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… not only contributes to dangerous pollution and subsequent health problems, its continued mining and burning is a major contributor to climate change, which -- if unchecked -- could …

… and comforting the brokenhearted. It isn't easy. When death cuts down a life intertwined with mine, I'm depleted. Waves of pain and powerlessness wash over me and weigh me down. Premature, …

… social media — are made with “conflict materials” from the Democratic Republic of Congo or tin mined by poor men in Indonesia, I’m being subversive. I’m resisting the urge to think only of …

… in their home churches for the earliest Christians. Yet here we see an Austrian bishop mining medieval/Renaissance Canon 1378 for a warrant to condemn the Heizers for, as the canon …

… Sister Gloria writes from the La Puya resistance community at El Tambor mine near Guatemala City: Sunday at two p.m. the Eucharist was concelebrated by 8 priests from … being surrounded by the police. Then on Monday at dawn four more heavy machines entered the mine site. Next Saturday there will be a vigil and on Sunday it will end with the Eucharist. The …

… near Guatemala City and attacked the people maintaining a watch over the road to a proposed mining site, La Puya. Residents have been maintaining this watch for more than two years because water is scarce there and gold mining would both deplete and contaminate the aquifer. CONFREGUA, the Guatemalan conference of …

… its ignorance; the Church gives me more than it denies me. I stay in the Church because it is mine." Amen. [Diane Scharper teaches a graduate course in writing memoir at Towson University. …

… killed. I will go, but I’m going to prepare a place for you. Why? Because I love you; you are mine. You are my people, and I will make a place ready for you.” So Jesus shows us in this …

… Jimmy the Gent from "Goodfellas" scowled: "Him? He's got a lot to answer for." A friend of mine, Vinita Hampton Wright, posted this on her Facebook the other day: "What I love about my … before we do -- is the fastest antidote to despair. Its core is, "Thy will be done. Thine, not mine." The truth is, God doesn't want to hurt us! His will for us is good, pleasing and perfect (Romans 12:2). "Thy will be done, not mine" is a powerful prayer of petition because it puts the control where it belongs, in the hands …

… change) to threats to the oceans; to economists insisting that the "externalities" of our mining and burning of fossil fuels be factored into national measurements of gross domestic …

… is it that she would have chosen a different religion on her own? Like many of her peers and mine, she accepted Christ as a child and continued in the faith until she questioned it. I've …

… I am writing partly because I want to show support for Fr. Amaladoss, who is a friend of mine and who, I suppose, is not at liberty to defend himself publicly. But there is a much more …

… with the church that finds its filial expression in fidelity to the magisterium' " (emphasis mine). The similarities between Francis' quotes and Müller's statement demonstrate clearly that …

… Sandy, a friend of mine for many years, was a goatherd. He and his family raised goats not for slaughter but for …

… and furious. We dedicate our hands to "metallurgy," "standard deviation," "Crispina" (That's mine -- it's the name of an early Christian woman leader carved on a fourth-century sarcophagus …

… Mass in the history of the world are sinners; redeemed sinners. In a conservative parish like mine, the presence of LGBT people is not generally a big issue, but it does exist. We have a few …

… mistakes, are intended to aid and abet the evolution underway? Some years ago a dear uncle of mine wrote a brief history of the Roberts family and at the end of one section included a list of …

… to take place in the Black Sea. These highly trained dolphins can attack enemy divers, locate mines and plant bombs. Some dolphins will even have knives and pistols attached to their heads -- … more than jumping through hoops at SeaWorld. Their echolocation allows them to locate sea mines, lost weapons or soldiers. They can even deliver tools and messages to military scuba … providing underwater surveillance and ship protection, and in the Second Gulf War , detecting mines and safely navigating ships carrying humanitarian aid. Currently, dolphins and sea lions …

… regularly walk to forests in A Luoi district scavenging unexploded bombs, bullets and land mines. They defuse them and cut them into pieces, then forge kitchen knives and cutting tools … in Hanoi said since 1993, the U.S. Government has provided over $63 million in assistance to mine action in Vietnam and to support for people with disabilities, regardless of cause. [Joachim …

… other college students. They surveyed the health of people living near mountaintop removal mining sites. "It reminded me of poverty in the Philippines," Lindawan told Catholic News Service … near mountaintop removal mining operations while others interview families far from such mines. [ … are at risk of a number of health problems compared to people who don't live near these mining sites," said Hendryx, whose work has appeared in several peer-reviewed publications. The …