Faith and Struggle on Smokey Mountain Earth Action - Laudato Si'! and Columcille (Columba)

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Faith and Struggle on Smokey Mountain Earth Action - Laudato Si'! and Columcille (Columba)For many years, Smokey Mountain, a vast garbage dump in Manila, the Philippines, served as an emblem of third world squalor. In many ways, it is a metaphor for a planet slowly choking on garbage and waste. But for Fr. Ben Beltran, who served for three decades as chaplain to the 25,000 scavengers who survive off this reeking heap, it is also a metaphor of hope an emblem of the will to survive, the ability to create joy and find meaning even in the