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Sophia Academy girls win volleyball championship
November 22, 2013ATLANTA—The Sophia Academy Eagles girls volleyball team was crowned champions of the Atlanta Private Athletic Conference after defeating the Waldorf School of Atlanta, Oct. 22. Sophia Academy advanced to the title game after defeating the Swift School of Roswell 2-1 (26-24, 20-25, 15-12). Sophia Academy finished the season with a record of 6-1. This is […]
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St. Ann’s hosts Apple Annie Arts & Crafts Show
November 22, 2013MARIETTA—Thousands of enthusiastic shoppers from across Georgia will attend the 33rd Annual Apple Annie Arts & Crafts Show in east Cobb on Friday, Dec. 6, and Saturday, Dec. 7, to shop while raising funds for local ministries and charities. The entire St. Ann’s Church complex is turned into a holiday shopping experience with artisan booths […]
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St. Thomas More School honors veterans
November 22, 2013St. Thomas More School’s 488 students began a variety of activities on Nov. 8 to salute veterans. In the morning the middle school made paracord survival bracelets to send to soldiers. Veterans also stopped by and read to students in grades kindergarten through second grade. During recess some veterans led a mini “boot camp,” where […]
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Pastor represents archdiocese at Missionary Congress
November 22, 2013Msgr. Dan Stack, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Church, Cartersville, will be packing his suitcase soon. He’ll represent the Atlanta Archdiocese at the Fourth American Missionary Congress being held in Maracaibo, Venezuela, from Nov. 26 to Dec. 1. Its theme is “Missionary disciples of Jesus Christ in a secular and multicultural world,” with the […]
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Sister Margarita honored in Athens
November 22, 2013Sister Margarita Martin was saluted in Athens at the 2013 Emancipation Proclamation and Pioneer Award dinner. The member of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus religious congregation received the lifetime achievement award as an “unsung hero” for her work with Oasis Catolico Santa Rafaela and with the immigrants and Spanish-speakers in Athens. Her […]
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New mystery by Lorraine Murray
November 22, 2013The Georgia Bulletin’s popular columnist Lorraine Murray has published a new book. “Death Dons a Mask” is the latest in her cozy mystery series based on a fictional St. Rita Church and its cast of characters. According to the excerpt on Amazon.com, the mystery revolves around a parish masquerade ball that goes very wrong. It […]
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Christmas card by third-grader chosen
November 22, 2013A colorful drawing of three wise men carrying peanuts, a peach, and a bottle of Coca-Cola was selected to be the front cover for the Atlanta Archdiocese Christmas card. Phillip Eidson, a third-grader at Christ the King School, Atlanta, designed the playful artwork to depict the theme of Christmas in Georgia. Nearly 70 archdiocesan employees […]
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Bishops elect new leaders, approve liturgical texts, discuss relief aid
November 22, 2013BALTIMORE (CNS)—The U.S. bishops at their fall general assembly in Baltimore elected new leaders, discussed taking a second collection in their dioceses for typhoon relief in the Philippines, reviewed efforts to defend traditional marriage and religious liberty, and approved development of a statement on the dangers of pornography. They also passed a number of liturgical […]
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A real life fairy tale: ‘Brother Joseph and the Ave Maria Grotto’
November 22, 2013Had I asked my Southern literature and culture students twenty years ago the question I asked them last week, I would have gotten a very different answer. What did they know about Southern folk art? Not much, it turns out. You mean, I said, you’ve never heard of Howard Finster and Paradise Gardens in Summerville, […]
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Pope’s embrace was heavenly, says man with disfiguring disease
November 22, 2013VATICAN CITY (CNS)—For someone who has frequently been shunned and humiliated because of a disease that has severely disfigured his entire body, receiving the pope’s loving embrace was like being in paradise. Vinicio Riva, who is afflicted with neurofibromatosis, said his brief encounter with Pope Francis Nov. 6 at a general audience in St. Peter’s […]