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The path through Ferguson
… A hundred and eighty-nine recommendations is a daunting list. A community organizer friend of mine said right away, just hearing my first description, that the report was a mistake: They …
Religious sisters 'lament the reality' of fracking in demonstration outside COP21
… impact fracking has had on her community in the Dakotas, but the social repercussion the mining camps have had, with rates of sexual assault escalating drastically. An element of the …
Chicago's faith leaders called to shine light in troubled communities
… in the Chicago Police Department. Referencing the spiritual "This Little Light of Mine" and waving a flashlight, Martin called on the "people of the light" to "shine this little light of mine" on the West Side, the South Side, in the Loop, the Gold Coast and all Chicago …
Author mines Bible for images to describe the indescribable
ss10092015p09pha.jpg WEARING GOD: CLOTHING, LAUGHTER, FIRE, AND OTHER OVERLOOKED WAYS OF MEETING GOD By Lauren F. Winner Published by HarperOne, $24.99 Reading Lauren F. Winner's Wearing God is like having a chat with her over coffee. This book is written in conversational chunks and the structure is not always immediately apparent. That being said, it is not a disorganized work. The intellectual…
The Year of Mercy is a time to learn about Islam
… oft-cited saying of Muhammad echoes this picture of God. He said, "God says: When a servant of mine draws nearer to me by the length of a hand, I draw toward him an arm's length; and when he …
Reader's retrospective: Fr. Bill Gianola
… catastrophe as a senior in high school when his father, Tony, was killed in an underground mining accident. (His brother Jimmy, also a miner, died at the same mine 20 years later.) Though Gianola understood the dangers that overshadow mining communities, he'd never dreamed such disaster could happen to his own family. His mother, …
Francis: World close to suicide over climate change
… a strong word, friendship -- with a Muslim," said the pontiff. "We can speak. His values are mine. He prays. I pray." "You cannot cancel out a religion because there are some groups, or many …
Some Hondurans seek church help to fight government changes to land
… for the region. In July 2014, a shaft in a warren of underground tunnels of an artisanal gold mine in San Juan Arriba, in Choluteca, collapsed and buried 11 miners, killing eight. Four years earlier, a now-disbanded government mining authority had warned the mine was dangerous and should close, but nothing was done. "There is an overwhelming demand from communities affected by new mining concessions that are polluting the environment and trampling on their rights," said Juan …
Links - sort of - for 11/20/15
… continuity and reform" which mildly changes the emphasis but leaves his essential point - and mine - unchanged. Innocent Smith, OP, tweeted that Pope Benedict XVI used the phrase …
Manila protesters call for end to APEC
… country. But the reality (is) in the Philippines, especially the multinational corporations of mining, do not respect our nature," Gaza said. Agong Capus with the Promotion of Church People's …
We need to pay attention to suffering, not ignore it
… Mary Ann McGivern … I've had a serious rift with an old friend of mine over whether the looting in Ferguson last year was a deal breaker. My friend thinks the …