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For Lent, it's watermelon and large curd cottage cheese versus the Psalms
… often troubled world. One doesn't necessarily need an artistic presentation of the Psalms to mine their meanings, but I have found this calligraphic text particularly helpful in elucidating …
EarthBeat Weekly: Pandemic, storms call us to make peace with the planet
… of Albertans came together to force the government to roll back plans for mountaintop-removal mining in the Rockies. Sharon J. Riley has the story for The Narwhal, a member of the Covering …
How a public uprising caused a province to stop coal mining expansion
… to ranchers. Polls suggested nearly 70% of Albertans opposed the expansion of coal mining in much of the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. And so, nearly nine months later, … this time around was the province's long-standing system of land classification for coal mining. Under that system, surface coal mining on land known as category 2 was effectively prohibited . Category 2 lands cover much of …
Lenten reflections focus on climate change as an urgent moral issue
… change and environmental destruction were not on his radar at the time, he now sees how gold mining and steel mills there polluted the air and water and harmed the health and lives of the …
'Malcolm & Marie' tries — and fails — to highlight toxic relationships
… maturation and a director to help bring her to her fullest potential. If one were to try to mine this film for meaning or a point, it could be about watching a man's ambitions dwarf a …
Students in India use social media to fight coal projects
… to 51 MMTPA by 2035. Last year, the Adani group received its much-awaited approval for coal mining by the authorities in northeastern Australia after years of opposition by …
New speaker's bureau highlights Catholics of color
… she makes it her mission to focus on "what's on God's to-do list for me, and not on mine. It's not my responsibility to make it all work out. … He's more than capable of handling …
Tribes, faith leaders petition Biden to end Enbridge Line 3 pipeline
… ones facing poor white communities in West Virginia that grapple with mountaintop-removal coal mining. "We understand that this is a fight, and I've come on today to say to faith leaders: You …
EarthBeat Weekly: Environment defenders face dual threat of climate change, murder
… their livelihoods. But they risk their lives when they defend their land against incursions by mining or oil companies, land speculators, loggers, illegal miners or organized crime groups … took place in the Amazon region. Of the global total, 50 people were killed for opposing mining projects. Industrial agriculture ranked second, with 34 victims — most of them in Asia. … requires the "free, prior and informed consent" of communities before projects like mining, oil drilling or dam construction can begin on their lands, the so-called consultations …
New Asia-Oceania church network pursues sustainable common home in vast biome
… suffer the consequences of extractive activities like gravel and stone quarrying, black sand mining on seashores, dredging of coral reefs, mining and razing of forests for palm plantations, said Archbishop Peter Loy Chong of Fiji, …
Bishop warns against 'weaponization of Eucharist' with elected officials
… like Archbishop Gomez, like Bishop McElroy, like Pope Francis," Carr added. "A friend of mine said, 'If you ever got your act together, you'd be dangerous.' My fear is we don't have our …
Links: Cupich's Vatican visit, cultural commentary and a KC Chiefs hero
… hospital in Montreal. He says that his idea of what constitutes a hero changed. Indeed. So did mine after reading his story. Need another make-you-smile story? From ClassicFM , soprano Jeanine …
In the Bible and US history, we need to look at all the pictures
… pass over us, and slither on by. But that implied please-kill-somebody-else's-family-not-mine mentality seems insidious and dangerous, yes? The trouble with imagining that my particular …
Baseball's home run king Hank Aaron fought racism on and off the field
… said. "He taught me what life was all about. But he was more than just a religious friend of mine, he was a friend because he talked as if he was not a priest sometimes. ... He was just good …
Your thoughts on Catholic complicity in Capitol attack
… for a Supreme Court justice and an attorney general who have a different point of view than mine, and a group of citizens who get upset enough with politicians to confront them? Maybe even …
Central American caravan is 'first moral test for Biden,' say activists
… that adjusts to international law, standing with Central American groups organizing against mining and mega projects threatening the water of communities, and focusing on trade policies …
Masses, prayers for uniting country help set tone for Inauguration Day
… say to them in reply, 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.' Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you accursed, into …
Network connects indigenous knowledges in the Arctic and U.S. southwest
… projects, getting traditional foods into nursing homes, and the effects of colonial mining and extraction on food and medicinal plants. The first visit was by invitation from the …
The church teaches that purpose of government is the common good. Period.
… to the juridical order legitimately established or due to be established." (Emphasis is mine.) What does the common good look like? Drawing on the papal teaching from the preceding … binds us to make ourselves the neighbor of every person without exception ." (Again, emphasis mine.) Too much of the partisan rancor and distorted commentary online has fueled the opposite, …
High-profile Catholic family grapples with religious, political divisions
… again, has a different perspective from her son David. "I always loved children, and I wanted mine to become their best selves. They were exemplary students who grew up to have exemplary …