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Session Promotes Service Opportunities ‘At Home’
April 27, 2006Though the poverty outside of the United States can be staggering, organizers of Joseph’s Apprentices, a service opportunity at Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth, Mass., believe there’s no place like home. At a workshop during the National Catholic Educational Association convention held at the Georgia World Congress Center, Bishop Stang director of guidance […]
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Pope Teaches How Church’s Truths Educate The Heart
April 27, 2006At the National Catholic Educational Association convention, Father Bevil Bramwell, OMI, Ph.D., affirmed Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching that the most profound, authentic education leads the student to both knowledge and reverence for God through which one becomes more fully human and integrated in the truth. One must have an openness to God who enlightens one […]
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Catholic Educators Encouraged To Face Challenges Ahead
April 27, 2006Catholic schools have a precedent from which they can learn how to break through when things look rough, according to Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta. “The church of Jesus Christ was born in challenging times!” he said, echoing the theme of the National Catholic Educational Association’s 103rd annual convention, “Charting the Future in Challenging […]
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Candlelight Procession Will Mark Feast Of Immaculate Conception
April 27, 2006The second annual candlelight Marian procession in honor of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception will be held Thursday, Dec. 8, beginning with Mass at Sacred Heart Church at 7 p.m. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will celebrate the Mass, which will be immediately followed by a candlelight procession to the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, … Continue reading Candlelight Procession Will Mark Feast Of Immaculate Conception
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What I Have Seen and Heard (April 20, 2006)
April 20, 2006“Am I a Catholic now?’ The question was so honest and stark that I must have appeared a bit incoherent in my response—“Yes, you’re a Catholic now!” As the lady left the cathedra on the Easter Vigil at Christ the King, with the Chrism still glistening on her face, she was indeed a Catholic—professed and […]
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Atlanta Church Honors Senior ‘Trailblazers’
April 20, 2006St. Paul of the Cross Church will bestow their seventh annual “Trailblazer” awards on Sunday, April 30, during 11:30 a.m. Mass. At this year’s ceremony, the parish will honor all senior members, recognizing with special awards five members who have demonstrated outstanding service in the parish stewardship program and community. The theme of the award […]
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Faith Journey Culminates At Easter Vigil
April 20, 2006Bradley Buzard, 47, knelt in a shallow pool of water at St. Philip Benizi Church Saturday evening April 15 and was baptized into the Catholic faith. Water drenched him as the baptismal prayer “in the name of the Father—and of the Son—and of the Holy Spirit” was proclaimed. The only man among nine people baptized […]
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Archdiocese To Close St. Teresa, St. Thomas Manors
April 20, 2006With the growing demand for many of their frail elderly residents to receive a more technical level of care, coupled with the fact that resources are not available for those types of services, the Archdiocese of Atlanta has decided to close its two personal care homes: St. Teresa Manor in Riverdale and St. Thomas Manor […]
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Home Missions Need Support Of Atlanta Catholics
April 20, 2006Dear Friends in Christ, On the weekend of April 29-30, Catholics in parishes across the nation are being asked to contribute to the Catholic Home Missions Appeal. But what is a ‘home mission’? And why should we support it? If you have ever visited eastern Kentucky or Tennessee, driven through rural Georgia, Alabama, or Mississippi, … Continue reading Home Missions Need Support Of Atlanta Catholics
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Polish Catholic’s Holocaust Memories Preserved In Book
April 20, 2006Throughout his 40-year career as a physicist in the United States, Mathew “Maciej” Sikorski, Ph.D., rarely mentioned his tormented past as a youth in Warsaw, Poland, under Nazi besiegement and his deportation from the blazing city to a labor camp. After emigrating to the United States in 1951, the Polish Catholic married his wife Barbara, […]