Now that the international community has agreed to cut carbon emissions, the next step is to begin and it may turn out to be difficult and expensive.
This is the way to start a new week. The ink has dried in a first-of-its-kind universal agreement intended to wean Earth off polluting fossil fuels and slow global warming.
Like my parents did on their wedding day, millions have descend to local churches annually on December 12 and their faith shows no signs of fading.
The growth in the United States is strong, but there are many more in Central and South America, where, along with the Philippines, their devotion has deep roots.
The miraculous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is centuries old and her message to St. Juan Diego has been translated into numerous languages over the years. So what more can we learn about Our Lady of Guadalupe and her message?
Handcrafted art by: Yirong Chen Soto *GUADALUPE" Yirong's needle point embroidery was produced with yarn stitched through an open weave canvas.
The new film is based on Anderson and Msgr. Chavez’s New York Times bestseller, “Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the Civilization of Love.” Narrated by actor Jim Caviezel, the documentary brings the story behind one of the most easily recognized religious images to life with 3D animation, live action reenactments, and expert commentary.
The documentary shows that while Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortez had outlawed the practice of human sacrifice, the Aztecs were witnessing the collapse of their empire, the enslavement of their people by the Spaniards, and catastrophic loss of life due to virulent disease ripping through their population.
Spanish missionaries also recognized the dire situation in Mexico City. Bishop Juan de Zumarraga was so disgusted with the abuses carried out on the native population by the new Spanish government, that he felt that unless a miracle occurred, Mexico City would be lost. He even went to so far as to order all the priests to abandon the city until the government changed its ways.
Thankfully, a miracle did come by the way of the Virgin Mary appearing to the humble peasant, Juan Diego, telling him to have Bishop Zumarraga build a shrine for her on the top of Tepeyac Hill.
In the years that followed, even in the midst of ongoing strife with the Spanish government, one of the largest conversions in the history of the Church took place with 9 million natives being baptized.
There has been a change...Antonio Caban Vale "El Topo" will be headlining instead of Jose Nogueras tonight Saturday, December 12, 2015 @ 8pm The Lehman Center & Grace Marie Herger present:
PARRANDA NAVIDEÑA
A Lehman Center holiday tradition
“Parranda, Jolgorio y Bembe”
Featuring: Antonio Caban Vale “El Topo” & Papo Valle y Trio Borinquen
NASA scientists and astronomers are predicting the Geminids meteor shower will bring an early Christmas spectacular and are saying that it will be this year's greatest. The best viewing will be in dark sky locations, away from city lights. This is also the most wonderful time of the year for spotting a Geminid meteor.
The Geminid which starts late Sunday night and will continue into Monday morning, is famous for producing more meteors per hour than other showers and for so-called fireballs.
As the Christmas holiday spotlights acts of kindness and giving back, a new federal study shows that 1 in 4 volunteered through an organization and 3 in 5 helped their neighbors last year.
The annual Volunteering and Civic Life in America research, released today by the Corporation for National and Community Service and the National Conference on Citizenship, shows that service to others continues to be a priority for millions of Americans.
Christmas presents for the poor of NYC will be handed out by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, Catholic Charities Executive Director Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, New York Catholic Charities and other volunteers.
They will shop to provide basic necessities for needy families as part of the annual St. Nicholas Project shopping day on Saturday, December 12th beginning at 10:00 a.m. at the Kmart at Astor Place in Lower Manhattan (corner of Broadway and 9th Street).
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was written and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.
“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Disappearing groundwater puts world in global crisis. http://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/groundwater/ #PumpedDry
Global Water Shortage: Water Scarcity & The Importance of Water http://thewaterproject.org/water_scarcity#.VmrV1OTy-FY.twitter
Birds Are Dying As Drought Ravages Avian Highways http://on.natgeo.com/1OVYdXq via @NatGeo
US East Coast residents continue to enjoy unusually mild temperatures today. Weather forecasters are predicting possible record breaking high temperatures for the next few days in NYC.
Today Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 61. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around 46. West wind 5 to 8 mph.
Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. West wind around 6 mph.
Saturday Night Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 50. Light west wind.
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience." George Bernard Shaw
As my journalism colleagues CD Jaco and Jay Dow point out, history may repeat itself, if we allow it to do so.
"Regardless of your political leaning, I am a firm believer in acknowledging the events of 'yesterday' - that is, history...and how they may (or may not) influence or guide us today.
After more than four decades of serving as the nation’s economic majority, the American middle class is now matched in number by those in the economic tiers above and below it. In early 2015, 120.8 million adults were in middle-income households, compared with 121.3 million in lower- and upper-income households combined, a demographic shift that could signal a tipping point, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data.