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St. Ann To Hold 26th Annual Craft Fair
November 23, 2006Thousands of shoppers will converge at St. Ann Church on Friday, Dec. 1, and Saturday, Dec. 2, for the 26th Annual Apple Annie Crafts and Arts Show. The Women’s Guild at St. Ann’s started Apple Annie in 1981 using a couple of fold-out tables in front of a grocery store with the purpose of raising […]
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St. Joseph School, Athens, Receives Dual Accreditation
November 23, 2006St. Joseph School in Athens has been awarded dual accreditation by the Southern Association of Independent Schools and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SAIS-SACS). The school was established in 1949 by Father Walter Donovan and is currently headed by Principal Barbara Bankston. Although St. Joseph’s has had SACS accreditation for a number of […]
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Archdiocesan Ministries Mark World AIDS Day
November 23, 2006Irene Miranda is passionate in her belief that Catholics are called to serve those with HIV/AIDS. And the simplest and perhaps most effective way to serve them, the director of the archdiocesan Office of HIV/AIDS ministry believes, is to pray for them. This year, the Archdiocese of Atlanta’s HIV/AIDS ministry will sponsor several events marking […]
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A Wedding Day Resurrection
November 16, 2006“Would you like to see the bride?” I am standing with a group of my female relatives in a mansion in Oklahoma City, where my niece’s wedding is about to take place. When the bridal consultant approaches us, there is no hesitation. Of course we want to see the bride! And as we climb the […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (November 16, 2006)
November 16, 2006During the time that I served as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, I received scores of communications regarding many and varied topics as the November plenary meeting of the U.S. bishops drew near. Thanks be to God, I now receive very few such messages. I do, however, even now still collect a […]
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Jan Sebacher Honored For Aquinas Center Work
November 16, 2006Frederick Buechner once said that vocation is that place where “one’s deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” And vocation is the place that Jan M. Sebacher, program coordinator and manager extraordinaire, found at the Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University where he served first as a volunteer and later as an employee. […]
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Two Ordained As Transitional Deacons For Atlanta
November 16, 2006Though they are 5,000 miles apart from each other, two men recently took a new step on their journey toward priesthood as they were ordained traditional deacons for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Rev. Mr. Armando Herrejon-Lopez was ordained to the transitional diaconate on Oct. 31 at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta, following […]
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Belleville Chancellor Praises Value Of Pastoral Council
November 16, 2006David R. Spotanski, who served as vice chancellor for the Diocese of Belleville during then-Bishop Wilton D. Gregory’s tenure, worked with the Diocesan Pastoral Council for a number of years. Now chancellor for administration and pastoral services in that diocese, he shared in a recent interview some of the history and insights of the DPC, […] Full Story
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Archdiocesan Pastoral Council: Questions And Answers
November 16, 2006Why have an archdiocesan pastoral council? “Council” is the process for gathering the insights of the Holy Spirit dwelling within the whole Church. It is a belief that is actually older than the Church, going back to covenant and creation. In the Christian Scriptures, when a crisis confronted the infant Church, it was resolved through […]
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Hapeville Deacon Honored For Decades Of Devotion
November 16, 2006When a parish community is first established, there are always certain individuals who help to get the church off the ground. In many ways these individuals become the heart and soul of that parish. At St. John the Evangelist Church in Hapeville, Deacon Richard Beckman is such an individual. The countless hours he has given […]