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Archbishop Tells Pro-Life Advocates To Be Diligent, Gentle
February 1, 2007Each year on Jan. 22 they gather to remember, they gather to mourn, they gather to pray, and they gather to hope. Thousands of Catholics filled the downtown Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to commemorate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the fateful court case that legalized abortion at any stage of life in the […]
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St. Philip Benizi Enjoys New Building’s Blessing
January 28, 2007Although the weekend of Dec. 2-3, 2006, officially marked the end of St. Philip Benizi Church’s three-year capital campaign, parishioners and visitors alike will reap the benefits and blessings of the building project for many years to come. The new religious education building, blessed on September 9, 2006, by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, is already […] Full Story
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‘Dualing’ It Out On The Mat
January 28, 2007Published: January 18, 2007 ATLANTA—Blessed Trinity High School wrestled the trophy away from Marist School during the fifth annual Catholic Duals wrestling tournament held Jan. 10 at Marist’s Atlanta campus. Marist had won the tournament every year since its inception in 2003. The Catholic Duals, which brings the wrestling teams of Blessed Trinity, Roswell, Marist, […]
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Paul’s Conversion Shows Hope for All Sinners
January 25, 2007God sometimes does dramatic things to get our attention. Maybe we come down with some strange, out-of-the-blue illness. Maybe we lose our jobs. For Saul, the drama involved being blinded for three days. This Saul fellow was quite the scoundrel. He was trying to destroy the early Christian church, arresting Christians and arranging for their […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (January 25, 2007)
January 25, 2007Last Saturday I was inducted into the Order of St. Lazarus, an international fraternal military and hospital order that is nearly nine centuries old. This association, like many other ecclesial groups, was initially founded to perform works of charity—in the case of St. Lazarus they were caregivers for those people with leprosy. In addition they […]
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Police Seek To Identify Man Killed In Church Lot
January 25, 2007The pastor of St. Patrick Church, Father Tom Hennessy, said he will bless and re-consecrate the property and grounds of the church this week as he guides his parish community in the wake of the killing of an unknown man in a back church parking lot Jan. 21. The blessing “will be done privately” and […]
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Duluth Mission Burns, Church Hastens To Help
January 25, 2007The call came into the Gwinnett fire department on Thursday, Jan. 18, just before 6:30 a.m.—a small strip shopping center on Buford Highway was on fire. Fire trucks were dispatched minutes later to the building, which houses, among the small businesses, the Catholic mission of Duluth, church home to approximately 1,200 Hispanic Catholics in the […]
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Passionist Father Joseph Fahy Dies
January 25, 2007Father Joseph Fahy, CP, Ph.D., parochial vicar at St. Paul of the Cross Church and long-time priest in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, died Monday, Jan. 22, after a brief illness. He was 78. A vigil and rosary in memory of Father Fahy was planned for Thursday, Jan. 25, from 7 to 9:30 p.m., at St. […]
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Deacon David Higgins Of Carrollton Dies
January 25, 2007Deacon David Higgins, who served at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, died suddenly Jan. 21. A member of OLPH since 1966, Deacon Higgins was ordained to the permanent diaconate in 1987. He helped to start the religious education program there, and continued to serve in the area of adult education. In addition to his […] Full Story
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Convert’s Faith Blooms Into Religious Vocation
January 25, 2007A then “firmly pro-choice” philosophy major at Agnes Scott College, Joy Payton wrote her senior thesis on medical ethics to defend euthanasia. But during her research she came to realize that she couldn’t make a cogent argument to justify it and shifted the focus of the paper to refute it—and became pro-life. Payton was raised […]