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Building walls to keep immigrants out is not Christian, pope says
February 19, 2016ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM MEXICO (CNS)—As the plane carrying him back to Rome from Mexico was flying over Texas, Pope Francis insisted building walls to keep immigrants out of one’s country is un-Christian. Holding his customary in-flight news conference Feb. 17 after a six-day trip that ended at the Mexico-U.S. border, Pope Francis was […]
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Curb on some death penalty cases motivates Catholics at Capitol
February 19, 2016ATLANTA—In a basement room of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Atlanta, advocates gathered for prayer and a legislative briefing Feb. 4 to begin Catholic Day at the Capitol. More than 50 people participated in this year’s program to meet with lawmakers who represent them in the Georgia General Assembly and to learn more […]
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A brotherly embrace brings pope and Russian patriarch together
February 19, 2016HAVANA (CNS)—At long last, Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow embraced, kissing each other three times. “Finally,” the pope told the patriarch Feb. 12 as they met in a lounge at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport. “We are brothers,” he told the patriarch. Amid the clicking of cameras and multiple flashes, Patriarch […]
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Pope Francis tells Mexican bishops be unified, speak out on tough issues
February 19, 2016MEXICO CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis demanded forceful denunciations of drug violence in Mexico from the country’s bishops, who have preferred timid pronouncements instead of speaking prophetically on a tragedy that has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past 10 years and left another 25,000 Mexicans missing. Speaking Feb. 13 to an audience of bishops in […]
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Next at St. Thomas More: ‘Empty Bowls’ dinner
February 19, 2016DECATUR—The third annual St. Thomas More School Empty Bowls Project will be held on Thursday, Feb. 25, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The dinner program will be in Mulhern Hall, located at 630 W. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur. The Empty Bowls Project is a grassroots initiative to bring awareness to the fight against hunger […]
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Drexel alumni celebrate historic anniversary in Atlanta
February 19, 2016ATLANTA—Fifty-five years ago, at the height of the American civil rights movement, dozens of African-American families partnered with the Archdiocese of Atlanta to establish the city’s only black Catholic high school, Drexel Catholic High. Drexel High operated between 1961 and 1967. Located on wooded grounds on Harwell Road in Atlanta’s historic Collier Heights, it offered […]
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God puts mercy, faithfulness into action
February 19, 2016Second column in a 13-part series Many spiritual leaders have observed that the experience of loss and being overwhelmed with misery brings us to the edge of what it means to be human, and ironically makes us most open to an experience of the mystery that we know as God. Perhaps these raw moments in life […]
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The offering of a key
February 19, 2016There was a town with a small church. I had heard that the church was beautiful inside and so I went to see it and brought my camera. When I arrived at the church and tried to open the door, it was locked. I walked around the block and tried a side door, but that […]
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Rosary as love letter to the faithful departed
February 19, 2016My husband was truly a Renaissance man, someone who could write, draw, build furniture, make fig and muscadine wine—and even keep bees. Still, no man is an island, and that was true for him—which is why he sometimes came to me with a shirt that was missing a button, or his fuzzy head of hair […]
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Vibrancy of our community reflected in annual rite
February 19, 2016Pat DeJarnett from our archdiocesan Office for Divine Worship manages to keep careful tabs on many of the statistics for our rites, so I knew that her projections in reference to this particular ceremony would be accurate. She told me the other day that the total number of our candidates and catechumens would probably break […]