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Saint’s relics to visit Atlanta area for exposition
September 4, 2015ATLANTA—The major relics of Patroness of Mercy, St. Maria Goretti, will be in Atlanta for two days in October. The relics of St. Maria Goretti will be at Holy Spirit Church, 4465 Northside Drive, Atlanta, on Monday, Oct. 26, and at St. Monica Church, 1700 Buford Highway, Duluth, on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Veneration at Holy […]
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Georgia Tech Catholic Center planning big celebration Oct. 2-4
September 4, 2015ATLANTA—The year 2015 marks a special year for the Catholic Center at Georgia Tech with celebration of its 30th anniversary. The current facility on 4th Street, in the heart of the Georgia Tech campus, was dedicated in October of 1985. Thirty years later, the Catholic Center is busy as ever and continues to welcome with […]
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A very peaceful death
September 4, 2015“I’m going to drop off the rental car and walk home,” said my husband—but he didn’t return home to me that day, and he never will. The week before his death we were in Florida on a family reunion, enjoying big chaotic meals in my aunt’s condo filled to the brim with relatives, taking early […]
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Stephen Colbert, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Henry Newman and the providence of God
September 4, 2015Just last week, Stephen Colbert gave an interview in which the depth of his Catholic faith was on pretty clear display. Discussing the trauma that he experienced as a young man—the deaths of his father and two of his brothers in a plane crash—he told the interviewer how, through the ministrations of his mother, he […]
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Dedications mark our steady growth in faith
September 4, 2015Near the end of a splendid dedication Mass of the stunningly beautiful new sanctuary of St. Michael the Archangel in Woodstock last Saturday afternoon, Father Paul Flood whispered to me: “How many of these have you done?” It was an excellent question for me to consider last week especially since I had already celebrated both […]
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Following Jesus
September 4, 2015Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.” Jn 6: 67-69 William Golding was a British author, best […]
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New Orleans Archdiocese: Forever changed by Hurricane Katrina
September 4, 2015NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—They are calling it “Kat 10”—Hurricane Katrina plus 10 years—which carries with it the double meaning of an ominous meteorological warning. How could a Category 5 storm that engulfed the entire Gulf of Mexico but dropped in intensity to a Category 3 just before landfall on Aug. 29, 2005—burying one of the world’s […]
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Iraqi archbishop: Plight of fleeing Christians has challenged his faith
September 4, 2015INDIANAPOLIS (CNS)—Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, placed his face in his hands when asked how his faith has been challenged and changed in the crisis he has helped manage over the past year. He said he has outwardly encouraged the Christians whom he welcomed to Irbil when they fled Islamic State, but […]
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Hurricane Katrina, looking back
September 1, 2015People are looking back at the devastation and the rebuilding of the communities around New Orleans and the Gulf region during the 10 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In 2006, members of the Georgia Bulletin staff visited the region to create an award-winning report on the one year mark. We’ll be republishing some of the stories […]
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The first day of a new school year at a new high school
August 21, 2015On the morning of August 20 Notre Dame Academy’s Kavanaugh Hall welcomed 31 students, representing the inaugural freshman class of its new high school in Duluth. They showed up in crisp uniform blouses, shirts, khaki pants and skirts. They walked to their first class of three classes – Design, Human Geography (Social Studies) and Symphonic […]