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Finding sanctuary in the Holy Land
June 7, 2018Ever since my Great-Aunt Gladys rode a camel in the Holy Land when I was a kid in the 1970s, I’ve wanted to visit the places where Jesus lived and died. Upon her return from that trip, Aunt Gladys took her show on the road, packing and unpacking her slide projector and screen at churches […]
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Msgr. Stephen Churchwell, pastor and canonist, dies
June 7, 2018ATLANTA—Msgr. Stephen T. Churchwell, JCD, a longtime priest and canon lawyer for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, died May 31. He was 68. Born in Carmi, Illinois, on Oct. 4, 1949, he was the son of George and the late Juanita Wilson Churchwell. The oldest of five children, he converted to Catholicism at the age of […]
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Be watchful for scams that permeate our online world
June 7, 2018Several weeks ago, my sister Elaine, who lives in Vacaville, California, called to ask me if I had been impacted by the security breach that had struck Atlanta’s internet systems. I told her that I had not been affected because I had never used the municipal site in the past. Internet security has become a […]
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Gratitude can be strongest antidote to grief
June 7, 2018Each night, when I say my prayers, I thank God for the day’s blessings. I’m grateful for small things, like chipmunks begging for handouts on the porch, rays of sun painting patterns on the breakfast table, a steaming mug of French roast coffee. I’m also thankful for the 33 years I had with my best […]
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The Senior Side: What should I be doing today?
June 7, 2018“I find the biggest trouble with having nothing to do is … you can’t tell when you’re done.” Groucho Marx, comedian In the early days of retirement there is great joy in not having anything to do when you wake up in the morning. It’s such a relief to roll over in bed, especially on […]
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Pope ‘most fearless man I ever met,’ says filmmaker Wenders
May 25, 2018WASHINGTON (CNS)—Pope Francis, the subject of a new documentary by German filmmaker Wim Wenders, is “the most fearless man I ever met,” the director said in a segment of the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” that aired May 13. “Fearless?” asked “60 Minutes” correspondent Jon Wertheim. Wenders replied, “Fearless. And he is not influenced by polls […] Full Story
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The joy of Sister Wendy’s “The Story of Painting”
May 25, 2018My former graduate professor, William A. Sessions, made one of the wisest observations about art I have ever heard, and I have never forgotten it. Bill happened to be in New York City for a brief stopover, and he had a few hours to himself before his flight home to Atlanta. Choosing one thing to […]
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Commencement speakers have a chance to inspire
May 25, 2018Just how do schools select commencement speakers? What criteria do they use? That is perhaps a question that many of you have asked yourselves over this graduation season. You might have asked it because the speaker at the graduation ceremony that you attended seemed to offer nothing of significance to the event, or spoke too […]
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God as life
May 25, 2018“There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much […]
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Fifth-grade field trip to Satan’s paradise
May 25, 2018The big yellow bus clattered down a dirt road, hitting every pothole along the way. Inside was Mrs. Taylor’s fifth-grade class from the elementary school I attended in southwest Miami. The thick heat blanketed the air, and the backs of my legs stuck to the cracking vinyl seat. In the days before air-conditioning, the windows […]