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Final pastoral plan recommendations sent to Archbishop Gregory
December 11, 2014ATLANTA—The time is nigh for the pastoral plan for the Atlanta Archdiocese to be unveiled. After 10 months of input, with an opportunity for all to participate through surveys, discussions, recommendations from clergy and lay people, and voting, an array of over 100 possible priorities for the archdiocese has been whittled down to 12 to […]
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University of West Georgia students foster their faith at JFK Chapel
December 11, 2014CARROLLTON— College students, some carrying backpacks and others in shorts, left their dorm rooms on the University of West Georgia campus as the temperature hovered in the low 30s. They filed into the white frame chapel with an exposed beam ceiling and took up half of the wooden pews of the John F. Kennedy Chapel. […] Full Story
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An urgent call to ‘speak tenderly’
December 11, 2014“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated; indeed, she has received from the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.” We all listened to those words from the prophet Isaiah last Sunday, and their meaning must have been exceptionally poignant in […]
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Support Catholic religious in their mission, ministries, pope says
December 11, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—During the Year of Consecrated Life, all Catholics are called to thank God for the gifts members of religious orders have given the church and the world, to join them in prayer and find practical ways to support them and their ministries, Pope Francis said. “Let them know the affection and the warmth […]
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The consecrated cloistered religious life
December 11, 2014When high school kids come here to visit, there is a common theme that undergirds some of the questions they ask. The questions seek some understanding as to why we are set apart from normal life, rarely venturing beyond the cloister, refraining from many sources of the mass media, following the same routine day after […]
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The great biscotti test
December 11, 2014For most folks Christmas evokes a spicy scent emanating from a freshly cut tree. But in my family the season of Advent also had its own alluring aroma, which came from hazelnut biscotti. The recipe my mother used—crumpled and creased with butter stains on the edges—came from her grandmother in Salerno, Italy. Early in Advent […]
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Pope calls European Parliament to rejuvenate ‘grandmother’ Europe
December 11, 2014STRASBOURG, France (CNS)—The 77-year-old grandson of European immigrants to Argentina, Pope Francis urged the European Parliament to value the continent’s faiths and recuperate a sense of responsibility for the common good to rejuvenate Europe’s social, political and economic life. “In many quarters we encounter a general impression of weariness and aging, of a Europe which […] Full Story
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Church launches Year for Consecrated Life
December 11, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The first Sunday of Advent, Nov. 30, marking the start of the new liturgical year, inaugurated the Year for Consecrated Life. The yearlong observance is dedicated to renewing hope in religious life and instilling it more profoundly with a prophetic witness of the Gospel. A number of international meetings have been planned in […]
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Bishop: Like Christ, walk with those suffering from HIV/AIDS
December 11, 2014JONESBORO—With glowing candles in hand, families of loved ones lost to AIDS and volunteers of parish ministries sang “Amazing Grace” at the 2014 World AIDS Day Mass Dec. 3 at St. Philip Benizi Church. The annual Mass commemorates those living with HIV/AIDS, those who have lost their lives, and their caretakers. Prudy and Jim Martino […] Full Story
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Lilburn students honor grandparents
December 11, 2014LILBURN—Grandparents, students and teachers joined with Bishop David P. Talley at their Grandparents Day Mass on Friday, Nov. 21, at St. John Neumann Regional School. On the memorial of the Presentation of Mary, Bishop Talley highlighted how grandparents pass on the faith to the young. After Mass, Bishop Talley joined grandparents as students entertained them […]