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Georgia Bulletin to offer information session Sept. 21 on upcoming Holy Land pilgrimage
September 7, 2017SMYRNA—The Georgia Bulletin is hosting a pilgrimage to the Holy Land early in 2018, with spiritual guidance by Father Michael Silloway, chaplain at St. Pius X High School in Atlanta. An information session will be held Thursday, Sept. 21, from 6:30-7:30 p.m., for those who are considering—or are already signed up for—the pilgrimage. All are […]
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Atlanta to host international stewardship conference
September 7, 2017ATLANTA—The 55th annual conference of the International Catholic Stewardship Council will be Sept. 17-20 in Atlanta. Clergy, parish staff and lay leaders, as well as diocesan stewardship and development staff, are encouraged to attend. The conference theme is “Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response.” Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky, will deliver the […]
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Aquinas Center to hold special movie event
September 7, 2017ATLANTA—The Aquinas Center at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology will offer a free viewing of “Babette’s Feast” as part of its Light in the Darkness Movie Series. The film will be shown Thursday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Rita Anne Rollins Building, Room 252, located at 1531 Dickey Drive in Atlanta. Pope […]
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Blessed are the meek
September 6, 2017This is the fourth column in a 10-part series If you browse the internet for the word “meek” you will likely find countless links to indicate that meekness is not the same as weakness. The very fact that this occurs so often in an internet search tells us that in our day and time the […]
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Catholic leaders sharply criticize Trump’s decision to end DACA
September 6, 2017WASHINGTON (CNS)—Catholic church leaders, immigration officials and university presidents were swift and unanimous in their condemnation of President Donald Trump’s Sept. 5 decision to phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals known as DACA. “In the past, the president stated that the Dreamer story ‘is about the heart,’ yet (the) decision is nothing short of […]
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Storm’s images evoke compelling recognition of shared humanity
September 6, 2017A picture is worth a thousand words, as the famous old saying goes. Like all of you, I have been spellbound by the photos of the disaster that was and continues to be Hurricane Harvey. The images of the people whose lives were disrupted ignite an all but universal sense of compassion and empathy. I […]
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Confessions of a Catholic writer
September 6, 2017The little boy in the pew ahead of me is building a house out of hymnals. He works industriously throughout Mass with a studious expression on his face. Meanwhile, I’m trying not to be distracted, while also tucking away this delicious slice of life for future use. Many people wonder how a writer’s mind works—and […]
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Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory’s statement on the ending of the DACA program
September 5, 2017Sept. 5, 2017 “It is profoundly regrettable that the Administration has decided to prolong an uncertain future for nearly one million young people who have come to the United States of America as children from many different nations, and who have fully and freely cooperated with the federal government’s requirements to be registered under the […]
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Catholic groups mobilizing to help in Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath
August 28, 2017WASHINGTON (CNS)—Catholic dioceses and charities are organizing to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall with winds of 130 miles per hour late Aug. 25 in the Rockport, Texas area, northeast of Corpus Christi, and has since caused catastrophic flooding in southeastern Texas, including in the city of […]
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Inspiring book on Mass ‘should be required reading for all Catholics’
August 24, 2017“Bored Again Catholic: How the Mass Could Save Your Life” by Timothy P. O’Malley. Our Sunday Visitor (Huntington, Indiana, 2017). 192 pp., $14.95. It’s been a long, dry stretch since someone published a book on the Mass that is captivating, informative, inspirational and challenging. Rooted in solid, intellectually honest, balanced scholarship, yet written in language […]