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What News Horatio? Poems by Gary Bouchard
November 2, 2022If you live in, or travel through, the East Cobb neighborhood of Metro Atlanta, you probably know about Woody the parrot. Woody went missing from his home last Thanksgiving, and he became the subject of much fascination.
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Marist School awards highest honor to Markwalters
November 2, 2022Marist School has announced Juanita and Jack Markwalter as the recipients of the school’s highest honor, the St. Peter Chanel Award.
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Doug Hooker elected to SVdP Georgia Board
November 2, 2022Former Atlanta Regional Commission executive director joins elected as board member for St. Vincent de Paul Georgia.
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Saints were revolutionaries who lived the beatitudes, pope says
November 1, 2022The multitude of men and women honored on the feast of All Saints lived according to the Eight Beatitudes, which made them decidedly out of place in the world, Pope Francis said Nov. 1 before reciting the Angelus prayer.
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Racism and the death penalty
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Tender smiles on our heavenly Father’s face
October 28, 2022On my walks in the neighborhood, I enjoy capturing photos of birds and beasts, which I collect under the heading “Catch of the Day.”
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A time to live and a time to die
October 28, 2022As the year is drawing to an end, nature is, in a sense, preaching a silent sermon to us. The days are getting shorter, the air is cooler, trees are shedding leaves. We are in a season marked by death.
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Atlanta seminarians meet with newly appointed auxiliary bishop
October 28, 2022Eight seminarians from the Archdiocese of Atlanta had the opportunity to meet the newly appointed auxiliary bishop for North and Central Georgia, Bishop-designate John Nhan Tran. The seminarians study at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, where the bishop-designate has been serving.
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Aiding people on their worst day, funeral workers serve others’ needs
October 27, 2022November brings days of remembrance for the church’s beloved dead—All Saints’ Day, a holy day of obligation, followed by All Souls’ Day. Those who help bury the dead and accompany their grieving families regard their work as a privilege.
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‘Can’t not do it,’ says Sister Prejean of her fight to end death penalty
October 27, 2022Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph, shows no signs of slowing down in her long-standing fight to end the death penalty. At 83, she is writing her fourth book while directing her advocacy organization, Ministry Against the Death Penalty, in New Orleans.