2019
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Commitment to fighting climate change still weak, pope says
By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES, Catholic News Service
Published September 24, 2019The international community must ramp up its efforts if it expects to mitigate the negative effects of climate change, Pope Francis said in a video message sent Sept. 23 to participants at the U.N. Climate Action Summit.
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Marist ‘brothers in arms’ recall 1989 state football championship
By ANDREW NELSON and SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writers
Published September 19, 2019The Marist football team scored three unanswered touchdowns against the Worth County Rams Dec. 16, 1989, winning the state football championship game 30-8. It was the school’s first state title since its inaugural 1913 season.
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U.S. delegation brings V Encuentro results to pope, Vatican
By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
Published September 19, 2019A delegation of U.S. bishops and laypeople came to Rome to share with Pope Francis and Vatican officials the joyful experiences and valuable recommendations that came out of last year’s Fifth National Encuentro.
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Bergman’s ‘Wild Strawberries’ a meditation upon faith and death
Published September 19, 2019
“Wild Strawberries,” which remains one of the great masterpieces of world Christian cinema, premiered in 1957.
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A thousand Notre Dames
By MSGR. RICHARD LOPEZ, Commentary
Published September 19, 2019The eyes of the world were turned toward Paris with the tragic, accidental burning of Notre Dame Cathedral earlier this year. If only the tragedies of the Christians in the Middle East garnered the same level of attention.
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Annual conference inspires catechists to create encounters with Christ
By CATHY WEAVER BISCAN, Special to the Bulletin
Published September 19, 2019A crowd of almost 1,500 filled the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel & Convention Center on Saturday, Aug. 17 as catechists from across the southeast gathered to continue their faith journeys as the theme exclaimed, “Jesus, Walk with Us.”
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St. John the Evangelist students support children’s home in Ghana
Published September 19, 2019
St. John the Evangelist School began the school year with a service project for the Pope Francis Home and School in Ghana.
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New intercultural ministry director shares embracing vision
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published September 19, 2019Lucia Baez Luzondo, the new intercultural ministry director for the archdiocese, hopes to lead Catholics and parishes to an appreciation of the gifts of other cultural families.
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Blessed Trinity High School places cedar crucifix at stadium
By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF, editor@georgiabulletin.org
Published September 19, 2019A new 14-foot tall cedar crucifix at Blessed Trinity High School Stadium serves as a reminder of God’s love to all who visit the Roswell campus.
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Deacon Frank Coughlin dies September 3
Published September 19, 2019
Deacon Frank Fenton Coughlin, who served three different Atlanta parishes, died Sept. 3. He was 84 years old.
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Seeking the light of Christ in the nursing home
By LORRAINE V. MURRAY, Commentary
Published September 19, 2019When I enter the dining room, I see her sitting hunched over in her wheelchair by a table where three other ladies await lunch. “Hi, Mom, it’s Lo Lo!” I enthuse. Her facial expression doesn’t change, but there’s a tiny flash of recognition in her eyes.
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Blue Mass honors public safety officials, first responders
By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
Published September 19, 2019Public safety officials, first responders and Catholics gathered to celebrate the fifth annual Blue Mass on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta.
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St. Pius X student helps stock the pantry at Ronald McDonald House
By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
Published September 19, 2019This is the fifth year that Brian Matthews, a senior at St. Pius X High School in Atlanta, will run a fall pantry drive for the Ronald McDonald House Charities.
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Upcoming Masses celebrate contributions of lay Catholics
By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
Published September 19, 2019Three archdiocesan Masses, to be held in October, will celebrate the work and ministry of laypeople in the church.
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Memories of September 11 attacks linger for former fire department chaplain
By ALLYSON ESCOBAR, Catholic News Service
Published September 10, 2019Msgr. John Delendick, a longtime New York Fire Department chaplain who is currently pastor of St. Jude Church in Brooklyn, remembers Sept. 11, 2001, vividly. At the time of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Msgr. Delendick had just finished celebrating Mass at St. Michael’s Church, Brooklyn, where he was pastor.
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Pinecrest Academy opens new lower school building
By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
Published September 5, 2019Faculty, staff, students and families of Pinecrest Academy gathered to celebrate the opening of the new lower school building on Wednesday, Aug. 7.
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Papal nuncio encourages African clergy, sisters at Fairburn convention
By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Editor
Published September 5, 2019Each year, members of the African Conference of Catholic Clergy and Religious in the United States (ACCCRUS) gather to support and learn from another. From July 24-27, ACCCRUS held its 20th annual convention in Fairburn, with a keynote address by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.
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My grandmother’s enduring love for family
By Lorraine V. Murray
Published September 5, 2019One photo shows a plump woman wearing a plain dress and gazing shyly into the camera. Another shows her on the beach, hiding partially behind her husband and dressed in a skirted bathing suit complete with long stockings. This is my maternal grandmother, Rose Bibbo, a lady whom I never met, but greatly admire.
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The Senior Side: the WHO ministry after the loss of a spouse
By BILL CLARKE, Commentary
Published September 5, 2019The WHO ministry is a parish ministry of committed men and women who have experienced the loss of a spouse and are attempting to build new lives. Their purpose is to help one another by sharing feelings from others who are traveling the same journey.
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Perfect and living compounds
By FATHER JAMES S. BEHRENS, OCSO
Published September 5, 2019God’s life is in us. We are made in his image and likeness—a human/divine compound in which the human cannot be understood apart from its divine dimension.