New forested cemetery allows for gentle reflection rather than rows of gravesites
McClatchy Newspapers
6/22/2008, by Arlene Martínez - The Morning Call
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The sky is blue, the early-morning air is crisp, and you inhale deeply before walking into the forest. Memories _ along with a soft padding of moss, grass and soil _ cushion each step. You find the tree you've come to easily recognize. You tell your loved ones, whose cremated ...
Gift of self-reliance: Prosthetic arm helps teen recover from Ugandan war
McClatchy Newspapers
6/19/2008, by Carolyn Davis
PHILADELPHIA - The doctor was telling the teenage war veteran from Uganda that he could alternate between two attachments to his new prosthetic arm: a hook or a hand. The hook "doesn't look as beautiful," said Alberto Esquenazi, the physician who leads MossRehab's Regional Amputee Center and who ...
What’s in a lyric? It doesn’t have to be ‘Christian music’ to be Christian music
West Texas Angelus
5/15/2008, by Jimmy Patterson
SAN ANGELO, Texas (West Texas Angelus) - Greg Witt, a talented local guitarist in Midland, Texas, and a fellow Catholic, and I had a conversation a couple of weeks ago about music. I asked him if a tune like “Eruption” or “You Really Got Me,” both by Van Halen, were “glorifying to God.” While Greg ...
‘Rosary for Warriors’: One wife’s inspiration grows to global prayer drive for military
Arlington Catholic Herald
5/14/2008, by Henrietta Gomes
ARLINGTON, VA (Arlington Catholic Herald) - As she was driving back from a memorial service for a young family friend and four other soldiers killed in the war in Iraq, Lynda MacFarland felt compelled “to do something” to bring comfort to the grieving. Inspired and humbled by the strength of the ...
Some financial advice for Mother’s Day: How working moms can ease their load
The Christian Science Monitor
5/5/2008, by Kathleen Connell
American families celebrating Mother's Day next Sunday might take some time to reflect on the changing financial role that mothers play.
The days when mothers remained home to raise children are rapidly disappearing.
Today, most mothers hold jobs outside the home, assume the burden of ...
Experts worry: Can earth provide enough food for 9 billion people by the year 2050?
The Christian Science Monitor
4/30/2008, by David R. Francis
The world is an odd place. A tight global food situation with record-high grain prices presents the possibility of increasing malnutrition, perhaps famine, in parts of Africa and South Asia. Yet an estimated 1.6 billion adults, about a quarter of the world's 6.7 billion people, are overweight, some ...
Organ donation a way to give of oneself — literally — to give another a fighting chance
Denver Catholic Register
4/30/2008, by John Gleason
DENVER, CO (Denver Catholic Register) - April has been designated National Donate Life Month, a time to educate Americans about the need for organ and tissue donation and transplantations. Right now in our nation, nearly 100,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. Every day, 18 ...
Parents turn tragedy of daughter’s death into foundation to advocate safe teen driving
The Catholic Voice
4/21/2008, by Lisa Maxson
OMAHA, Neb. (The Catholic Voice) - Rob and Shari Reynolds have found a way to turn a tragedy into something positive.
The Omaha couple, whose 16-year-old daughter, Cady, was killed in a car accident last May, have started a foundation in her memory.
The C.A.R. Foundation — named with Cady’s ...
How Earth Day became … so everyday
The Christian Science Monitor
4/21/2008, by Gregory M. Lamb
(The Christian Science Monitor) - At 38 years old, Earth Day seems to be entering a midlife identity crisis. By one estimate, some 1 billion people around the world will do something to observe the anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970, a landmark in the history of the environmental movement. ...
Mourners recall firefighter’s life of service
The Tidings
4/11/2008, by Ellie Hidalgo
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Remembered for his dedication, humor and ultimate sacrifice, Brent Allan Lovrien — a loyal firefighter who lost his life in a March 26 explosion — received a hero’s memorial at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on April 4. City fire Chaplain George Negrete ...
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