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EarthBeat Weekly: Shifting the terms of the debate
… into. Check out this exchange between Brower and Charles Park, a geologist who wanted to mine copper near Glacier Peak in Washington (I've inserted names so you can see who is talking): …
The ministerial exception is still the least bad option
… included in this number are teachers who teach so-called secular classes" (emphasis mine). That "so-called" is the key. In a religious school, what qualifies as "secular," and who …
Your thoughts on Dolan delivers the church to Trump editorial
… That is Dolan's Jesus and ultimately the image of the American Christ. He is no savior of mine. …
Coronavirus: When a metaphor is more than a metaphor
… off from each other forever. Look at it from another angle and you see a World War II sea mine about to explode and shatter into a million pieces. These images are apt metaphors for what … happening to us now the same way we look at a picture of the coronavirus and see an undersea mine about to explode or a pizza being torn apart and ripped away from the whole. The Russian …
Copy Desk Daily, May 12, 2020
… of the coronavirus straight on, do you know what he sees? Pizza being pulled apart. A sea mine ready to burst. The coronavirus "represents what we have become." Want to keep updated with …
Ohio teacher in same-sex marriage loses Catholic high school job
… certificate to the archdiocese. She showed me a copy of the certificate and I confirmed it was mine," Zimmerman told NCR. He didn't hear anything from authorities for three months until April …
EarthBeat Weekly: Pulitzers spotlight climate coverage
… interactive feature with the tagline: "The sea is rising. Can you save your town?" " Not this mine. Not this location ." That's the headline on a piece written by Jill Burcum of the Star …
Do US bishops really believe black lives matter?
… countless deaths they see every single day. And almost every single friend of my fiancé's and mine has lost a loved one or knows someone that has. Whether His Eminence sees it or not, we are …
An incomplete index of pandemic parenting essentials
… A colleague of mine who's a Dungeons and Dragons obsessive gave our kids some oversized foam dice. The 12-sided …
Landlord LA Archdiocese of little help in neighborhood's long fight to close toxic oil wells for good
… but to protect marginalized communities from health and justice issues that can come with mining and drilling. "Some forms of pollution are part of people's daily experience. Exposure to …
EarthBeat Weekly: Throwaway plastics strike back amid the pandemic
… the Washington Post . Meanwhile, President Donald Trump released his plan to expand uranium mining on public lands , including near the Grand Canyon. Even with so much of the world on …
Catholic social justice leaders protest Cardinal Dolan's supportive words for Trump
… Bishops. According to Crux , during the call Trump referred to Dolan as a "great friend of mine," to which Dolan joked that he calls the president more than he calls his 90-year-old …
On a call with President Trump, Cardinal Dolan reveals his true colors
… the first to speak, whom the president hailed as a "great gentleman" and a "great friend of mine," adding that he respects what the cardinal "asks for." The New York cardinal said he was … a proposal to open a portion of an Alaskan National Park to copper, zinc and other minerals mining. That is just the tip of the iceberg of the ravages that Trump has unleashed on the …
Jerry Ryan: a wonderful writer of fierce integrity
… know him well, but I was grateful for his friendship and, surprisingly, he seemed grateful for mine. He wrote a well-regarded book, The Forgotten Aquariums of Boston , and contributed essays …
Polish church warns of water shortages during pandemic
… parched land." In a pastoral message for World Water Day March 22, bishops from Poland's coal-mining Silesia region, which includes some of Europe's most polluted districts, warned access to …
Lockdown politics increasingly pit economic, health concerns
… Spain said children can leave their homes beginning April 27. Albania planned to let its mining and oil industries reopen April 20, along with hundreds of businesses. The death toll in …
Remember me
… Pete warmed himself by the night he denied knowing Jesus. The story has been endlessly mined for the many allusions and themes hidden in its verses that take us back into the life of …
NCR readers share how they keep spiritually grounded, part three
… events. Answers have been edited for length and clarity. A very spiritual friend of mine, whom I phoned the day after my country went into lockdown, drew my attention to the … *** Centering Prayer has been a daily practice of mine for the past 15 years. I do it twice a day, first thing in the morning and again before …
Bending the COVID-19 inequality curve
… the small electronic thermometers we were given to check our temperatures were not accurate. Mine was a degree or more under my real temperature. As a result, we all had to use a more …
Holy Thursday during a pandemic
… before my mother died, I must have been playing the organ and using a different hymnal from mine when I discovered these beautiful words in the hymn's fourth verse: So, Lord, at length when … verse at my mother's funeral and later at my father's funeral. I have asked that it be sung at mine as well. I hope that if you sing these words in your heart on Holy Thursday, you do not omit …