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'Sometimes a fire is just a fire'
… Cathedral was still aflame last week, the interpretations of what this fire meant began to flood the internet and Twitter. We Americans are nothing if not utilitarian and so we seemed … of the other warning shots, from glaciers melting, to exotic diseases spreading, to biblical floods, to the sharks invading my cherished Cape Cod beaches." It is true that the French state …
Do no harm: Catholic hospitals confront their own carbon footprints
… climate change. Climate change affects human health by altering exposures to heat waves, floods, droughts, and other extreme events; vector-, food- and waterborne infectious diseases; …
Our Lenten journey culminates in the vigil's powerful catechesis
… news. In some churches the story of creation is followed tonight by the story of the great flood, a story of what became of those two who were made in the image of God. God sweeps away all that God saw as good. But even the flood story ends with a new creation: a new covenant between God and humankind. And so through …
Holy Week services go on in Paris despite Notre Dame fire
… "It's not visible from the outside, so let's take advantage of new materials," he said. The flood of contributions has also led some French to ask how so much money could be found when …
The sacred triduum's symbols are sacraments that point to what is real
… he brought forth life. Water is also, as our friends who live and farm on the banks of the flooding waters of the Mississippi have learned, enormously destructive. The great Easter Vigil …
Where science warnings fail, can moral force push us out of climate inertia?
… a changing climate. Glaciers are melting. Intense storms are strengthening. Seas are rising. Floods are spreading. Heat waves and droughts are prolonging. And the destruction and disruption …
Cyclone Idai relief underway with help of sisters in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
… logs and big stones in muddy roads to help deliver food, water and basic health services to flood victims after strong winds and torrential rains hit the region in mid-March. "We need to …
A chasm of inequality: Lenten meditations on wealth
… hurt? Your torments track me down, your rage consumes me, your trials destroy me. All day they flood around me, pressing down, closing me in. You took my friends from me, darkness is all I …
Parish roundup: Students help with taxes; Floodwaters trap parishioners
… Hubert and Naoma Borgmann recount their experience of being trapped in their home by Nebraska flooding, said to be the worst in a half century. The Archdiocese of Omaha is carrying out a special collection for flood victims. Two bishops with Spokane, Washington, platforms come down on differing sides and …
Patient God, urgent message
… think that because certain Iowans and Nebraskans suffered so terribly in the record-breaking flooding this spring that they were greater sinners than all other Americans? Or the thousand …
Catholic Church in Austria to divest from fossil fuels
… on the planet and people become more prevalent — from melting glaciers and increasing coastal flooding, to devastating droughts, wildfires and powerful storms — and as scientists report that …