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Pushing the little-known Latino Generation into the public sphere
… Mexican immigrants entered the United States to work on the railroads and in agriculture, mining and urban industries in the Southwest and Midwest. The migration has continued, with the …
An Earth Day roundup of Catholic ecology news and commentary
… Environmental advocates call for new mining law in Easter appeal …
Pastoral letter ‘from the trenches’ emerging in Appalachia
… to draw out the softest of voices -- people suffering from the environmental ravages of coal mining, hydraulic fracturing, mountaintop removal, chemical spills and compromised water quality, …
What Gethsemane teaches us about suffering
… a sense of peace. Too often, we feel obliged to move immediately into "Yet your will, not mine" before we have lingered with our feelings and expressed them to God. Or we feel guilty for …
Vietnamese nuns work with people of other faiths to provide free healthcare for poor patients
… seller. There is no way she could afford to get treatment at state-run hospitals. “A friend of mine introduced me to the clinic, and I have received treatment for a year. I am recovering,” she …
Sheldon Adelson & The Corruption of Politics
… cash flowing, why bother learning about Israel? Mr. Adelson’s other political concerns are not mine. He is deeply opposed to online gaming, for obvious reasons, and he is deeply opposed to …
Choosing nonviolence over war
… hold any territory. Even if they took, say, Washington state or Florida, they couldn't farm or mine or manufacture. Nonviolent resistance would be too great. The United States is too big. And …
The Arms Trade Treaty would provide necessary regulation of weapons
… in-house Loretto newsletter, Interchange: . Conventional weapons include guns, bullets, land mines, tanks, planes, and missiles. Although there are international treaties regulating trade of …
Contra Baumann on Francis
… domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry, ‘Mine!’” Baumann is a wise man and a gifted writer. Why does he seem so disinclined to voice the … that Pope Francis is inviting us to a new experience of Pentecost, to hear the Master cry “Mine!” If we do not really believe that the Spirit moves the Church, sometimes in spite of …
Morning Briefing
… against the Catholic church. Catholic and Anglican churches are uniting with an Australian mining magnate to …
Thirsting for clean water
… you gave me drink. ... Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me." [Tony Magliano is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace …
Religious Liberty & Distinctions
… are not my own and I appreciate my own tradition for more reasons than the fact that it is mine. Our Catholic identity, in a pluralistic culture, should not become a battering ram with …
Sisters' stories in abundance at National Catholic Sisters Week event
… Sitting on a gold mine … session targeted to vocation directors that she and her counterparts are "sitting on gold mines" of stories. More importantly, she said she now knows that young people appreciate and …
A Lenten commitment to immigration reform
… factor into each other. Flavio Bravo : This is definitely a personal issue and a passion of mine. Coming from Arizona, I thought it was the norm to talk regularly about immigration reform. …
Lenten observance transforms us from cacophony to symphony
… these may have been on your mind, but where has your imagination gone? For several years now, mine has been returning to an image that helps both my personal prayer and my participation in …
The street girls of India were just little girls after all
… a book, many books. But there was none of that at this moment, just two little hands finding mine once more as we headed for the doorway. A gaze back, as if to make sure it was real. Then, …
Pope shares anecdotes, talks to priests about mercy, hearing confession
… he said. "I thought, this man forgave the sins of all the clergy of Buenos Aires, including mine, and not a single flower. So I went out to the florist's." Then, the pope "confessed" that …
Pope Francis' First Year
… strange seeing as he, not John Paul II, was the systematic theologian. A theologian friend of mine, who is quite conservative and also quite fond of Benedict, nonetheless thought his …
Sister-composer delights in giving expression to the ordinary
… '60s. I also enjoy Broadway musicals and show tunes. Choral music is another favorite of mine. I never tire of how beautiful it is when voices harmonize and blend, creating the sound of …
Bishops in southern Congo denounce increasing violence, child soldiers
… in the mineral-rich region's Mitwaba, Manono and Pweto districts, pillaging villages and mining operations and threatening Lubumbashi, the regional capital. Reports added that Congolese …