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• Searching for the images that inspire

  August 6, 2015

  A picture is worth a thousand words, according to one very popular adage. I can vividly recall, and perhaps many of you do as well, a very touching photo taken during the height of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, of a young white man cuddling a sleeping African-American toddler. The little girl was fast asleep in […]

• Cyclist makes it cross country for Atlanta student scholarships

  July 27, 2015

  Cyclist Dick Marklein completed his cross-country trek to raise scholarship money for Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School. That’s 52 Days and 3900 Miles. The cyclist began on May 31st in San Francisco and ended in Portsmouth, N.H., where Marklein dipped his bike into the Atlantic Ocean. The trip was the cyclists’ once in a […]

• Local groups plan rendezvous with Pope Francis in Philadelphia

  July 23, 2015

  ATHENS—St. Joseph Church parishioner Lynn Renna has done her papal pilgrimage homework. For months Renna has been researching transportation and accommodation details associated with a parish trip during Pope Francis’ visit to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September. Pope Francis will be in the United States Sept. 22-27, giving talks and making […]

• Pope says he’ll read critiques of his economic thought before U.S. trip

  July 23, 2015

  ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM PARAGUAY (CNS)—Before arriving in the United States in September, Pope Francis said, he will study American criticisms of his critiques of the global economy and finance. “I have heard that some criticisms were made in the United States—I’ve heard that—but I have not read them and have not had time […]

• Pope’s visits to Cuba, U.S. to highlight families, charity, tolerance

  July 23, 2015

  VATICAN CITY (CNS)—In word and deed, Pope Francis will take his vision of a Catholic’s approach to family life, parish life, charity, economics, immigration and good governance to Cuba and the United States during a Sept. 19-27 visit. Visiting both Cuba and the United States on the same trip not only acknowledges his role in […]

• Itineraries for upcoming trip show heart of pope’s faith

  July 23, 2015

  ASUNCION, Paraguay (CNS)—With almost every step Pope Francis takes on his foreign trips and with his every embrace, he pleads for dialogue and inclusion. His denunciations of a “throwaway culture”—cultures in which certain people and most material goods are deemed disposable—are passionate and well explained in his speeches and writings. But his point is demonstrated […]

• CTK pitches in so summer vacation doesn’t mean some go hungry

  July 23, 2015

  ATLANTA—Schoolteacher Carol Hunt worried about her students, inside the classroom and out. Some 20 years ago, she had the thought of putting together a simple bagged lunch when her school’s cafeteria was closed for the summer and delivering the lunches to students herself. “I knew they didn’t have food during the summer months,” said Hunt, […]

• The desk calendar

  July 23, 2015

  When our mom passed away seven years ago, we gathered her belongings from her apartment. My sister Mary brought most of them to her home in Atlanta, where they remained in a lot of boxes. She went through them, sorting out things she wanted to keep. At one point she showed me one of them. […]

• Documentary ‘Salesman’ reflects stark isolation of 1960s Americans

  July 23, 2015

  As revelatory and refreshing as the New Evangelization has been for contemporary Catholics, there are some who remain unsettled by the Church’s renewed emphasis on spreading the good news of the Gospel. There are Catholics who wish to remain closeted in a solitary austerity, quietly attending Mass, going to confession, and living a life that […]

• We’ve been here before: marriage and the ‘room of tears’

  July 23, 2015

  Just last week, I had the privilege of spending four hours in the Sistine Chapel with my Word on Fire team. Toward the end of our filming, the director of the Vatican Museums, who had accompanied us throughout the process, asked whether I wanted to see the “room of tears.” This is the little antechamber, […]