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Encontrando alegría en el liderazgo entusiasta de nuestros niños
January 23, 2014Este año la conmemoración del nacimiento del Dr. King complementa apropiadamente la celebración del 50o aniversario de su discurso más ilustre en el Lincoln Memorial en Washington, D.C. Las palabras de ese sermón cautivador han sido citadas numerosas veces a través del transcurso de los años. De todos aquellos que hoy citan ese discurso, nadie […]
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Homily from the 2014 Mass for the Unborn
January 23, 2014The 2014 Mass for the Unborn was celebrated Jan. 22 at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta. Following is the homily given by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory. We all seem to have “gone green” with all that this phrase currently implies; people today have become much more aware of the preciousness of the earth […]
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Catholics in Atlanta celebrate Dr. King and martyrs of the civil right era
January 21, 2014Staff writer Andrew Nelson produced this minute long video about the archdiocesan celebration for Martin Luther King Jr. The story about the King weekend celebration will also be in the upcoming issue.
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High school integration meant an Atlanta black Catholic could ‘come home’
January 9, 2014ATLANTA—Charles Reginald Moore was the first African-American to graduate from St. Joseph’s High School in Atlanta. Entering in the fall of 1962, when the first black students desegregated Catholic schools in the Atlanta Archdiocese, Moore came in as a junior. He graduated in 1964 from the archdiocesan high school, which was then located on Courtland […]
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Photo inspires look back at era when Catholic schools desegregated
January 9, 2014ATLANTA—Fifty years ago, federal court pressure was forcing Atlanta to dismantle an unjust segregated public school system. The bishops of Georgia and South Carolina decided that this was the right time to also desegregate the Catholic schools. Documents in the Archdiocese of Atlanta Archives show what a stressful and carefully planned effort this was over […]
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Soldiers thank Immaculate Heart of Mary students
January 9, 2014Students at Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Atlanta, support overseas members of the military with care packages several times a year. But this time students were on the receiving end of thank you notes and pictures. Soldiers wrote to the students how much the handwritten notes, lip balm, crackers and assorted odds and ends mean […]
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St. Brendan serves 280 families in need
January 9, 2014St. Brendan the Navigator’s Christmas Market was huge for 280 families who attended. Approximately 100 volunteers from the parish served the families for three hours. The doors to the parish social hall in Cumming were opened as the ministry served 494 children, 586 adults and 71 seniors. They registered 20 new families, gave out 160 […]
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Students take mission trip to Nicaragua
January 9, 2014Half of Atlanta’s Sophia Academy’s high school students and two staff members went last November on a weeklong mission trip to Chinandega, Nicaragua, with Amigos for Christ. Before their departure, Father Joseph Peek showed the high school students a relic of the first degree of Jesus’ cross—the students kissed the relic in preparation for their […]
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National leadership position for Newnan priest
January 9, 2014Father Henry Atem, the pastor of St. George Church, in Newnan, has been selected as the national president of the African Conference of Catholic Clergy and Religious in the United States. He served as the national vice president from 2009 to 2013. There are ranges of challenges faced by African clergy and religious, with the […]
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St. Joseph student wins Catholic citizenship essay contest
January 9, 2014Olivia Nottoli was the top winner of the Knights of Columbus Council 4599 annual Catholic citizenship essay contest for 2013. This year’s topic was “Religious Liberty: The Importance of Religious Freedom.” Olivia is an eighth-grade student at St. Joseph School in Marietta. She will now be entered into the Knights of Columbus district competition to […]