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Artworks that teach faithful how to die well
… passages. Having amassed cattle, money, houses, vineyards, gardens and "every sort of fruit trees," Ecclesiastes realizes that currency is counterfeit. "All that my eyes sought, I didn't …
October may be full of darkness, but it holds a Christian message
… Beast, a shadowy huntsman who haunts the wood, singing and searching for souls to turn into trees for burning. Like Goethe's elf-king, he stalks the boys, lying in wait for them to lose … hope. As a tavern mistress sings: "For once your will begins to spoil, he'll turn you to a tree of oil and put you in his lantern for to burn." It's an arresting dramatization of the …
Season of Creation 2017: Each being glorifies God
… us, I resisted bringing them to a Sunday liturgy. Certainly, the psalms speak poetically about trees and rivers "clapping their hands," but psalms are ancient, and we don't take them …
Guam's day of reckoning after decades of sex abuse
… Guam. Hunched over and carrying a cane, he is looking for the spot where he was tied to a tree decades ago. Mosquitoes descend ferociously with every step he takes. Apart from the gushing … and then-Boy Scout leader. B.J. was only 11 years old, and remembers the water was calm. The trees weren't pressed so hard against the water's edge. "He had me strapped to one of these trees like this," he says, pointing to the trees next to him. "He went down there, right, and …
Kriya Yoga Conference to blend Catholic, Eastern spirituality
… at least not yoga in the sense that most people think of. There won’t be any downward dogs or tree poses, unless participants do those on their own. Instead, Kriya Yoga is best understood as …
American flags don't belong in church sanctuaries
… covers up his car windshield with American flag stickers, crashes his car into a tree and dies because he can't see where he was going, and is surprised to receive this message …
Charity is at the heart of the church, pope tells Vincentians
… Pope Francis said. The "small seed" of his humility, meekness and charity grew into a great tree that makes up the two congregations he founded -- the Daughters of Charity and the …
With prayer, Catholics in Puerto Rico deal with Hurricane Maria's wrath
… of up to 155 miles per hour, it tore out cables, roofs from homes and buildings, uprooted palm trees and even bent a cross anchored to a cement post at the entrance of a Jesuit school. It has … friars told him of the devastation they could see from inside, he said, including fallen palm trees and blocked roads. A parishioner sent him photos of debris, such as torn and battered … 22 telephone interview with Catholic News Service. In what was once a lush forest, the palm trees that are still standing look more like telephone poles because they have no leaves on them. …
There is a justice issue at the heart of these hurricanes
… from Expedia offering special fares or hotel rates, the pictures of idyllic beaches with palm trees waving in the breeze enticing with the promise of a relaxing getaway, a destiny where you …
After Stockley verdict, Catholics asked to step up to "St. Louis' Selma"
… in the College Church group suggested the two parishes join forces to pick up litter, plant trees or otherwise clean up the neighborhood. One of the Rock Church members thought they ought …