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Precious Blood brother tends, teaches on Ohio farmlands
… in Carthagena, Ohio. The farm includes 1,100 acres of tillable land and 200 acres of hardwood trees. For the next 43 years, Renner farmed the land, harvesting corn, soybeans and other crops. …
Confessions of a military skeptic
… was overhearing my parents talking about the Korean War. I was sitting under a large sycamore tree in our backyard reading a comic book about World War II. I remember being shocked to learn …
Tent of Nations seeks to spread nonviolence in midst of Israeli-Palestinian conflict
… a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you?" (Deuteronomy 20:19) Daher Nassar … which now draws support from Christian communities and volunteers around the world. This tree destruction wasn't just another footnote in a gut-wrenching conflict. When these trees fell, …
Reflecting the divine in the treatment of the planet
… to Carmel. One Saturday afternoon, we discovered a beach path leading to a small grove of trees. It was a lovely, enchanting place. One of the trees had branches low enough for sitting. They had formed themselves into a circle, with room … peace you shall be brought home; Mountains and hills shall break out in song before you, all trees of the field shall clap their hands. In place of the thornbush, the cypress shall grow, …
The power of buzz and the People's Climate March
… and right after that, we prayed that the mountains and hills will burst into song. Then the trees of the fields will clap their hands. Surely, the mountains will be brought low and the …
Food banks flooded with rising needs amid California's drought
… it happened to be springtime, our train would roll past rows of abundantly blossoming almond trees. But this summer as the Amtrak trains head for Fresno, their passengers might not have the …
Displaced Iraqis face daily struggle against desperation, anxiety
… be time to pluck the damp clothes, the only set the camp residents own, from a nearby hedge or tree where they were hung to dry after being washed the night before. Most people then join the … families. You see people sleeping in the church, (the) hall, outside the church, under the trees. Others have set up tents to protect them from the heat of the sun and in the park in front …
Solar program to power up Stockton, Calif., diocese
… said Dermot Hikisch, director of new partnerships for Sungevity. That equates to 7.7 million trees planted or 757 million miles not driven. [Related: " …
The Culture of Death on Display at WaPo
… that unborn child is not human, what is it? It is not an acorn and will not grow into an oak tree. What is most chilling to me is that Harris seems to be encouraging women to deaden their …
Pope’s quotes: It’s brave to live in the world
… Kingdom might come, grow and be great, and that it may protect many people, like the mustard tree. Think about this. A small life, a small gesture; a normal life, but it is leaven, it is a …
The Middle East: where one catastrophe begets another
… in the decades after 1948 into a socialist-modernist one: Tens of thousands of olive trees, a central figure of Arab-Palestinian culture and the source of its two primary exports, soap and oil, were uprooted. Whole forests of other trees were then planted to make the land look more European. Some of the conclusions Roberts …
Garden of Eden exhibit takes artists back to where it all began
… Couples solely wearing fig leaves remain “instantly recognizable as Adam and Eve and fruit trees inhabited by snakes as the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil with the serpent,” she writes in the exhibit catalog. Yet even …
Three o'clock and all is well
… the prophet had to flee into the desert. There, he began to despair. He sat under a broom tree and prayed for God to take his life. CEL_August_10_2014.jpg …
With no pope in residence, Vatican opens gardens of summer villa
… the apse is made of carefully trimmed evergreen bushes; the columns are tall, thin cypress trees; and the nave is a lily pond, complete with gold fish. Welcoming visitors to "our outdoor …
Words lie at the heart of poet's worldwide social justice ministry
… recently sat on a stoop in Brooklyn to rest my legs. As I sat there in the shade of a huge oak tree, I spoke to an old woman about God. We laughed and debated for an hour. At the end of the …
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… From the beginning, our faith ancestors regarded food as God’s gift. Recall the many fruit trees in the primordial garden of Eden (Gen 2). Recall the manna, quail and water from the rock …
Feeding every hunger
… From the beginning, our faith ancestors regarded food as God's gift. Recall the many fruit trees in the primordial garden of Eden (Genesis 2). Recall the manna, quail and water from the …
Many Filipinos sought shelters before Rammasun struck, CRS adviser says
… that peaked at 115 miles per hour, knocking out power in 13 provinces and three cities. Broken trees littered streets and crumpled cars beneath them in the Manila capital region. Four of the …
A last will and testament for freedom
… Seigenthaler recalls the conversation with Nash like this: "You know that spiritual -- 'like a tree standing by the water, I will not be moved'? She would not be moved. And ... soon I was …
CRS adviser: Many Filipinos went to shelters before Rammasun struck
… that peaked at 115 miles per hour, knocking out power in 13 provinces and three cities. Broken trees littered streets and crumpled cars beneath them in the Manila capital region. Four of the …