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Flower shop will always be Marguerite Oberg’s
November 7, 2013ATLANTA—Marguerite Oberg helped put a smile on thousands of patients at Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital. Oberg, 91, retired from the hospital flower shop in October, after 40 years of volunteer service. She began volunteering at Saint Joseph’s in 1973 when the hospital was originally located in downtown Atlanta. She established its first flower shop and […]
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Children’s faith center of study day on Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
November 7, 2013SMYRNA—Parish catechetical leaders and priests participated in a study day for the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Oct. 29 at the Chancery. The program, “Early Encounters with Jesus: Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, an Approach to Religious Formation,” featured national speakers and breakout sessions on the religious formation methods. The Office of Formation and Discipleship […]
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‘Catholicism’ creator likes new media’s impact ‘way outside’ church walls
November 7, 2013SMYRNA—Another grand, sweeping documentary on Catholicism is being dreamed by Chicago priest Father Robert Barron. It’s the latest goal for the priest who more than a dozen years ago was asked to jump-start an evangelical endeavor to “invade that space” where the church’s message was not often heard. “If you want to reach people who […]
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‘The Girl in the Picture’: Survivor of war teaches peace
November 7, 2013ATLANTA—An entire generation instantly recognizes the image of an unclothed Vietnamese girl running toward the camera in terror after a bombing at her village. Taken by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut in June 1972, the black and white photograph became one of the most iconic pictures from the Vietnam War. Napalm bombing survivor Kim Phuc […]
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New U.S. envoy to Vatican: Areas of agreement bigger than differences
November 7, 2013VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Disagreements need not hinder the Vatican and the Obama administration from collaborating on a broad range of peace and justice issues, including the promotion of religious freedom, said Ken Hackett, the new U.S ambassador to the Holy See. The envoy also told Catholic News Service that Pope Francis’ stratospheric worldwide popularity promises to […]
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Top 10 parables of faith on screen
November 7, 2013NEW YORK (CNS)—Since the advent of cinema in the late 1800s, faith has been treated on film in a wide variety of ways, from the respectful to the satiric. As any number of pictures from Hollywood’s golden age might be used to demonstrate, however, a reverential approach to the subject of religious belief does not […]
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Vatican’s media adviser offers ‘Top 10’ ways to understand Pope Francis
November 7, 2013VATICAN CITY (CNS)—No matter how some media may want to spin it, Pope Francis won’t fit into the political categories of left or right, and he will challenge everyone with the truth of the Gospel, said the Vatican’s media adviser. “Pope Francis is not a politically correct pope,” rather, he is “a loyal son of […]
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World War II vet says time as POW of Nazis deepened his Catholic faith
November 7, 2013DUNDALK, Md. (CNS)—U.S. Army Air Corps Cpl. Leo Wojciechowski had just unloaded bombs targeting the Blechhammer synthetic oil refinery on the Nazi-occupied Czech-Polish border when he felt his B-24 shudder. Anti-aircraft fire had struck the nose gunner’s plane during the Aug. 7, 1944, mission, causing it to lose speed and altitude as gasoline flooded the […]
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Comet ISON expected to give earth-based observers a Thanksgiving show
November 7, 2013WASHINGTON (CNS)—A “dirty snowball” is expected to put on a show for earth-based observers in the pre-dawn skies around Thanksgiving. Astronomers are projecting that Comet ISON, discovered in September 2012, will be a unusually bright visitor to the inner solar system starting just before Nov. 28 and continuing for days afterward. But, as usual in […]
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Young and old join pope to celebrate joy of family life
November 7, 2013VATICAN CITY (CNS)—A Catholic wedding is not simply a beautiful ceremony; through the sacrament of marriage a couple receives from God the grace they will need to fulfill their mission in the world, Pope Francis said. Addressing an estimated 100,000 people who came to St. Peter’s Square Oct. 26 for a Year of Faith celebration […]