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… Coal, a company created in 2007 as an offshoot of industry giant Peabody Energy's eastern mines. A year after its formation, Patriot purchased Magnum Coal, a similar offshoot company …

… “spinsters,” which some took as a derogatory reference to women religious. That potential land mine didn’t really explode, in part because the mere fact of meeting nuns was seen as a gesture …

… Not long ago, a friend of mine, Dolly Pomerleau, who lives in Brentwood, Md., told me that the mayor in that small …

… automatically: “Hold my hand.” And the boy in question slips a sticky, damp little hand in mine, and off we go (unless it’s Luke, my little daddy’s boy, who invariably says, “No! I want to … serious responsibilities as table captain in his classroom, instinctively slides his hand into mine, knowing that I will always want to hold it. All this floated through my mind there at my … big evening ahead. And suddenly, without saying anything, Luke reached out his hand and took mine. With that gesture, my mind quieted and my soul began to see. I held his sweet little hand …

… — Non-Toxic Method For Mining Gold Developed …

… A friend of mine got a letter from a prisoner in Delano, Calif. My friend is 93, active and generous. She …

… the teacher will appear." And so I offer a deep bow and prayer of gratitude for having met mine. [Cathleen Falsani is the faith & values columnist for the Orange County Register .] …

… one of them to wish him a happy birthday, for instance. He was also very good with a friend of mine who got sick not long ago. He called him during his illness, and when he died, he called to …

… Boston released the photos of the two suspects in the Marathon bombing case, a black friend of mine stopped by. “Thank God they are Caucasian,” he said. If you are in America and you are …

… people. He liked to stay with the faithful after Mass, chatting with them. He had worked in a mine, and therefore he knew the reality and the needs of the people. …

… $8 million endowment means he doesn’t have to fret about day-to-day expenses. He, too, mines talent in the pews of St. Paul, where he lives and celebrates Mass regularly. It’s not …

… appointment of a Franciscan to oversee the work of male and female religious. The attempts to mine this one appointment for information about where the church is headed have commentators …

… stake. I’ve covered this beat from the Native Americans dying from exposure to uranium mining, to the corporate bid to reopen uranium drilling and pumping in America’s Four Corners, to …

… The ExxonMobil pipeline was carrying Wabasca Heavy crude, a type of dilbit made from bitumen mined in Canada’s oil sands region. Because bitumen is too thick to flow through pipelines, it is …

… hand in need. I will miss you ... I'll keep working for the life I love, because it is mine: religious life and, therefore, also for the Franciscan life. Consider me at your service." …

… Others have their own burdens in growing in faith and it is unkind to burden them with mine. But, what Francis was talking about here is the faith, not the advisability of a particular …

… history. I admit a bit of ambivalence here. I have an on-going debate with a bishop friend of mine who says he is very grateful for the Protestant evangelicals because they keep biblical …

… photos of the pitiful, suffering oil-covered birds on its Facebook page. An Arkansas friend of mine reports that no one seems to yet know the full extent of the harm. Her heart aches for the … damaging activities,” he continues. “It wrecks vast areas of boreal forest through surface mining and subsurface productions. It sucks up huge quantities of water from local rivers, turns …

… may seem like small things, but they add up. For instance, the other day an Italian friend of mine had the chance to greet the pope. He had met him for the first time as a cardinal and called …

… A very dear friend of mine, a permanent deacon with a great love for the church, shares your discontent with that … I know some prayers, but I prefer to talk to God like he's a buddy of mine, walking beside me. Other times, I pray during my commute that God is actually hearing my …