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'Hope&Joy' in South Africa: How things change
… lived-in look to the neighborhood, waiting to be improved. People, mostly men, sleep under trees. Others beg for money in the main roadways, just like they do in Los Angeles. It was so …
On this day: Christopher Columbus
… the day dawned he saw before him a level island, several leagues in extent, and covered with trees like a continual orchard. Though apparently uncultivated, it was populous, for the … extraordinary beauty of the vegetation. He beheld, also, fruits of an unknown kind upon the trees which overhung the shores. On landing he threw himself on his knees, kissed the earth, and …
On 'The Way' with Martin Sheen
… That’s interesting. Because the Catholic News Service review of Malick’s latest film, “The Tree of Life,” says that “Malick’s agnosticism seems to win out.” It sounds like you would not …
Wangari Maathai helped us to 'rise up and walk'
… an effort in which she and her mostly women’s group’s of activists planted over 30 million trees throughout the country to produce sustainable wood for fuel use and to combat soil erosion. She assisted nearly 900,000 women to establish tree nurseries and plant trees to reserve the effects of deforestation. Kenya's Nobel Peace Prize …
Catholic education at its best: Wangari Maathai
… in 1977, mobilized hundreds of thousands of women and men to plant more than 47 million trees in Kenya. This was a way of restoring the environment and improving the lives of people in …
On this day: Pope John Paul I
… way; and others are poor wrens, who simply squawk on the lowest branch of the ecclesiastical tree, trying to express the odd thought on some great subject. "Dear Twain, I am one of this …
Sister, just freed from custody, speaks with civil disobedience
… complex during the April 18 vigil. Then I said, ‘Look over the fence there.’ And here was a tree that was blooming. It was just beautiful, a pink dogwood. And I said, ‘Isn’t that tree beautiful?’ And for some reason he then told me that he writes poetry. So I asked if he …
New York, New York
… they dug very deep and then for the next two Christmases construction workers put Christmas trees on top of the twin towers, marking their ascent to heaven. 'The North Tower was topped off …
Praying for relief from our suffering
… people, believers from many faiths and unbelievers too, should I invoke Jesus? I tried again. Tree that we lean against for shelter, thank you for our homes; we beg you to protect the …
Morphic resonance, oil pipeline arrests, and Dr. Suess
… and the pond was still wet, and the clouds were still clean and the brightly colored Truffula Trees swayed mile after mile in the fresh morning breeze.” Old Once-ler falls in love with those Truffula Trees. “The touch of their tufts was much softer than silk. And they had the sweet smell of fresh …
After 9/11, Pennsylvania men find strength in faith
… unidentifiable rubble. "Pieces of plastic from the main body of the plane hung eerily in the trees burning and melting. I'll never forget the constant sizzling sound the dripping plastic …
In tough times, remember values of 'the commons'
… of Sherwood Forest is an old memory of that struggle. Our collective longings for primeval trees, large-eyed deer and doe, and the shining salmon surging up crystal streams recall a time …
Catholics join hundreds in arrests over oil pipeline
… and Albertan governments require oil companies to reclaim areas where land is stripped of trees once a mining operation is closed. …
Evangelicals & Science
… to become a person does not make one a person, any more than being an acorn makes one an oak tree.” But, here we are back at the relevant categories and, again, Dudley is confused. Yes, … itself and, as I am hoping, past fifty too! But, an acorn is not going to grow into an elm tree or a maple tree and an embryo is not going to grow into a dog or a cat either. And, besides, you can’t kill …
McIlroy and golf's cloistered world
… became regulars at Congressional, the massive security detail, in addition to hiding behind trees and under bushes, had to ward off danger by sweeping adjacent fairways of players. The … question now is whether Boehner will invite Obama to play at the Speaker’s course: the Burning Tree Club, a couple of par fives from Congressional. It will never happen. It has a male-only … for women’s-vote-conscious Obama. The only time females are allowed on the property of Burning Tree is the week before Christmas when they are allowed to buy presents at the pro shop for their …
Former Front-Runner Mitt
… front-runner status lent his campaign an aura of inevitability, he was barking up the wrong tree. Ask Hillary Clinton how that inevitability thing works. But, now he is not even the …
On this day: Under the Fig Tree
… know me?' "Jesus answered and said to him, 'Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.' "Nathanael answered him, 'Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.' … answered and said to him, 'Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.' And he said to him, 'Amen, amen, I say to you, you …
Keepers of the keys
… wasn’t high enough to reach the moon. So the king sent out another decree: He ordered all the trees on the island to be chopped down and fashioned into boxes. When they all were stacked up, …
Big Picture at World Youth Day: 'It's the Evangelicals, stupid!'
… I want to focus on the forest that World Youth Day represents, rather than its individual trees. The big picture is the following: World Youth Day offers the clearest possible proof that …
Brother, can you spare a sanctuary?
… 2009. Bethlehem wasn't about to give up. Members first set up worship under two large shade trees at 1324 Gholson Road, and then spent the next few months trying out various housing …