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Brunch with the Dooleys highlights St. Matthew Haiti fundraiser
August 6, 2015TYRONE—How would you like to have brunch with legendary University of Georgia Coach Vince Dooley and his wife, Barbara? Or take a nap in your very own handmade porch bed? How about a week at the beach, or would you prefer the mountains? All of these and more can be yours if you attend Casino […]
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IHM Church honors saint with Lebanese celebration
August 6, 2015ATLANTA—The community at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church celebrated a saint from Lebanon with a Middle Eastern potluck and a hafla, a traditional gathering among friends and relatives. The Atlanta parish marked the July 24 feast day. The event began with the community reciting the collect prayer for the feast of St. Sharbel. Then with […]
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Atlanta youth honored at National Junior Beta Convention
August 6, 2015ATLANTA—Rising high school freshman Joshua Owens earned an award at the National Junior Beta Convention. Owens, who will be attending Our Lady of Mercy High School, Fayetteville, competed in social studies at the convention in Nashville, Tennessee. He earned third place on the national stage. In an earlier Georgia contest, he placed second in the […]
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Woman, children enter Catholic mission in Lilburn to avoid deportation
August 6, 2015LILBURN—The Mission of Our Lady of the Americas will provide assistance to a pregnant woman and her two small children who sought shelter there to avoid deportation, a statement of the Atlanta Archdiocese said. A small room at Our Lady of the Americas Mission has been serving as a place of refuge for Claudia Mariela […]
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‘Mission: Impossible’ another ‘nifty espionage’ movie
August 6, 2015NEW YORK (CNS)—Light the fuse and cue that nerve-jangling theme music everyone loves to hum; it’s time for “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation” (Paramount). As helmed by writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, this fifth installment in a franchise that dates back, on the big screen, to 1996—and that began life as a CBS-TV series a full three decades before […]
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New Lyke House chaplain engaged in working toward the common good
August 6, 2015ATLANTA—A new chaplain will greet students as they return to Lyke House at the Atlanta University Center. Society of the Divine Word Father Urey P. Mark in July became the director and chaplain of the Catholic Center for Atlanta’s historically black colleges and universities, including Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College and Clark […]
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Climbing out of darkness
August 6, 2015There is so much anger in our country today. Although some people celebrated the recent Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, orthodox Catholics are concerned about its impact on religious freedom—and vexed about the radical shift in moral definitions. It’s easy to understand the initial anger, but when this becomes the dominating force in our […]
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A priest for 41 years, Msgr. Branch wants to turn his attention to the poor
August 6, 2015ATLANTA—Msgr. Edward Branch has stepped aside from his longtime ministry at the Atlanta University Center, the campus of four historically black colleges and universities, and is “refocusing” his ministry. A priest for more than 40 years, he wants his next chapter in life to be about the poor and the marginalized. He envisions serving with […]
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Jewish author presents parables as Jesus’ tales to fellow Jews
August 6, 2015“Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi” by Amy-Jill Levine. Harper Collins (New York, 2014). 313 pp., $25.99. “Short Stories by Jesus,” Amy-Jill Levine’s new book, reaches far back in time to listen “to the Jewish Jesus talking to fellow Jews” as he tells his many parables. Believers over time domesticated […]
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Why you need spiritual food
August 6, 2015Every third summer, the Catholic lectionary provides a series of readings for Sunday Mass from the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John. This is the magnificently crafted chapter in which the evangelist’s Eucharistic theology is most fully presented. It is a curiosity of John’s Gospel that the Last Supper scene includes no “institution narrative,” […]