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'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In Honduras, a community resists a mine polluting the Río Guapinol
… the last few years, the river has also provided an education: how to resist an international mining operation that they say contaminates the river in the name of development; how to confront … she said. "Now, when I go to the river, I feel my chest swell, like I'm not free." … A mine emerges, a community responds … About a decade ago, Inversiones Los Pinares, formerly the …
Ojibwe author writes about Indigenous peoples, Christians 'Becoming Kin'
… happening. So what can we do about it now? What can we do about the way Canadian and American mining companies behave overseas? This was something Sarah Augustine brings up in her book The Land Is Not Empty — why aren't churches sending missions to the banks and to the mining companies? Residential schools aren't even over. These things aren't over. They're still …
Links: Runoff vote in Brazil; rewilding a river; Waffle House and Hurricane Ian
… a talk at St. Ignatius Church, located on the campus of the University of San Francisco. Mine is the first in a series of talks about the Second Vatican Council, and I will be sketching …
5 ways sharing your story can deepen your faith
… their lives to a room full of retreatants, they panic. "I don't have a story worth sharing. Mine doesn't compare." They have in mind stories of loss and heartache and triumph over hardship … and lows of life, in all that is mundane and epic. You do that, right? You deal with life. Mining your experiences for those actions big and small reveal something of your character — and …
Links: Anti-synod sentiment; child poverty; the limits of polling data
… winners in close elections is swing states is a lousy idea. No part of Europe loves its coal mines more, and resisted switching to sustainable energy more, than Poland. Now, with Russian oil …
Fresh off Inflation Reduction Act win, Catholic groups push to further environmental justice
… wrote a letter in August to legislators in support of the bill, which would reform mining laws in line with environmental justice principles. "We, from many faith-based … federal agencies to conduct meaningful consultations with tribal communities before permitting mining activities. It would also set new environmental standards, require mining companies to pay … like fossil fuel companies do, and force the mining industry to fund the cleanup of abandoned mines. "There hasn't been a bill about mining for like 150 years," said Lisa Sullivan, …
Why the church should ban the music of composers accused of abuse
… safe space, as the Los Angeles Archdiocese makes clear in its statement. For example, "You Are Mine" (written by Haas, who allegedly used spiritual manipulation to sexually abuse and groom …
Links: Russia's collapse in Kharkiv; disagreeing with Pope Francis
… For at least two generations of Catholic University of America students, including mine, that was the closest grocery store to campus. Who knew? The discussion about empire and …
Apaches urge rehearing in fight to preserve sacred site in Arizona
… States as they seek to stop a private venture from turning the land into an underground copper mine. They’re doing so after a judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in August, called … with the transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a company owned by the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. It ruled that Apache Stronghold failed to show a substantial burden on … according to their court filings, can take place only on the site, which would be destroyed by mining. The Apache believe Oak Flat is a “blessed place” where Ga’an — guardians or messengers …
The mind is a terrible thing
… very wasteful. How true that is." I think the mind is a terrible thing, period. A friend of mine who has suffered three nervous breakdowns described them like this: "My brain was trying to …
She was an early church deacon. Catholic women now want to reclaim her example.
… working with indigenous peoples to help them fight against the deforestation and destructive mining of the Amazon. "To me, women are already doing the work of deacons," she said. "Can the …