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St. Pius X Hispanic Community Prays For Vocations
May 25, 2006On World Day of Prayer for Vocations, St. Pius X Parish initiated a new push for home prayer. During the Sunday Mass for Spanish-speaking people, a new mahogany carved crucifix was blessed as an icon to promote prayers for vocations in the homes of parishioners. Selected families will take the cross each week and use […]
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Ethicist Discusses ‘Slippery Slope’ Of Cloning
May 25, 2006Imagine this: A doctor takes the nucleus from a patient’s skin cell and fuses it with an egg cell to create a human clone. Then the cloned embryo isn’t just destroyed for the harvesting of stem cells to treat the patient without risk of immune system rejection, which is called “therapeutic cloning.” Instead, the doctor […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (May 16, 2006)
May 18, 2006Pride will be written all over the faces of countless thousands of people during these next two weeks as our local graduates walk across a stage somewhere to receive a diploma. Grammar school, high school and college graduates have the universal ability to bring tears to the eyes of parents and grandparents with the simple […]
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Crosses Along The Way Point Homeward
May 18, 2006I left the monastery a few years ago, and it was a very painful time for me. I did not realize how much I had grown to love this place until it was far from me. I moved to an apartment in Covington, La. I came back for visits, and it was not too long […]
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Church’s Concern Over Misrepresentations Is Pastoral
May 18, 2006Causing people to see something they never saw before in a 500-year-old work of art which is among the most famous and reproduced of all time is an accomplishment of genius, if that “something” is a valid new insight. If it is not, then this kind of achievement usually goes by other names. “The Da […]
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IHM ‘Eagles’ Train For Peachtree Jr.
May 18, 2006Every Tuesday and Thursday morning from 7:15 to 7:45 about 35 students meet on the field behind Immaculate Heart of Mary School. The children, many training for their second Peachtree Junior Road Race, typically run 1.5 to 2 miles every morning to prepare for the June 3 race inside Piedmont Park. “Training for the Peachtree […]
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Congress Offers ‘Revive!’ For Young Adults
May 18, 2006Atlanta young adults will have an opportunity to deepen their faith as a diverse group of speakers present at “Revive!” the annual young adult track of the Eucharistic Congress, which will be held Friday, June 16, from 7:30-10:30 p.m. at the Georgia International Convention Center. The event, which is expected to draw 600-800 young adults […]
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Three Men To Be Ordained To Priesthood
May 18, 2006On Saturday, May 27, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will ordain Rev. Mr. Yuen Caballejo, Rev. Mr. Rafael Carballo and Rev. Mr. Jose Luis Hernandez to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. All are invited to attend the ordination Mass, which will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta. […]
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Father Francis Xavier, Monastery Founder, Dies
May 18, 2006Father Francis Xavier Kavanagh, OCSO, a founder of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit and the senior monk of the nine Trappist monasteries for men in the United States, died late in the evening on May 9. He was nearly 94 years old and would have celebrated 75 years as a monk […]
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Village To Build Chapel
May 18, 2006For over 130 years, many have looked to the Village of St. Joseph to help piece together their lives. Now clients of the “orphanage turned counseling center” will have greater access to spiritual direction and healing with the addition of a chapel on the center’s premises. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has given permission for a […]