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Deacon and wife safe at Lent service as plane crash ignites their home
March 28, 2017MARIETTA—Faith and the support of the St. Joseph Church community are sustaining Deacon Norm Keller and his wife, Barbara, after a private plane crashed into their front yard, exploding in flames and destroying their home. The Cessna Citation crashed at approximately 7:20 p.m. Friday, March 24, as the Kellers attended a parish fish fry and […]
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U.S. Catholics asked ‘to accompany’ migrants, refugees seeking better life
March 27, 2017WASHINGTON (CNS)—The U.S. bishops in a pastoral reflection released March 22 called all Catholics to do what each of them can “to accompany migrants and refugees who seek a better life in the United States.” Titled “Living as a People of God in Unsettled Times,” the reflection was issued “in solidarity with those who have […]
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Art at St. Matthew Church, Tyrone, honors parish namesake
March 25, 2017The chapel at St. Matthew Church, Tyrone, is not only a place for prayer, but also art. I took a road trip to this parish for an article about its effort to be more energy efficient. Taking some time for myself, I wandered into the chapel which is flooded with natural light. Depictions of the […]
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Fasting: Lent’s spiritual practice creates space for prayer
March 24, 2017WASHINGTON (CNS)—There is no getting around fasting during Lent. Not only is it one of the three pillars of spiritual practice along with prayer and almsgiving, but it also bookends the period of preparation for Easter. Fasting and abstinence is required of adult Catholics, ages 18-59, at the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday and […]
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Church experience more than just a cut-and-run flash mob, pope says
March 24, 2017VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Young men and women can live a true experience of the church by joining together and reconnecting with the past, Pope Francis told Catholic young people. “The genuine experience of the church is not like a flash mob, where people agree to meet, do their thing and then go their separate ways,” the […] Full Story
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The faith of our fathers
March 24, 2017Pope Francis keeps a statue in his apartment at the Santa Marta residence of a sleeping St. Joseph. The Holy Father says that he often places notes of the unresolved problems that he faces under that statue for St. Joseph to handle. Jokingly, the pope says that St. Joseph is now sleeping on a mattress […]
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The fall
March 24, 2017Not long ago the first reading at Mass was from Genesis, and it was the account of Eve succumbing to the temptation of the serpent. The serpent succeeds in tricking her into eating a fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, telling her that she will then be God-like, knowing good and evil. Eve tastes the […]
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Beatification date announced for Oklahoma priest
March 24, 2017WASHINGTON (CNS)—The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City announced that one of its native sons, Father Stanley Rother, a North American priest who worked in Guatemala and was brutally murdered there in 1981, will be beatified Sept. 23 in Oklahoma. “It’s official! Praised be Jesus Christ! Archbishop Coakley received official word this morning from Rome that Servant […]
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Roswell students make a video to illuminate the cause of food insecurity
March 23, 2017ROSWELL—Young journalists at Queen of Angels School took on food deserts and Catholic social teaching in creating a recently released video. The five-minute video focused on food insecurity in the Atlanta area was shown at a special Lenten lunch attended by staff at the archdiocesan Chancery. Food deserts are defined by the U.S. Department of […]
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St. Pius upended in state basketball final
March 23, 2017ATLANTA—Upson-Lee High School, Thomaston, ended its season as the only unbeaten basketball team in Georgia (32-0), after defeating St. Pius X High School 53-48 for the Class AAAA state title. The St. Pius X fan base arrived early at Georgia Tech’s McCamish Pavilion, March 10, to witness the boys basketball team compete for the state […]