. The document quotes a 1988 … which stated, "An out-of-sight out-of-mind mentality allows us to flush toxic waste and mine tailings into our rivers and seas in the mistaken belief that they can no longer harm us." … metal pollutant "of greatest concern for human health," the report stated. Small-scale gold mining and the burning of coal for energy are the two main sources of mercury in oceans, the …
EarthBeat Weekly: Organized crime threatens Amazonian Indigenous communities
… tribes and leaders of non-Indigenous faith groups are uniting in an effort to stop a proposed mine that would demolish Oak Flat in Arizona. Writing for Religion News Service, Alejandra Molina …
Indigenous, environmental groups celebrate Haaland's Cabinet confirmation
… at the Interior, which under Trump appointees Ryan Zinke and David Bernhardt sought to expand mining and drilling across public lands, in national parks, including uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and offshore. During her confirmation hearings, Haaland pledged her …
Why Oak Flat in Arizona is a sacred space for the Apache and other Native Americans
… the Apache sacred site that's at risk of being turned over to Resolution Copper, an Australian mining venture. People from a number of Native American nations had come to support the Apache … few decades." But the campground is a small part of the site that's considered sacred. And mining ultimately would collapse and destroy Oak Flat, according to opponents. The land transfer …
Taylor Swift's music on 'folklore' is the perfect consolation
… the woods with Swift, I am transported to another world, occupied by problems that are not mine and characters I might have met in a dream, once upon a time. Through Swift's captivating …
Poor parishes and dioceses face precarious post-pandemic world
… 50 counties that make up the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, 40 are in Appalachia. The coal mining at the beginning of the 20th century brought riches, but an industry that once made up a …
EarthBeat Weekly: Three women leading in defense of the environment
… way for a parcel of federal land held sacred by Apaches to be turned over for a massive copper mine in eastern Arizona, writes Felicia Fonseca for the Associated Press. EarthBeat's A …
Catholic Church helps Zambian villagers stand up to mining companies
… More than five years after taking one of Zambia's largest mining companies to court in England, villagers who say toxic waste from the Nchanga copper mine affected their health, livestock and farmland have won a settlement . Terms of the Jan. 19 … not disclosed, and London-based Vedanta Resources and its Zambian subsidiary, Konkola Copper Mines, did not admit responsibility for environmental impacts from the mine, which is located in …
God's impossible dream
… set in motion the saga of slavery in Egypt and the exodus of the Chosen People. Matthew mines this theme of jealousy and murder in another central image in the Bible for God’s covenant …
In remote area of Colombia, bishops want cease-fire between army, rebels
… the Colombian army and rebel groups fighting over drug trafficking routes and illegal gold mines in one of the country's most remote regions. In a statement issued March 1 — following a … and the Gaitanista paramilitary group moved into the area and began to fight over its gold mines, timber and drug trafficking routes. "The peace deal was only with the FARC," Torres said. …
USDA puts brakes on land transfer for Arizona copper mine
… way for a parcel of federal land held sacred by Apaches to be turned over for a massive copper mine in eastern Arizona. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Mar. 1 that it likely will take … was set to be transferred to Resolution Copper by mid-March for one of the largest copper mines in the U.S. At least three pending lawsuits have raised concerns over religious freedom … they'll continue working to protect Oak Flat. Resolution Copper, a joint venture of global mining companies Rio Tinto and BHP, said it has invested $2 billion so far on the project but …
EarthBeat Weekly: Lessons for Catholics from life of Hazel Johnson, 'mother of environmental justice'
… motion to stop the U.S. government from transferring an Apache sacred site in Arizona to a mining company , reports Emily McFarlan Miller for Religion News Service. …
Native American group files motion to stop mining at sacred Oak Flat site
… motion to stop the U.S. government from transferring an Apache sacred site in Arizona to a mining company in the next two weeks. The destruction of Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, known widely as Oak Flat, by mining would violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, according to the motion filed Feb. 23 … mining company, Resolution Copper, according to the motion. The company plans to construct a mine that would collapse and destroy the sacred site in a nearly 2-mile-wide, 1,100-foot-deep …