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For 20 million people, conflict added to drought means no food to eat
… because of active conflict," he said. Other places are unreachable for many months because of flooding. People often walk four or five miles to food distribution points in South Sudan, he …
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… still, silent moments. Many people are quick to interpret natural disasters like hurricanes, floods, fires and droughts as messages from God, usually condemning whatever behavior the …
Morning Briefing
… the group should have received from a wealthy widow. … Book review: Sweeping claims flood Chaput's 'Strange Land' … Global Sisters Report: Do all dogs go to heaven? (Including a …
Sweeping claims flood Chaput's 'Strange Land'
Strangers book cover cc.jpg, STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND: LIVING THE CATHOLIC FAITH IN a POST-CHRISTIAN WORLD, By Charles J. Chaput Published by Henry Holt and Co., 288 pages, $26 Archbishop Charles Chaput's new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World , is strange indeed. Strange in its almost relentlessly pessimistic view of America today. Strange in its sweeping claims. And, perhaps strangest of all, the book leaves the reader wondering why a bishop would…
Houses of worship do some soul-searching as their neighborhoods change
… does he want to know how much they’re willing to pay. His church has survived tornadoes and floods as well as neighborhood crime and redevelopment. It’s not leaving, Tipton said. “I don’t …
Investigation into Regensburg choir finds more than 500 boys were abused
… orders and bishops' conferences in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands were faced with a flood new allegations of the sexual abuse of children, mainly at Catholic schools. The boys' …
Morning Briefing
… Putin at G-20 summit … The Field Hospital: … Parish roundup: mental health, Lumen Christi, flood recovery … Callista Gingrich, nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, testifies at …
Parish roundup: mental health, Lumen Christi, flood recovery
… the country who cycle through the area, helping residents recover from last year's devastating flooding . Divine Word Fr. Quy Ngoc Dang, parish administrator, recently described the past …
New Orleans' Confederate monuments are coming down under Mayor Landrieu
… you've become!" For weeks, as some social media outlets burned against Landrieu, obscene calls flooded the mayor's receptionist in City Hall. He had critics on the left, too. Malcolm Suber, a … earning a 10-year sentence in a federal penitentiary. Landrieu guided a vast rebuilding of the flood-battered infrastructure, won a second term by a landslide and began looking toward 2018, …
Fred Rotondaro had a knack for friendship across DC divides
… of the Papal States, that his great-great-great-grandpapa couldn't get the marsh that kept flooding his pasture cleared. Where our Catholicism converged was where our faith met politics …
Bishops, Catholic groups worry about consequences of partial travel ban
… have a sufficient connection to a person or entity in this country." It also may "invite a flood of litigation until this case is finally resolved," he said. The U.S. Supreme Court's …
Supreme Court travel ban ruling: What it means
… Justice Clarence Thomas issued a warning about creating such an arrangement, warning that a "flood of litigation" will soon follow as the administration tries to walk the line established by …
Climate change in Vietnam causing farm failures
… at this point, crops would not be ready for harvest until September, when the usual annual floods hit the area. In late May, heavy rain also flooded many cities and provinces and damaged thousands of acres of crops across the country. … this year is unpredictable and will cause as much damage as in 2016. Cuong said last year floods and storms led to 264 people dead or missing and destroyed 370,400 houses, 2 million acres …
'Laudato Si' ' at 2: Have Francis' words been taken seriously?
… the ravages of extreme weather in our own country, to those already suffering from drought, flooding and famine elsewhere in the world. If all we care about are our own interests, including …
Politics, culture or theology? Why evangelicals back Trump on global warming
… "I have read the end of the book. There will be famine. There will be drought. There will be flood. And there will be war. Then there will be a last day where we stand before our Maker are …
Questions surround Cameroonian bishop's reported suicide
… army troops and civilians in Cameroon's Extreme North province, an area also badly affected by flooding and food shortages. The Bafia Diocese, which has 21 priests and 57 religious order …
Paris climate deal exit 'deeply troubling' to Catholic leaders
… to Trump administration officials, Cantú emphasized the disproportionate effect droughts, floods and famine have on the poor and vulnerable, writing at one point, "Climate change is one …
'After the Storm': Flawed humanity compassionately observed
… typhoon warnings with images of torrential rains, howling winds, power outages and flash floods. My instant thought was that cataclysmic drama was going to make a landfall on the …
Go out now, share the Gospel, get messy, pope tells Quebec bishops
… said his "heart is torn" because so many people back home are suffering the effects of severe flooding. Returning to the conversations with the pope and Vatican officials, Durocher told …
The border is a death trap that doesn't deter migrants
… It's U.S. policy. "If this were any other context, if these were deaths as a result of a mass flood or an earthquake or a major plane crash, people would be talking about this as being a mass …