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My favorite ecology bumper stickers
… -- Mountaintop-removal mining: Keep the Earth flat -- Sanity: 100% renewable -- I don't like polar bears anyway -- Save …
Call to stem 'crisis of attrition'
… faith will be the central reality and priceless blessing in my grandsons’ lives that it was in mine.” Citing recent data on religious allegiance from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, …
John Paul II: The real reason for church polarization
… allies on the other? One of the organizers of the Fordham group is a former student of mine at the University of Notre Dame, Charles Camosy. He is now an assistant professor of moral …
ìGod was the 34th minerÖî
… with Korean cell phones, fiber optic cable from Germany and advisors from NASA as a private mining company with Japanese and British investors paid for the U.S. drilling rig that penetrated … the whole incident underlines the need for worker justice when it comes to safety, not only in mines, but in any dangerous work site. Finally, this whole event lifted my spirits for days. And …
Thank you, Chile!
… to safety on Wednesday night -- said he was in the first part of the area where the Aug 5. mine collapse took place. Despite the tough living conditions, Villaroel credited his fellow …
MD Atty Gen Takes Different Stance on Snyder v. Phelps
… has an op-ed in this morning's Washington Post in which he takes a position different from mine ( below ) on the Snyder v. Phelps case. I will only point out that Mr. Gansler is running …
The reality of celibate life: Reflections from Henri Nouwen
… Seminary. We shared our current interests. Henri’s were meditation and spirituality. Mine were celibacy and sexuality. Henri was still the self-described “restless, nervous, intense” …
Vatican rep tells UN dialogue only path to peace
… said bilateral and multilateral agreements to reduce nuclear weapons, cluster bombs and land mines are important steps toward ensuring a peaceful future for all people, but many countries' …
Q & A: Rocco Palmo
… of his presidency -- and even as he prepared to take it up -- it’s been a cherished custom of mine that, whenever Francis George would make the news, the posts would be topped by a shot of …
A new semester, new promise
… of how privileged our students at UC Santa Barbara are that they can take classes such as mine where they can learn more about the full history of the U.S. and a history that is also the …
Priest presents bitter truths as well as hope
… case containing many gems, not least E.J. Dionne’s foreword saying this: “A Baptist friend of mine who is a divinity professor tells me that one of her favorite classes every year involves …
Autumn gemmed and jeweled
… new-minted gold and Roman gold and antique gold, more gold than the Incas and Aztecs ever mined or the galleons ever bore away. "For a few weeks now we are richer than Croesus, our world …
Prayer expands the heart and inspires action
… taking advantage of me, that’s on their conscience. If I send them away hungry, that’s on mine.” Many years later I would learn that Catherine McAuley, the Irish-born foundress of the …
Reflections on Benedict's Trip
… square, confining it to the realm of the private. These reservations about natural law are not mine only. They have been voiced previously by…then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. In his now famous …
Chait on O'Donnell
… Jonathan Chait at The New Republic makes an argument similar to mine about the fallout from Delaware's primary, albeit with a different metaphor. He has the GOP …
Blast From the Past: John Henry Newman
… it is at least historically so." There is no reference at the foot of the page to any words of mine, much less any quotation from my writings, in justification of this statement. I should not …
Faith's survivor on the walk of atonement
… where he was ; he is on leave from Pepperdine University,] The views of this reflection are mine. They do not purport to represent the views of the Department of State or those of the …
The economy of conflict
… Minerals Map” that identifies mineral-rich zones under control of armed groups, and tagging mines and minerals from those regions identifying and listing commercial goods likely to contain … Coalition (EICC) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative have called the use of “mined commodities that support conflict in such countries as the DRC” by the information, … extracted from only a few locations in the world, for example, the DRC. In our industry the mining of these minerals takes many stages before a final product is assembled, making it …
Spam on the road to happiness
… out, is the latest attempt at an internet scam. Someone had hacked into an old account of mine, and sent out this urgent notice to everyone on my contact list. They also changed my …
Good Guy Randy Edsall
… I grew up about twenty minutes from the UConn campus so I know it well and a friend of mine played football for Edsall a few years back. He seemed like a great guy. Well, I just got …