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MLK observances to include Mass, youth celebration
January 9, 2019ATLANTA—The celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Atlanta Archdiocese is to take place starting Jan. 13. The theme for this year is “If One Member Suffers, All Suffer Together; If One Member is Honored, All Rejoice Together.” (1 Corinthians 12:26) The scheduled events include the chance for young adults to perform community service; a […]
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‘Sister of Selma’ and Atlanta Catholic education leader dies Jan. 2
January 9, 2019ST. LOUIS—An appeal went out from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference calling for marchers to rejoin the voting rights effort after the “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma, Alabama, was stopped by baton-wielding police. Responding to the call in 1965 was Sister Roberta J. Schmidt, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She […]
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As U.S. bishops meet, Vatican may be deciding fate of former cardinal
January 8, 2019WASHINGTON (CNS) — As U.S. bishops gathered in early January at a seminary in Illinois to pray and reflect about the American church’s sex abuse crisis, reports trickled out about the possible fate of one their own being decided overseas. The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported Jan. 5 that a decision on whether to laicize […]
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Dog’s job at Oregon Catholic hospital: Comforting kids in emergency room
January 7, 2019PORTLAND, Ore.—Wrangler doesn’t have an MD and he can’t write prescriptions, but he works hard to help children who are injured or ill and often scared. The Labrador is the first full-time facility dog at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Southwest Portland, and his task is to offer comfort to patients in the children’s […]
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Archdiocese of Atlanta Annual Report
January 4, 2019SMYRNA—The 2018 annual report of the Archdiocese of Atlanta is featured in the Dec. 20 print issue of The Georgia Bulletin. The report may also be viewed online here. The report includes a parishioner’s guide to understanding finances, remarks from Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, a letter from Chief Financial Officer Brad Wilson, a compilation of […]
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Robots and AI: Papal academy decodes newest pro-life challenges
January 4, 2019VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Even though today’s modern tools and technologies are hardly human, the Pontifical Academy for Life is zeroing in on the world of robots and machines powered by artificial intelligence. While the academy’s focus is on the protection of human life and dignity, the rapidly shifting and radical capabilities of robotics are […]
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Pope to U.S. bishops: Abuse crisis requires conversion, humility
January 3, 2019VATICAN CITY—The clerical abuse crisis and the “crisis of credibility” it created for the U.S. bishops have led to serious divisions within the U.S. church and to a temptation to look for administrative solutions to problems that go much deeper, Pope Francis told the U.S. bishops. Without a clear and decisive focus on spiritual conversion […]
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Vatican publication looks at ways to raise profile of women in the church
January 3, 2019VATICAN CITY—Too often in the Catholic Church, “the sacrifices of women are used only to reinforce the power of those who already have it,” wrote the editor of the Vatican newspaper’s monthly section on women in the church. In the “Woman-Church-World” supplement to L’Osservatore Romano published Jan. 2, editor Lucetta Scaraffia wrote, “A revolution is […]
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Sister Wendy Beckett, art critic and British TV star, dies at 88
December 27, 2018WASHINGTON (CNS)–Sister Wendy Beckett, who gained fame in the 1990s for television shows and books explaining art, died Dec. 26 in Norfolk, England, at the age of 88. She has been widely described as both an unlikely art critic and television star, but that may have been what made her all the more likeable. Discussing […]
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Christmas Eve marks 200th anniversary of beloved carol ‘Silent Night’
December 24, 2018WASHINGTON (CNS)—Exactly 200 years ago this Christmas Eve—Dec. 24, 1818—in a little church in what is now Austria, the world heard for the first time a poem set to music that eventually would be hailed as one of the most popular and beloved Christmas carols of all time. “Silent Night” was sung for the first […]