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To ignore the poor is to despise God, pope says
May 26, 2016VATICAN CITY (CNS)—How Christians treat the poor is the clearest demonstration of their relationship with God, Pope Francis insisted. “To ignore the poor is to despise God! And we must learn this well: To ignore the poor is to despise God!” the pope said May 18 during his weekly general audience. The pope focused on […]
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Court remands two HHS challenges to lower courts ‘in light of Zubik’
May 26, 2016WASHINGTON (CNS)—The U.S. Supreme Court in orders issued May 23 remanded two Catholic entities’ legal challenges to the federal contraceptive mandate back to the lower courts. The high court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari for two plaintiffs—the Catholic Health Care System, an umbrella for four Catholic institutions affiliated with the Archdiocese of […]
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Archbishop announces new priest assignments, pastors
May 26, 2016ATLANTA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following priest assignments, effective July 1, unless otherwise noted. Interim administrator Father John M. Murphy, pastor of Holy Trinity Church, Peachtree City, and Vicar for Clergy, has also been assigned as interim administrator of St. Gabriel Church, Fayetteville, effective May 4 through June 30. Administrators Father Desmond Drummer […]
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Supreme Court: Race played role in Georgia death penalty case jury selection
May 26, 2016WASHINGTON (CNS)—In a May 23 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court said Georgia prosecutors violated the Constitution in a death penalty case nearly two decades ago by excluding prospective black jurors from the trial. The 7-1 decision sent the case of Timothy Foster, an African-American facing the death penalty for killing an elderly white woman in […]
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Father Anthony Delisi, ‘the one who invited people in,’ is laid to rest
May 26, 2016CONYERS—Father Anthony Delisi, 87, a Cistercian monk for 67 years and priest for 61 years, was buried in the monks cemetery alongside Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Abbey on Saturday, May 14, following a Mass of Christian Burial attended by hundreds of people whose lives he had touched. Because the portion of his monastic […]
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Persevering Pius student reaches goals by overcoming adversity
May 26, 2016ATLANTA—The high school years of Mary “Frannie” Geeslin, graduating May 21 from St. Pius X High School in Atlanta, have been marked by perseverance. The July before her freshman year Geeslin received the diagnosis of a brain tumor. She was determined to have a traditional high school experience. “I kind of just acted like a […]
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Black Catholics gather to learn history and plan for future
May 26, 2016ATLANTA—Some 250 members of the black Catholic community from around the Southeast joined efforts in Atlanta in early April for a day of prayer. Called “Faith in Action II,” the event at St. Paul of the Cross Church, Atlanta, broadened the reach of black Catholics to draw more people in the conversation about the community’s […]
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Blessed Trinity senior committed to serving those around him
May 26, 2016ROSWELL—Luke Donovan didn’t buy into the big-ticket service projects. Instead he looked around his community and asked what could he do there. Donovan read in a newspaper as a high school freshman that public elementary schools within a mile of Blessed Trinity High School in Roswell had large numbers of students relying on free or […]
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OLM is path to pre-med for Vietnamese-American student
May 26, 2016FAYETTEVILLE—When Jenn Nguyen returned to Our Lady of Mercy High School her senior year it was like coming home. A Catholic school student since third grade, when she started at St. John the Evangelist School in Hapeville, Nguyen decided after attending Our Lady of Mercy for two years to attend a public high school her […]
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Marist senior tells young people to find their own beauty
May 26, 2016ATLANTA—Tiffany Wills pushed back against young women comparing themselves to the person with the seemingly perfect outfit, the perfect boyfriend, the perfect life. The perfect life doesn’t exist even as social media project these carefully crafted images. The celebrities young women see “have an image to uphold,” Wills said. “They are going through things that […]