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Covenant House Head Sees Atlanta Branch At Work
July 15, 2004As part of her inaugural tour of the 21 branches of Covenant House, its new national president Sister Patricia A. Cruise recently visited the Atlanta site, which is raising funds to build a 40-bed crisis shelter. Since opening in August 2000, Covenant House Georgia has served about 3,000 youth and is the youngest branch of […]
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GED Class Can Be Her Doorway To A Better Life
July 15, 2004Three days before her high school graduation Jessica Walden learned that she had failed the graduation test for the third time and wouldn’t be getting her diploma. “I had retaken the test two times. I didn’t give up. I just didn’t want to take the test again,” said Walden. Now 20 years old, and after […]
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Covenant House Chosen To Combat Human Trafficking
July 15, 2004Covenant House, the agency devoted to serving homeless and runaway youths, through a grant received in February from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is operating a new hotline for victims of human trafficking. The contract for the program, initiated under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2002 and managed by the Office […]
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Teaching Nun, Sister Rita Led Many To God
July 15, 2004As a teacher and an administrator at St. Pius X High School, Sister Rita Marie Raffaele had a reputation for being strict. But for those who knew her, her toughness was balanced, if not overpowered, by her fairness, good humor and, most especially, her great faith in God. Though small in stature, the late Grey […]
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Military Chaplain Honored At Retirement
July 15, 2004Father Paul J. Bolton, who will be 68 in October and has been a priest for 42 years, has been serving in the military chaplaincy for 39 years. A priest of the Diocese of Providence, R.I., he began by serving as a chaplain to the Rhode Island National Guard in July 1965. In addition to […]
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Natural Family Planning Is Vital Church Ministry
July 15, 2004In his Letter to Families (1994) Pope John Paul II cites ministry to the family as one of the church’s essential duties. The family is the building block of society and, our faith tells us, the “domestic church.” It is the place where husband and wife love each other “as Christ loves the church” (Eph. […]
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Couples Speak To Couples In NFP Classes
July 15, 2004Natural Family Planning has been referred to as “the church’s best kept secret,” but in the Archdiocese of Atlanta the secret is out and couples are signing up for classes in record numbers. I believe the reason for the increase can be summed up in the support of Archbishop John F. Donoghue and the amazing […]
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CTK School Raises Funds For Children In Haiti
July 15, 2004Christ the King School students who heard a Haitian priest speak about the poor conditions in his country have been empowered to try to make a difference. When Christ the King School’s second- through fifth-grade student council held their first meeting in September, the representatives wanted to make sure to do a service project to […]
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Dom Francis Michael Receives Abbatial Blessing
July 15, 2004Dom Francis Michael Stiteler, OCSO, received the abbatial blessing as the seventh abbot of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Monastery on the feast of St. Benedict July 11 with 600 to 700 people witnessing the celebration. The Mass of blessing came 30 years after the abbot, a native of Philadelphia, entered the Conyers monastery […]
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Independence Day And Human Dignity
July 1, 2004Some of us can remember dealing with the childhood challenge of distinguishing “independents” from “independence.” Having worked that issue through in homework assignments, we came each summer to the annual Fourth of July observance ready to celebrate our independence as independent citizens of “the greatest country in the world.” Being independent is the goal of […]