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Gambian Christian Organization Association marks 20 years of service
August 1, 2013ATLANTA–The Gambian Christian Organization is marking its 20th anniversary this year, as it continues to serve its members in Atlanta and people in the West African country. The community’s spiritual home is Atlanta’s Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, on Briarcliff Road. One of the community’s biggest celebrations is approaching with the feast of Our Lady […]
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Secrets of Catholic hospitality
August 1, 2013Some of my fondest memories feature my mom and dad inviting over a big group of relatives and friends, who would crowd around the table to eat, talk, laugh—and sometimes play a few hands of cards afterwards. The kids had their own rickety table where we wreaked havoc while keeping an eye on the “big […]
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Teacher travels to Israel for educational workshop
August 1, 2013St. Jude School media specialist Eleanora Straub attended the Anti-Defamation League Bearing Witness trip to Israel as one of 18 Catholic school representatives. The group came from 10 states to study anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Catholic-Jewish relations. Their itinerary included visiting Christian and Jewish holy sites and meeting with Holocaust survivors, members of the Israeli government, […]
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One in prayer with pope
August 1, 2013MARIETTA—On the famous Brazilian beach renamed “Popacabana,” an estimated 3 million Catholics on Saturday, July 27, gathered to worship, dance and celebrate their faith. Gray skies and drizzle for days could not dampen the enthusiasm from the crowds as they waited for hours to see Pope Francis. Thousands of miles away, scores of young people […]
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Then & Now: Seeds of service continue to sprout
August 1, 2013Nine days after a fierce tornado swept through four North Georgia counties on April 9, 1998, Holy Thursday, All Saints Church in Dunwoody was coordinating a relief effort for some of its parishioners. Of the more than 400 volunteers that came together at the church that day, the youngest was 4-year-old Mattie Gereben. She was […]
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Looking Back: Aug. 1, 1963
August 1, 2013The Aug. 1, 1963 issue of The Georgia Bulletin reports that the Jesuit director of Ignatius retreat house in Atlanta, Father John L. Hein, has invited nearly 400 Protestant ministers to attend two and a half days of meditations and discussions on Christian unity beginning Aug. 12. The meeting grew out of the work of […]
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Pope speaks with journalists in 80-minute open exchange
August 1, 2013ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM BRAZIL (CNS)—Pope Francis said he was responding to the clear wishes of the College of Cardinals when he set up commissions to study the Vatican bank, Vatican financial and administrative procedures and the reform of the Roman Curia. The pope also said he knows people have spoken about some kind […] Full Story
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Breast cancer walk offers alternative way to help
August 1, 2013ATLANTA—Janice Givens is a devout Catholic, a wife, a mother of two, and a breast cancer survivor. She was diagnosed for the first time in October 2004, when her children, Grace and Murphy, were just 1 and 3 years old. After a mastectomy she was told that her breast cancer was gone. Her second diagnosis […]
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Pope prays for families, honors grandparents
August 1, 2013RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS)—The 76-year-old Pope Francis went to World Youth Day with grandparents, or at least society’s elders, on his mind, and he honored them in a special way July 26, the feast of Sts. Joachim and Anne and Grandparents Day in many countries. In dozens of homilies and speeches since becoming pope in […] Full Story
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All called to ‘proclaim truth’ of faith, bishop tells deaf conference
August 1, 2013WASHINGTON (CNS)—With hands moving quickly through the air, members of the International Catholic Deaf Association signed all the responses in unison for a July 16 Mass celebrated at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington as part of their seventh biennial conference. “We have been called to life, we have […]