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Ford’s “The Searchers”: Connection And Redemption
May 23, 2013Roger Ebert, who died recently and was perhaps the most important 20th-century apologist for cinema as both popular entertainment and serious art form, said of the relationship between movies and our collective imagination: “We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.” Binx Bolling, in Walker Percy’s novel “The […]
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Order of Malta Honored With Celebrate Life Award
May 23, 2013ATLANTA—The Advice and Aid Pregnancy Problem Center, Atlanta’s only Catholic crisis pregnancy center, focuses at the core on its mission of protecting the rights of the unborn. Through the introduction of both health and educational options, the center offers ongoing support and assistance to mothers in crisis and their babies, providing them an alternative to […]
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‘Taste Of Life’ Fundraiser To Benefit Living Room
May 23, 2013ATLANTA—Taste of Life, the annual food and wine tasting event benefiting Living Room, Inc., a nonprofit agency that helps low-income families and individuals affected by HIV acquire and maintain safe and affordable housing, will be held Saturday, June 8, from 8 to 10 p.m. at Holy Cross Church, 3773 Chamblee Tucker Road, Atlanta. Guests will […]
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At Pentecost, Pope Shares Personal Stories Of His Faith
May 23, 2013VATICAN CITY (CNS)—With humor and passion, Pope Francis shared highlights of his personal faith journey and explained some key points of his teaching to an enthusiastic crowd of representatives from Catholic lay movements. Celebrating a vigil on the eve of Pentecost with an estimated 200,000 people singing, chanting and waving their groups’ banners, Pope Francis […]
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Roswell Valedictorian Latest In Family At Georgia Tech
May 23, 2013ROSWELL—Erin Flynn always gravitated toward math and science and now reaches for the stars, career-wise, as valedictorian at Roswell High School. Flynn will attend the Georgia Institute of Technology in the fall where she plans to major in material science engineering, aspiring to build, one day, equipment for space exploration. She will receive a materials […]
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Brothers earn Boy Scouting’s highest rank at St. Peter Chanel
May 23, 2013Brothers Matthew and Joseph Hill earned the rank of Eagle Scout in Troop 1134, sponsored by St. Peter Chanel Church, Roswell. It is Boy Scouting’s highest rank. They are the sons of Jeffrey and Anna Hill. Joseph, 13, is an eighth-grade student at Queen of Angels School, Roswell. He is the first student in his school […]
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Young women spend a year in service to others
May 23, 2013Three women with ties to the Atlanta area have spent a year in volunteer service. Two recent graduates of the University of Georgia in Athens and members of the Catholic Center at UGA served with the Franciscan Volunteer Ministry, an organization of lay people whose members live together in faith and community as they minister […]
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Catholics and Jewish students learn about each other’s faiths
May 23, 2013The Davis Academy seventh-grade class hosted 150 seventh-grade peers and their teachers from Marist School to provide a forum for understanding more about each other’s religious traditions. The Davis Academy is a Reform Jewish day school, for students through eighth grade. In small groups, the students discussed each other’s faiths and customs. Davis students learned […]
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Young artist wins $1,000 for St. Joseph School and she gets free burritos for a month
May 23, 2013Congrats to McKinley Roth. The student at St. Joseph School, Marietta, won a $1,000 donation to her school as her top prize in Willy’s Mexicana Grill T-shirt design contest. Willy Bitter, founder of the restaurant, visited McKinley, 9, of Marietta, in her classroom at the school, with an oversized check in hand. In the contest […]
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Boy Scouts in archdiocese among a few to earn national designation
May 23, 2013Tommy Treat, the leader of Scouting in the Atlanta Archdiocese, reported good news. The Boy Scout program was notified it had received the National Catholic Committee on Scouting Quality Diocese award every year since its inception in 2002. Out of 197 dioceses in the country involved with Scouting, Atlanta is one of only six to […]