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Detainee families find comfort and support at El Refugio
April 14, 2016LUMPKIN—Inside this cozy yellow bungalow, the kitchen smells of fried chorizo, onions and peppers, and scrambled eggs. A fresh pot of coffee is ready by 7 a.m. as guests awaken in the three bedrooms. A mile from the barbed wire surrounding Stewart Detention Center in rural southwest Georgia sits this house of hospitality with its […]
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St. Joseph’s Tables honor beloved saint
April 14, 2016ATLANTA—Immaculate Heart of Mary School and St. Anthony of Padua Church, both in Atlanta, celebrated the feast of St. Joseph on March 18 and 19 with a St. Joseph’s Table. The table at the school was filled with wonderful food of Italian and Polish heritage, prayer cards, carpenter tools, turnips from the IHM garden, prayers […]
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Pinecrest kindergartners learn about Easter in egg hunt
April 14, 2016CUMMING—The kindergarten classes at Pinecrest Academy learned about Easter and Holy Week. One of the kindergarten teachers’ favorite ways to share the Easter story with their students is through “Resurrection Eggs,” an interactive teaching tool by an organization called Family Life. These out-of-the-ordinary eggs allow Easter to come to life in the little hands that […]
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Holy Trinity’s annual “Día de la Familia” health fair serves 600
April 14, 2016PEACHTREE CITY—People waited for more than an hour on Saturday, March 12, for the start of the annual “Día de la Familia” (Family Day) health fair at Peachtree City’s Holy Trinity Church. As the parish hosted the event for the 15th year, many doctors and medical clinics were represented. This year the National Kidney Foundation […]
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Boys round up items for children in foster care
April 14, 2016ATLANTA—Joseph Miller, a seventh-grader at Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Atlanta, and neighborhood friend Alex Matullo, a seventh-grader at St. Thomas More School, Decatur, collected new and gently used luggage, backpacks and duffel bags for children in foster care. The boys learned that many children in foster care do not have luggage and are forced […]
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Atlantan to serve on Catholic education advisory council
April 14, 2016ATLANTA—Augusto Elias, one of the volunteer members of the Atlanta Archdiocesan School Advisory Council, has been named to an advisory council of the National Catholic Educational Association. In Atlanta, Elias leads the marketing committee and is positioned to be council president during the next school year. He is director of marketing at The Coca-Cola Co. […]
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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 […]