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We Are All Immigrants: The Soul Demands Kinship
… all seen our brothers walking in the poisoned chemical waters, cleaning up after the bilious flood, our brothers and sisters taking up what others will not touch and will not work at for the …
Weaving the world back together
… and natural history, recounting her mother’s battle with cancer along with the concurrent flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge near Salt Lake City, one of the author’s …
Consecrated Life: The Rock Pile
… form.” But while earthiness will rend, so too shall earthy silt travel from upriver during flood season, making thereby a fertile delta downriver. What is that fertile triangle made of? Just this: Rocks rendered small. Flood transformed into useful terrain, occurs in the consecrated, in those who give themselves …
Hearing on Connecticut parish bill postponed
… us to defend our church!" said the Lori statement. According to news reports, lawmakers were flooded with calls objecting to the new bill. At the request of proponents of the measure in the …
Fallen-away Catholics: Story of the swans
… are saying so aloud ... if you cannot help, do no harm. … 2. Your e-mail … My mailbox has been flooded with letters from religious (women and men) and lay persons (women and men) re last …
First Sunday of Lent
… our reflection with the first reading and reflect on the covenant that God renews after that flood. Covenant is a word that is very important in the Catholic-Christian tradition. It wasn’t a … Cain. Violence going on in creation. The abuse of creation. Sin rampant. But then after the flood, Noah and his family are saved. God enters into a new covenant, a new relationship, whereby …
Maverick Australian priest sacked
… people concerned about the validity of a baptism conducted at St Mary's. Bathersby has been flooded with reaction to his handling of the situation, from hate mail to the setting up of a …
Social ministers long for unified Catholic voice
… mob ran out of steam, and Holley and his little brother slipped away). Holley said that memory flooded back when he watched Barack Obama on election night. He ended up on his floor, he said, …
Repealing New Mexico's death penalty
… support or veto abolition? This time he may do the right thing. Hope is in the desert air. We flooded the capitol rotunda -- people gathered from the four corners of the state, young folks …
Loving our online neighbors
… on the other side of the table, criticizing my online neighbors of the religious right for flooding comment boxes with what I have called “right-wing propaganda.” It is easy to do, …
UN climate change conference sputters
… -- such as Peru and Bangladesh – already suffer from extreme weather events, drought and floods, diminishing access to fresh water due to glacial melt, and the loss of land due to …