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Native Hawaiian salt makers combat climate change and pollution to protect a sacred tradition
… the time she forges a spiritual connection to the land. "This would be a religious practice of mine for sure," Taniguchi said. "My dad raised us saying that these mountains are his church, and …
Proposal for married clergy raises interesting complications
… in communion with Rome and those that are not. I remember one of the first times a friend of mine said, "Yeah, I'm a priest's kid," and I was taken aback for a split second until I …
Nevada tribe says coalitions, not lawsuits, will protect sacred sites as US advances energy agenda
… community would find another way to fight the U.S. government's approval of a massive lithium mine at the site where more than two dozen of their Paiute and Shoshone ancestors were massacred … the difficulty of navigating the electoral landscape in a western swing state where the mining industry's political clout is second only to the power wielded by casinos. Still, he was … twice ruled the tribe failed to prove the massacre occurred on the specific grounds of the mining project, or that far-flung tribes had a legal stake in the fight. The 9th U.S. Circuit …
The Catholic Church stories we'll be following in 2024
… and what the reality is. That's my perception. He's open to his opinion, and I'm open to mine." This kind of casual dismissal of important and informed criticism, choosing not to engage …
Make a resolution for the climate, for the sanctity of life
… "no" to those that are too challenging right now. You can also add your own commitments. Mine, for instance, involves enrolling in a program in which I collect my food scraps — peels, …
Experts weigh harmful impacts of green transition
… of the global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, especially in regard to mining efforts. To overcome these issues, they advocated for chartering a different path … can be sowers of change." The most dire issues stemming from green practices include harmful mining around the world, said Sr. Maamalifar Poreku, a Missionary Sister of Our Lady of Africa …
God comforts us so we can comfort others
… Does God want to comfort us or does God want to scare us? A few years ago, a Jesuit friend of mine told me he saw a T-shirt that he really liked. The words on the T-shirt said, "Jesus is …
The greatest Jesus movie never made
… right here beside Dugan. And he's saying with all of you, if you do it to the least of mine, you do it to me! Why, that would make it an even greater movie. But still not the greatest … else's. There is only one big movie and it is happening all at once." I am the star in mine and you support me. You are the star in yours and I support you. Everyone who ever lived is …
Support for Guatemala's Cardinal Ramazzini flows in wake of arrest rumors
… his struggles and concerns," the CELAM statement said. Others, including the Churches and Mining Network; the National Convergence of Resistance; and Red CLAMOR, which deals with human …
How Charlie Brown's Christmas tree brings us back to Earth
… largely unseen in the show, like an evil spirit lurking in the shadows — open pit aluminum mines, toxic smoke and poisoned waters from factories, box store parking lots and landfills …
Founder of far-right group Church Militant resigns over breach of morality clause, group says
… work on, horrible, ugly things," he said. "Not going to share them, nobody else's business but mine. The consequences of me not dealing with those obviously are some people's business." "I …
Saints and sinners of LA linked to Mexican diaspora
… between El Cargadero and Jomuquillo. That makes him part of the same Jerezano diaspora as mine, one that numbers tens of thousands of people in Southern California alone and whose members …
Floods did not dampen the spirit of the Pakistani people
… resilience of the people was truly amazing. The flooding was unbelievable. Ramesh, a friend of mine, told me that he was trying to save his onion plants by emptying water from between the …
At the synod, a new kind of conversation is evolving
… all sorts of questions there to help us, the deposit of faith as we call it, it's there to be mined," Fisher said. I wonder if he would be kind enough to let us know when that all stopped. In …
Sisters foster healing for survivors and perpetrators of Sierra Leone's civil war
… explained that Taylor's involvement in the war was to take control of Sierra Leone's diamond mines. "Those who sponsored the war were interested in the diamonds, and that's why when they …
Learning to live with absence
… for all those 48 years. I started a jigsaw puzzle — which was her thing, never really mine. I slept alone. I was learning to live alone. But something didn't feel right. So I talked …
Listening with Franciscan ears
… to myself. To get back into my body. To reawaken my senses. To reconnect to that heart of mine I had constructed walls around. Time and again that house of rising sounds lifted my soul …
Vladimir Putin, like Stalin before him, is weaponizing food
… issues in the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan and Yemen. Russia's war on Ukraine has resulted in mined Ukrainian farmland taken out of production. Ukraine's fertile lands are saturated with …
Considering the spiritual roots of ecophobia amid climate change
… for the sake of human enrichment or comfort (think deforestation, mountain-top removal mining, overfishing, etc.). For others, the anxiety that ecophobia elicits can become so …
Spirituality in our 90s: Beholding life evolving in each other and our world
… of light and shadow. Her future seemed to hold apprehension and increasing darkness while mine was full of expectation and opportunities to serve. Because I was the youngest of the …