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Health care professionals share Jesus’ healing ministry, archbishop says
October 24, 2013ATLANTA—Pharmacists Mimi Park, Linda Rozakis and Angela Kim all plan to make attending the Archdiocese of Atlanta’s White Mass an annual tradition. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrated the first such Mass for those in health care fields on Thursday, Oct. 17, at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta. The Mass was held on […]
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Popes have extolled artists’ gifts to touch the human spirit
October 24, 2013ATLANTA—North Georgia artist Josef Mahler’s many works have included paintings, drawings and woodcarvings of scenes ranging from the Nativity to the Stations of the Cross. Mahler has demonstrated his talents and shared his work in both Catholic churches and non-Catholic venues such as the Sautee Nacoochee Center Association art galleries exhibit of Amazing(ly) Grace(ful) in […]
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‘Captain Phillips’ depicts empathetic view of harrowing ordeal
October 24, 2013NEW YORK (CNS)—Docudramas tend to underwhelm emotionally, intellectually or both. That’s not the case with “Captain Phillips” (Columbia), a complex and compassionate film that engrosses from the start and builds inexorably toward a devastating conclusion. Prepare to be hooked. Considered alongside his 2006 project “United 93,” about the airplane that crashed into a Pennsylvania field […]
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The best of shows and the worst of shows: the new TV season
October 24, 2013NEW YORK (CNS)—There’s both good news and bad for viewers with the advent of the fall television season. The upside mainly concerns hourlong dramas: Some networks have bucked the occult-happy trend of recent years that seemed to fill the small screen with dark tales of demons and goblins. They’ve also gotten away from the tendency […]
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Mercy sister ministered for 73 years
October 24, 2013ATLANTA—Sister Maureen Cartwright, RSM, a former nursing supervisor at Atlanta’s St. Joseph’s Infirmary, died at the Mercy Convent in Savannah on Aug. 2, 2013. She was 99 years old. Sister Maureen, a member of the Sisters of Mercy religious community for 73 years, served her long ministry in health care. A native of Tifton, she […]
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Sullivan Center still brings hope to southwest Atlanta community
October 24, 2013ATLANTA—There’s a telephone on Dill Avenue for anyone to use. No charge. The phone in the storefront office of the Sullivan Family Support Center may be a small token easily overlooked with cellphones in many pockets, but on any given day it can be a lifeline for women and men struggling to find work or […]
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Sister Henderson, BVM, dies; served in Newnan
October 24, 2013ATLANTA—Sister Bridget Ann Henderson, BVM, 85, died Oct. 4, 2013, at Caritas Center in Dubuque, Iowa. Sister Bridget Ann served as religious education director from 1996-2004 at St. George Church in Newnan. She was born Sept. 17, 1928, to John Joseph and Ann Elizabeth Connolly Henderson. She entered the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed […]
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Retired Army officer will speak at women’s Magnificat breakfast
October 24, 2013ATLANTA—A retired U.S. Army colonel who had a life-changing spiritual conversion will be the guest speaker at the Magnificat breakfast for women on Saturday, Nov. 16, at Holy Cross Church, Atlanta. Pat Forest served as a U.S. Army officer for 28 years, with assignments worldwide as a leader in administration, recruiting, and personnel, including at […]
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Sophia Academy soccer team co-champs
October 24, 2013ATLANTA— The Sophia Academy Eagles boys soccer team became the co-champions of the Atlanta Private Athletic Conference (APAC) after a 1-1 tie with The Waldorf School of Atlanta, Oct. 16. Sophia Academy advanced to the title game after defeating The Swift School of Roswell 2- 1. Sophia Academy finished the season with a record of […]
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McLuhan’s still current media theory ‘deeply rooted in Catholicism’
October 24, 2013In one of my favorite movie moments, in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall,” Allen and Diane Keaton are stuck in line in a movie theater where they are subjected to the incessant drone of a self-inflated academic. When the professor begins to lecture his date on Marshall McLuhan, Allen reaches the end of his patience. Turning […]