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21 Brownies Receive Family Of God Medals
July 15, 2004Twenty-one students from Holy Spirit Preparatory School Brownie Scout Troop 21359 have been awarded Family of God Medals. Msgr. Edward J. Dillon, pastor of Holy Spirit Church, presented the medals in a ceremony at the school. The girls completed work on the Family of God Medals during four months of activities. Participating in the activities […]
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St. George Village Retirement Complex Breaks Ground
July 15, 2004Charter members of St. George Village were the guests of honor June 9 as the ground was broken for the retirement community where they’re eager to begin living. To be built alongside St. Peter Chanel Church, on a campus that includes Queen of Angels Elementary School and Blessed Trinity High School, it is the first […]
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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 […]