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'Snow White' paints a vision of abundance over scarcity
… way to becoming a leader who is fearless, fair and true. "We always keep in mind that what's mine is always yours; may goodness be our one true guide," the villagers continue. This line, …
Laudato Si' inspires multimedia art exhibit at Jesuit Fairfield University
… painting, dominates the gallery space. It is an arresting piece of shellac ink, mica from a mine, sediment from a rock crusher washing pond, charcoal and ash from burned New Hampshire trees …
Migrants braving perilous journey to South Africa find refuge with Catholic Church
… three months in Zimbabwe, she said, "I returned to South Africa and found another job in the mines to support my family back home." But conditions for refugees and asylum-seekers had …
'Yes to life, no to mining': Sisters in El Salvador join church's protest
… Sisters in El Salvador are joining the church's campaign "Yes to life, no to mining," calling for the restoration of a law against metal mining in El Salvador. "Let's stick together; let's truly be those oases where we can say 'yes' …
Resumed UN nature summit provides faith groups pathway to log conservation progress
… the globe. As many as 1 million species are at risk of extinction, while climate change, mining, agriculture and deforestation threaten the planet's most critical biomes. One of the …
Your letters: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Catholic racism and partisan bishops
… 90 houses in the U.S. and abroad to prove it. They started their "ministry" (their word, not mine), in 1979, and as HIV/AIDS began ravaging the gay community a few years later, they worked …
Oscar-nominated 'Porcelain War' depicts Ukrainian artists
… woods by the artists, hunting for wild mushrooms meant to replenish their souls, expose land mines that threatened their every step. Yet surrounding these deadly weapons, our trio find …
21 bishops join scientists, activists to sign letter against oil exploration in Brazil
… bishop, who leads the National Conference of the Bishops of Brazil's Special Commission for Mining and Integral Ecology. Italian-born Fr. Dario Bossi, a member of the commission, said the … Countries (known as OPEC+) and the project — expressed in a document of Lula's Ministry of Mining and Energy in 2023 — to make Brazil the fourth largest oil producer in the world. …
A silent genocide is unfolding in Congo, church sources warn
… a remark which met with applause and the stomping of feet. "Stop choking Africa: It is not a mine to be stripped or a terrain to be plundered." The people of Congo are more precious than any …
Pope Francis reveals some secrets — and keeps many others — in new memoir
… atrocities that cast shame on the whole of humanity! It is time to stop regarding Africa as a mine to be exploited and a land to be pillaged." Echoing his Laudato Si' encyclical on the …
Black Catholics are determined to stay, rebuild in community ravaged by wildfires
… herself repeating the words of the hymn, adapted from Psalm 121. "It says, 'I will lift up mine eyes to the hills' and you know we are in the hills that burned," Spurlock said. "Then it …
During the Jubilee Year, it's time to abolish the death penalty in the US
… disciples in the Gospel of Matthew that "whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me." As such, each time we execute someone in this country — innocent or …
New book combines reading with cinema for a highly spiritual experience
… At one point, Higgins asks: "Do I truly recognize that your life has the same value to you as mine does to me?" The scenes chosen for dissection frame that inquiry well. In "Smoke Signals," …
Deb Haaland, America's first Native Cabinet secretary, considers her legacy
… on land stolen from tribal nations. The agency's mandate is broad: It also oversees federal mining permits, national monuments and sanctuaries, and federal wildlife refuges, making critical decisions about conservation and mining that have implications for global biodiversity and carbon emissions. It is charged with … the agency, she was serving as a congressional representative for New Mexico. "A voice like mine has never been a Cabinet secretary or at the head of the Department of Interior," Haaland …
My next year's Christmas playlist will draw on wonders of Mexico's past
… to Instagram drew dozens of remarks from followers who wished they were there. Friends of mine who did attend said they had never heard devotional music like this before and asked when …
The death penalty: Vengeance, justice or mercy?
… who are prosecuted. But my faith tells me that we should not take vengeance. "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord." While the Old Testament clearly allows executions, it is hard to believe …
Salvadoran cardinal urges 'resistance' to metal mining as matter of life and death
… Chávez told fellow Salvadorans to resist a new law that reverses the country's ban on metal mining, saying that preventing contamination of the country's water supply is a matter of life and death. "We have to be prophets of hope" and prevent water contamination due to mining, "including physically, if necessary," Rosa Chávez said Dec. 28 in a homily at the … one of the areas in northern El Salvador in the path of a proposed gold and silver mining project. "This region provides water for the entire country. If it becomes contaminated, …
Surviving 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami 'profoundly transformative,' deacon says
… there was a profound sense of consolation and peace. It was OK to feel powerless. It wasn't mine to fix." Both the experience of surviving a natural disaster and experiencing the suffering …
Vatican says 13 missionaries were killed in 2024
… The 46-year-old husband and father of two had been working to shut down an iron oxide mine in a national park that was said to be contaminating two rivers in the area and threatening …
Joint Ukrainian-Polish icon painting initiative goes where liturgists fear to tread
… Yaloza, the question "Who is Like God" recalls the Deuteronomistic injunction, "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord." The eternally other God has claimed revenge as God's own. The etched …