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Your letters: Catholic women respond to Heidi Schlumpf's report
… it is profoundly wrong to force my religious beliefs on people whose faith is different from mine. In addition, so many of the radical right in the Trump world are Catholic. I cannot be …
This Christmas, surrender
… hurt us. His will for us is good, pleasing and perfect (Romans 12:2). "Thy will be done, not mine," is our antidote to despair. It puts control where it belongs, in the hands of all-knowing, …
Nancy Pelosi's Communion ban to be resolved by Vatican
… said in an interview with the National Catholic Reporter on Dec. 6. "That's his problem, not mine." On Tuesday evening, Dec. 10, Cordileone responded to the first report of Pelosi's Dec. 6 …
Latin American bishops launch campaign to protect human rights activists
… Indigenous children were documented, primarily linked to mafias that infiltrate illegal mining operations in the region, said Cardinal Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio of Lima, Peru. "The …
NCR interview: Nancy Pelosi criticizes Pope Francis over China pact
… ban didn't shake her devotion. "I received Communion anyway. That's his problem, not mine," she said. "My Catholic faith is, Christ is my savior. It has nothing to do with the …
'Wisdom from the Global Sisterhood': Sentinels of Advent and Christmas
… innocent play, a bird's effortless flight, a beloved elder's familiar, worn hand, so sacred in mine. And God walks among us in all of this, showing us how to bear ecstasy as well as sorrow. My …
Nun-dominated forum vows to correct ecological imbalances and climate change
… to each other," she told GSR. Jose said Bellari has witnessed land grabbing in the name of mining, highway expansion and other industrial projects and the worst affected are the poor. …
El Salvador archbishop blasts mining law change, says it will cause 'irrevocable damage'
… at a Dec. 1 press conference that President Nayib Bukele's nascent enthusiasm for gold mining would "cause grave, irrevocable damage to people's lives and health and that doesn't have a price." "They take everything," the archbishop said of multinational mining companies in the region. "What they have left to these countries is 1 percent of what they declare. How is that possible? It's plunder." He continued, "They say today that there is mining that doesn't harm the environment. It's a lie. It's all a lie. All mining damages the …
Murder of priest in Chiapas prompts Indigenous calls for justice and peace
… from local residents. Some involve the Canadian company Blackfire Exploration, which owns mines in Chiapas that extract baryte, titanium and magnetite. In 2006, Blackfire bought the … their most vocal critic, Mariano Abarca, was murdered in 2009. The state government closed the mine after that. Oblate Fr. Eleazar López, a priest of Zapoteca origin who lives in Juchitán de … say that at times those different agents act together. When an Indigenous community resists a mining project on its lands, armed bands may be called to dissuade the group — and that can be …
Faith, school and parish are source of strength for Olympic champion swimmer
… her neck as she addressed the Stone Ridge students, added, "To me, these medals are not just mine. They're everyone's, everyone that has supported me, everyone that has driven me to …
Catholic sisters at COP29 uplift unequal ways climate change impacts women
… workers, women who sell food outside of the plant, women who gather abandoned coal from around mine sites," UNANIMA said in its position paper. At one point at COP29, the Vatican was in the …
Out of sight, out of mind: The good Samaritan confronts new tech
… "I can mold reality to my own specifications," laments Stern, "and live in a world that is mine alone." With a Vision Pro, a potential good Samaritan could overlook a beaten and bloodied …
Donald Trump, the Catholic Church and sins of omission
… his close relationship with Trump, calling him "a great gentleman " and a " great friend of mine ," telling Trump in 2020 that he calls him more often than his 90-year-old mother in …
Candidates’ supporters seek Pennsylvania's Catholic voters, whose votes may be crucial
… Catholic population is descended from white European immigrants, many of whom worked in the mines and mills of the state’s industrial heyday. They’ve decreased in number amid the decline in …
In Africa's Congo Basin, Indigenous peoples lose homes to conservation efforts
… East Region, he was forced out of his natural home in the forest by encroaching logging and mining companies. But a third source also led to his people's displacement: government …
The climate stakes of the Harris-Trump election
… demand is about to spike, due to the combined pressures of new data centers, cryptocurrency mining, a manufacturing boom and the electrification of buildings and transportation. While the … kind of protection that tribal activists for years had worked to prevent industrial uranium mining. And just this month, Biden announced the creation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine … has been vocal about continuing the U.S.'s oil and gas production as well as a push for more mining to help with the green transition — like copper from Oak Flat in Arizona and lithium from …
The bishop selection process is still a concern among synod delegates
… The soldiers arrested both candidates ( Callixtus and Hippolytus ) and sent them to the tin mines of Sardinia. Eventually, to avoid the laity fighting over who would be bishop, the …
Faith coalition at UN biodiversity summit presses countries to deliver on pledges
… so far have placed at least 30% of their waters into designated protected areas. Meanwhile, mining and extractive industries have decimated ecosystems, and rising temperatures primarily …
US bishops, Catholic groups ask Supreme Court to protect Native American sacred site
… asking the Supreme Court to protect an Apache sacred site from destruction by a copper mining giant. They argue the case has serious implications for the scope of the Religious Freedom … a substantial burden on their religious practice, in violation of that law. "The proposed mine would devastate Apache sacred land and permanently destroy the Apache people's ability to …
NCR poll: The 'Catholic vote' is elusive, but Catholics will decide the election
… motivator in their choice of candidates. Matthew 25 — "whatever you do for these the least of mine" — is still competing with America's consumer capitalism as a generator of values. Whether …