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New leader is second-generation Catholic school administrator
August 15, 2013ATLANTA—Rebecca Hammel is the new associate superintendent in the Office of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. She started in the number two administrative post this summer, moving from serving as a principal in Catholic schools in Texas and Indiana. She answered some questions about her background, experience and new role. Q. Where did […]
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The secret of a grateful heart
August 15, 2013I wonder what their secret is! This is what I usually think when I meet someone in their nineties—and immediately envision some daunting diet or elaborate exercise regimen. Recently, though, I visited a remarkable woman, Margaret Mayer Mascotti, who is 98 and whose secret has nothing to do with calories or calisthenics—although it does involve […]
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God is close to the brokenhearted
August 15, 2013There is a short story by Andre Dubus, about the lives of a married couple whose only child has died. The prose slowly moves the couple through a day, but it is a day marked by grief, a deep sense of loss and as deep a need for the agony to end. Night draws near […]
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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 […]