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Dashing down a path in heaven
May 15, 2014“Run, Maddy, run!” reads the caption in my mother’s handwriting on the old black-and-white photo. Madeline, my mom’s best friend, is shown sprinting barefooted across the lawn wearing a skirted bathing suit. She looks to be in her 30s and is laughing mischievously at the camera. She was 10 years older than my mom and […]
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‘Boxers & Saints’: Faith and rebellion in China
May 15, 2014NEW YORK (CNS)—“Boxers & Saints” (First Second Books), a two-volume graphic novel written and drawn by Gene Luen Yang, is an example of comic art at its best. Author Yang is a practicing Catholic who teaches computer science at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, California. But “Boxers & Saints” is more than simple cartoon […]
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Spiritual delights await at the Spring Hill College Summer Institute
May 15, 2014Imagine that it might be possible to have a weekend, or two, within a stretch of 13 days where you could pray, attend Mass, have delicious meals and take, or listen in on, classes which would be a stimulant to your life as a Catholic? Imagine you could do all this as an auditor of […]
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UPDATE: How is Pope Francis reforming the Catholic Church?
May 13, 2014UPDATED: New video Pope Francis is a media superstar. Take a look at these photos? Since Pope Francis was named leader of the Catholic Church in the spring of 2014, there has been speculation about reforming the church. Some reports on the church have talked about how Pope Francis hasn’t reformed the catechism and doctrine […]
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Life’s contradictions
May 2, 2014We offered a retreat here on the themes of Holy Week. It was given the week before Easter and there were about 20 people who signed up for it. I gave two talks, and it was not long before I got into the first talk that disagreements arose among members of the group. The same […]
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Archbishop ‘will officially restrict’ presence of weapons in Catholic institutions
May 1, 2014ATLANTA—A state bill loosening gun restrictions, and opposed by the Georgia Catholic Conference, was signed into law by Gov. Nathan Deal and will take effect July 1. In his column in the May 1 edition of The Georgia Bulletin, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said that he regrets the enactment of the new gun law “more […]
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Founder would like a home for adults with special needs near every parish
May 1, 2014TUCKER—Joshua Newhard joins the threesome around the round table preparing dinner, where one tears apart lettuce, and another slices green and red peppers for a salad. In the kitchen, Lisa Malak turns the canned tomato sauce into marinara for spaghetti, the night’s entrée. “I used to do this when I worked in the back. Now, […] Full Story
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From Georgia to Rome, local Catholics celebrate new saints
May 1, 2014ATLANTA—Hundreds of believers filled the sanctuary of St. Marguerite d’Youville Church, Lawrenceville, celebrating as Pope Francis proclaimed Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII to be saints. The ministry of the Polish Catholic community in the Atlanta Archdiocese drew the faithful to this Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday where prayers were recited in Polish […]
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Pope’s homilies help Catholics fight the good fight, Jesuit says
May 1, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis’ morning homilies represent a rallying cry and “road map” for today’s Christians in their daily journey to grow closer to God, said the Jesuit editor of a new collection of the homilies from the pope’s early morning Masses. Each reflection the pope delivers in the chapel of his residence, the Domus […]
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Cristo Rey’s first freshman class is introduced, to applause
May 1, 2014ATLANTA—More than 400 parents, students and supporters helped to dedicate the new Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School as incoming students guided visitors through their future classrooms in a transformed office building. The standing-room-only crowd burst into long and loud applause April 22 when the class of 2018 was asked to stand up, then another […]