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Easter shows the power of love, which renews the world, pope says
… Easter morning dawned bright and sunny at the Vatican, highlighting the thousands of flowers, trees and bushes donated by flower growers in the Netherlands. The garden created on the steps of …
Good Friday street-level Stations in a city full of wealth and power
… of Century Link Field, home for the Seattle Seahawks. With a year-around mild climate and tree-shaded park benches, this particular part of Seattle is known across the country as an urban … to light, a star that burns forever in the sky.' " [Jon Magnuson is the director of the Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan, a nonprofit organization that provides services and …
Catholic campuses use bees to teach sustainability and engage local community
… like honeybees to the world — responsible for pollinating 90 percent of wild plants and trees — and also to develop more sustainable habitats for such insects to thrive. The United …
Pope: Present in the Eucharist, Jesus transforms those who receive him
… with an impromptu lesson about gardening and how to grow into being better Christians. "Does a tree or plant that is diseased bloom well? No! Does a tree or a plant that isn't watered ... bloom well? No. And does a tree or plant with no roots bloom?" he said before delivering his general audience talk March 21. …
Imitate St. Pio's life, don't forget poor, marginalized, pope says
… waited outside the square of the Chapel of the Stigmata which houses a piece of the elm tree Padre Pio sat in front of when he first received the stigmata — wounds on his feet, hands …
Fourth Sunday of Lent
… scene. The singers are sitting by a stream, a place where people should be as content as a tree planted near running water. But these singers say they can do no more than weep because they …
In Peru's Madre de Dios region, church helps indigenous peoples survive
… detention for failure to pay stiff fines originally imposed because illegal loggers cut down trees. And, recently, state officials have ordered that each of the 22 families living here must …
Know what your duty is, do it without hesitation
… next to me by the huge window with a direct view to a Buddha statue that sits under a cherry tree with Christmas ornaments tinkling in the wind on its naked branches. Silvia brings a bowl of …
Poland's Catholic Church takes on its critics
… a wide swath past shops, restaurants, bars and offices. Uphill in the distance, beyond the trees, the baroque spire of the Jasna Gora monastery points triumphantly towards heaven above a …
Massacre of Rohingya Muslims and mass graves in Myanmar
… in the east, said Mohammad Sha, 37, a shop owner and farmer. Sha hid in a grove of coconut trees near the river with more than 100 others and watched as the soldiers searched Muslim homes. … the soldiers just shot continuously," said Mohammad Rayes, 23, a schoolteacher who climbed a tree and watched. Kadir, the chinlone player, was shot twice in the foot but managed to drag … people from the area hid deep in the jungle, stranded without food except for the leaves and trees they tried to eat. More than 20 infants and toddlers died because of the lack of food and …