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Then & Now: Seeds of service continue to sprout
August 1, 2013Nine days after a fierce tornado swept through four North Georgia counties on April 9, 1998, Holy Thursday, All Saints Church in Dunwoody was coordinating a relief effort for some of its parishioners. Of the more than 400 volunteers that came together at the church that day, the youngest was 4-year-old Mattie Gereben. She was […]
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Looking Back: Aug. 1, 1963
August 1, 2013The Aug. 1, 1963 issue of The Georgia Bulletin reports that the Jesuit director of Ignatius retreat house in Atlanta, Father John L. Hein, has invited nearly 400 Protestant ministers to attend two and a half days of meditations and discussions on Christian unity beginning Aug. 12. The meeting grew out of the work of […]
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Pope speaks with journalists in 80-minute open exchange
August 1, 2013ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM BRAZIL (CNS)—Pope Francis said he was responding to the clear wishes of the College of Cardinals when he set up commissions to study the Vatican bank, Vatican financial and administrative procedures and the reform of the Roman Curia. The pope also said he knows people have spoken about some kind […]
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Breast cancer walk offers alternative way to help
August 1, 2013ATLANTA—Janice Givens is a devout Catholic, a wife, a mother of two, and a breast cancer survivor. She was diagnosed for the first time in October 2004, when her children, Grace and Murphy, were just 1 and 3 years old. After a mastectomy she was told that her breast cancer was gone. Her second diagnosis […]
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Pope prays for families, honors grandparents
August 1, 2013RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS)—The 76-year-old Pope Francis went to World Youth Day with grandparents, or at least society’s elders, on his mind, and he honored them in a special way July 26, the feast of Sts. Joachim and Anne and Grandparents Day in many countries. In dozens of homilies and speeches since becoming pope in […]
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All called to ‘proclaim truth’ of faith, bishop tells deaf conference
August 1, 2013WASHINGTON (CNS)—With hands moving quickly through the air, members of the International Catholic Deaf Association signed all the responses in unison for a July 16 Mass celebrated at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington as part of their seventh biennial conference. “We have been called to life, we have […]
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Christ’s cross eases suffering, teaches love, pope tells youths
August 1, 2013RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS)—With his cross and resurrection, Christ promises to walk with and ease the burden of every suffering person, whether that suffering comes from violence, addiction, a broken family, hunger, persecution or the death of a loved one, Pope Francis said. The traditional Friday mood change of World Youth Day took place July […]
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Lindy Boggs, former congresswoman and U.S. ambassador to Vatican, dies
August 1, 2013NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—Former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Lindy Boggs, whose career in public service spanned 60 years, including four years in Rome during which she served as a staunch advocate for human trafficking victims, died July 27 at her home in Chevy Chase, Md. She was 97. Her funeral Mass was to be celebrated […]
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In Brazil, pope’s simple, artless actions resonate powerfully
August 1, 2013RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS)—If Blessed John Paul II had an actor’s mastery of the dramatic gesture and Pope Benedict XVI engaged the faithful most effectively through his learned and lucid writing, Pope Francis showed the world on his first international trip that his forte as a communicator is the simple, seemingly artless action that resonates […]
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Final WYD events relocated because of rain, mud
July 25, 2013RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS)—The culminating events of World Youth Day have been moved from their planned location in Guaratiba, 30 miles outside the city, which three days of heavy rain has reduced to a field of mud. The new venue for a prayer vigil and final Mass, scheduled for July 27 and 28 respectively, will […]