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Faith community celebrates new pastor
August 15, 2013Bishop David P. Talley joined with the community of St. John Neumann Church in Lilburn to celebrate the installation of the community’s new pastor. Father Sunny Punnakuziyil is the spiritual leader of the Lilburn parish. He is a member of the Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales. Bishop Talley is a former pastor of St. […]
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New young adult leader seeks to help others find Christ
August 15, 2013ATLANTA—Alejandro (Alex) Rodriguez has taken on the leadership of the young adult community in the Atlanta Archdiocese. He was named the new YAM director in July by Amy Daniels, director of the Office of Formation and Discipleship. Daniels said, “The OFD has been under construction since the end of 2011,” with an important aspect of […]
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Flannery O’Connor’s love letters to God
August 15, 2013“I want to be the best artist it is possible for me to be, under God,” writes the young Flannery O’Connor in a lovely treasure of a book called simply “A Prayer Journal.” She penned the entries beginning in January of 1946 when she was a 20-year-old fledgling writer attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop—and ended […]
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Pope urges mutual Muslim-Catholic respect
August 15, 2013VATICAN CITY (CNS)—As a sign of his “esteem and friendship,” Pope Francis said he personally wanted to write this year’s Vatican message to Muslims as they celebrated the end of their month-long Ramadan fast. The pope’s message, released by the Vatican Aug. 2, focused on the need for Catholics and Muslims to promote respect for […]
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Millennials, young minority adults suffer high unemployment
August 15, 2013WASHINGTON (CNS)—Emily Rolla, a 22-year-old graduate of the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, recently accepted a retail job at Target after trying unsuccessfully since December to get a job in her field of study. A double major in communication arts and German, Rolla has applied for jobs ranging from public relations, social media management […]
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Witnessing the wonderful transition of our new pope
August 15, 2013I can personally recall one of the very early Wednesday audiences of the then-newly-elected Pope John Paul II that I attended, in which he casually strolled into the Vatican Audience Hall to the enormous applause of the standing room only crowd. He simply was a rock star—young, energetic, outgoing and teeming with charisma! The Church […]
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Presenciando la maravillosa transición de nuestro nuevo Papa
August 15, 2013Recuerdo personalmente una de las primeras audiencias de los miércoles del entonces recién elegido Papa Juan Pablo II a las que asistí, en donde entró casualmente en la sala de audiencias del Vaticano mientras la multitud lo aplaudía. ¡Simplemente él era una estrella de rock, joven, enérgico, extrovertido y lleno de carisma! La Iglesia misma […]
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Health care professionals to be honored at White Mass
August 15, 2013ATLANTA— The color white, denoting the traditional garb worn by medical professionals and symbolizing the dedicated work of those in patient care, gives name to the archdiocesan White Mass, to be held for the first time on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. The Mass, to be held at the Cathedral of Christ the King, […]
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Looking Back: Aug. 15, 1963
August 15, 2013The fascinating early history of the Catholic Center at the University of Georgia in Athens was the subject of a column by Father R. Donald Kiernan in the Aug. 8, 1963 edition of The Georgia Bulletin. Father Kiernan’s “Georgia Pines” column gave him a place to introduce many of the more unusual and interesting parts […]
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Mass honors Our Lady, patroness of Cuba, Sept. 7
August 15, 2013ATLANTA—In the Year of Faith, the Cuban-American community of Atlanta is inviting people of faith to the celebration of the feast of Our Blessed Mother Mary Virgin of Charity, patroness of Cuba. A Solemn Mass in honor of the Virgin of Charity will be celebrated at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Saturday, Sept. 7, […]