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On Croagh Patrick: Lessons from scaling and descending a holy mountain
… almost no one. The mountain had a few streams with some green vegetation, but there were no trees, only various types of rock and a few sheep. Every now and then I had stopped to observe, … first by God coming down at Christmas, then by Jesus asking Zaccheus to come down out of the tree, and finally in Mark's Gospel, where people cut through a roof to lower a friend down to … may be felt with our feet — to "grow down" is essential. The height of a 90-foot sycamore tree is impressive, but its impressive height is only possible because the seedling in the dirt …
Climate science denial rife at launch of Jordan Peterson's ARC project
… and the anti-human nature of what's going on, [which suggests that] if not for humans the trees and the moths would be fine: human beings are not the problem, we're the point." The ARC …
Economic impacts of climate change drive workers in Bangladesh to modern slavery
… were destroyed," she said. "Water was running through the room. We were tying the cot to the tree to prevent it from being swept away by the current." After a year living in temporary …
In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred
… born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were brought as newborns by parents seeking to ward off evil … years later, he sits on the gravel road where the forest once stood, beside the two remaining trees the community salvaged. They're cordoned off behind a concrete wall in hopes they won't be … drinking blessed water or gin, eating cola nuts or sitting in a sacred spot, such as inside a tree. "The sacred forest is a vital area," said Dada Daagbo Hounon Hounan II, the Supreme …
Pope Francis calls for a cease-fire in Israeli-Hamas war
… their flocks and now with the start of olive-picking season, also farmers tending their trees. On Oct. 22, for the first time, settlers threatened and beat farmers from Christ the … olives near the city of Nablus. On Oct. 28, only three families were out picking their trees and only on lands close to the village with their cars facing in the direction of the …
Video: Laudato Trees planting program enlists Catholic properties to help increase DC's canopy
… a Green Church" series with a brand new video including interviews and footage of the Laudato Trees program in Washington, D.C. As NCR environment correspondent Brian Roewe reported in the original coverage : "Laudato Trees — a play on the name of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our …
Synod enters final week recalling Vatican II and the church's 'living tradition'
… is organic and ecological rather than competitive," he said. "It is more like planting a tree than winning a battle, and as such will be hard for many to understand, sometimes including …
Aging Catholic sisters in US, Ireland continue mission through impact investing
… agency Vita , whose Laudato Si' -aligned projects in Ethiopia will also see millions of trees planted in the East African country. The investment in Vita's projects, which also … Ethiopia. This generated 2 million tons of carbon emissions' savings and saw up to 5 million trees saved or planted, Vita said. The resulting carbon offsets were purchased by Irish and … carbon offsets. Weakliam explained that clean water does not have to be boiled, thus saving trees from being cut down and burned to heat the water. Additionally, the fuel-efficient …
Letters to the editor on gender equity and the synod
… reminds me of my boyhood. My nine- and 10-year-old pals and I would build hideouts and tree forts in the forest out of scrap wood and cardboard and nearly always tack a sign up …
In the pope's homeland, more Argentines are seeking spiritual answers beyond the church
… knowledge that sees God or a divine power manifesting in nature. "God is the wind, the trees, the animals," she said. "He's everywhere." Ana Ottobre, 27, grew up singing in a Catholic …
Illinois parish dedicates prairie restoration project to St. Francis
… , which recounted the very beginning of the prairie: the creation of plants and fruit-bearing trees, and then God's gift of his creation to mankind. "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant on all the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food." After a psalm, Fr. Carlos Saligumba, … District for 15 years. They started by clearing out the "unwanted, non-native" shrubs and trees to admit sunlight. They conducted yearly prescribed burns after obtaining an open burning …
Teaching fish farming in Zimbabwe produces food, income, enthusiasm
… limits. Without access to any energy systems, they have increasingly resorted to cutting down trees for firewood, which only adds to the climate crisis. Having young women in our congregation …
Pope's 'Laudate Deum' must elevate those on ecological peripheries
… lead songwriter, Gonzalo Hermoso González, writes about the ecological process of planting a tree, which he associates with the path of his personal destiny. As the tree grows and bears fruit, it remains happy and full of life. But, as the seasons turn, so do the colors of the leaves, and the promise of a future that comes with the planting of a new tree faces the reality that we all face: how fragile life really is. The song ends with the …
The increasingly perilous lot of the pilgrim shows us all the path on climate
… found that this lack of air conditioning, "combined with its older population and sparse tree canopy, makes it one of the most vulnerable communities in the city to extreme heat." If we …
Listening with Franciscan ears
… stop reading this article and gaze into the eyes of a loved one; savor your beer; talk to a tree. To intellectualize a song is to cheapen it. The jazz trio of the Trinity plays (not …
All war is a disgrace and failure. The church must embrace nonviolence.
… In turn, we would retrieve the African praxis of palaver. Palaver encounters under the baobab tree were how many precolonial African societies addressed disputes. This approach enables the …
Considering the spiritual roots of ecophobia amid climate change
… without the direct support of millions of other creatures, from small microbes to massive trees. If we view our faith tradition as speaking a truth only about human persons without …
Love and compassion: How women can address the climate crisis
… of awe and renewal we use at Rosh Hashana helps to tune me into the Earth and its seasons: the trees communicating with each other through vast mycelial networks, the planets running their …
Vatican pushes nations to ensure religious freedom in Jerusalem
… presidents met at the Vatican in 2014 to pray for peace together and planted a symbolic olive tree in the Vatican gardens. "It seems to me that there have not been any more similar high-level meetings," he noted. "Nevertheless, we continue to water that olive tree, waiting for the presidents of both states, accompanied by their governments, to come again …
Where are we getting our values these days?
… collapsed any and all moral standards. So much for the " George Washington and the cherry tree " fable to spur our courage, our own integrity? How did this happen? Who tricked us out of …