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Football teams don’t pass up chance for preseason ‘Hail Marys’
August 20, 2015SANDY SPRINGS—Nearly 200 jersey-clad football players, coaches and parents from Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, and Holy Spirit Preparatory School and St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, participated in an Aug. 5 rosary rally at St. Jude the Apostle Church. Conducted by Father Tim Hepburn, vocations director for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the evening service […]
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New principals take charge of three Catholic schools
August 20, 2015ATLANTA—Three Catholic schools have new administrators as the 2015-2016 school year begins. The new principals/heads of school, who will serve at Holy Spirit Upper School, Atlanta, St. Joseph School, Athens, and Sophia Academy, Atlanta, are introduced here as they also talk about the teachers who helped them believe in their talents. Jocelyn Sotomayor, Upper […]
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Pope: God made celebrations; ‘A loving gaze at work well done’
August 20, 2015VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Families need moments of rest and celebration, time for standing back and recognizing the gifts of God and how well they have developed, Pope Francis said. Celebrations are times “to enjoy that which cannot be produced or consumed, that cannot be bought or sold,” the pope said Aug. 12 at his weekly general […]
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Habitat invites people to help with Pope Francis build
August 20, 2015ATLANTA—Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, with the help of an anonymous donor, has raised the majority of funds needed to begin construction of a home in honor of Pope Francis this November. The Pope Francis build is one of a number that Habitat for Humanity has organized in conjunction with the visit of the pope to […]
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Lessons from South America: How to greet and understand Pope Francis
August 20, 2015VATICAN CITY (CNS)—People make special preparations for welcoming a special guest, and watching what worked and did not work in Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay may help people preparing for Pope Francis’ visit to the United States in September. Some of the plans, however, will require common-sense adjustments, especially because the U.S. Secret Service is likely […]
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Journey to the land beyond time
August 20, 2015Grief hits like a virus. One moment you’re flat on your back weeping, and the next you’re marveling at how well you’re doing—“I went to the grocery store, paid three bills and fed the hamster”—until a wave of blackness comes from some unknown sea and knocks you down again. The sadness sneaks up and seizes […]
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New Office of Life, Dignity and Justice formed
August 20, 2015SMYRNA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the formation of a new Office of Life, Dignity and Justice, comprised of the existing four ministries of Respect Life, Disabilities, Prison and Jail, and Justice and Peace. In a letter to pastors and staff, Archbishop Gregory said, “These ministries, for that is what they truly are, have been […]
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Sept. 1 is World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation
August 20, 2015VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Like their Orthodox brothers and sisters, Catholics formally will mark Sept. 1 as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Francis has decided. The day of prayer, the pope said, will give individuals and communities an opportunity to implore God’s help in protecting creation and an opportunity to ask […]
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‘Compton’ brings narrow perspective to troubled culture
August 20, 2015NEW YORK (CNS)—The proper limits of free speech and the appropriate use of violence are just two of the topics raised in the striking but gritty dramatization “Straight Outta Compton” (Universal). As he recounts the rise and collapse of the gangster rap group N.W.A, beginning in 1986, director F. Gary Gray clearly intends to use […]
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Merton’s well-known meditations a respite from world’s chaos
August 20, 2015The other day, a neighbor of mine hailed me on the sidewalk to report that he “can’t get no peace and quiet.” It is August. It is a time of commitments and obligations. It is a time of good intentions and resolutions. It is a time of appointments, and scheduling conflicts, and trying to be […]