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Supreme Court seeks details on alternative contraceptive coverage
March 31, 2016WASHINGTON (CNS)—Less than a week after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive requirement, the court released an order requesting that additional briefs be submitted showing if and how contraceptive insurance coverage could be obtained by employees through their insurance companies without directly involving the religious employers objecting to this […]
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Maria Boylan will speak at May 7 Magnificat
March 31, 2016ATLANTA—All women are invited to the Magnificat gathering on Saturday, May 7, when the guest speaker will be Maria Boylan, coordinator of the newly formed Magnificat chapter in South Carolina. A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Maria grew up in Canada, where her family emigrated when she was a child. Now she and her […]
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Mother Angelica, founder of EWTN, dies after long illness
March 31, 2016BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CNS)—Mother Angelica, who founded the Eternal Word Television Network and turned it into one of the world’s largest religious media operations, died March 27 at age 92. Feisty and outspoken, she was a major controversial figure in the U.S. church in the closing decades of the 20th century. At the same time, the […]
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Spirited Palm Sunday begins Holy Week in north Georgia
March 31, 2016Georgia Bulletin staff photographer Michael Alexander visited St. Matthew Church, in Winder, and St. Paul the Apostle Church, in Cleveland, on Palm Sunday and captured these images and more of the recollection of Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem days before he would be betrayed and led to his crucifixion. In the Gospel of Luke, it […]
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Preaching to his youngest parishioners with helping hands
March 31, 2016On Sunday, March 20, I attended the Palm Sunday procession and Spanish Mass at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Cleveland. Father Fabio Alvarez Posada, the pastor and a priest of the Atlanta Archdiocese since 2004, was the main celebrant. After the reading of Luke’s Gospel, Father Fabio stepped off the altar, faced the congregation […]
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Adopting triplets life-changing for couple
March 31, 2016DUBUQUE, Iowa (CNS)—As Cari Campbell scrolled through the content of her Facebook newsfeed one day last August, the post of a friend living in Oregon caught her attention. Campbell could not have foreseen at the time how quickly that social media post would turn her world upside down or the way in which God was […]
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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 […]