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Pope’s quotes: Mining sectors
… the excluded, advancing towards an integral, inclusive and sustainable development. The entire mining sector is undoubtedly required to effect a radical paradigm change to improve the … and those in which they operate, businesses and investors, the local authorities who supervise mining operations, workers and their representatives, the international supply chains with their …
Jesus lives!
… a great deal would be changed. How does the truth of the risen Lord impinge upon your life and mine? If we truly believe that Jesus lives and breathes and moves among us, how might that impact …
Cardinal Kasper calls for global church of 'outstretched hand,' living Matthew 25
… to Jesus' words in Matthew's Gospel: "Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me." "These words give us a response," said Kasper. "The response is: You can …
Taking Liberties with History
… were spoken in the House of Commons in October 1943 when the subject of nationalizing the coal mines was brought up. Churchill opposed nationalization at that time because the National …
Take and Read: The Interior Castle
… the journey toward union with God: Where was I? Teresa spoke to an unarticulated aspiration of mine, not just to seek God, but to find God and to be found . For over 30 years now, I have …
Digging for happy memories, like an archaeologist of love
… into his crib, then climb into bed with me, spooning my short chubby body, her knees behind mine. She would rub her hand over my ear, each pass of her warm fingers pulling a seashell-like …
Please, leave Easter on nature’s time
… of priests in Rome, "A Catholic and an Orthodox meet. One says, 'Your Christ has risen? Mine rises next Sunday.'" Rarely am I a conservative, but on this matter I can’t believe Francis …
Will the American people elect Donald Trump?
… is great today. But is destroying the very fabric of this country the answer? A friend of mine used to say that it is only a thin veneer of civilization that keeps us from perpetrating …
Blessed conspiracy: Finding myself in Romero's beatification
… access to the mystery of death and new life. Romero had lived in a country not so distant from mine, and I felt blessed to have been born before he died. Now I had met his beloved people. That …
Missouri Christian wears hijab in solidarity
… 3 yards of material. That shouldn't separate me from someone whose humanity is so much like mine." Her husband, Mike DeVries, a part-time youth pastor, supports his wife's gesture. …
Pope Francis: Year four begins
… he says the pope has brought about a "revolution of tenderness, mercy and normalcy " (emphasis mine). The American-born priest believes the so-called "Francis Revolution" or reform is no …