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… at the VW plant in Chattanooga will vote to form a union. But, the choice is theirs, not mine. Shame on those who, like State Senator Watson, threaten the company because it is not …

… this kind of change can be terrifying. On Facebook, where it asks for political party, I noted mine as "Principles and themes of Catholic Social Teaching as applied to responsible …

… manipulation of India's seeds; fracking in shale basins around the United States; copper mining and oil extraction in the richly biodiverse rainforests of the Amazon; and other threats …

… I think of it often: When that earthquake happened in Haiti four years ago now, a friend of mine -- a priest, Fr. Pierre Andre -- was on his way to see the archbishop. He had a meeting with …

… three years during alternative spring break trips to Appalachia’s mountaintop removal coal mining communities. Restoring Eden’s mission statement is quite simple: Christians should “love, … in collaboration with West Virginia University, to study how mountaintop removal coal mining affects health. Mountaintop removal is a coal-mining technique that removes the vegetation from the tops of mountains before explosives are …

… attention. Who knows? A light bulb may go off in his head and his heart. One went off in mine: If Pope Francis can capture the imagination of children, most of them not even Catholic, in …

… There is a very interesting debate going on between two friends of mine, Peter Berkowitz and Peter Beinart. (Here is a link to Beinart's original piece.) Of course, …

… do not look for revenge but leave room for the wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." Rather, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, …

… NY meeting, there was little doubt that the land under these archdiocesan properties is a gold mine for any developer. The area below 14th Street, which includes neighborhoods like Greenwich …

… of the Gospel is to recognize that everybody’s story is sacred: Isaac Hecker’s , yours, mine. As we live our own sacred stories, we take advice from those before us and from those …

… Catholics in the United States in in their fourth or fifth generation, having settled in coal-mining regions of their new country. Another large group came after the end of World War II. "The …

… a meeting of environmental activists -- famously where Francis held up anti-fracking and gold-mining shirts -- the pope "mentioned that he is preparing an encyclical about nature, humans and …

… A priest friend of mine said he considers you one of the best models and mentors for seminarians and young priests. …

… near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef; Ecuador’s broken Yasuní-ITT agreement; massive copper mining in the Amazon; genetic modification of crops around the world; and government and …

… camp where ordinary Guatemalan citizens have been protesting the existence and practices of a mine that produces gold and silver for 23 months. Campesinos camp on both sides of a rural road, where they have tried -- sometimes successfully, sometimes not -- to stop mining equipment that attempts to pass by to get to the mine. The local people take 24-hour turns at the camp. This mine is affecting the water supply …

… between my community, Loretto, and Sagrada Familia here. Thursday we traveled to La Puya, a mine about an hour outside of Guatemala City. The local villagers have been encamped there for 22 months, prepared to block mining equipment from digging wells and starting operations. Earth studies show that gold and … destroy the region's water sources, first by using large quantities of scarce water to mine the gold and second by polluting the aquifer. That's why the community had divided itself …

… of society do we want?” said economist Alberto Acosta, Ecuador's former minister of energy and mines, and president of the country's Constituent Assembly that enacted the country’s 2008 …

… tank operated by Freedom Industries, a company that produces specialty chemicals for the mining, steel and cement industries. Just north of Charleston, the state's most populous city, … "This suggests to me a lax corporate culture in regards to safety, much like how many coal mines operate in the mountains," Rausch said. "'People before profits' is not just a bumper … in water laced with excessive arsenic, and another girl lost some of her hair because of acid mine drainage in the creek near her home. To cope with such risks, he said people, often of …

… cannot be undone, and my moment of rage in the hallway is an indelible scar on his heart and mine, and while my heart is a ragged old bag after nearly half a century of slings and stings, … the branches burly and patient. Finally, I asked quietly for his forgiveness and he asked for mine and we walked out of the woods, hand in hand, changed men. [Brian Doyle is the editor of …

… couples get infuriated with me or with the church and just walk away in anger. A friend of mine who is an Episcopal priest told me once, "So long as you guys are so strict about divorce …