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‘Life Is But A Dream’ On The Chattahoochee
May 27, 2004It’s a beautiful spring day, the first in over a week that the sun has won the battle over late afternoon rain showers. Behind the off-white stucco building of St. Andrew’s Church echoes the sound of laughing teenagers. There is a gravel drive just outside the parking lot that leads down to what the church’s […]
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Voice Of The Shepherd Experienced Through Parents
May 27, 2004Mass is over, and we are walking into the narthex when we spot Jude, 3, the beloved son of our neighbors, who is carrying a piece of paper in his hands as if it were a priceless vase. I lean down to examine the paper and discover it is a sheet from Sunday school, which […]
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Priest Kicks Up Dust At Charity Motorcycle Ride
May 27, 2004For Father Vincent Sullivan, participating in “Vinny’s Ride,” an annual motorcycle ride to support the St. Vincent de Paul Society, was an easy decision. It combines two of his great interests—motorcycles and charity. Father Sullivan, a priest at Christ the King Cathedral in Atlanta, is one of more than a hundred priests, bikers and community […]
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Encuentro Praised As ‘Model’ For Hispanic Ministry
May 27, 2004At the Encuentro for Hispanic Ministry held on May 1 at Holy Cross Church, Alejandro Aguilera-Titus, associate director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs, praised the collaborative process the Atlanta Archdiocese is undergoing to develop and implement its own pastoral plan for Hispanic ministry, asserting its potential to serve […]
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Conyers Monastery Elects New Abbot
May 27, 2004Dom Francis Michael Stiteler, OCSO, was elected the seventh abbot of the Cistercian Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit on May 20, in a vote by the community there. Last year, he was appointed the superior ad nutum of the monastery for a term of one year by Father Immediate Dom Damien Thompson, […]
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Leaving Campus With A Diploma – And Integrity
May 20, 2004In 1954, at the outdoor commencement on the Avenue of the Oaks on the beautiful Spring Hill College campus in Mobile, Ala., a public announcement was made that Spring Hill would enroll Negro students the following September. Racial integration came to the college the same year the U.S. Supreme Court announced its landmark “Brown vs. […]
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Advisory Board Member Says Archdiocese Complies With Sex Abuse Policy
May 20, 2004In the last month or so, several stories have appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the Archdiocese of Atlanta’s response to the national sexual abuse scandal. Those stories spawned a recent editorial in that newspaper and several letters to the editor. You may have seen my name given as a member of the Advisory Board […]
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2004 Eucharistic Congress Reflects Decade Of Prayer, Evangelization In Archdiocese
May 20, 2004Published: May 20, 2004 ATLANTA—When the 2004 Eucharistic Congress opens on June 12, it will be with a procession of thousands of people walking reverently behind the Blessed Sacrament held aloft in a monstrance. In a very real sense, there has been such a procession in the Archdiocese of Atlanta for 10 years now, of […]
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Youth News: High-Voltage Summer Events Recharge Teens’ Faith
May 20, 2004Exams are over. Homework is just a memory. Another school year’s completed and life’s distractions have been blissfully lessened. But as summer provides a much-needed vacation, should teens be taking a break from their faith journeys? The Office of Youth Ministry in the archdiocese adamantly responds to that question with an emphatic “no.” Instead, the […]
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Youth News: Spotlight On A Saint
May 20, 2004St. Adjutor Not much is known about St. Adjutor, who was a Norman lord, master of Vernon-sur-Seine, a region in France. He was also a knight who fought in the First Crusade. His Contribution To The Church While serving in the Crusades, he was captured by Muslims who tried to force him to abandon his […]