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Faith leaders urge long-term solutions for Gulf Coast
… and state funding for affordable housing and coastal wetland restoration, and to implement a flood control system to protect the communities from future severe weather. "We have learned that … and praised volunteers of all faiths, it cited "years of improper stewardship" and inadequate flood protection as violations of human rights. "We believe it is a moral obligation for the …
Experiencing the Divine in our Lives
… “Did you hear that?!” he smiles. As I slowly wake up, so do the birds. Pretty soon it is a flood of birds calling from all around the shadowed yard. For a long time we don’t say a word. We …
Catholic philanthropies give post-Katrina aid to women religious
… -- stand side by side in the Lakeview section of New Orleans in late July 2006. Lakeview was flooded by waters that breached the 17th Street Canal after Hurricane Katrina. (CNS file photo) … mortgage. In January 2006, less than five months after Katrina, Mount Carmel was the first flood-damaged high school in New Orleans to reopen. "We are still completing the preschool … or Teresians. Sr. Chris Perrier, treasurer of the Marianites of Holy Cross, said that despite flood damage to all their houses and school facilities the members of her congregation wanted to …
Remembering Paul VI, the superhuman pope
… , Paul's encyclical reiterating the church's ban on contraception, triggered a predictable flood of commentary (in which I participated, penning an Aug. 3 op/ed for the Times at the …
Myanmar cyclone victims try to survive amid devastating losses
… and other cyclone debris blocking the roads. The humanitarian disaster littered the partially flooded fields in this and other villages with the decomposing bodies of people and cattle. Other … 30, a Buddhist, told UCA News that his only child, just a year old, died in the nighttime flood. "My wife can't swim, so we had to hang on to a tree. I picked her up to put her up the … again. One woman, who gave her name as Rosy, said her 4-year-old son was washed away by the flood and she and her husband climbed a tree in the dark to stay above the water, which rose to …
Catholics close 33 parishes in post-Katrina New Orleans [Apr 10]
… of mergers, closures, downsizings and shared-pastor arrangements that reached far beyond the flood zone to touch churches in relatively undamaged areas. Overall, the plan closed 33 parishes, … of the archdiocese to another, and left the regional church with $120 million in uninsured flood damage. In addition, Hughes ordered planners to reconfigure the number of pulpits in the … and retired priests fell from 545 to 334. That factor drove much of the change far from the flood zone, Jacques said. (BEGIN SECOND OPTIONAL TRIM) Asked about the archdiocese's financial …
New Orleans plans to downsize Catholic churches
… (RNS) Archbishop Alfred Hughes is asking his Catholic flock, including those far from the flood zone, to prepare for a reorganization of Catholic life befitting a church deeply damaged … stayed, we would have stayed." Sacred Heart's 84-year-old church, rectory and former school flooded badly after Hurricane Katrina. None has reopened since, and parishioners who returned to … Catholics still gone, some neighborhoods thinly populated and $120 million in uninsured flood losses to churches, schools and other buildings. Moreover, archdiocesan officials said the …
Farm bill faces delays; its constituencies face economic uncertainty
… part of the country, somewhere, some farmer or rancher has suffered some disaster -- drought, flooding." Another way to frame the argument is, as Gronski put it, "we'll worry about a disaster …
Where peace is a matter of imagination
… one army base after another and, oh yes, the "Peace Dam." Built only to protect the area from flooding in the event that North Korea's Imnan Dam, 36 kilometers above it, should ever break or, …
Women, peacemaking and the church
… can be in the world. You can become a power for peace by refusing to be carried away by the flood-tide of the pseudo-science glorifying self-indulgence that is engulfing the West today and …
The road that leads to life (The Sermon on the Mount, 5th and last part)
… and acts on them will be like a wise person who built her house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set … but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely … parables. Notice that he does not say, "Whoever acts on these words will not suffer the rain, floods or winds." In both cases, people are hit by a disastrous storm. The rains will fall, the …
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… us. But 72 is the number of all the nations that are listed in the Book of Genesis after the flood. So it's all the nations of the world. At this point Jesus is now sending disciples …
The earth means the world to me
… in southern Europe and the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, the U.S. Southwest and Mexico, and flooding that could imperil low-lying islands and the crowded river deltas of southern Asia. The …