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Mercy2Earth seizes the weekend Earth Day, Divine Mercy Sunday align
… plastic and paper items, reducing water usage, recycling and composting, carpooling, planting trees, and turning off unnecessary lights — as well as others: Begin a parish care for creation … actions. A spiritual retreat in Argentina outside Buenos Aires will include the planting of 12 trees and construction of an organic trash-recycling program. Parishioners of St. Francis Xavier …
Fake trees on Houston Street
… Donna Schaper … Have you spotted the fake trees in your neighborhood that hide cell phone towers? There is one on the Hutchinson Parkway … group phone calls, where most people are doing other things while wearing their pajamas. Real trees are much more beautiful than fake trees, as real flowers are more beautiful than fabricated imposters. When we memorialize a person …
Incarnation is possible when we are taken off-center
… Donna Schaper … If you hug too many trees, people will not just label you a "tree-hugger." They will also doubt your theology and develop concerns that you are a pagan. Let me hug some trees with you, as a Christian who also loves pagans. Christianity has a long record of loving …
Let the filibuster die
… problems, however, than those of nomenclature. They continue to fail to see the forest for the trees. They sometimes get their messaging right, as in the health care debate, but other times …
A wall in their river: Flooded Ngäbe communities continue to fight dam
… A tumbledown shell of a house lay in ruins, and a few dead leaves clinging to one remaining tree provided scant shade from the sweltering midday sun. The words, referring to his indigenous …
Deluges in Peru trigger flash floods, landslides; at least 85 dead
… had swept away two trucks. A video of a woman struggling out of a maelstrom of water, mud, tree trunks and rubble near a town south of Lima drew hundreds of thousands of viewers on …
On World Water Day, African church leaders highlight shortages
… bigger responsibility.” Munyaka blamed climate change for much of the problem and said more trees and sand dams are needed to keep water from flowing out to the Indian Ocean. He fears that …
Trump's immoral budget
… to be sure, and there are always cost savings to be had if you shake the Pentagon procurement tree. Adding $54 billion in defense spending makes no sense, it meets no need except Trump’s …
Myanmar's first cardinal: Democracy and religious freedom are advancing
… and paint designs on their faces with thanaka , a white or yellowish cream made from a local tree that protects skin against the sun. Buddhist monks, novices and nuns weave through crowded …
Cardinal Muller responds to Collins and defends not answering survivors' letters
… on the sidelines of an event in Florence , said he thought Collins' had resigned "to shake the tree," implying that she perhaps hoped her move might cause some bad fruit to fall to the ground. …