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St. Pius X hands Marist its first loss of the season
October 17, 2014ATLANTA—For the first time since 2009, Atlanta’s Marist School and St. Pius X High School met on the gridiron at Marist’s Hughes Spalding Stadium Oct. 10. Unlike the 2009 game—then the season opener for these schools—St. Pius entered the game with a 3-2 record, while Marist was undefeated and had outscored its opponents in the […]
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St. Pius X third in state water polo competition
October 17, 2014CUMMING—St. Pius X was one of four semi-final teams competing for the 2014 Georgia High School Water Polo Association (GHSWPA) state championship at the Cumming Aquatic Center, Oct. 10-12. St. Pius took on Wesleyan in its first match, Oct. 11, which resulted in a 19-4 victory. With a tenacious defense, they held Wesleyan to two […]
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‘Left Behind,’ first in trilogy, weaves fiction with rapture theology
October 17, 2014NEW YORK (CNS)—The fundamentalist conception of the rapture, as described in the best-selling “Left Behind” novels, may be arriving—for the first time—at a movie theater near you. Three earlier films, all starring Kirk Cameron, were marketed primarily as home videos, though the first did have a limited theatrical release. They never drew as large an […]
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Archbishop urges peace in streets during new round of Ferguson protests
October 17, 2014ST. LOUIS (CNS)—Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis urged protesters to turn away from violence as a new round of protests began over the shooting death of African-American teenager Michael Brown this past summer in the small town of Ferguson. The protests were to take place not only in Ferguson, where Brown was fatally […]
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Texas nurse with Ebola supported by prayers from her home parish
October 17, 2014DALLAS (CNS)—During an Oct. 13 Mass at Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Fort Worth, the pastor, Father Jim Khoi asked for prayers for Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse who grew up in the parish and is now in the news as the first person known to have contracted the Ebola virus in the United […]
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Speechless at refugees’ plight, pope prays for open hearts
October 17, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—People need to open their hearts to the many people who are forced to migrate as they face enormous difficulties and sometimes tragedy, Pope Francis said. “I pray for closed hearts that they may open. And everything I have available to me, is available to you,” he told a group of young Eritreans […]
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Father Barron: Having patience for the sausage-making synod
October 16, 2014The midterm report on the deliberations of the Synod on the Family has appeared, and there is a fair amount of hysteria all around. John Thavis, a veteran Vatican reporter who should know better, has declared this statement “an earthquake, the big one that hit after months of smaller tremors.” Certain commentators on the right […]
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Family synod midterm report: Welcome gays, couples not in sacramental marriages
October 16, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—In strikingly conciliatory language on situations contrary to Catholic teaching, an official midterm report from the Synod of Bishops on the family emphasized calls for greater acceptance and appreciation of divorced and remarried Catholics, cohabitating couples and homosexuals. “It is necessary to accept people in their concrete being, to know how to support […]
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Look to the East for canonical-spiritual balance, synod members say
October 16, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—By tapping into its Eastern theological and spiritual traditions, the Catholic Church could find an appropriate way to minister to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics and others in situations the church considers irregular, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church said. “According to the tradition of the Byzantine church, a priest or a […]