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Overseeing Christ the King facilities makes Chris Brown indispensable
February 5, 2015ATLANTA—A walkie-talkie is Chris Brown’s constant companion on the job as facilities manager for both Christ the King School and the Cathedral of Christ the King. It frequently crackles as he walks throughout the Peachtree Road campus with a question or a summons. Brown handles problems ranging from plumbing to electrical in the buildings, oversees […]
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Teaching since 1981 makes her a legend at St. Thomas More School
February 5, 2015DECATUR—Kathy Merritt walked heel to toe across the table to count out the 7-foot length of the classroom furniture, as her young students watched, sitting with crossed legs. Moments later, she guided the hand of a young girl, who mimicked her teacher as she, too, walked across the tabletop. That is how Merritt began her […]
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Msgr. McNamee named NCEA 2015 Distinguished Pastor
February 5, 2015ATLANTA—Msgr. Francis (Frank) G. McNamee, rector of the Cathedral of Christ the King, has been selected by the National Catholic Educational Association for the 2015 Distinguished Pastor Award. The annual award, established in 2007, honors pastors who have given outstanding support to Catholic elementary education. “We in the Christ the King School community know that […]
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Reporting to jobs one day a week is part of freshman year at Cristo Rey Atlanta
February 5, 2015Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School opened its doors in August 2014 with some 160 students in its inaugural freshman class. The West Peachtree Street school offers a college prep curriculum for students from financially strapped families. What is unique is how it does this: one day a week, on a rotating schedule, students are […]
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Polls reveal declining support for abortion in U.S.
February 5, 2015WASHINGTON (CNS)—A Jan. 21 report from the National Right to Life Committee and new poll results show that abortion is increasingly unpopular in the United States, but also that the number of abortions performed in the United States is at its lowest point since 1975. The day after the State of the Union Address, the […]
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‘Pro-life warriors’ join together for D.C. march
February 5, 2015WASHINGTON (CNS)—On a chilly and cloudy morning on the National Mall in Washington, crowds gathered Jan. 22 for the annual March for Life, this year marking the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion virtually on demand. Tens of thousands gathered first to hear a lineup of speakers, before […]
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Atlanta-area youth travel to national March for Life
February 5, 2015WASHINGTON—Area high school students were among the thousands in the nation’s capital to support the March for Life. Students from Holy Spirit Preparatory School, Atlanta, Pinecrest Academy, Cumming, St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, and Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, traveled to Washington to join the sea of marchers on Jan. 22, many from high […]
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Hundreds gather to pray at the 2015 Mass for the Unborn
February 5, 2015ATLANTA—On the Jan. 22 anniversary of the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, Catholics in the Atlanta Archdiocese voiced their opposition to abortion. Hundreds prayed together in the Cathedral of Christ the King, led by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, on the day of the anniversary. Later, under an overcast sky with temperatures in the 50s, […]
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Catholic hospital reopens in Haitian capital five years after earthquake
February 5, 2015ATLANTA—The people of Haiti marked the fifth anniversary of the country’s devastating earthquake with the reopening of St. François de Sales Hospital in the heart of Port-au-Prince Jan. 15. The country’s oldest Catholic health care facility, rebuilt by the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince and Catholic Relief Services, can serve an increased number of patients and has […]
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Rabbi Skorka: Pope Francis keeps people close, even those disagreeing
February 5, 2015ATLANTA—Affectionately dubbed the pope’s rabbi, an Argentinian Jewish leader shared stories and insights in Atlanta recently into their unlikely friendship that started with needling about soccer teams and led to an embrace at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest place Jews can pray. “God blessed us to materialize a common dream,” said Rabbi Abraham Skorka about […]