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Catholics bring Pope Francis’ call to protect creation to climate march
May 19, 2017WASHINGTON (CNS)—Carrying banners and signs with quotes from Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’,” hundreds of Catholics joined the People’s Climate March to call for moral and prayerful action to protect creation. On a sweltering day that reinforced the message about the need to respond to climate change—the 91-degree temperature at 3 p.m. April 29 tied […]
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‘Field of Dreams’ shines in the light of faith
May 19, 2017If Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is perhaps our most misunderstood poem in American literature, then “Field of Dreams” must be our most misinterpreted baseball movie. Frost’s famous closing line, “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference,” is persistently misread as a tribute to individualism and nonconformity, […]
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Students see Atlanta as holy ground during Holy Week
May 19, 2017ATLANTA—Some Holy Spirit Preparatory School students, faculty, and families joined Mission Youth in downtown Atlanta to spend time on the holiest days of the church calendar. Anamaria Duran, a rising senior, said, “We were accompanying Jesus in the little ways we could.” From Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday some 80-90 missionaries participated, including students and […]
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Knights celebrate 30 years of service with special art at Sacred Heart
May 19, 2017MILLEDGEVILLE—Knights of Columbus Council 9458 recently celebrated 30 years of serving Sacred Heart Church and the Milledgeville and Baldwin County communities. To commemorate the anniversary, Fayette County sculptor John Parker was commissioned to create art to be placed in the landscape of the Sacred Heart Church. The monument now sits in front of the church […]
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A tale of resurrection in everyday life
May 19, 2017So many wondrous things happen secretly and silently, especially as the world moves from the gray palette of winter to the fancy hues of spring. Grass blades reappear, flowers reveal their colorful faces—and one day, almost like magic, butterflies appear. For me spring is the season of hope, and butterflies emerging from cocoons remind me […]
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Changing ways of life
May 19, 2017During a recent community meeting, one of the monks mentioned that when he came here in 1974, the Trappist order was undergoing more changes than it had experienced in hundreds of years. Specifically, he cited the newness of the term “contemplation,” the practice of Divine Reading or “Lectio Divina,” the shift from a life of […]
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Airline worker brings trafficking victims’ faces into plain view
May 19, 2017DECATUR—The exploitation of girls and boys, women and men in human trafficking is not a remote problem but is occurring in front of people everywhere, said Donna Hubbard, who trains airline personnel to recognize trafficking victims. “Human trafficking is a $150 billion business, second only to drugs and weapons,” Hubbard said in a March 21 […]
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Some superheroes who are real role models
May 19, 2017Since becoming a bishop, I consistently have highlighted the significance of the saints of the Catholic Church whenever I confirm our youngsters. I do so because as we all know young people are very impressionable and easily influenced by prominent people. Just consider for a moment the pop, sports and Hollywood personalities that capture the […]
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Catholic Emory graduate wins prestigious commencement award
May 19, 2017DECATUR—Kaitlyn Posa is the 2017 Emory University undergraduate recipient of the Marion Luther Brittain Award, the university’s highest student honor. The Brittain Award is presented each year to two graduating students, one graduate and one undergraduate, under provisions of a gift by the late Dr. M. L. Brittain, former president of the Georgia Institute of […]
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St. Joseph parishioner is a top nursing student at Georgia College
May 19, 2017MILLEDGEVILLE—Maria N. Boff graduated from the school of nursing at Georgia College, Milledgeville, as one of the valedictorians of the May 2017 graduating class. She was selected to give the Phi Kappa Phi valedictorian address during the graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 6. Boff plans to work at Northside Hospital, Atlanta, in the Blood and […]