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Father Solanus Casey recalled as beloved friar who showed mercy to others
May 18, 2017DETROIT (CNS)—Sixty years after his death, Capuchin Father Solanus Casey is on his way to sainthood. Pope Francis announced May 4 that Detroit’s beloved friar, who earlier had been named venerable, met the requirements for beatification and will be named “blessed”—the second U.S.-born man to achieve such a designation and the first person from Michigan. […]
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Welcome Grants expanded to five archdiocesan schools for 2017-2018 year
May 18, 2017DECATUR—For principal Susanne Greenwood, the archdiocesan Welcome Grants played a significant role in getting parents to take a look at St. Peter Claver Regional School. The Decatur school is moving closer to its enrollment target, in large part because the grants eased parents’ financial costs, Greenwood said. “Many of our families desirous of a Catholic […]
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Seven Carmelite communities are helping lay Catholics live faith more deeply
May 18, 2017This is the third in an occasional series featuring area Catholics deepening their faith by affiliating with religious orders. MARIETTA—Joe Herzberg and Charles Trout stood in front of the altar at Holy Family Church to accept with prayers and blessings a brown square cloth, draped over their chest and back. For these two, the small […]
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Secular Discalced Carmelites
May 18, 2017Secular Discalced Carmelite communities in the Atlanta Archdiocese of the Discalced Carmelites Order, Province of St. Therese: Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta Discalced Carmelite Doctors of Divine Love Community John Eanes, OCDS: 770-826-5610 or www.OCDSatlanta.org Monastery of the Holy Spirit, Conyers Mary Queen of Carmel Community Caroline: arahcaroline21@gmail.com or 678-633-8898 St. Marguerite d’Youville Church, […]
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Lay Carmelites
May 18, 2017Lay Carmelite communities in the Atlanta Archdiocese of the Carmelite Order of the Ancient Observance, Most Pure Heart of Mary Province: Holy Family, Marietta Director Linda Harrison: 404-664-3486 or harrisonlinda328@yahoo.com Holy Eucharist, Jonesboro Director Mary Fernandes: 770-507-7655 or jesusbepraised@hotmail.com St. Brigid, Johns Creek Director Catherine Duncan: 678-656-9217 or dcatherine001@gmail.com St. Anna’s, Monroe Director Barbara Ginn: […]
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Raleigh priest named as new Atlanta auxiliary bishop
May 18, 2017ATLANTA—Pope Francis has named Father Bernard E. “Ned” Shlesinger III, a priest of the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Bishop-designate Shlesinger, 56, was most recently the director of spiritual formation for St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, where he has been on the faculty for four […]
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According to friends, new bishop has ‘heart of a shepherd’
May 18, 2017ATLANTA—The newly named auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Bishop-designate Bernard E. “Ned” Shlesinger III, is a former Air Force pilot who enjoys fishing. Bishop-designate Shlesinger, the youngest of six children and a priest of the Raleigh, North Carolina, Diocese, speaks Spanish. “My teachers were the people of Raleigh. You really don’t learn Spanish […]
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Mary’s message at Fatima still timely, urgent 100 years later, says panel
May 18, 2017UNITED NATIONS (CNS)—The message of peace Mary gave to three shepherd children 100 years ago at Fatima, Portugal, is still timely and urgent in 2017 and is an ongoing reminder that flashes of the divine are revealed in unexpected places, according to speakers at a May 12 U.N. panel. Before an audience of more than […]
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Pope: Honor the believing, tender Mary, not a ‘plaster statue’
May 18, 2017FATIMA, Portugal (CNS)—Mary’s example of believing and following Jesus is what matters most; she cannot be some image “of our own making” who Christians barter with for mercy, Pope Francis said. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions at Fatima, the pope asked tens of thousands of pilgrims May 12 to […]
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Fatima seers become church’s youngest non-martyred saints
May 18, 2017FATIMA, Portugal (CNS)—Standing before the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, Pope Francis canonized two shepherd children who saw Mary at Fatima, but more importantly, he said, they heeded the call to pray for sinners and trust in the Lord. “We declare and define Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto as saints,” the […]