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Christ the King School keeps serving MAC
December 11, 2014ATLANTA—Christ the King School celebrated 28 years of service to the Midtown Assistance Center. Nearly 50 young people filled four vans and a jeep with items donated by school families for the nonprofit. The Peachtree Road school holds the record for the longest continuous service to the MAC. After working at MAC and before lunch, […]
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Solidarity School helps children learn English, prepare for kindergarten
December 11, 2014ATLANTA—Born in Mexico, Ameyaltzin Palomino came to the United States as a teenager speaking no English. She entered public school as an ESOL student, a special program to learn English for those with another native language. “I was 13 years old. It was hard,” said Palomino. It can be difficult academically and socially for ESOL […]
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A December day marks the Advent arrival of an archbishop
December 9, 2014Ten years ago today the late Archbishop John F. Donoghue stood at the podium on the first floor of the old Chancery on West Peachtree in Midtown Atlanta, where he conducted an afternoon press conference to announce his successor, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory. The press conference took place on a Thursday. In those days The […]
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Pope prays in Istanbul mosque, rallies local Christians
December 1, 2014ISTANBUL (CNS)—A day after hearing Turkish leaders demand the West show more respect for Islam, Pope Francis prayed alongside a Muslim cleric inside Istanbul’s most famous mosque. At the Blue Mosque, Istanbul’s grand mufti Rahmi Yaran led Pope Francis to the mosque’s “mihrab,” a niche indicating the direction to the holy city Mecca. He explained […] Full Story
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At Thanksgiving, partaking of what is good
November 27, 2014Eucharist is a word that found its way from Greek to Latin. It means thanksgiving. “Thanksgiving” is a very open word, one that can embrace many things. When I think of the gratitude Jesus had for all of life, every nook and cranny on this earth and throughout the universe, I am better able to […]
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In ‘The Spirit of the Liturgy,’ Guardini expresses the ‘joy of Mass’
November 27, 2014Of all that I have to be thankful for at Thanksgiving, my Catholic faith is among those things for which I am most grateful. That is not a pious statement. It is true. When I came into the Church almost 22 years ago, I entered into an entirely new way of living, worshiping and understanding […]
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St. Anthony’s members deliver Thanksgiving meals to seniors
November 27, 2014ATLANTA—If three years in a row makes a tradition, there is a new one at St. Anthony of Padua Church, Atlanta. Parishioners have gotten in their cars and delivered hot meals to shut-ins on Thanksgiving as part of the Meals on Wheels program. “The people are so happy and appreciative of it,” said Karen Burke, […]
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Sandwich-making tradition involves 200+ at St. John the Evangelist School
November 27, 2014HAPEVILLE—Loaves of bread, packages of cheese, ham and bologna covered tables in the gym, the cafeteria and the art room at St. John the Evangelist School in Hapeville. Hundreds of boys, girls, teens, and parents with glove-wrapped hands help put the sandwiches together. The goal was to make sandwiches for four Atlanta area shelters for […]
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Woodstock parishioners put their hearts into 450 Thanksgiving baskets
November 27, 2014WOODSTOCK—There are 450 requests for Thanksgiving baskets at St. Michael the Archangel Church, in Woodstock. With less than a week to delivery, only 290 baskets were filled with Thanksgiving items. “We’ll do what we have to do. God will provide,” said a volunteer, who asked not to be named. “This is a little thing I […]
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Acts of love, kindness, faith add up to holiness, pope says
November 27, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—All Christians are called to holiness and to take even little steps each day to be more loving and more Christ-like, Pope Francis said. “Some think that holiness is closing your eyes and making the face of a plastic statue, but that’s not holiness,” the pope said Nov. 19 at his weekly general […]