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Archdiocese donates building to serve homeless pregnant women
May 12, 2016EAST POINT—Sheltering Grace Ministry has a new facility to serve more homeless pregnant women. Local dignitaries, including Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, celebrated as Sheltering Grace settled into an East Point senior care building that had sat vacant for a decade. The building served as a Catholic personal care home for the elderly known as St. […]
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Archbishop to speak at Theology on Tap
May 12, 2016ATLANTA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will be the featured speaker at Theology on Tap on Friday, May 27, at Holy Spirit Church, 4465 Northside Drive, NW, Atlanta, in McDonough Hall. The event runs from 7 to 9 p.m. and is a program of the young adult ministry at Holy Spirit Church. Theology on Tap is open […]
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Women invited to Bible study of Book of Jonah
May 12, 2016ATLANTA—On the five Thursdays in the month of June, Keri Allen, leader of “Proclaim My Word,” life application Bible studies, will be presenting a study of the Book of Jonah. Titled “When God Says Go … Don’t Say No!”, this Bible study for the women of the Atlanta Archdiocese will be held at Holy Spirit […]
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Not your ‘ordinary’ visit
May 11, 2016When I was a kid I would accompany my father to the Archdiocese of Louisville’s annual Corpus Christi procession at Churchill Downs, the site of last week’s 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby. During that summer event, the late Bishop Charles G. Maloney was always far away. The congregation was on the grandstand and bleacher side […]
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Father Daniel Berrigan, advocate for justice, peace, poor, dies at 94
May 9, 2016NEW YORK (CNS)—Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan, an early critic of U.S. military intervention in Vietnam who for years challenged the country’s reliance on military might, died April 30. He was 94. The author of several books of poetry and one of the first Catholic priests to receive a federal sentence for peace activism, Father Berrigan […]
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Indulgence for sick, homebound, prisoners
April 29, 2016Those who cannot make a pilgrimage because of age, illness or other barriers may receive the indulgence by living their sickness and suffering “as an experience of closeness with the Lord” in his Passion, death and Resurrection, Pope Francis said. They are encouraged to pray and receive Communion, if possible, or participate in Mass, even […]
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Turnout at vigils for murdered priest testament to his love, commitment
April 29, 2016ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (CNS)—In the days Father Rene Robert was listed as missing, the faithful gathered at two churches for prayer vigils. The turnout became a testament of the love and commitment Father Robert fostered for those he served. Kate Quigley Burns is a longtime friend and fellow advocate for the deaf community, which the […]
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Book reveals pope’s secret spy network during WW II
April 29, 2016“Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler” by Mark Riebling. Basic Books (New York, 2015). 384 pp., $29.99. Who really was Pope Pius XII during World War II? Was he a weak pope, too afraid to speak out publicly against Hitler? Or was he an expert diplomat, calculatingly using his position to help […]
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Goodwin evokes ‘genuine community’ of the ‘50s in ‘Wait Till Next Year’
April 29, 2016And lo, it came to pass that in the 1990s there arose a revived literary genre which ran rampant through book clubs all over the country: the personal memoir. I know this because throughout the decade I facilitated a book club for a group of retired Jewish physicians and their wives, and every other month […]
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All the universe shares in God’s merciful love
April 29, 2016Fifth column in a 13-part series “Indeed, before you the whole universe is like a grain from a balance, or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth. But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and you overlook sins for the sake of repentance. For you love all […]