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Blessed Trinity High School well established as founding principal retires
April 28, 2016ROSWELL—Frank Moore spent many weekends recruiting students and convincing parents that a school that wasn’t complete and a faculty that wasn’t hired would deliver a top-notch Catholic high school education. The “student pioneers” gave Blessed Trinity High School its foundation when it opened in 2000, he said. “When you open a new school, there’s the […]
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Tree planting keeps acts of care for the earth in spotlight
April 28, 2016SMYRNA—Justice and Peace Ministries of the Archdiocese of Atlanta encourages parish groups, schools and families to plant a Laudato Si’ tree in celebration of Earth Day 2016. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory launched the campaign by blessing and planting a donated white dogwood tree on the grounds of the Chancery in Smyrna April 21. The tree […]
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Until we meet again—in heaven
April 15, 2016“Your blood work looks great,” the doctor said. “You could live to be 100!” “Actually, that’s the last thing I’m interested in,” I sighed. I’ll admit it—I am ready to go any time the Lord calls, largely because I’m pining for my husband so much. With each passing day I miss his fuzzy beard, his […]
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The ring
April 15, 2016The ship was at anchor off the island of Rarotonga, one of the Cook Islands. The ocean swells were high, but the captain decided to use tenders to bring to the island those passengers who wished to visit it. The island has a long reef of coral, but there were some narrow entrances to allow […]
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Governments, agencies scramble to curb explosion in U.S. opiate use
April 15, 2016WASHINGTON (CNS)—“Religion is the opiate of the masses,” German philosopher Karl Marx is famously credited with writing in the 19th century. If it ever was true, it’s not anymore. In the United States today, opiates themselves are the opiates of the masses. It used to be that heroin was the opiate for society to reckon […]
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First thoughts on ‘Amoris Laetitia’
April 15, 2016On a spring day about five years ago, when I was rector of Mundelein Seminary, Francis Cardinal George spoke to the assembled student body. He congratulated those proudly orthodox seminarians for their devotion to the dogmatic and moral truths proposed by the Church, but he also offered some pointed pastoral advice. He said that it […]
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UGA scientists, Catholics let pope know they got the ‘Laudato Si’’ message
April 14, 2016ATHENS—As birds chirped in Rosella’s Garden at the Catholic Center of the University of Georgia April 5, scientists, students and members of the interfaith community gathered to celebrate a formal response to a special letter. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory and recently retired UGA environmental scientist Susan Varlamoff led the celebration of the official Action Plan […]
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Teacher marries beau with second-graders in the front row
April 14, 2016ATLANTA—Beth Anne Ross and William Dempsey III were united in the sacrament of marriage Friday, April 1, at the morning Mass of St. Jude the Apostle School. Dempsey and Ross, longtime friends and running and hiking partners, became husband and wife at the first wedding in the school community’s history. A second-grade teacher at St. […]
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A little bit country: Pope looks at the nitty-gritty of family life
April 14, 2016VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis’ hymn to love and family life is more like a country song than a Disney tune. In “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis’ postsynodal apostolic exhortation on the family, there is passion and devotion, but also heartache and sweat. The “magic” he wrote about is not momentarily sparkly, but […]
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Joshua Bishop, executed March 31, was a ‘powerful witness for forgiveness’
April 14, 2016CONYERS—Joshua Bishop, who died by lethal injection March 31, was remembered by his faith community, friends and supporters at a funeral Mass celebrated April 12 at St. Pius X Church in Conyers by Father Tom Zahuta. Bishop, who became a Catholic in prison, regularly attended Mass and other faith gatherings. He met with visiting deacons […]