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“Hail Mary”: A colorful homage to Mary, our Mother
November 22, 2013ATLANTA—This issue offers a gift from The Georgia Bulletin to the Catholic community of the Atlanta Archdiocese: a “Hail Mary” poster of multihued images reflecting the vibrant presence of Mary throughout the parishes and schools that comprise the archdiocese (pages 24-25). The 23 varied images were taken at parishes and schools all around the archdiocese […]
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Victims of powerful Illinois tornado lose everything but faith, charity
November 22, 2013WASHINGTON, Ill. (CNS)—As Father Stephen Willard was preparing to celebrate the 11 a.m. Sunday Mass at a filled St. Patrick Church in Washington Nov. 17, the most powerful tornado to hit Illinois since 1885 was taking aim at neighborhoods on the western edge of this community of 15,000. With sirens blaring, worshippers were instructed to […]
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Something—or something less—for everyone in new farm bill?
November 21, 2013WASHINGTON (CNS)—The farm bill, already one year late, could be even later if the House-Senate conference committee working on the compromise version takes its sweet time. According to Bob Gronski, a policy analyst with the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, the lawmakers are taking the bill one “title” at a time until the conference committee […]
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Alpharetta teens speak at ecumenical Thanksgiving service
November 21, 2013ALPHARETTA—Zach Hodskins’ first love is basketball. From a young age, he dreamed of playing basketball for a Division I college and eventually in the NBA. Today, through hard work, fierce determination and a lot of faith, Zach is seeing those dreams come true and inspiring people along the way—despite being born with only one hand. […]
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Greensboro Catholic hospital moves to new $40 million facility
November 21, 2013GREENSBORO—St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital moves Nov. 25 into its new $40 million facility. The 25-bed critical care Catholic hospital serves Greene County and the Lake Oconee area, some 80 miles east of Atlanta. Medical staff and patients will move out of a building built in 1949 and into a facility built for contemporary medical […]
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The hungry need to be heard
November 21, 2013This is a statement by the bishops of Georgia on the Farm Bill being debated in Congress. Legislators in Washington are negotiating the final text for a five-year Farm Bill, a $500 billion law that sets agricultural policies for the country. At stake in this political wrangling are programs that help the hungry here at […]
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Shrine parishioners inspired by pastor’s courage, ministry to war-wounded
November 21, 2013ATLANTA—The Atlanta Zero Mile Marker is hard to find. It’s tucked below a parking deck at Underground Atlanta, usually behind locked doors. But on Sunday, Nov. 17, Irish and American flags and lit candles flanked the yard-high stone marker. Scores of people from the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the Hibernian Benevolent Society of […]
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Looking Back: Remembering John F. Kennedy
November 21, 2013From The Georgia Bulletin of Nov. 28, 1963, and Dec. 5, 1963, these are some of the reflections from national leaders and parish priests on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the legacy of the youthful first Catholic president. Father R. Donald Kiernan, a Massachusetts native, in his “Georgia Pines” column … “ […]
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The terrors of ‘Turkey Day’
November 21, 2013It would be an understatement to say that in recent years I’ve had the worst Thanksgivings imaginable. Last year’s holiday definitely took the proverbial cake. You see, we were supposed to go to my brother-in-law’s in Macon, but the night before our trip I started experiencing rather severe chest pains. I thought this could be […]
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Site of Kennedy funeral in ‘63, cathedral is ‘holy ground’
November 21, 2013WASHINGTON (CNS)—On Nov. 25, 1963, a television audience of millions of people around the world prayerfully bid farewell to President John F. Kennedy, as his flag-draped coffin was placed before the sanctuary of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, during the funeral Mass for the slain president. Today, almost 50 years later, […]