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Catholics called to do everything in their power to end human trafficking
February 19, 2015WASHINGTON (CNS)—Highlighting the life, suffering and enduring hope of St. Josephine Bakhita, a Sudanese slave, Washington Auxiliary Bishop Martin D. Holley called for reflection and action to combat modern-day slavery during his homily on the first International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking Feb. 8. We must “do everything in our power through […]
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Girls team hits new heights supporting Sam Robb Fund
February 19, 2015DECATUR—For the past five years, the St. Thomas More girls basketball team has participated in the Sam Robb Memorial Holiday Classic tournament. The tournament benefits the Sam Robb Fund of CURE Childhood Cancer and funds a pediatric research fellowship at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University. […]
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Iconic sportscaster Jim McKay affirmed life through love of sports
February 19, 2015Ernest Hemingway is often cited as proclaiming that “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” I wish Hemingway could have known my 4-year-old son, Nicholas, whom we affectionately call Nicky, or just as often, “the Bubba.” Last week, you see, the Bubba beat his daddy at […]
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‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ amusing but excessively violent
February 19, 2015NEW YORK (CNS)—Iconic spy James Bond gets younger, hipper competition via “Kingsman: The Secret Service” (Fox). This suave but excessively violent adaptation of Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons’ 2012 comic book series “The Secret Service” is directed and co-written—with Jane Goldman—by Matthew Vaughn (“X-Men: First Class”). Terribly British to its core, the film is, at […]
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Get ready for the battle during Lent
February 19, 2015A couple from Marietta traveled to a small Georgia town in the hopes of buying their dream car, but the whole thing turned into a nightmare, and instead of returning home, they were murdered. It is a horrible story, all the more chilling because the couple looked, from their photos, like typical grandparents who lived […]
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A time to commemorate heritage and sacrifices
February 19, 2015I have to admit that I am not very much of a movie devotee, and that reality is a great disappointment for at least one of my younger priests who himself is drawn to the cinema like a moth to a flame. He once told me that he was planning on getting up to see […]
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‘Being someone in Lent’
February 19, 2015Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a period of approximately six weeks of repentance. Christians are encouraged to practice different means of expressing repentance—fasting, the giving of alms, atonement and self-denial. These are all different ways of making room in one’s heart for a better felt presence of God. God is always […]
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Holy Spirit seniors sing, dance, to reach ‘Roma!’
February 19, 2015ATLANTA—With a two-act lineup of singing and dancing to entertain guests, seniors at Holy Spirit Prep School raised more than $7,000 at the annual “Roma!” event, a night of food, entertainment and auctions to support the annual senior class trip to Rome, Italy. The festivities took place on Wednesday, Feb. 4. It’ll be the 10th […]
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Reflections for the Lenten journey
February 19, 2015The following meditations—for the first three days of Lent—were written by Father Robert Barron, a noted author and speaker, of Mundelein Seminary in Illinois. Ash Wednesday, day 1: “Back to Basics” At the beginning of baseball season, the coach has to bring his players back to basics. He has to remind them of the three-point […]
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Sophia Academy girls win basketball championship
February 19, 2015ATLANTA—Sophia Academy’s girls and boys basketball season ended with a tournament in which the girls won. The Sophia girls captured their second straight Atlanta Private Athletic Conference championship by defeating Swift School of Roswell in the semifinals and the Waldorf School of Decatur in the title game at Weller Park Recreation Center in Roswell. In […]