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Ceremony Honors Father O’Reilly’s Courageous Act
March 18, 2004The zeal of an Irish missionary priest, Father Thomas O’Reilly, was honored on March 12 as the Hibernian Benevolent Society held its annual ceremony outside old City Hall, commemorating the priest’s selfless courage in convincing Union Gen. Sherman to spare five churches, City Hall and the Court House in his burning of Atlanta. Father Mark […]
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Rite Of Election Can Be Traced Back To Early Church
March 11, 2004Children, men and women throughout the Archdiocese of Atlanta are preparing to be initiated into the Catholic Church at Easter. As they begin the final weeks of their preparation, these catechumens and candidates came together from every parish in our archdiocese and celebrated the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion with Archbishop John […]
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Honoring Saint Patrick Of Ireland
March 11, 2004At this time of the year many native Irish are amused by the shenanigans that take place to supposedly “honor Saint Patrick.” The hoopla of the parades, the false myths propagated on greeting cards, and the extended hours for serving liquor often give the wrong message. To set the record straight, we should consider the […]
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The Good News Of Redemption
March 11, 2004When I was a child, grocery stores doled out stamps with purchases, and it was fun running home and pasting the stamps into little booklets, then looking through the catalog to see what you could get. In college, when money was tight, I recall trading stamps for a lovely set of blue and white dishes, […]
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Retreat, Masses In Polish Planned For Lent, Easter
March 11, 2004A Lenten Retreat in Polish will be held on Saturday-Thursday, March 13-18, at St. Marguerite d’Youville Church in Lawrenceville. The retreat will be led by Father Marian Zalecki, SCh, from the Paulin Fathers, Koylestown, Pa., and the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa. It will be held during Mass on Saturday, March 13, at […]
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Catechumens, Candidates Presented To Archbishop
March 11, 2004Touched by the loving Christian witness of Catholics at the Dominican high school he attended in Taiwan, Chi-Bin Yang, whose family is Buddhist, always retained an attraction to Catholicism and a desire for God. After his mother, a devout Buddhist, passed away, Yang began exploring Christianity. While running a restaurant in Alabama with his wife, […]
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Women, Youth Recognized For Outstanding Service
March 11, 2004“I give thanks to God for the blessings he has bestowed upon me,” Iretha Allen, a parishioner at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Decatur, said, “for the works I have done have not been for recognition but to add any small tribute I can to assist in building up the kingdom of God.” Allen […]
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Monastery Marks Anniversary With Mass, Concert
March 11, 2004The Monastery of the Holy Spirit will mark the 60th anniversary of its founding on Sunday, March 21, with an 11 a.m. Mass concelebrated by Archbishop John F. Donoghue and the priests of the archdiocese and a 3 p.m. concert by organist Richard Morris, one in a series of concerts sponsored by the monastery to […] Full Story
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‘Hidalgo’: The Little Horse That Could
March 11, 2004A mixture of old-fashioned cowboy story and Arabian Nights tale, “Hidalgo,” the new movie directed by Joe Johnston from Touchstone Pictures, is an interesting, but not overly compelling, tale of a cowboy facing his demons during a long-distance horse race. Set in 1890, “Hidalgo” is the real-life story of Frank T. Hopkins, an army courier who, […]
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Filipino-American Catholics Form Group
March 11, 2004Filipino-American Catholics have been living in the Archdiocese of Atlanta for a very long time now. According to rough estimates, there may be 17,000 to 25,000 of this Asian ethnic group who call the state of Georgia their adopted and permanent home. Out of this number numerous social, cultural and religious organizations have been started […]