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From frontier to the present: New history traces US church and its people
… of the revolutionary ideology in the late 18th century, providing a new branch from the tree of anti-Catholic prejudice in the young republic. Perhaps when you study anti-Catholicism, …
Conservative legal experts take up Apache Oak Flat religious freedom case
… in 2008 bulldozed sacred sites, including a sacred altar, burial ground and old-growth trees, as part of a highway expansion near Mount Hood in Oregon. The Slockish case has been on …
Therapists are reckoning with eco-anxiety
… can add to the emotional turmoil of clients coping with overwhelming grief and anxiety, said Tree Staunton, a climate psychotherapist in Bath, England. For example, a therapist's own grief, … to their local environment. For Hickman, her relationship to the planet is embodied by two trees in her childhood backyard, an oak and an ash, which she used to sit under when things were …
Macron visits Notre Dame 2 years after devastating fire
… the cathedral also had to be stabilized. In a sign of the work to come, though, 1,000 oak trees were felled in some 200 French forests this spring to make the frame for the cathedral's …
Mystagogia
… “The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree” (Acts 5:30). Acts 5:27-33 ; John 3:31-36 The late theologian James Cone’s 2011 book, The Cross and the Hanging Tree , posed the inexplicable question of how and why white Christians in America seemed unable …
Environmental justice award winner: 'We have the right to live in a territory that for us is sacred'
… is a false green. They plan forestry [plantations] with companies that eliminate ancestral trees like the teun uman pine, which is a tree very specific to Quiché. … that also coexist, and we must listen to them. When we say that the plants speak, the trees speak, the stones speak, the mountains speak, it's because we listen to them. What we ask …
10 years later, 'Journey of the Universe' film more relevant, urgent than ever
… ways, where you have animal cognition, that the animal world is a sentient living world, that trees communicate with their roots and fungi and so on. This is something that Indigenous peoples …
A season for resurrection arrives for El Salvador's Catholic war victims
… of rain and scorching sun puts much of the vegetation to sleep, painting a landscape of barren trees and plants, visual reminders of a Lenten season. In this arid setting in the 1970s and … remaining members of her family consider a proper goodbye. Near a grove of mango and coconut trees, Fr. Manuel Acosta, a Catholic priest and head of the Commission to Search for Persons …
Scientists: Humans must respect these 9 boundaries to keep Earth habitable
… of ancient sequestered carbon, exacerbating climate change, leading to more drought and more tree die-off — a vicious, self-multiplying cycle. "There is growing concern that, with the recent … example shows how disruptions to regional processes — such as the cycling of water by trees — can add up and push us toward planet-wide tipping points. Another tipping point example: …
Easter Sunday 2021
… so rich it overwhelms us. The new Adam is about to be revealed in a garden, after turning the tree of the cross into the Tree of Life. The first witness to this triumph over sin and death is a woman, who first mistakes …
Coffee and catechism
… up the side of the mountain, between 1,500 and 2,500 meters high, one looks out over long tree-lined valleys where corn, beans and coffee grow. In San Joaquin, which is a part of the … The farmer takes us across the mountain on a steep and slippery path that leads to his coffee trees. He knows each of his trees and enjoys this life without the Internet, but with the possibility of having a telephone …
Maryland Catholic leaders back dropping state song that hails Confederacy
… has come this far. Set to the tune used in the Christmas song "O Tannenbaum" ("O Christmas Tree"), the song wasn't officially adopted until 1939. In written testimony submitted in favor of …
No free will, no ideas: Physicist Brian Greene reduces everything to 'particles and fields'
… in the reductionist armor. He asks why the particles that make up a big rock remain inert as a tree limb falls, threatening to land on someone, while the particles that are "you" or "me" will …
Indigenous youth lead on climate action, Loyola Chicago audience hears
… since Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017. The small team has delivered fruit trees and seeds to nearly 5,000 families across Puerto Rico. More recently, they've shifted to helping communities create fruit tree parks, with 16 planted so far. Odeh said that Puerto Rico's colonial status makes it reliant …
NCR readers share their thoughts on returning to in-person Mass
… Mass feels very Franciscan. We are in a courtyard with statues of St. Francis and St. Clare, trees and flowers. It is simple and sacred. I like to think that Francis is smiling. …
The city as a shelter for bees
… sleep. As heatwaves become more frequent, droughts last longer and blossoming time changes on trees, stingless bees, or "señoritas" (young lady in Spanish) are having a hard time to adapt to … bees in Bolivia. They are responsible for the pollination of more than 70% of the country's trees. Numbers say that more than 80% of the 250 thousand plants known with flowers depend on … depends on them thriving. Some stingless bees are the only ones adapted to pollinate almond trees, chestnuts, and more crops than any other species. There is no other pollination agent that …
Links: Conservative working class myth, visitation at the Vatican, Waldorf-Astoria history
… woman who was forced to sell it and who died in the Shoah. The painting, "Rosebushes Under the Trees," was one of his best and one of my favorite paintings in the entire collection at the …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: India chokes on its air
… partitioned. "Those forests once acted to absorb the pollution of the plains. Now, with the trees gone … all that smoke from burning fields, busy highways, and outdated thermal power plants …
Why Oak Flat in Arizona is a sacred space for the Apache and other Native Americans
… for all of us," she added. For Marina Thomas, who is O'odham, there's life in the mountains, trees and rocks at Oak Flat. To stand in solidarity with the Apache people, she and other …
Come to the water
… of life-giving water flowing in every direction to support every form of life, including fruit trees with medicinal leaves. The fourth Gospel presents Jesus as the fulfillment of this imagery …