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First-graders build model to get a handle on anatomy
April 14, 2016ATLANTA—At Our Lady of the Assumption School, students participate in a STREAM program focused on Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics. It’s an interdisciplinary and applied educational philosophy founded on hands-on, problem-based learning. John Lamarca heads the STREAM program. First-grade students built models of the thoracic cavity to end a science unit focused […]
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My obligation to teach the Church’s moral and social doctrine
April 14, 2016Each week I receive many letters and emails that touch upon a wide variety of topics. While many are deeply private, some of the issues in those communications are quite public and relate to highly controversial topics. A number of these messages actually cancel each other out since they propose diametrically conflicting opinions on the […]
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Homily: ‘God was full of surprises when it came to Mother Angelica’
April 4, 2016HANCEVILLE, Ala. (CNS)—With Mother Angelica having been essentially bedridden for 15 years following a series of strokes in 2001, staff at the Eternal Word Television Network and members of her order, the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, had plenty of time to plan and prepare for her funeral. “We at EWTN had many plans for […]
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Looking for God in all the right places
April 1, 2016“Where is God?” was an early catechism question for me when I was attending Catholic elementary school. The correct answer, which I quickly learned, was that he was everywhere—but the reality didn’t sink in until decades later. True, I believed God was in the Communion host that the priest gently placed on my tongue—and he […]
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A master of special effects, Tsuburaya created ‘Godzilla’ in aftermath of war
April 1, 2016Some of my dearest childhood memories are filtered through static and fuzz. I don’t mean that I’m suffering the onset of middle-aged memory loss, nor am I referring to the terrible and debilitating diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. I am literally describing the blur of Atlanta television that plagued suburbia until the advent […]
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First light
April 1, 2016Early morning is, for me, an optimum time for meditation. I do not set about reading from a text or pondering this or that mystery. My mind is refreshed from a night’s sleep. It is also relaxed and far more receptive than it will be during the coming day, when I will be involved with […]
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God’s intimate love gives Jesus to us
April 1, 2016This is the fourth column in a 13-part series. If not for sin, would God have sent his only Son into the world? Did Jesus come primarily to save us from our sinfulness, to offer atonement for the evil we have done? What if the pristine conditions of God’s original creation had endured? What if […]
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Fresh inspiration found in the narratives of Holy Week
April 1, 2016Most of us may have several notable personal memories of Holy Weeks from our past. They might be from our own family traditions where we visited several local neighborhood churches on Holy Thursday evening to pray at their Eucharistic reservation shrines, or those special food baskets that were prepared, chock-full with many of the delights […]
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Georgia governor vetoes state RFRA measure; bishops respond
March 31, 2016ATLANTA (CNS)—Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory and Savannah Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer said that like all of the U.S. Catholic bishops, they support the Religious Freedom Restoration Act but “do not support any implementation of RFRA in a way that will discriminate against any individual.” “Indeed, the dignity of each individual is the basis for […]
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‘Batman v Superman’ offers ‘ear-splitting’ entertainment
March 31, 2016NEW YORK (CNS)—Darkness hovers over the neighboring cities of Gotham and Metropolis, the main settings of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” (Warner Bros). It’s not just the looming clash of the DC Comics titans promised by the film’s title. This follow-up to 2013’s Superman reboot, “Man of Steel,” directed again by Zack Snyder, is […]