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Pope asks YouTubers to help stop aggression, bullying
June 10, 2016VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Help wipe out bullying and aggression by being better listeners and offering concrete gestures of tolerance and patience, Pope Francis told a group of top YouTubers from around the world. “The level of aggressiveness in our world needs to be dialed down. (The world) needs tenderness, meekness, (people) listening and walking together,” he […]
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When Harry ‘met’ Harry, years apart, under a New Orleans bridge
June 10, 2016NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—It didn’t start out as a Father’s Day present, but now the tables were turned. New Orleans-born Harry Connick Jr., 48, took the stage at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome May 21, dressed improbably in an academic robe, a costume he never imagined he would wear considering his college career at Loyola University New Orleans […] Full Story
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Catholic school teams, players set records on road to state titles
June 10, 2016ATLANTA—Archdiocesan and independent Catholic high schools captured state championships this spring in golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, and track and field. Here is a school-by-school breakdown of the state champions. Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell The girls lacrosse team won its first state championship in school history. The team trailed Marietta’s Kell High School 13-8 with […]
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Pope to appoint advisory board in removing negligent bishops
June 10, 2016VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis will set up a panel of legal experts to help him in deciding whether to remove a religious superior or bishop from office for failing to protect minors and vulnerable adults from sex abuse. Vatican offices will continue to investigate claims of negligence on the part of bishops, ordinaries or religious […]
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Episcopal Bishop Wright to speak at Our Lady of Lourdes
June 10, 2016ATLANTA—Our Lady of Lourdes Church has organized a second annual lecture series on justice to honor its heritage of the Sinsinawa Dominican religious community. Episcopal Bishop Robert C. Wright is the special guest to talk to the Catholic community at the downtown Atlanta parish on Wednesday, June 22. All are welcome to attend. The theme […]
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‘Why is there always a mosquito at the picnic?”
June 10, 2016Beware of the trap called the “one more thing” syndrome, which is also known as the “All I need to be happy” mantra—and it goes like this: All I need for happiness is a big, new house with all the trimmings. Then when we get that house, we start noticing some of the neighbors have […]
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John in Dubai
June 10, 2016In a world that is increasingly giving way to secularization, many religious rites and symbols no longer have the self-evident power that once moved entire civilizations to raise them to the status of divine origin. As old religious ways of leading the human person to the divine gradually weaken their hold on the human hunger […]
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First Communion in Carrollton
June 10, 2016CARROLLTON—Scores of young people from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church received their first Communion in a special celebration in May. The Carrollton parish, with the leadership of Father Rafael Carballo, came together at one Mass to worship and applaud the spiritual growth of parish youngsters as nearly 80 girls and boys received the Eucharist […]
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The Monastery of the Holy Spirit elects eighth abbot May 29
June 10, 2016CONYERS—On the feast of Corpus Christi, May 29, the monks of the Monastery of Holy Spirit elected Father Augustine Myslinski, OCSO, as their new abbot. The community elected Father Myslinski to serve as the eighth abbot of the monastery for a six-year term of office. Abbot Stanislaus Gumula, OCSO, of the sister monastery Mepkin Abbey […]
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Packaging meals for the hungry makes Eucharist more alive
June 10, 2016COLLEGE PARK—A loud gong, sounded by Hailey Miller, a rising freshman at St. Pius X High School, set off a burst of whoops and applause from the hundreds of people busy filling plastic bags with soy, rice, dehydrated vegetables and a vitamin pack. A new addition to the Eucharistic Congress weekend, the hunger project was […]