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Catholic minorities can still change the world, pope says
May 16, 2019Visiting the small Catholic communities in Bulgaria and North Macedonia offered an opportunity to encourage the faithful to remember God’s miracle of feeding a multitude with just a few loaves and fishes, Pope Francis said.
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Mary Hall Freedom House, City of Sandy Springs resolve zoning conflict
May 16, 2019In April, the City of Sandy Springs and the nonprofit Mary Hall Freedom House reached an agreement to settle a two-year dispute over zoning violations. Pax Christi of St. Jude the Apostle Church, Father John Kieran and others spoke out on behalf of the organization and its work.
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Hitchcock’s ‘The Wrong Man’ portrays complexity of suffering
May 16, 2019St. Stephen did nothing wrong. As he testified about the power of God and the truth of the resurrection, his audience scorned him and “cried out in a loud voice, covered their ears, and rushed upon him together. They threw him out of the city, and began to stone him.” The book of the Acts […]
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Hundreds attend St. Catherine of Siena’s Faith and Love conference
May 16, 2019More than 500 Catholics from as far as Colorado gathered on Saturday, March 31, at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Kennesaw. They filled the sanctuary for the “Faith and Love Conference: Understanding and Explaining the Church’s Teaching on Marriage and Human Sexuality.”
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Archdiocese of Atlanta, Diocese of Savannah welcome independent review of child abuse files
May 10, 2019A third-party review of any records of the Archdiocese of Atlanta regarding suspected child abuse will begin soon and is fully supported by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, who first encouraged the independent study of files last fall.
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Georgia governor signs heartbeat bill restricting state abortions
May 7, 2019Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation May 7 to ban abortions in the state once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is around six weeks.
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Jo Ann Rademacher, of St. Monica Church, to speak at Magnificat
May 3, 2019The guest speaker at the June Magnificat meal will be Jo Ann Rademacher, a member of St. Monica Church, Duluth, with a life journey that has taken her from disbelief to confidence that God is walking with her every step of the way.
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Thomas Merton’s elegy for his brother
May 3, 2019I celebrated in April, as I always do, National Poetry Month, which has been observed in the United States since 1966. And following Lent and Holy Week, I’m celebrating the season of Easter. I’ve always found it appropriate that a commemoration of poetry falls within the same month in which we most often celebrate Easter […]
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The Senior Side: A tribute to Archbishop Gregory
May 2, 2019For the average Catholic, the sighting of a bishop is a special occurrence. Our archdiocese has slightly more than 100 parishes and missions, so Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory and our two auxiliary bishops are spread thin as they administer the sacraments and participate in major parish events. They never have enough time to visit parishes […]
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The mystery of love through a child’s eyes
May 2, 2019Someone had made my bed and it was a much neater job than my own efforts. This same person had tidied up the bathroom and provided me with fresh towels, plus a carafe of filtered water. I was spending the Easter weekend at Ladydale, the name of my friends’ home in South Carolina. They live […]