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Observers expect pope to affirm and challenge politicians during visit
September 4, 2015WASHINGTON (CNS)—Flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner—two high-profile Catholic politicians—the visual of Pope Francis’ Sept. 24 address to Congress will signal an evolving narrative. The improbability of a pope standing before a joint meeting of Congress comes in an era of wider acceptance of the Catholic faith as it intersects […]
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Brand new ballgame: 72 men, including Atlantan, start lives as seminarians in Rome
September 4, 2015VATICAN CITY (CNS)—As ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man” bellowed across an immaculately groomed sports field not far from St. Peter’s Basilica, a new class of U.S. seminarians faced off against their peers in a fraternal game of softball. The onlooking fans, who included Vatican officials and seminary staff, said they perceive God’s providence in the […]
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SVdP Georgia, Mercy Care host forum on poverty
September 4, 2015ATLANTA—St. Vincent de Paul Georgia, Mercy Care and other nonprofit partners will present the Poverty Forum on Friday, Sept. 18, at the Georgia Tech Student Center Ballroom, 350 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta. The forum, part of a larger three-day Poverty Summit, is intended to increase awareness of poverty in the region, the barriers to overcoming […]
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Saint’s relics to visit Atlanta area for exposition
September 4, 2015ATLANTA—The major relics of Patroness of Mercy, St. Maria Goretti, will be in Atlanta for two days in October. The relics of St. Maria Goretti will be at Holy Spirit Church, 4465 Northside Drive, Atlanta, on Monday, Oct. 26, and at St. Monica Church, 1700 Buford Highway, Duluth, on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Veneration at Holy […]
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Georgia Tech Catholic Center planning big celebration Oct. 2-4
September 4, 2015ATLANTA—The year 2015 marks a special year for the Catholic Center at Georgia Tech with celebration of its 30th anniversary. The current facility on 4th Street, in the heart of the Georgia Tech campus, was dedicated in October of 1985. Thirty years later, the Catholic Center is busy as ever and continues to welcome with […]
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A very peaceful death
September 4, 2015“I’m going to drop off the rental car and walk home,” said my husband—but he didn’t return home to me that day, and he never will. The week before his death we were in Florida on a family reunion, enjoying big chaotic meals in my aunt’s condo filled to the brim with relatives, taking early […]
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Stephen Colbert, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Henry Newman and the providence of God
September 4, 2015Just last week, Stephen Colbert gave an interview in which the depth of his Catholic faith was on pretty clear display. Discussing the trauma that he experienced as a young man—the deaths of his father and two of his brothers in a plane crash—he told the interviewer how, through the ministrations of his mother, he […]
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Dedications mark our steady growth in faith
September 4, 2015Near the end of a splendid dedication Mass of the stunningly beautiful new sanctuary of St. Michael the Archangel in Woodstock last Saturday afternoon, Father Paul Flood whispered to me: “How many of these have you done?” It was an excellent question for me to consider last week especially since I had already celebrated both […]
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Following Jesus
September 4, 2015Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.” Jn 6: 67-69 William Golding was a British author, best […]
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New Orleans Archdiocese: Forever changed by Hurricane Katrina
September 4, 2015NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—They are calling it “Kat 10”—Hurricane Katrina plus 10 years—which carries with it the double meaning of an ominous meteorological warning. How could a Category 5 storm that engulfed the entire Gulf of Mexico but dropped in intensity to a Category 3 just before landfall on Aug. 29, 2005—burying one of the world’s […]