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The triduum liturgies invite us into the mystery of our salvation
… for which I sent it. That chapter was read at both my parents' funerals and it will be read at mine. If there is a more beautiful chapter of Scripture, I do not know it. The Easter Vigil was …
Apr 5, 2023
Our eco-memories, and those of Jesus, connect us with creation and community
… non-human creatures. According to womanist ethicist Melanie L. Harris, eco-memories — such as mine and Clifton's — can serve as counter narratives to dominant, oppressive master narratives. …
Apr 1, 2023
Help! I have been replaced by an AI.
… which draws from relevant writing already available on the internet, had lots of data to mine. Its analysis, too, is nuanced and raises important ethical issues. Notably missing from …
Mar 31, 2023
UN Water Conference shows global consensus on universal right to water
… Caritas Madre de Dios in Peru, noted the ongoing problems that extractive industries such as mining and deforestation are having on economically impoverished communities in Peru — …
Mar 30, 2023
Some bishops and lay groups have become de facto Catholic morality police
… do not. Also in the U.S., a lay group is tracking clergy using gay dating apps, hiring data-mining services to turn up embarrassing findings. So, what’s a Catholic to do? Some bishops and …
Mar 24, 2023
At Georgetown, former Speaker Pelosi talks women priests, Archbishop Cordileone
… that," she said. Of Cordileone and abortion, Pelosi said, "I figure that's his problem, not mine, because I had five children in six years and one week," she said. Pelosi said that the U.S. …
Mar 23, 2023
Apaches tell court copper mine would harm sacred sites
… … A Native American group that's trying to stop an effort to build one of the largest copper mines in the United States told a full federal appeals court panel Tuesday that the project would … U.S. federal government plans for a land swap that will allow Resolution Copper to build the mine will destroy the land in eastern Arizona known as Oak Flat, "barring the Apaches from ever … a last-minute provision included in a must-pass defense bill in 2014. The swap would give the mining company 3.75 square miles (9.71 square kilometers) of national forest land in exchange for …
Mar 22, 2023
Amid Pope Francis' anniversary, Catholics need a new 'Faithful Citizenship'
… Gulf War was raging. The first iPhone appeared and social media was in its infancy. AI, data mining and gene editing were not yet things. Human-caused climate change was a theory still in …
Mar 20, 2023
Be attentive to 'God's first sacred text' to experience the living God, says new book
… is costing us a great deal, including experiences of the presence of the living God. "Mine," she writes, "is the God of sunrise and nightfall, the breath behind birdsong and breeze in the oaks. Mine is the God of a thousand voices, a thousand lights and gazillions of colors. Whether I …
Mar 18, 2023
'Injustice and crime:' Reviewing Pope Francis' apologies for church's role in colonialism
… the Democratic Republic of Congo in February, Francis said , "Stop choking Africa: It is not a mine to be stripped or a terrain to be plundered," referring to the exploitation of Congo's … mineral resources by countries such as China and the United States. Nzumbu, who began studying mining in the Congo after he witnessed the devastating impacts of mineral-driven wars on his …
Mar 16, 2023