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St. Pius X has five National Merit finalists
March 20, 2015ATLANTA—Five students at St. Pius X High School were named finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Competition for 2015. St. Pius X has had at least three National Merit Scholarship finalists in 14 of the previous 15 years and has had 80 National Merit finalists since 2000. The five finalists from St. Pius X are […]
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St. Pius’ Asia Durr receives state, national honors
March 20, 2015ATLANTA—For the second consecutive year, St. Pius X High School senior guard Asia Durr has been named the Gatorade Georgia Girls Basketball Player of the Year. The award recognizes outstanding athletic excellence, high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the court. As Georgia’s best high school basketball player, Durr is […]
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Pinecrest names Chris Kane to succeed retiring athletic director
March 20, 2015CUMMING—Pinecrest Academy’s head of school, Paul Parker, recently named Chris Kane the school’s new athletic director, effective July 1. Kane will succeed Tom Palmer, who is retiring at the end of the 2014-2015 school year. Kane, who teaches history, currently serves as head varsity soccer coach and social studies department chair at Pinecrest. “Mr. Kane’s […] Full Story
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Pope: Elderly need to offer wisdom, prayers in later years
March 20, 2015VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Don’t pack it in or shift into cruise control, Pope Francis told his fellow seniors. Young people and families, especially, need the older generation’s prayers, wisdom and gifts to give them the encouragement, hope and faith they often lack, he said at his weekly general audience March 11. “We, older people, can remind […]
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Father Mulcahy of ‘M*A*S*H’ portrayed priestly ideal
March 20, 2015For over four years at The Georgia Bulletin, I’ve written a monthly column devoted to culture and the Catholic Church. In over 50 articles, I’ve addressed novelists, filmmakers, poets, painters, athletes and cultural figures and public intellectuals who have integrated their Catholic faith with their work. These are among the most important and influential Catholic […]
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Templeton winner hopes L’Arche communities ‘may become sign of peace’
March 20, 2015WASHINGTON (CNS)—Jean Vanier, a Catholic author and theologian who founded L’Arche, an international network of communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together, has won the 2015 Templeton Prize. L’Arche is dedicated to the creation and growth of communities, programs and support networks for people with intellectual disabilities across the globe. […]
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Comic-book reissue of St. John XXIII’s life improves on the original
March 20, 2015NEW YORK (CNS)—Forget the Avengers. The coolest Marvel-related character this year is Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, better known to the world as St. John XXIII. “The Story of Pope John XXIII” (MSJT Publishing) is a reissue of a profile written and drawn by Joe Sinnott, an artist known for inking some of the most memorable Marvel […]
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Attack in Pakistan part of wave of anti-Christian violence, pope says
March 20, 2015VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Condemning deadly terrorist attacks against a Catholic and an Anglican church in Pakistan, Pope Francis said “the world is trying to hide” a wave of anti-Christian persecution in various parts of the globe. “With sadness, with much sadness, I learned of the terrorist attacks today against two churches in Lahore … provoking numerous […]
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Religious life about ‘radical availability, boundless compassion’
March 20, 2015FORT WAYNE, Ind. (CNS)—Sister Deborah Borneman thinks about vocations and religious life a lot—not just because she’s a Sister of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, but because it’s her job. She is the director of member relations and services at the National Religious Vocation Conference in Chicago, the only national professional organization of vocation ministers. It […]
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Relics can be key to understanding life in Jesus’ time, Jesuit says
March 20, 2015WASHINGTON (CNS)—Is the Shroud of Turin real, as many Catholics believe? Or is it a product of the 14th century, as suggested by tests conducted of strips taken from the shroud? Does it matter at all—and, if it does, how much does it matter? Those are the kinds of questions addressed in a new CNN […]