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… in association with others, within due limits.” I am waiting for more learned legal minds than mine to help me sort through the new conscience regulations adopted by the White House. But, it …

… of them work on their feet for a living, none have supported their families by working in a mine or waiting tables at a restaurant or pouring concrete at a construction site. To the Gang of …

… in Bahrain while trying to cover anti-government protests there. Miguel is an old friend of mine - we met the day he arrived in Washington, fresh from college in New Mexico, in the early …

… last weekend's sit-in in the Kentucky Governor’s offices to protest mountaintop removal coal mining in Kentucky. Author Wendell Berry and 13 other environmental activists emerged from the … held to promote "stream saver" legislation that effectively would end mountaintop removal coal mining in Eastern Kentucky. Previous bills died for lack of action; similarly, this year's bills …

… told, are both painful and incredible in their repeating. They will not go away. Here’s one of mine. On the bus ride to my first day of Catholic high school, the sophomores warned the freshmen …

… in Caesarea in 310. They had gone to visit and comfort the enslaved workers in the copper mines of Cilicia. On their way back, they were arrested at Caesaria and taken to Firmilianus, the …

… a very bad area, I do take protection," he said. "I tell people all life is sacred, including mine." A few states away, Fr. Theodore Parker said he knows he has the constitutional right to …

… to become involved in partisan politics -- from Eisenhower on. Graham, whose theology isn't mine, has shown a remarkable ability to say he's sorry -- too late in the minds of many who saw …

… what I will see and experience. Your drinking water will come from a different source than mine. You probably don’t pour maple syrup on tortillas. People are also an integral part of life …

… fashion. And as we prayed we began to know the presence and blessing among us of God in the mine. We were strengthened, our spirits were revived.” …

… army intervened and forced these thugs to move on. I was just on the phone with a friend of mine in Tahrir Square -- Freedom Square, as it is called. There is gunfire coming from all …

… foreign capital to build the railroads in order to stimulate commercial agriculture and the mining industry. These raw materials however were not meant for domestic consumption but for …

… Baptist five minutes ago. Of course, Mr. Gingrich's way of being a Catholic is different from mine. And, he is completely and thoroughly wrong on immigration. But, he has every right to hold …

… a highway for our God. Isaiah 40:3 The land shall not be sold into perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are aliens and tenants. Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide …

… from God--everything. Sometimes we have the sense, “I earned this. I worked for this. It’s all mine.” No, everything is gift from God, and we have that sense and know that without God we would …

… higher tax bracket for billionaires, or raise the retirement age for people who have worked in mines or in restaurants or on construction projects all their lives? That is not a tough call. Is …

… Donna Drive. In eighth grade we all built and launched rockets for industrial tech class, and mine landed on his roof. I went to Feingold’s door to get it back, and he answered it with one of …

… the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revoked a water pollution permit for the Spruce No.1 Mine in West Virginia, one of the largest mountaintop removal coal mines ever proposed in Appalachia. Read about it on the Sierra Club's Scrapbook page. …

… Christianity. Everyone has a favorite part of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Here is mine: “I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. …

… and the Caribbean for the U.S. bishops' Catholic Relief Services, predicts an expansion of mining and oil drilling, especially in Colombia, if political violence there continues to …