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VOX DEI, VOX MUNDI: God's Voice is Earth's
VOX MUNDI, VOX TERRAE: the Earth's Voice is the Land's
VOX TERRAE, VOX POPULI: the Land's Voice is the People's
VOX POPULI, VOX DEI: the People's Voice is God's

In the beginning was the WORD … God said, “Let there be LIGHT”
WORD and LIGHT are expressive of all other, bonded in LOVE’s Purpose, in reciprocal Self-expression.

The Pascal Mysteries celebrate WORD/LIGHT/LOVE in the mutual purposes of self and other — what Eucharist is, what Cosmic Evolution is about.

By CATHLEEN FALSANI, Religion News Service

CHICAGO -- One of the most vivid, and perhaps most telling, memories I have of the Rev. Michael Pfleger is the image of him standing on top of -- not in front of or behind -- the wooden altar that's shaped like an African drum inside the gothic sanctuary of his South Side parish, St. Sabina's.

Pfleger, in robes trimmed with Kente-patterned cloth, is sweating and shouting into a microphone as about 200 people, many of them addicts in various stages of recovery, ring the altar where he is perched and pelt him with packs of cigarettes.

By Paul R. Kopenkoskey, RELIGION NEWS SERVICE

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) The perception that people unfettered by religion are happier than those who regularly attend church is false, an economist says.

"People who believe in no moral constraints on activities have less happiness," said Arthur Brooks, professor of business and government policy at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, during a lecture series sponsored by the Acton Institute.

By Barbara J. Fraser Catholic News Service

LIMA, Peru (CNS) -- When Meghan Hurley got word that she had won the Eileen Egan Award for journalists, she was doing volunteer work with teenage girls high in the Andes Mountains, half a world away from Cabrini College in Radnor, Pa.

The award-winning series of stories by Hurley and fellow student Amanda Finnegan helped spur the college's food service to add fair-trade coffee and other items to its menus and won the two a trip to another part of the world -- the Middle East -- to see the work that Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' international aid and development agency, is doing with Iraqi refugees.

By Bronwen Dachs, Catholic News Service

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) -- Zimbabwean church groups are "in danger of police interference at any time," a Catholic official said after the Ecumenical Center in the capital, Harare, was raided June 9.

"No one is immune to these raids," Alouis Chaumba, head of Zimbabwe's Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, said in a June 10 telephone interview from Harare.

Reviewed by Graham Yearley, Catholic News Service

SOLIDARITY WILL TRANSFORM THE WORLD: STORIES OF HOPE FROM CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES by Jeffry O'Dell Korgen Orbis Books, 176 pages, $16.

There is a widely held belief that evil makes more interesting reading than goodness. These two slim books show what a preposterous fallacy that belief is as they both entertain and show the workings of goodness in our world.

In Solidarity Will Transform the World, author Jeffry O'Dell Korgen takes the reader on a tour of five countries where Catholic Relief Services is transforming the way the First World relates to the Third World. CRS is the U.S. bishops' overseas relief and development agency.

We, the advantaged, traditionally think of charity as moving in one direction, from the privileged to the unprivileged; we feed, they eat. CRS projects work with one priority: to assist the poor in making their contribution to the common good.

As in many things in the church we have a misnomer here. God is not Holy. God is not the fountain of all holiness. Holiness is or can be the sole property of man. God is God, God is Awesome, holiness is a measure of our attempt to reach toward God. Love the Lord with all your heart, your mind etc.. That is holiness.
Now for the question.
If a man does not conserve the resources that God gave us...If he does not recycle and regenerate creation...