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Preaching to his youngest parishioners with helping hands
March 31, 2016On Sunday, March 20, I attended the Palm Sunday procession and Spanish Mass at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Cleveland. Father Fabio Alvarez Posada, the pastor and a priest of the Atlanta Archdiocese since 2004, was the main celebrant. After the reading of Luke’s Gospel, Father Fabio stepped off the altar, faced the congregation […]
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Adopting triplets life-changing for couple
March 31, 2016DUBUQUE, Iowa (CNS)—As Cari Campbell scrolled through the content of her Facebook newsfeed one day last August, the post of a friend living in Oregon caught her attention. Campbell could not have foreseen at the time how quickly that social media post would turn her world upside down or the way in which God was […]
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Pinecrest’s inaugural wrestling season builds character
March 31, 2016CUMMING—Pat Metz and Mike Miller, Pinecrest Academy parents who had campaigned for a competitive wrestling team at the school for nearly eight years, saw their dream become a reality this school year. The season officially began in late October 2015. High school social studies teacher Martin Podmolik, in his fourth year at Pinecrest, filled the […]
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Acworth mission welcomes its first new Easter Catholics
March 31, 2016ACWORTH—Thousands of believers in the United States were welcomed into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. At the young St. Clare of Assisi Mission, in Acworth, it was the first time the community welcomed new Catholics. It’s only the second Easter celebration for this Catholic mission community about 30 miles northwest of Atlanta. They […]
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For eighth year, Holy Week walk focuses on immigrants’ detention
March 31, 2016ATLANTA—A Holy Week pilgrimage focusing on those being held in immigration detention centers and on their families crossed through the Archdiocese of Atlanta and stopped at several Catholic churches on March 23 and 25. Nearly 40 people, some joining mid-route, participated March 23 in one segment of the eighth annual Holy Week Pilgrimage for Immigrants […]
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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 […]