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Catholic Charities Staffer To Serve On National Team
January 18, 2007Catholic Charities USA has selected Atlanta director of parish and social justice ministry, Susan Sullivan, to join its national parish social ministry leadership team. According to its literature, the team is “a network of people in parishes, dioceses and Catholic Charities agencies working to act for justice and serve those in need in our Church, […] Full Story
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Parishes Work Hand-In-Hand With Atlanta CRS
January 18, 2007Simone Blanchard, who speaks Spanish and studied Japanese in Japan, hopes to work overseas one day for Catholic Relief Services, but for now she is joyful to work in Atlanta for CRS, as she has been interested in people from other countries since middle school. “I’ve always had a desire to work with people from […]
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St. Anna’s Parish Jubilee Brings Fond Memories
January 18, 2007When St. Anna’s Church was formally dedicated in 1957, it was the first rural mission in the new Atlanta Diocese. Parishioners had taken a unique hands-on approach to construct the white frame chapel by raising funds through a magazine subscription drive, and through their hard work, the first Mass was celebrated in the new chapel […]
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‘Miss Potter’ Charms As Engaging Film Biography
January 18, 2007“Miss Potter,” a film biography of the famous children’s author, is a charming story that mixes triumph and heartbreak to create a picture of a creative woman who learns to live on her own terms and find her own happiness. Directed by Chris Noonan, “Miss Potter” stars Renee Zellweger as Beatrix Potter, the writer and […]
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Atlanta Parish To Present ‘Damn Yankees’
January 18, 2007Holy Cross Church will present the musical comedy “Damn Yankees” in mid-February. Proceeds will benefit the parish’s Friends of St. Martin de Porres ministry to the homeless. “Damn Yankees” depicts Joe Boyd (Dennis Nelson), a middle-aged husband of the 1950s who’s crazy about baseball but frustrated with his Washington Senators. He mumbles that he would […] Full Story
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CRS Makes Home In Atlanta To Serve The Southeast
January 18, 2007Leaning on its 52 years of working in Pakistan, Catholic Relief Services provided shelter, clean drinking water and refurbished schools to help over 166,000 Pakistanis following the 2006 earthquake that killed 73,000 people, thus earning the “Star of Sacrifice” award from Pakistan. Last year CRS celebrated its 60th anniversary of serving in India and following […]
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MLK Celebration Mass Emphasizes Call To Be ‘True Neighbors’
January 18, 2007The Gospel story of the Good Samaritan, which was the text used by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he gave his last public address in 1968, provided the inspiration for the 2007 Mass remembering the legacy of the civil rights leader in a new time of heightened questions about “who is my […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (January 11, 2007)
January 11, 2007The bishops of the Southeast and the mid-Atlantic provinces are going on retreat this week at the Passionist Retreat House in West Palm Beach, Florida. It will be my second time praying with my brothers at this facility. Bishops generally seem to pray quite well together. Every priest is supposed to make a meaningful retreat […]
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Renovations: Knocking Down Walls In Our Hearts
January 11, 2007My critical eye surveys the kitchen linoleum: It is old and ugly and needs to go. We also need new sinks in the bathroom, and if I have to continue gazing at the blue-flowered wallpaper one more day, surely I will go mad. Truth be told, most of my home-improvement jobs are done on the […]
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Mountain Parish Holds Contemplative Live Nativity
January 11, 2007For Catholics, there are many ways of adoring Christ, such as eucharistic adoration, the celebration of Eucharist at daily Mass, the study of the word of God in Scripture, and works of charity toward the poor. Then there is a unique form of adoration: the live Nativity. St. Francis of Assisi has been credited with […]