from Al-Jazeera America GLENMARY, Ky. – Like most Americans, I suspect, I was not very familiar with Appalachian Kentucky. But travel just a short distance outside Lexington’s lovely bluegrass, and you find yourself in very different surroundings. Eastern Kentucky isn’t the barren wasteland you might have imagined. Yes, strip mining has changed the landscape in … Continue reading CARE FOR CREATION: The Catholic priest in Kentucky’s “coal country”
REFLECTION: A pilgrimage to the holy land of Appalachia
by Fr. John Rausch, glmy Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace Last August during our 2014 pilgrimage, I asked Dr. Tom Barnes, a naturalist with the University of Kentucky’s Department of Forestry, to show our group some waterfalls and talk about the region. Near Wrigley, KY, at a waterfall that ran only a trickle during … Continue reading REFLECTION: A pilgrimage to the holy land of Appalachia