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Woodstock parishioners put their hearts into 450 Thanksgiving baskets
November 27, 2014WOODSTOCK—There are 450 requests for Thanksgiving baskets at St. Michael the Archangel Church, in Woodstock. With less than a week to delivery, only 290 baskets were filled with Thanksgiving items. “We’ll do what we have to do. God will provide,” said a volunteer, who asked not to be named. “This is a little thing I […]
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Acts of love, kindness, faith add up to holiness, pope says
November 27, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—All Christians are called to holiness and to take even little steps each day to be more loving and more Christ-like, Pope Francis said. “Some think that holiness is closing your eyes and making the face of a plastic statue, but that’s not holiness,” the pope said Nov. 19 at his weekly general […]
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Mercy Care doctor: ‘I need to give back to the community’
November 27, 2014Luis Galvez, M.D., 58, has volunteered with Mercy Care for 20 years. A physician at Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital, he lives in Sandy Springs and attends Holy Spirit Church, Atlanta. He spoke of the imperative he feels as a physician to give back. Q. How do you serve at Mercy Care? A. I provide medical […]
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Catholics should ‘rekindle’ commitment to end racism, bishop says
November 27, 2014WASHINGTON (CNS)—The scenes of chaos and violence in Ferguson, Missouri, Nov. 24 following the grand jury’s decision not to indict the white police officer in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an African-American teenager, reveal deeper issues going on in the country, said one of the country’s black Catholic bishops. “The racial divide that exists […]
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Physician’s daughter volunteers with Mercy Care mobile clinic
November 27, 2014Kiki Butgereit, 78, of Roswell, and St. Brigid Church, Johns Creek, volunteers with the Mercy Care clinic-on-wheels, which visits five sites in metro Atlanta to offer health care to the poor, homeless and underserved. She answered questions about why she serves in this way. Q. How do you serve at Mercy Care? A. I do […]
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Jail cells transformed into Mercy units where ill homeless men recover
November 27, 2014ATLANTA—In the fall of 2012, Seth Weingarten was staying at the night shelter of the Atlanta Mission. A diabetic, Weingarten was running out of the medicines he needed. During the day, he would sit along Luckie Street in downtown Atlanta. “I didn’t feel lucky,” quipped Weingarten. “At the time my sugar was out of control. […]
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‘The quality of mercy is not strained’: Mercy Care brings healing to those in need
November 27, 2014ATLANTA—With the ambition of enlarging its health care safety net, Atlanta’s Mercy Care is having to reintroduce itself to the metro community. Once an offshoot of Saint Joseph’s Hospital, the nonprofit now stands on its own. “We have been the best-kept secret,” said Tom Andrews, the president of Mercy Care. “We don’t want to be […]
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New Mercy Care Projects
November 27, 2014Mercy Care North Expansion A new clinic to serve 5,500 patients annually in DeKalb & Gwinnett counties. Services include optometry, ultrasound, radiology and integrated behavioral health. A community health education center to be used by Mercy Care, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and other partners. Need: $12 million Recuperative Care for Women To serve homeless women […]
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Millions could benefit from president’s new immigration actions
November 27, 2014HYATTSVILLE, Md. (CNS)—The meeting room in the middle of Maryland’s most immigrant-dense ZIP code Nov. 20 was full of people who epitomize the problems President Barack Obama is trying to address with executive action. Families with roots in Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala—some with U.S. citizen children, some with one adult child who has legal […]
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Pope-saint continues to inspire Atlanta’s Polish Catholic Apostolate
November 27, 2014LAWRENCEVILLE—There were dishes of jarzynowa and krokiety, festive foods for a celebration. A T-shirt commemorated the canonization of Poland’s native son, St. John Paul II. Pennant-waving children entertained their parents and the crowd with native songs. St. Marguerite d’Youville Church was filled with Polish pride on Nov. 9 as the Catholic community gathered to mark […]