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Then & Now: From grandmother to simply ‘mom’
September 7, 2017Since Grandparents Day is traditionally commemorated on the first Sunday after Labor Day, I thought it would be a good time to revisit a grandmother whose story was told in The Georgia Bulletin on Jan. 4, 2006 by then-staff writer Erika Anderson Redding. In the initial story, Jeannie DeCarlo was a 53-year-old grandmother who, with […]
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PATH offers spiritual healing from pain of abortion
September 7, 2017ROSWELL—Jody Duffy, who became the director of Post Abortion Treatment and Healing in March 2016, knows firsthand the emotional and spiritual suffering of abortion, but also about the forgiveness available. In her work with PATH, Duffy helps men and women suffering from a long-past or recent abortion decision, including a special outreach to military veterans. […]
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Aquinas Center affiliates with Emory’s Candler School of Theology
September 7, 2017ATLANTA—Emory University’s Candler School of Theology and the Aquinas Center of Theology are together strengthening opportunities on campus to engage the local Catholic community. The two academic entities entered into an affiliation agreement this summer. Leaders hope to boost the number of speakers addressing contemporary Catholic issues, as well as attract more Catholic students interested […]
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Father John Kieran celebrates golden jubilee of priesthood
September 7, 2017ATLANTA—Father John Kieran celebrated multiple blessings this year as he reached his 50th anniversary of priesthood and his 80th birthday. At a jubilee Mass on Saturday, June 10, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, a congregation of many of his past parishioners, friends and family members from Ireland filled the church to remember and join […]
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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 […] Full Story
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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 […]