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Reconcile with God, resurrect hope in others, pope urges at Easter
March 31, 2016VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Easter is a feast of hope, a celebration of God’s mercy and a call to pray for and assist all who suffer, Pope Francis said before giving his solemn blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world). The risen Jesus “makes us sharers of his immortal life and enables us to […]
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Father Joseph Peek blessed by ranks of brother priests at funeral Mass
March 31, 2016DUNWOODY—As they sang the “Salve Regina,” scores of Atlanta’s priests and its three bishops one by one blessed the casket of Father Joseph M. Peek in the sunshine outside All Saints Church at the March 18 funeral Mass. Confronted with leukemia just prior to his priestly ordination in 2002, Father Peek turned his physical illnesses […]
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Praying at city sites, Good Friday pilgrims seek deeper concern for poor
March 31, 2016ATLANTA—More than 300 people walked a two-mile route along Atlanta’s busy city streets March 25 for the 36th annual Good Friday pilgrimage, an ecumenical journey from the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to the Reflection Pool of the King Center. The Archdiocese of Atlanta Justice and Peace Ministries sponsors the program of prayer and reflection, […]
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Washing feet of refugees, pope says it is gesture of brotherhood, peace
March 31, 2016ROME (CNS)—In a moving gesture of brotherhood and peace, Pope Francis washed the feet of several refugees, including Muslims, Hindus and Copts. Gestures, like Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, “speak louder than words,” he said during the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper March 24. Coming together, he added, is another gesture […]
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Six priests celebrate golden, silver jubilees
March 31, 2016ATLANTA—Six priest jubilarians were recognized at the Archdiocese of Atlanta Chrism Mass on March 22. Msgr. Francis Pham Van Phuong, pastor of Our Lady of Vietnam Church, Riverdale, is celebrating 50 years of priesthood. A native of Vietnam, he was ordained April 29, 1966, in Saigon. He came to the United States as an exchange […]
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Priests told to be icons of Christ, seeing the ‘forgotten’
March 31, 2016ATLANTA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory encouraged hundreds of priests at the annual Chrism Mass to be “ministers of compassion and mercy.” The Chrism Mass for the Archdiocese of Atlanta was a key event in Holy Week as clergymen gathered for a day of prayer and reflection leading up to Easter. Archbishop Gregory spoke on Tuesday evening, […]
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Pope condemns ‘blind violence,’ offers prayers after Brussels attacks
March 22, 2016VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis, condemning the “blind violence” of the terrorist attacks in Brussels, offered his prayers to the victims, the injured, their families and all those offering assistance in the aftermath of the bombings. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, sent the pope’s condolences March 22 to Archbishop Jozef De Kesel of Mechelen-Brussels. […]
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Islamic State is committing genocide against Christians, other minorities, U.S. secretary of state declares
March 21, 2016WASHINGTON (CNS)—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that atrocities carried out by the Islamic State group against Yezidis, Christians and other minorities were genocide, the first U.S. declaration of genocide since Sudanese actions in Darfur in 2004. Kerry said he was not judge and jury, but the Islamic State had self-defined itself as genocidal […]
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The light of St. Patrick
March 18, 2016A few miles from where I grew up there is a distinguished hilltop called the Hill of Slane. Legend holds St. Patrick lit a great Easter fire on the hilltop at Slane. Back then the High King of Ireland reserved the right to personally kindle the first outdoor fire after the spring equinox. Patrick knowingly […]
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Easter Rising: Insurrection marked beginning of modern Irish Republic
March 18, 2016DUBLIN (CNS)—Easter Monday 1916 was a sunny day. Patrick Pearse, a young poet and teacher, stood in front of the General Post Office on O’Connell Street in Dublin and, to the astonishment of passers-by, began to read: “Irishmen and Irishwomen: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her […]