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Common Core: Catholic school community gives standards mixed grade
… faith." He said parents' concerns about the overreach of the federal government or its data mining efforts turn Common Core into a political issue. "As private schools, we can harness the …
Catholic Workers rely on grace, guts, luck in 80-year-old mission
… You have to give me a break: It was, after all, 1973 and, really, the marijuana was not mine. In the meantime, Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker and my hero, had just been …
When Things That Someday Converged First Arose
… God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story -- just like the typewriter was mine." But the inexorable struggle between Self and Ultimate Selflessness, which occupies artists …
'Shall we strike with a sword?' No to war in Syria
… is not the way to end those means; it makes us their equal, or worse. Several friends of mine visited Syria recently, and they report what one always hears from the grass-roots peace …
A church that requires a different kind of bishop
… a largely theoretical matter in the pulpits of the developed world. He has opposed gold mining and other extractive industries as well as mega-hydroelectric projects because of their effect on the environment and impact on water supplies. The mining operations, he has said, use inordinate amounts of scarce water, depriving indigenous … to expose coyotes who exploit people attempting to migrate; and fighting international gold mining companies. Any of those issues -- and he is still involved in all of them -- could have …
Union father inspires priest's stand with miners
… health care benefits as part of the Patriot Coal bankruptcy proceedings. On Aug. 16, Patriot mine members of United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) voted to ratify a settlement amending a … rally -- held a year after Patriot declared bankruptcy and just a hill away from one of its mines -- became a homecoming of sorts. A decade earlier, he attended the school located miles …
In confronting a violent past, Guatemalans find miracles in present
… to organize themselves and as they organize they stand up against the exploitation of the mining companies," she said, referring to clashes between mostly indigenous communities and mining companies over land use and environmental issues. "It is amazing. How is it possible that …
Hierarchy's Mary is vastly different from ours
… ... or resolve them to her own personal satisfaction." There was, we're told here, no "no" or "mine" in her. The Mary of this homily is a passive receptacle of what she understands to be the …
Whistleblowers shine necessary light on US shadows
… On Aug. 21, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. By many people's lights, including mine, the truly sinister aiding is to be found in the American interventionist foreign policy of …
What Bayard Rustin's role in the March on Washington teaches us about the church
… personal animosities and often antagonistic politics. He had to maneuver through the mine field of an opposition that ranged from liberals who were counseling moderation to …
In global fight against fracking, faith community should lead
… heard much of the opposition to the process of hydraulic fracturing as a means of natural gas mining, with many denominations and interfaith groups joining the efforts. That includes women … and streams, polluting waterways and rendering the region useless for human use beyond energy mining. Reclamation of the land meant simply taking grass seeds and spreading them to cover up …
Song dropped from hymnal sparks atonement debate
… satisfied. Bob Terry, editor of The Alabama Baptist newspaper, stepped into a theological land mine when he wrote an editorial saying Presbyterians got it right. Terry said he believes Jesus' …
Morning Briefing
… Catholic, Protestant bishops on different sides of gov't sand mining ban …
Philadelphia to sell nursing homes to help stabilize church finances
… consultation. In the end, any final decisions about our nursing homes and cemeteries will be mine. They'll be made with full and due considerations to the mission of our local church and …
Faith calls for being silly, naive in order to be Christ-like
… A Catholic priest friend of mine -- well, he's a monsignor, but he wears the title lightly -- recently had cause to ask …
Church of England under fire for potential fracking profits
… own. In parts of England, laws dating back to the Norman Conquest give the church rights to mines and minerals under privately owned land. A new law sets a deadline for registering historic …
Gandhi's daily Scripture readings for peace
… course to its doom. They are forever free who have broken out of the ego-cage of "I" and "mine" to be united with the Lord of Love. This is the supreme state. Attain thou this and pass … love are incapable of ill will and return love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of "I" and "mine," and of pain and pleasure, Full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, of firm resolve, With …
Vatican overseer preaches to LCWR on Mary's submission to God
… even in the earliest days. And two of the earliest words we learn to say are “no” and “mine.” Those words become, in many ways, sort of a model that we have to overcome as time goes …
Catholic congresswoman Lindy Boggs dies at 97
… in 1946) are buried, the roll of the drums was heard as the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” -- “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” -- was sung as her casket was carried down the aisle of the …
Vatican religious prefect: 'New attitude' needed with nuns
… coordination happening, working together and showing interest on your part and not only on mine. This is a good thing --a very good thing. It pleases me that no limits were set on what …