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Memorial Day
… Michael Sean Winters … Memorial Day brings a flood of memories. Our little town always has a parade down Main Street, with floats on the back …
Bishops' defense of marriage misses the mark going after same-sex marriage
… of marriage.” That, as Jimmy Breslin once wrote, is like “blaming the Johnstown (Pa.) flood on a leaky toilet in Altoona.” First of all, gay marriages, according to Fox News — hardly …
Global community connects the dots about climate change
… Other events included: In the African country of Burundi, students gathered with victims of a flood that destroyed more than 500 homes in March. In the Marshall Islands of the Pacific, a team …
Chaput removes five Philadelphia priests from ministry
… 25, before an investigation concluded. Fr. Philip Barr, Fr. Michael Chapman and Msgr. Michael Flood will all return to active ministry. It is unknown whether the three will return to their …
Methodists uphold policy that calls homosexuality 'incompatible with Christian teaching'
… and suicide will stop." After the proposals were defeated on Thursday, gay rights activists flooded the assembly floor and disrupted the session by singing the hymn "What Does the Lord …
Time for Some Good News: The Catholic Academy
… metaphors, it is also the case that too many conservative thinkers decry the post-Vatican II flood of foolishness, without thinking that perhaps those who built the pre-Vatican II dam …
Pro-Tutu petitions flood Gonzaga
SPOKANE, Wash., -- After almost 700 people tried to push Gonzaga University to rescind its commencement speaker's invitation to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, supporters of the anti-apartheid hero responded with 11,000 signatures of their own. Opponents claim the Jesuit school had lost sight of its Catholic values by inviting the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, to speak at next month's…
GOP in a jam when it comes to Latino vote
… for generations. “One thing that America’s Catholic bishops should consider is that the flood of Catholic Latinos that will soon dominate the Democratic Party in places like Arizona and …
Early spring brings back climate change fears
… the houses where 4 million Americans live on the coasts confront increased risk of storm-surge flooding by midcentury because of warming oceans. Almost all scientists and related professionals …
Justice Scalia, the health care debate and Moral Theology 101
… What happened to our duty to care for one another and share burdens? Now, before we have a flood of responses on this, I am well aware that these Supreme Court arguments were supposed to …
New growth from an old church
… for 250 years, foreigners in their own land. As millions of immigrants arriving from Europe flooded into the Southwest, Mexican-American citizens were exploited and discriminated against. …
Cardinal: Welcome immigrants based on Gospel mandate
… the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s up to today's border-guarding militiamen. "The so-called 'flood of immigrants' has always alarmed some native-born Americans," he said. "Some feared job …
The heartbreaking tales of Guatemalan immigrants
… leads a group across the border and through the desert. One described how she swam through a flood on the Rio Grande. Another was pregnant. A third brought her 6-month-old son. They talked …
Lent in a Philippines cemetery village
… N.J. Viehland … MANILA, Philippines … -- More than 300 flood victims who have moved temporarily into bunkhouses in an old cemetery in Cagayan de Oro … two evacuation centers set up for residents whose houses were washed away or ruined by the flood unleashed by Typhoon Sendong (also known as Tropical Storm Washi) in December. More than … civic groups and humanitarian organizations bringing relief and other aid to victims of the flood. He said the church's main role is building communities of hope . Workers and volunteers of …
Don't lose hope, even in hardship, pope tells Middle East Christians
… there's the impression that people are afraid to detach themselves even for a moment from the flood of words and images filling every day," he said. He said Jesus taught his disciples how to …
Broken windows and rainbows: remembering James Q. Wilson
… am. And I have never forgotten those odd cartoon-colorful windows. Like a rainbow after a flood, they were sign of better things to come. …
Taking responsibility for ourselves, our world
… paper with a list of calamities: war, poverty, homelessness, violence, unemployment, famine, flood, greed, apathy, crime, global warming, flash mob vandalism, an out-of-touch hierarchy, … wisdom and extend their challenges to all of us. Through the story of Noah and the great flood, the authors of Genesis remind us that no one goes it alone in this world. God has chosen …
Countdown to London
… in the UK using the Games to increase attention on the faith. The article brought back a flood of memories. I used to be an Olympic-holic. I watched round-the-clock coverage. In 1976, my …
Filipino bishops seek to stay clear of impeachment trial
… BEC he worked with in San Fernando, Bukidnon, fought to stop illegal logging that was causing flooding and droughts in the southern Philippines town. "Even if Corona is found guilty and is …
No, I'm Not Becoming a Republican
… as the latter policy would cost them votes in Miami. It is time to end the embargo of Cuba and flood that island with ideas and investment. The Republicans’ tenacious commitment to the …