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New rights report documents atrocities in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray
April 6, 2022Some Catholic church sources from Ethiopia have corroborated a report by two international human rights groups detailing widespread abuses in the western part of the Tigray region.
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Pope: Blood of Bucha massacre victims ‘cries out to heaven’
April 6, 2022At his weekly general audience, Pope Francis again pleaded for an end to the bloodshed and violence in Ukraine after images of innocent civilians apparently executed in Bucha sparked outrage and horror around the world.
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Fifth graders take closer look at vocations
April 5, 2022The Office of Catholic Schools, in partnership with the Office of Vocations, celebrated its fifth-grade vocations day March 22. On this day, fifth-grade students at all diocesan and independent Catholic schools in the archdiocese are invited to discern God’s call for their lives.
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Seeking the spring of living water
April 5, 2022When my sister and I were toddlers, we played in a courtyard at the back of the family’s brownstone. Our mother would look out the window occasionally to make sure we weren’t wreaking havoc, but generally we were left to our own devices.
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Batman and Catholicism
April 4, 2022Batman means many things to many people. The character, with perhaps the most compelling origin story of any superhero, has endured for decades in multiple incarnations.
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St. Aelred embraces Catholics and those journeying toward the church
April 4, 2022St. Aelred Church in Bishop is a parish of The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (POCSP). It is one of two ordinariate churches within the Archdiocese of Atlanta and is modeled after the English rural church where everyone knows the people in the pews next to them.
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Meeting migrants, pope warns civilization risks being ‘shipwrecked’
April 3, 2022Pope Francis insisted that migrants and refugees must be treated with care and kindness and recognized as brothers and sisters during an April 3 meeting at the John XXIII Peace Lab’s Center for Migrants in Hal Far, Malta.
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Eucharistic Congress Choir celebrates Christ in song
April 3, 2022The Congress Choir will sing during the 25th Eucharistic Congress, set for June 17-18 at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park. The theme is, “Come to Me,” inspired by Matthew 11:28.
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Peace on Earth: No more war!
April 1, 2022The news and images from Ukraine are truly devastating. Our eyes are filled with tears; tears of anguish and tears of sorrow. Our hearts are heavy, weighed down with immeasurable sadness. God’s plan for his people is peace, not disaster, not war.
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Notre Dame Cathedral truss exhibit visits Atlanta
March 31, 2022Sitting behind the arches of the Millenium Gate Museum near Atlantic Station is a tall wooden truss exhibit—a tribute to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The exhibit was brought to Atlanta by Handshouse Studio, an organization that gathers together communities, institutions and partners to reconstruct historical projects.