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Archbishop Gregory: Nation ‘Stunned By Senseless Violence’
December 20, 2012Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory and other clergy and educators in the archdiocese responded with prayer and support to the deadly shooting attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14. Archbishop Gregory called for prayers for the victims and their families in the aftermath of the tragic assault that killed 20 children […]
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Latin Americans Continue Tradition Of ‘Las Posadas’
December 20, 2012Scores of families at the Cathedral of Christ the King recreated the biblical story of the Holy Family searching for shelter. At the celebration children and parents alike sang, shook rattles and other noisemakers as the community filled the Hyland Center room on the first of nine nights of celebrations Dec. 16. For many, it […]
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Athens Parish Celebrates Our Lady Of Guadalupe Feast In New Center
December 20, 2012St. Joseph Church, Athens, has reached another milestone with its construction project. Pete Konenkamp reports the new parish center is nearly complete. The center opened Dec. 11 with the celebration of a vigil Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The center is on Epps Bridge Parkway, off Georgia Route 316 in Clarke […]
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Holiday Favorite To Appear On Georgia Public Broadcasting
December 20, 2012The Atlanta Celtic Christmas Concert will be on TV, said James Flannery, the director of the W.B. Yeats Foundation and a retired professor from Emory University. Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) will be featuring the Emmy Award-winning film of the Atlanta Celtic Christmas Concert as a primetime Christmas special broadcast throughout the state on December 23 […]
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Sixth Sam Robb Tournament To Benefit CURE
December 20, 2012The Sam Robb Memorial Holiday Classic Basketball Tournament will be held Thursday to Saturday, December 27-29, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell; Holy Redeemer School, Johns Creek; Marist High School, Atlanta; Queen of Angels School, Roswell; and St. Jude the Apostle School, Atlanta. Tournament teams are from the Catholic […]
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St. Pius Falls To Buford In Class AAA Title Game
December 20, 2012In a highly competitive state championship football game, played out before scores of boisterous fans at the Georgia Dome on Dec. 14, the difference in the game came down to one fourth-quarter play. That play would eventually give Buford High School a 10-3 victory and its ninth state championship. St. Pius X High School took […]
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Relish A Catholic Christmas Sampler
December 20, 2012All of us have Christmas traditions we cherish from our childhoods, rituals that we carry with us into our adult lives and pass on to our children. I grew up in a Southern home, so Claxton fruitcakes were a fixture. I’ve always passed on the fruitcake, but when the familiar rectangular box with its faux […]
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Jesuits Join Sponsorship Of Cristo Rey Atlanta
December 20, 2012The new board of directors of the proposed Cristo Rey Atlanta High School for economically disadvantaged youth is accelerating school fundraising and working to secure corporate work-study partners to meet its updated target opening date of fall 2014. It has also announced an agreement for Jesuit sponsorship of the school. The Cristo Rey Atlanta team, […]
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Movie Review: “The Guilt Trip”
December 20, 2012Warmhearted comedy about the relationship between a buttoned-up chemist (Seth Rogen) and his doting widowed mother (Barbra Streisand). Secretly hoping to reunite New York-based mom with a boyfriend from her youth who now lives in San Francisco, the researcher invites her along on a cross-country business trip during which he’ll be pitching a cleaning product […]
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Movie Review: “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
December 20, 2012Epic 3-D adaptation of the opening part of Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 children’s novel “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again,” directed by Peter Jackson. In this first installment of a trio of prequels to Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, also based on Tolkien’s fiction, a homebody hobbit (Martin Freeman) is reluctantly […]