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Pinecrest’s inaugural wrestling season builds character
March 31, 2016CUMMING—Pat Metz and Mike Miller, Pinecrest Academy parents who had campaigned for a competitive wrestling team at the school for nearly eight years, saw their dream become a reality this school year. The season officially began in late October 2015. High school social studies teacher Martin Podmolik, in his fourth year at Pinecrest, filled the […]
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Acworth mission welcomes its first new Easter Catholics
March 31, 2016ACWORTH—Thousands of believers in the United States were welcomed into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. At the young St. Clare of Assisi Mission, in Acworth, it was the first time the community welcomed new Catholics. It’s only the second Easter celebration for this Catholic mission community about 30 miles northwest of Atlanta. They […]
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For eighth year, Holy Week walk focuses on immigrants’ detention
March 31, 2016ATLANTA—A Holy Week pilgrimage focusing on those being held in immigration detention centers and on their families crossed through the Archdiocese of Atlanta and stopped at several Catholic churches on March 23 and 25. Nearly 40 people, some joining mid-route, participated March 23 in one segment of the eighth annual Holy Week Pilgrimage for Immigrants […]
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Reconcile with God, resurrect hope in others, pope urges at Easter
March 31, 2016VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Easter is a feast of hope, a celebration of God’s mercy and a call to pray for and assist all who suffer, Pope Francis said before giving his solemn blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world). The risen Jesus “makes us sharers of his immortal life and enables us to […]
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Father Joseph Peek blessed by ranks of brother priests at funeral Mass
March 31, 2016DUNWOODY—As they sang the “Salve Regina,” scores of Atlanta’s priests and its three bishops one by one blessed the casket of Father Joseph M. Peek in the sunshine outside All Saints Church at the March 18 funeral Mass. Confronted with leukemia just prior to his priestly ordination in 2002, Father Peek turned his physical illnesses […] Full Story
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Praying at city sites, Good Friday pilgrims seek deeper concern for poor
March 31, 2016ATLANTA—More than 300 people walked a two-mile route along Atlanta’s busy city streets March 25 for the 36th annual Good Friday pilgrimage, an ecumenical journey from the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to the Reflection Pool of the King Center. The Archdiocese of Atlanta Justice and Peace Ministries sponsors the program of prayer and reflection, […]
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Washing feet of refugees, pope says it is gesture of brotherhood, peace
March 31, 2016ROME (CNS)—In a moving gesture of brotherhood and peace, Pope Francis washed the feet of several refugees, including Muslims, Hindus and Copts. Gestures, like Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, “speak louder than words,” he said during the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper March 24. Coming together, he added, is another gesture […]
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Six priests celebrate golden, silver jubilees
March 31, 2016ATLANTA—Six priest jubilarians were recognized at the Archdiocese of Atlanta Chrism Mass on March 22. Msgr. Francis Pham Van Phuong, pastor of Our Lady of Vietnam Church, Riverdale, is celebrating 50 years of priesthood. A native of Vietnam, he was ordained April 29, 1966, in Saigon. He came to the United States as an exchange […]
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Priests told to be icons of Christ, seeing the ‘forgotten’
March 31, 2016ATLANTA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory encouraged hundreds of priests at the annual Chrism Mass to be “ministers of compassion and mercy.” The Chrism Mass for the Archdiocese of Atlanta was a key event in Holy Week as clergymen gathered for a day of prayer and reflection leading up to Easter. Archbishop Gregory spoke on Tuesday evening, […]
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Pope condemns ‘blind violence,’ offers prayers after Brussels attacks
March 22, 2016VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis, condemning the “blind violence” of the terrorist attacks in Brussels, offered his prayers to the victims, the injured, their families and all those offering assistance in the aftermath of the bombings. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, sent the pope’s condolences March 22 to Archbishop Jozef De Kesel of Mechelen-Brussels. […]