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Your letters: Women in the church, Bishop Gumbleton, and elections
… to have plebiscites reverse those policies. With abortion, the bishops seem to see individual trees but ignore the forest. That forest is the spectrum of civil rights among which is personal …
Sinsinawa Dominicans spread mission through collaborative farm programs
… movement through here. Not necessarily traditional agriculture, but they were tapping maple trees, fishing from the Mississippi River, and they probably planted some kind of produce around … can annual vegetables. I don't know if anyone would really want to do an orchard because those trees are going to take upwards of five years before they really start producing." The …
Climate-impacted farmers in Zimbabwe get boost from Catholic agencies
… the farmers to improve the quality and quantity of their pastures and animals, by planting trees, grasses and legumes that can provide fodder and improve soil fertility," she told …
Brazil's Yanomami leader asks the Pope to support President Lula in reversing damage to the Amazon
… largest, was ravaged by thousands of illegal gold miners spurred on by Bolsonaro. They felled trees and poisoned waterways with mercury. Kopenawa, who wore a traditional feathered headdress …
Glenstal Abbey partners with 100 Million Trees Project for Irish biodiversity
… Mulcahy recounted how he and his brother Richard, along with volunteers from the 100 Million Trees Project , transformed a small, neglected area in a Dublin industrial estate into a mini … program, which began last November. By the start of April, up to 250,000 saplings of native tree varieties had been planted at more than 100 sites around the country. The planting will …
Aren't we all like Freddie Mercury?
… bedrooms and siblings to play with and family Christmases shared under the glow of a great big tree just like I saw in those Norman Rockwell paintings on the covers of The Saturday Evening …
Catholic leaders and sisters rescue child survivors of sexual violence in Sierra Leone
… Doreen Ajiambo … Eight-year-old Mary Aminata sat on a plastic chair in the shade of a tree outside her parent's house in this southern town of Sierra Leone. She tearfully narrated her …
COP28 challenged this young Catholic and confirmed her climate work
… advocacies. So we partake in and initiate simple, straightforward events like clean-up drives, tree planting and growing, and proper waste segregation education. However, COP28 was a whole …
Protesters disrupt Easter Vigil at St. Patrick's Cathedral to call for Gaza cease-fire
… a red hourglass (used by environmental protesters to symbolize extinction) and a green olive tree, a reference to Palestine. A clergy member and several cathedral security staff moved …
Easter Sunday: Doing the work of Easter
… Ecologically, the natural world is forever trying to renew itself. The brilliantly colored tree leaves of autumn turn brown, die and fall to the ground, leaving tree limbs bare until new buds burst forth and flower, greening Earth's landscape once again. …
CRS Zambia supports farmers restoring degraded land
… sun in this southern region of Zambia, Highly Hangoma and his neighbors are busy planting trees in their degraded farmland to increase carbon stock and mitigate the effects of climate … Since 2023, the organization has been visiting villages monthly to train farmers in tree planting and care, seedling care and sustainable agriculture. "The approach we have used to …
Faith-based Mother Earth Network aims to restore Maragoli Forest, and hope, in Kenya
… the ravages of climate change for decades. Commonly known as "Baba Miti" ("The Father of Trees"), Borg is hopeful that the project will successfully plant trees and nurture them to … the government's bid to plant at least 15 billion trees by 2032 to increase the national tree cover to more than 30%. Currently, the country's tree cover stands at about 12%, while …
Sisters' nonprofit empowers low-income women and youths in Ogden, Utah
… classroom, women type at a bank of computers in a workplace skills class. Outside on the tree-lined street, homeless individuals are met with a kind word and a sack lunch. And an …
Arizona bishop thanks Pope Francis for calling out US impacts on climate change
… , they offered ways for people to get involved in environmental matters, such as an upcoming tree planting event, utilizing city services for hard-to-recycle plastics and accessing tools to …
Syracuse Catholic parish wins national environmental prize
… in apartments scattered across the city. "One woman bought a house, so we went to plant a tree on her property," explained Reilly, underlining that even the smallest actions had for them … kids to join an environmental youth group in the summer in Syracuse, and they were planting trees," she added. According to Amanda Baugh, a professor of religious studies and director of …
Lithium mines threaten South America's Native cultures, wealth and water
… has vanished, he said. In 2013, an environmental inspection found that a third of the carob trees — a plant known to survive in harsh environments — near the SQM mine had died. Many more trees were withering. In 2022, SQM was ordered to pay $51.7 million to correct the damages caused …
Marilynne Robinson's 'Reading Genesis' holds a tender, gracious view of God
… us humans. This high view of God, humanity and indeed the rest of creation (before God calls trees food, he points out their innate beauty, notes Robinson) will be familiar to her devotees, …
Middle grade books for kids often address deep spiritual needs
… skipped Twilight and stuck with the Penderwicks , The Unicorn Chronicles , a stack of Magic Tree House titles and piles of well-loved picture books. I breathed a sigh of relief because, …
St. Patrick shows us salvation is found at the heart of the world
… Origins of Race with a Navajo song: The mountains, I become part of it ... The herbs, the fir tree, I become part of it. The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters. I become part of …
Islamic scholars call Muslim nations to cut fossil fuels, echoing 'Laudato Si' '
… gently on the Earth," whether in gentle treatment of camels or forbidding the felling of trees that provide shade or sustenance. The scholars encouraged greater efforts by educational …