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Copy Desk Daily, July 2, 2019
… shift from fossil fuels carries weight in a coastal area that is highly vulnerable to tidal flooding worsened by climate change. … Churches wipe out millions in medical debt for others … …
A Virginia parish switched to 100% solar power — and paid nothing
… just north of Virginia Beach. The region is among the most vulnerable in the country to tidal flooding worsened by climate change. A 2018 report from the Union of Concerned Scientists estimated that more than one-third of homes in Hampton are at risk for chronic flooding by 2100 . Immaculate Conception, home to about 700 families, is the first parish in the …
Book elucidates contradictory history of New Orleans, a city that is a crossroads of humanity
… Alex Mikulich … Not unlike the millennia of silt layers that created this crescent-shaped, flood-prone land mass 90 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico, la Nouvelle Orléans is a complex, …
Parish roundup: No resident pastor; who 'wins' the site when there's a merger?
… for the poor and troubled. Catholic Charities comes to the aid of parishioners afflicted by floods in the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri. [Peter Feuerherd is NCR news editor. His email …
Editorial: Don't look away from concentration camps at the border
… to animals or insects, or using language about advancing hordes, and we're being overrun and flooded and this sort of thing, it's creating the sense of this enormous threat. And that makes …
The hierarchical spirit that will not die
… the cold storage lockers of the traditional seminary system to find their sexuality stirring, flooding them with low level desires for erotic experience for the first time in their lives. …
The purgatory of the sex abuse crisis
… the father of all waters, the sex abuse crisis is the mother of all church scandals. Much like flood managers, who allow the river to have its own way, church officials initially stayed clear …
Links for 5/30/19
… blocked a unanimous consent motion to pass disaster aid for parts of the country hit hard by flooding, wildfires and hurricanes. These deficit hawks never worry about government spending …
'Startling' inaction on climate change must end, pope says
… and cited recent extreme global meteorological events, such as heat waves, droughts, fires and floods, as "a dire premonition of much worse things to come, unless we act and act urgently." "It … of climate changes on people, in terms of extreme meteorological conditions, such as drought, flooding, rising sea level, devastating storms and ferocious fires. The climate crisis is …
A harvest of solidarity
… weather conditions this year will be critical. By May 2013, we will know whether drought and flood predictions have sounded the alarm. For most Americans, this may only mean a rise in food …