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SNAP's new year starts with departure, lawsuit
… months in 2011-13 with the organization as its development director. "It just brought it all flooding back," she told a group of reporters Jan. 19 on a conference call. In Hammond's …
Bernard Lonergan drew a map of theology for a new era
… the desire to be truly good as well as being in touch with the gift of love with which God floods our hearts. It helps tremendously if the theologian participates in a faith community that …
Native Americans condemn Trump's executive action on pipeline
… of the Sioux Nation and the work that will be required to clean up before the land thaws and floods. And just last month, many had expressed cautious optimism after the U.S. Army Corps of …
Chaldean archbishop urges Iraqi Catholics to stay and help rebuild
… including France, have toughened their immigration policies and are building walls against the flood of asylum seekers fleeing impoverished and conflict-torn countries. Refugees are often …
Eucharistic prayer in the 21st century
… the patriarchs and prophets to teach us, the prayer also recall the sending of locusts, floods and other natural phenomena. Another participant suggested that the payer be more …
Environmental rallies push back on Trump nominees
… scientists say, include longer and more severe droughts, more intense heat waves and coastal flooding as a result of rising seas — all likely to harm the poor most intensely. "People of …
Author lays out free speech strategies
… to handle the mishmash of information, policy statements, entertainment and outright lies flooding the world of public conversation. Before presenting his principles, however, he offers a …
Editorial: We have to choose to stop invasion of fake news
… to make a choice and a purchase to bring it into their homes. The internet, on the other hand, floods us all with the same trash, and we have to choose not to have it invade our homes. …
Catholics petition Trump to uphold climate actions
… Drought is among the factors believed to have led to Syria’s devastating civil war. Elsewhere, flooding lowlands in Bangladesh has led to relocations of people, as has rising seas in Alaska , … Louisiana marshland is disappearing under higher sea levels and more intense “king tides” flood more and more of southern Florida. In California, the state has entered its sixth year of …
Scottish diocese hopes to be a faith refuge
… the Battle of Culloden, he had to make sure he landed on sympathetic shores. The islands were flooded with British troops, and at least 15 Catholic priests were executed or imprisoned for …
New quake, tsunami spotlight Japanese bishops' anti-nuclear stance
… reports of damage." Ishinomaki was hit hard in 2011, with about half of the city's urban area flooded or destroyed. Its Catholic church and an adjacent Catholic kindergarten, located at a …
The new cardinals
… a different American bishop talking about how an island serves as protection against the flood waters of secularization. Cardinal Cupich called attention not to the isolation of an …
How the earthly and divine came together on the walls of a Basque church
… cavernous space for what would become “Pinturas Para La Vida” or "Paintings for Life." Images flooded his mind and notebooks. His idea was to join 50-foot-high by 25-foot-wide walls into a …
COP22 gets underway with cautious statements about Trump's climate ideas
… climate impacts, including longer droughts, more intense heat waves and forest fires, and flooding of coastal areas due to rising sea levels. As COP22 began Nov. 7, 103 nations …
Parish roundup: outreach in San Francisco, prison ministry, Louisiana floods
… La. , have developed a Home Starter Kit that can help families devastated by the historic flooding in southwest Louisiana. Modeled in part after the St. Vincent de Paul Society's national … on circumstances, no cost. The Baton Rouge diocese has been deeply involved with outreach to flood victims . [Dan Morris-Young is NCR 's West Coast correspondent. His email is …
Personal responsibility must be combined with social responsibility
… the failure to protect the wellbeing of the families who used to live in the valley that was flooded. … 'Stupid deaths' … Farmer is also an outspoken critic of those who argue that it is not …
Baton Rouge diocese helps Louisiana flood victims cope with loss
… was familiar and dear to them in southwest Louisiana. The Baton Rouge diocese has been helping flood victims deal with the stress of "letting go" and adjusting to a "new normal" so they can recover materially, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. … Related: "Historic flooding in Louisiana has changed region forever, many say" … (Aug. 26, 2016) That was the focus …
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… change is already affecting millions who live on the edge, causing widespread hunger and floods and other natural disasters. Preachers and planners who hesitate to address such issues …
A struggling Cleveland parish digs deep to help Haitian mission
… of Haiti. It is accessible only via a rocky dirt road that, like the town, is vulnerable to flooding. Subsistence farming barely sustains the local economy that was given a small boost by a …
World Food Prize winners receiving award for efforts to biofortify foods
… Potato Center. She worked over 20 years; her earliest efforts began in response to flooding in Mozambique in 2000. However, she quickly realized that areas of the country also …