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Social Darwinism & The Triangle Tragedy
… it was not Hurricane Katrina but the failure of the levees around New Orleans that caused the flood in that great city, at Triangle, the problem was not just the fire, but the fact that the …
A note on comments
… that we turned off the commenting function for much of today. Behind the scenes, we were being flooded with wave after wave of spam comments. To get a handle on the situation we had to stop …
Eco puns
… Rich Heffern … News of a coming flood was leaked. Canyons can be gorge-ous. The snowstorm arrived at a fortuitious moment. It was …
40 day carbon fast for Lent
… struggle to grow enough food because their village in Malawi in Africa is caught in a cycle of floods and droughts. Join in with Grace’s prayer today: “We pray that those of us who farm should …
Leonardo Boff: Enact a law of socio-environmental responsibility
… ecological disasters that has occurred recently, with the collapse of hillsides, devastating floods and hundreds of fatalities, plus the destruction of whole landscapes, forces us to think …
War deployment tests military women's faith
… her parents would feel taunted her over and over. After the desperation, new thoughts came flooding in, bringing a new and different kind of faith. “If it is your will, Lord, I am here to …
The church's new role as a refuge for absolutism
… and early twentieth centuries on its ability to provide a refuge for immigrants. As thousands flooded into the U.S., they were fearful of their new, foreign surroundings and typically …
Church aids Peru's indigenous communities in illegal mining fight
… who heads the apostolic vicariate of Puerto Maldonado. An estimated 200 people a day are flooding into the region, but many go away nearly as poor as when they arrived. "Laborers don't … show deforestation increasing, especially in new mining areas. Aerial photos show miners flooding into the buffer zone of the Tambopata Reserve, one of the country's premier protected …
The federal budget cuts are a perverse values statement
… -- $220 million cut Cuts that will hurt the planet (especially cuts in EPA funds): Flood control and Coastal emergencies ( think BP! ) -- $30 million cut Energy Efficiency and …
New Cosmology no longer new in Vietnam
… change is being exacerbated by bad human choices." She said pervasive Asian poverty, increased flooding and new human migrations can now be traced to ecological abuse. The way Catholicism is …
Storms of My Grandchildren, by James Hansen
… tornadoes, and tropical storms – are becoming stronger, and the associated winds and floods are becoming more extreme. "But qualitatively different storms will occur when the ice …
The current attack on clean air
… more killer heat waves, more smog, the spread of infectious diseases, and stronger storms, floods, and hurricanes. Doing so also will provide needed certainty for clean energy developers …
InsideCatholic Goes Crazy
… of "tens of millions more freshly minted affirmative action recipients and future Democrats flooding across the border." I seem to recall Ronald Reagan signing a relatively pro-immigration …
Rand Paul vs. the Evangelicals
… Michael Sean Winters … According to a report at Politico , Sen. Rand Paul has been flooded with calls from evangelicals protesting his suggestion that U.S. aid to Israel be cut. I …
Morning Briefing
… … Wis. priest an unlikely ally to sex abuse victims … War survivors in Sri Lanka now face floods … Cardinal George on gay marriage … Australia: … Catholics campaign against marriage …
Latin American church leaders look to 2011
… with trepidation. Some worried that rainfall resembled last year's weather, when February floods triggered landslides, washed out roads and bridges, and destroyed crops. Some people who … killed as many as 300,000 people and left nearly 2 million homeless, to Colombia, where recent floods overwhelmed five towns, killing 300 people and affecting another 2.2 million. As Latin … church leaders look ahead to 2011, they expect to respond to more disasters, from droughts to flooding, that will threaten small farmers' livelihoods and trigger migration. They say the …
All races, sexual orientations welcome at Christ's table
… face radiant, your heart throbbing and full. The wealth of the nations will come to you. A flood of camels will cover you, caravans from Midian and Ephah, those from Sheba will come …
Nashville Dominicans Part II
… that these convents favored by the Vatican are growing at a relative snails' pace. There is no flood of applicants. It is a trickle. Nothing wrong with that but that small relative increase is …
Refugees rejuvenate Minnesota parish
… meet the refugees' needs, St. Bernard has created a full-time refugee liaison position. Tom Flood, former dean of students at St. Bernard High School, which closed in the spring, began his …
Archbishop: church not obligated to compensate abuse victims
… to do that, but because we want to show solidarity, as we also regularly do for victims of floods or epidemics." He added that he expected representatives of other "respectable …