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A call to action: Being a spiritual friend to inmates
May 16, 2019In Matthew 25:46, Jesus instructs us that whatever we do to the least of our brothers, we do unto him. For me, this is a guiding principle in prison ministry. In my 32 years as an ordained deacon, God called me to prison ministry in a variety of venues and circumstances. Previously, I worked in […]
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Notre Dame Academy’s first graduation ceremony May 31
May 16, 2019Notre Dame Academy in Duluth will have its first ever graduation ceremony May 31. Twenty students will earn their high school diplomas from the independent Catholic school.
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Archbishop Gregory offers invocation at Atlanta City Council
May 16, 2019Upon the invitation of Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory offered the invocation at the April 15 meeting of the council.
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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.