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Candlelight Vigil To Focus On At-Risk Youth
November 24, 2005Atlanta will be one of nearly two dozen cities across North and Latin America to participate in the 15th annual Covenant House Nationwide Candlelight Vigil for Homeless Youth on Dec. 7. Participants are invited to gather from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Centennial Olympic Park Amphitheatre. Covenant House, the largest privately funded youth care agency in […]
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Renowned Priest Speaks On Adoption
November 24, 2005In honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, Father George Clements, founder and president of One Church One Child, Inc., recently spoke at an adoption celebration at St. Anthony of Padua Church. Sponsored by One Church, One Child of Georgia, Inc., and the Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHR) Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS), […]
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Jewish-Catholic Choir To Perform Sacred Music Concert
November 24, 2005A combined Jewish and Catholic choir will present a Sacred Music Concert of Jewish and Christian Texts on Thursday, Dec. 15, at The Temple, in honor of the 40th anniversary on Oct. 28 of the landmark “Nostra Aetate,” a Second Vatican Council declaration that affirmed a more positive relationship of the Church to non-Christian religions […]
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Sweet Treats Available Year-Round At Monastery
November 24, 2005At the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, on the basement floor of the monastery proper, is a room marked by a sign reading “The Fudgery.” Inside this room, the monks create a variety of smooth and creamy fudge designed to tempt the sweet tooth of every candy lover. The fudgery is the brainchild […]
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Bishops Approve Major Documents At Meeting
November 24, 2005After selecting a new general secretary for the next five years and taking a series of votes on major documents Nov. 15, members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops moved into executive session for the second half of their Nov. 14-17 annual meeting in Washington. But before they did, they debated and approved documents […]
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Friend Illustrates The Color Of Love
November 17, 2005I think they are called “morning glories.” They grow on an old fence that stands before a garden that is now fallow, for it is autumn and the time for growing vegetables has passed. The flowers come in several shades—white, violet, pink, blue. I do not know what gives a flower a different color. On […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (November 17, 2005)
November 17, 2005I receive a lot of mail that includes requests for a meeting with me! I think that it goes with the territory of being the Archbishop of a large and growing local Church. I try to respond to all my mail in a timely fashion—but not always as quickly as I would like, and I […]
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Sister Mary Fran Bruns, Former Administrator, Dies
November 17, 2005Sister Mary Frances Bruns, CSJ, died Nov. 6 at the Nazareth Living Center in St. Louis. She was 66 years old. Daughter of George and Gertrude Bruns, she entered the sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1959 at age 17 and made her final profession in August 1964. Sister Mary Fran served in the […]
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Help End The Cycle Of Poverty
November 17, 2005My Dear Friends in Christ, Could you live on $9,393 a year? Could your family of four live on $18,810 a year? Those figures, according to the government’s Census Bureau, defined the most recently studied poverty line. Today’s statistics reveal that in spite of the prosperity many Americans enjoy, nearly 36 million of us—including one […]
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Aerial Angels Of Mercy Respond To Hurricane Crisis
November 17, 2005When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast nearly three months ago and the larger relief agencies responded to victims on the ground, Angel Flight of Georgia (AFGA), a small nonprofit group located in the administration building of Atlanta’s DeKalb Peachtree Airport, took to the air to offer assistance to those in need. For over 20 […]