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Fall Festivals
September 13, 2013ELLIJAY, SEPT. 14-15 GOOD SAMARITAN CHURCH holds its annual flea market at the Ellijay Lions Fairgrounds, 1729 S. Main St., Ellijay, with linens, dishes, books, tools, lamps, toys, bicycles, jewelry, furniture, electronics, $2-a-bag clothing tables, a huge Christmas section, door prizes and drawings. Open Friday, Sept. 14, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 15, 8:30 […]
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Fall Campaign For 40 Days For Life Begins
September 13, 2013The fall campaign for 40 Days for Life, a focused pro-life effort consisting of 40 days of prayer and fasting, 40 days of peaceful vigils, and 40 days of community outreach, will kick off in September with several events, including rallies and candlelight vigils. In its sixth year, 40 Days for Life grew from a […]
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Voting: A Matter of Conscience
September 13, 2013Serious people feel overwhelmed going into the 2012 election. Seeing many choices or none, some seek a rationale to stay home on Election Day, but to give in to such discouragement is political despair. Fortunately, conscience can guide us, even when we don’t know it. The voice of conscience can include a feeling of disconnect—a […]
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Some young Catholics break the mold
September 12, 2013Even the best social commentators tend to categorize people. This approach perhaps makes it much easier for them to describe us with broad strokes. We long have had many such general groupings of entire generations of people: “The Lost Generation,” “Flappers” and “The Greatest Generation,” to mention only a few of the older ones. More […]
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Jesuit for 70 years still ministers to ‘hurting people’
September 12, 2013ATLANTA—The priests honored at the 2013 Jesuit Jubilee of the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus are teachers, prison ministers, hospital chaplains, authors, and parish priests. And while their daily jobs differ, all are working for the greater glory of God. On Sunday, July 28, the New Orleans Province celebrated the “milestones of […]
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Praying for peace in Syria, pope calls selfishness the cause of war
September 12, 2013VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Leading a crowd in prayer for peace in Syria, Pope Francis said that war is ultimately caused by selfishness, which can be overcome only though expressions of fraternity and never with violence. “Leave behind the self-interest that hardens your heart, overcome the indifference that makes your heart insensitive towards others, conquer your deadly […]
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‘Angels’ watch over youngest at Christ the King School
September 12, 2013New kindergarten and first-grade students at Christ the King School became a part of the community long before the first bell of the new school year rang on Aug. 14. The school’s Guardian Angel program, a long-standing tradition, pairs fifth- and sixth-grade students with younger students to welcome them before the first day of school. […]
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Sledgehammers demolish a wall for the future Cristo Rey classroom
September 12, 2013ATLANTA—A new Catholic high school for economically disadvantaged students got its first renovation as civic and church leaders swung sledgehammers to demolish a wall in a future classroom. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory both hammered at a blue X taped to the wall Monday, Sept. 9, watched by uniformed students from […]
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Looking Back: Sept. 12, 1963
September 12, 2013In the Sept. 12, 1963 edition of The Georgia Bulletin, plans were announced for “Operation Understanding,” a project that would open every parish church in the Atlanta Archdiocese for tours on the same Sunday afternoon in November, with lay people trained to give explanations of what visitors would see in a Catholic church. The project […]
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Christian, Muslim leaders examine challenges of Arab Christians
September 12, 2013AMMAN, Jordan (CNS)—For decades, Arab Christians have been fleeing the Holy Land and the rest of the Middle East in droves, mainly because of violence. Within the past two-and-a-half years, some 450,000 Christians are believed to be among the 2 million people who have fled the civil war in Syria, an ancient land of historic […] Full Story