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Big oil to meet with Vatican officials, Pope Francis
… who stand to suffer the worst impacts of climate change, including more frequent droughts, floods and extreme weather events, while contributing the least to the problem. Although …
Links for 6/5/18
… them. In the Guardian , Thomas Frank looks at the most important labor event of the year, the flood of strikes by teachers in many Southern states where they are chronically underpaid. Frank … discussing its decision, but Berkowitz is surely near the mark when he writes: But given the flood of impassioned student support for Charney, the proliferation of campus "safe spaces" (the …
Parish roundup: Hurricane preparedness; parishioners aid volcano victims
… in their neighborhood," reports the Hawaii Catholic Herald via NCR . And, despite having been flooded in April, the Catholic mission church of St. William on the Island of Kauai has become a relief center . The Kauai flooding, six islands and 350 miles from the area of current volcanic activity, is unrelated to …
Editorial: Nations could stop Yemen's deadly crisis -- but won't
… the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh; Syria's ceaseless, senseless war; and South Sudanese flooding into East African neighbors and looking toward Europe. Guterres made a pretty good case. …
You may be more elite than you think
… tyrant like Trump almost inevitable. Stewart neatly captures the culture expanse that this flood of economic well-being covers: The sociological data are not remotely ambiguous on any …
Jesuit ponders a dislocated God for the dislocated believer
… bourgeois sentimentality and moral posturing of the post-Enlightenment era, right down to the floods of present-day nones who confess to no religious affiliation at all, faith has become less …
Volcano's lava flow displaces members of one Hawaii parish
… direct housing assistance for the victims of both the Kilauea eruption and April's historic flooding on Kauai. Donations will go toward temporary housing subsidies, emergency home repairs …
'Catholics Are Still In' campaign recommits support for Paris climate pact
… predict the effects of climate change, among them increased droughts, wildfires, intense flooding and extreme weather events, will become most extreme and likely irreversible. A study …
Trump administration will terminate temporary status of Nepali immigrants
… destabilize those areas. The CLNIC report also noted that other natural disasters, such as floods and landslides, have further impeded recovery and that the Global Report on Internal …
Water unites us, so make it available to all
… powers. In Genesis, water is both the source of life-giving creation and the chaos of the flood. In Exodus, water becomes a weapon against the oppressive Egyptians. Physical thirst is a …
Environmental vulnerabilities are linked to every other problem in Haiti
… threats that encompass not only the worries about polluted waters, but also of coastal flooding from hurricanes. Gray clouds emanating from Hurricane Maria looked threatening, and residents like Farah Jasmin said there is little they can do when floods threaten except evacuate elsewhere and wait it out. "From September through December, … not carry their weight in emergency and subsequent reconstruction efforts. His residence was flooded during the hurricane and he lost everything — computer, food, clothing — and noted there …
Deep incarnation liberates all creation
… even in the face of increasing numbers of massive fires, extreme weather events, droughts and flooded cities, Creation and the Cross is a book we all need to read, and we need to read it …
Bishops' lobbying for health care worker conscience protection stymied
… of the Committee for Religious Liberty. In a joint statement March 6, they urged Catholics to flood Congress with emails and calls asking for enactment of the measure and "to pray for this …
LifeSiteNews does harm with stories like 'Vatican financial scandal'
… every effort. What could possibly go wrong? When LifeSite started pushing this story with a flood of emails last week, I called a bishop who related that when he was a young priest, his …
You can't keep politics out of sports: That's a good thing
… Brady's pass fell incomplete, people of every age, race, religious, and political persuasion flooded the city's streets. (Some folks even headed outside to shoot off fireworks or honk car …
Dear Parkland students: This land is your land
… health, accident, home and auto insurance. You can insure your weaponry against loss, damage, flood, fire, and theft. You can get an NRA personal loan, and join the NRA Wine Club. You can get …
First Sunday of Lent
… they say to us today. We begin with the covenant God made with all the survivors of the Great Flood in the days of Noah. Walter Bruggemann comments that we should not regard the story of the flood as a myth in the sense of its being a culture’s attempt to understand life and natural …
Refugee groups fight Trump travel ban — and for their own survival
… throughout 2017 and into 2018. Representatives from CWS and other groups were among those who flooded airports after the ban was announced and have organized subsequent large-scale …
Mystery and grace in 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'
… kill her could be her own son and her whole demeanor changes. She sees him with love; she is flooded with grace just before she dies because her way of seeing has changed. Moments of grace …
Francis calls attention to increasing gang violence in northern Peru
… violence as part of a homily in which he also mentioned the area's susceptibility to dangerous flooding during the El Nino season, when the surface sea temperatures in the Pacific rise, … estimates that some 293,000 across the country needed temporary shelter in 2017 due to the flooding. The pope said the "painful consequences" of El Nino "are still present in so many …