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Editorial: We are victims of out-of-control gun culture
… part of the blame for an accident on insufficient regulation of, say, the airlines or coal mining is accused of 'exploiting' the accident's victims." Health care writer Rob Waters, on the …
Zambia pushes for continued education, medication for HIV/AIDS patients
… estimated this year at almost 7 percent. But Roche wonders if the benefits of an expanded mining sector (and increasing amounts of heavy Chinese investment) are really trickling down to …
Philippines soldiers did not kill anti-mining advocates, spokesman says
… -- The Philippines military has denied that paramilitary forces are behind the deaths of anti-mining activists and said that extrajudicial killings and human rights abuse are not part of … that stem from mining investments and on the issue of deployment of paramilitaries at the mines investment in the Philippines. In Manila, Jesus Vicente "Jayvee" Garganera, national …
Headed to jail, peace activist explains witness
… .” (Emphasis mine) It is reprehensible that Catholics join in with any kind of patriotic pride and din, in … .” (Again, emphasis mine). For all these reasons, I believe it is absolutely imperative that we acknowledge and …
Five myths about the Affordable Care Act debunked
… getting affordable coverage. Any family that has passed through the purgatory of cancer -- as mine did this year, with decent insurance -- can imagine the hell of doing it without insurance." …
Morning Briefing
… with two well-known Catholic priests leading talks in a dispute over the development of Newmont Mining Corp.'s …
Finding feminine connections to God in history, psychology, poetry
… and ecclesiology,” DeConick writes. That is, the absence of a feminine image of God. DeConick mines deeply into ancient Jewish and Christian history as well as the texts of the New Testament …
Advocates to take Philippines president to task on mining policy, new law
… -- Advocates of responsible mining, including bishops, are not relying solely on a recent executive order issued by President Benigno Aquino III to reform the mining industry in the Philippines. Even before Aquino issued his Executive Order No. 79 on … Responsible mining … Petition co-signer Jaybee Garganera, national coordinator of Alyansa Tigil Mina (the Stop Mining Alliance), said Tuesday that the group was "not surprised" by the executive order. He said …
Churches reject robbery theory in death of Dutch man in the Philippines
… by motorcycle-riding gunmen in October in Arakan, North Cotabato. The staunch opponent of mining and advocate for rights of indigenous people was the first European missioner slain under … because the Dutchman spoke out against the "culture of impunity" in the country and opposed mining. Army spokesman Maj. Harold Cabunoc denied Wednesday any military hand in Geertman's death …
Philippines archbishop: Spend to stop child labor, not on condoms
… fourth among regions with highest number of children in hazardous work in places like farms, mines, markets and streets. Somogod, regional coordinator of Rural Missionaries of the …
My reaction to the health care ruling: joy
… character for this man of faith and unless he tones down his wedge-politics rhetoric of what’s mine is mine, he is destined to become the McGovern of the Republican Party. Americans can legitimately …
New Vatican spokesman follows the church's latest trend
… Dei person is one more piece of evidence of that trend. Is it any wonder that the friend of mine who sent me this story asked wistfully, "Are the Vatican and the tea party now …
New York councilwoman talks being gay in the church
… doesn't, you know, officially accept that. QUINN: Right. That's kind of their problem, not mine. I mean, I just don't dwell on it. I'm not really sure what the upside of me dwelling on it … feeling pushed out of the church by its current direction: "That's kind of their problem, not mine." …
NCR wins general excellence award, first-place prizes at media conference
… ." The fault is mine, and I regret the error. --Dennis Coday …
The indelible mark and a new faith journey
… allowed me to continue with you explicating our common faith. As religious transformations go, mine feels almost inconsequential. More accurately, it is additive: the Christianity I affirm, …
Can we all get along?
… and other ministries of the Church." The health care debate is real, but as media mine the church's male-female divide and professional public relations groups twist the story to …
'Deep ecologist' finds laughter and beauty in nature
… by a new dam project. One day, a colleague rushes in with a grim news story about strip mining in the Utah wilderness. Peterson asks him if there might be another way to talk about the …
Colbert and the nuns
… we are." Colbert stays in character, defending the rich and arguing that Jesus said, "I got mine, Jack," but, as usual, it's clear his sympathies lie in the opposite vein. Campbell clearly …
A reflection on motherhood: one life well-lived
… surrounded by her family in upstate New York on April 14. Anne-Marie, a distant relative of mine, lived a quiet, but extraordinary life, a life that offers much to ponder. She had 13 …
Kathy Kelly: More from Kabul -- The legacy of the Butter Battle
… by a hand held steering device. Inside Kabul’s OMAR museum, which houses ordnance and land mines used in Afghanistan over four decades of warfare, there were many more pictures of legless, armless and eyeless survivors of land mine explosions lining the walls. The OMAR organization bravely collects and defuses abandoned mines and cluster bomblets before they can produce more casualties such as these (and casualties …