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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 […]
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Supreme Court seeks details on alternative contraceptive coverage
March 31, 2016WASHINGTON (CNS)—Less than a week after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive requirement, the court released an order requesting that additional briefs be submitted showing if and how contraceptive insurance coverage could be obtained by employees through their insurance companies without directly involving the religious employers objecting to this […]
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Maria Boylan will speak at May 7 Magnificat
March 31, 2016ATLANTA—All women are invited to the Magnificat gathering on Saturday, May 7, when the guest speaker will be Maria Boylan, coordinator of the newly formed Magnificat chapter in South Carolina. A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Maria grew up in Canada, where her family emigrated when she was a child. Now she and her […]
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Mother Angelica, founder of EWTN, dies after long illness
March 31, 2016BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CNS)—Mother Angelica, who founded the Eternal Word Television Network and turned it into one of the world’s largest religious media operations, died March 27 at age 92. Feisty and outspoken, she was a major controversial figure in the U.S. church in the closing decades of the 20th century. At the same time, the […]
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Spirited Palm Sunday begins Holy Week in north Georgia
March 31, 2016Georgia Bulletin staff photographer Michael Alexander visited St. Matthew Church, in Winder, and St. Paul the Apostle Church, in Cleveland, on Palm Sunday and captured these images and more of the recollection of Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem days before he would be betrayed and led to his crucifixion. In the Gospel of Luke, it […]