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Remembering Sister Valsa: 'Now we feel orphaned'
… efforts to protect the land and rights of tribal people in Jharkhand state from heavy coal-mining interests. Malamel, a member of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary congregation, was … 12, 2016. Malamel had drawn anger for spearheading a public movement against the PANEM Coal Mines Ltd. project, which displaced thousands of Santhal tribal families in Pachwara and its … murder drew worldwide media attention. Her story has become a touchstone for the impact of mining in eastern India where illiterate tribal people without means join the "mining mafia" …
Does the United States need anger management?
… are the presidential results. But it is also about mundane issues. There's a lot of "that's mine and you can't have it" going around. So, yes, it is about immigration and health care. But … frictions escalate to nasty backstabbing, and parking space confrontations turn into murders. Mine is mine and you cannot have it, no matter what. Enlarge the problem and you have mobs of …
Sunday's little sacraments
… she sees, I do not know. I put my cheek against hers, as warm as a baby's. I turn her face to mine and smile. "Good morning, Sunshine." Her eyes come to life, her face glows. I kiss her cheek … is humming a different tune but we're in some kind of rhythm as her hips go left and right and mine stay stuck, and somehow we reach the bathroom where I help her get ready for the next act, … sweatpants and T-shirts (hers burgundy-colored with a drawing that suggests Zelda Fitzgerald, mine grey with a grave outline of Fyodor Dostoyevsky), we drag our slippered feet down the …
Trump's win and the challenges it poses to the Democrats
… any wonder we lost? One after another, the dispatches came back from the provinces. The coal mines are gone, the steel mills are closed, the drugs are rampant, the towns are decimated and …
This election calls us to dialogue
… Maureen Fiedler … I was talking to a Muslim woman who is a friend of mine the day after the election. She told me she is both uncertain of the future and a bit …
The disruptive Gospel is getting me through
… and disruption. God will disrupt and overcome suffering, death and destruction. A friend of mine and I were consoled by Wednesday's Gospel . In the famous scene where Jesus' anger was …
Theology of a taco truck
… I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. … with the realization that I loved all taco truck owners and workers, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. …
Larger faith community comes to Standing Rock in solidarity
… Sisters of Mercy of challenges indigenous peoples have faced elsewhere, such as in Peru with mining industries and in Australia with companies engaged in fracking, O'Connor added. "We hear …
'Free' tuition concerns administrators
… McGuire agrees the plan is unlikely, but she is still worried about it. "Cooler heads than mine say, ‘Don't worry about it. It's not going to happen,' " she said. "My job is somewhat …
Why understanding Native American religion is key to resolving Dakota Access Pipeline crisis
… of another telescope on a sacred volcano), Oak Flats in Arizona (over a potential copper mine on sacred land) and now at Standing Rock in North Dakota . … Lack of understanding of …