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Pope Francis tells Mexican bishops be unified, speak out on tough issues
February 19, 2016MEXICO CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis demanded forceful denunciations of drug violence in Mexico from the country’s bishops, who have preferred timid pronouncements instead of speaking prophetically on a tragedy that has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past 10 years and left another 25,000 Mexicans missing. Speaking Feb. 13 to an audience of bishops in […] Full Story | En Español
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Next at St. Thomas More: ‘Empty Bowls’ dinner
February 19, 2016DECATUR—The third annual St. Thomas More School Empty Bowls Project will be held on Thursday, Feb. 25, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The dinner program will be in Mulhern Hall, located at 630 W. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur. The Empty Bowls Project is a grassroots initiative to bring awareness to the fight against hunger […]
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Drexel alumni celebrate historic anniversary in Atlanta
February 19, 2016ATLANTA—Fifty-five years ago, at the height of the American civil rights movement, dozens of African-American families partnered with the Archdiocese of Atlanta to establish the city’s only black Catholic high school, Drexel Catholic High. Drexel High operated between 1961 and 1967. Located on wooded grounds on Harwell Road in Atlanta’s historic Collier Heights, it offered […]
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God puts mercy, faithfulness into action
February 19, 2016Second column in a 13-part series Many spiritual leaders have observed that the experience of loss and being overwhelmed with misery brings us to the edge of what it means to be human, and ironically makes us most open to an experience of the mystery that we know as God. Perhaps these raw moments in life […]
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The offering of a key
February 19, 2016There was a town with a small church. I had heard that the church was beautiful inside and so I went to see it and brought my camera. When I arrived at the church and tried to open the door, it was locked. I walked around the block and tried a side door, but that […]
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Rosary as love letter to the faithful departed
February 19, 2016My husband was truly a Renaissance man, someone who could write, draw, build furniture, make fig and muscadine wine—and even keep bees. Still, no man is an island, and that was true for him—which is why he sometimes came to me with a shirt that was missing a button, or his fuzzy head of hair […]
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Vibrancy of our community reflected in annual rite
February 19, 2016Pat DeJarnett from our archdiocesan Office for Divine Worship manages to keep careful tabs on many of the statistics for our rites, so I knew that her projections in reference to this particular ceremony would be accurate. She told me the other day that the total number of our candidates and catechumens would probably break […]
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CRS Rice Bowl recipe: Laotian rice and lentil mash
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Archbishop Gregory gets his Black History Month “biography doll”
February 15, 2016St. Thomas More School in Decatur is one of the Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Atlanta that has consistently celebrated Black History Month over the years with its students. Last week, Feb. 11, I drove over to the Decatur school on the day when Mike Norment, a former USA National Swimming Team member and […]
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February day of reflection to focus on works of mercy
February 5, 2016ATLANTA—The Divine Mercy Apostolate at the Cathedral of Christ the King will hold a day of reflection on Saturday, Feb. 20, from 8:10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All are welcome to attend. The theme of the day is “The Heart of Mercy in Action – Embrace the Jubilee in Living the Corporal and Spiritual Works […]