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Inside Atlanta’s Melkite Catholic Church
August 15, 2014I don’t often have the chance to attend an Eastern Catholic church, but a recent assignment took me to the former Candler mansion on Atlanta’s Ponce de Leon Avenue where Melkite Catholics worship and gather as a community. St. John Chrysostum Greek Catholic Church has been here for more than 50 years. Here’s the lede for my […]
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Pope to send envoy to Christians forced from their homes in Iraq
August 9, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Given the “grave situation in Iraq,” Pope Francis has asked Cardinal Fernando Filoni to travel to the region to meet church and government officials, but especially to meet Christians chased from their homes by militants of the Islamic State. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said Aug. 8 the pope chose Cardinal Filoni, […]
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West Wesley rectory renovation debated at zoning meeting
August 8, 2014ATLANTA—While renovations are underway preparing the home at 136 West Wesley Road to be the rectory of the Cathedral of Christ the King, a neighborhood zoning committee heard two points of view on the project July 29. After more than an hour of discussion, the zoning committee of Neighborhood Planning Unit-B adjourned its meeting and […]
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Link with businesses attracts 160 students to new Cristo Rey Atlanta
August 7, 2014ATLANTA—Some 160 first-year students filled Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School on Monday, Aug. 4, as the newest Catholic high school in the community opened. After nearly a year and a half of planning to start the school, some students arrived before the doors even opened at the 680 West Peachtree Street building. “It’s alive. […]
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Event underscores faith perspective on death penalty
August 7, 2014SMYRNA—More than 85 people, at varying stages in the journey to oppose capital punishment, attended an inaugural event of Georgia Catholics Against the Death Penalty Aug. 2 at the Chancery of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. “Restoration, Reconciliation and Forgiveness: A Catholic Perspective on the Death Penalty” featured speakers, group discussions, a question-and-answer session and afternoon […]
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Sudanese Catholic condemned for apostasy freed, meets pope
August 7, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Meeting a Sudanese woman who risked execution for not renouncing her Catholic faith, Pope Francis thanked Meriam Ibrahim for her steadfast witness to Christ. The pope spent 30 minutes with Ibrahim, her husband and two small children July 24, just hours after she had arrived safely in Italy following a brutal ordeal of […]
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Photojournalists illustrate faces of poverty, work of St. Vincent de Paul in Georgia
August 7, 2014ATLANTA—The face of poverty isn’t always someone living in a tent under a city overpass. Sometimes it’s the person sitting next to you in the church pew struggling to buy groceries. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul Georgia is featuring a photography exhibit throughout the month of August to depict the plight of Georgians […]
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Many volunteers build love into adoration chapel, new hall at St. Monica’s
August 7, 2014DULUTH—The new “Mary, Mother of the Eucharist Chapel” at St. Monica Church is an awe-inspiring space where parishioners and visitors can pray without distraction before the Blessed Sacrament. The adoration chapel, blessed by Bishop Luis R. Zarama on Sunday, June 1, includes a monstrance from France, hand-carved altar panels, stenciled ceiling patterns and stained glass […]
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Holy Spirit makes its jubilee year a springboard into New Evangelization
August 7, 2014ATLANTA—Holy Spirit Church commemorated its 50th anniversary with a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory at the beginning of 2014, with 50 Wednesday evenings of Eucharistic adoration and a summertime parish picnic complete with a mortgage burning. “Our game plan for the 50th year was to make it a yearlong celebration where this year […]
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SVdP holds national assembly in Atlanta
August 7, 2014ATLANTA—The 2014 National Assembly of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will be held in Atlanta Sept. 24-27 with a theme of “Hope in Action.” Host council for the National Assembly is St. Vincent de Paul Georgia, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Louise Fisher Coniglio, director of volunteer and community engagement […]