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What I Have Seen and Heard for August 2, 2012
August 2, 2012People frequently ask me how I go about choosing a topic for this column. I have to tell them that I try to ponder the events that I have shared with people in my service as Archbishop and what faith lessons that I manage to learn from those encounters and what faith instructions that I […]
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Former Victim Mentors Girls Away From Sex Trafficking
August 2, 2012ATLANTA (CNS)—The girls Keisha Head mentors today remind her of herself 15 or 20 years ago. They are from the margins: runaways from tough family circumstances, truant from school or on probation from the Fulton County Juvenile Court for one offense or another. And all are potential targets of predators looking to commercially exploit them, […]
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Togo Priest Becomes Chaplain To French-Speakers
August 2, 2012Two parishes will host the new ministry to French-speaking Catholics in the Atlanta Archdiocese. Father Daniel Agbeko Gbadji will be the spiritual leader of the community, part of the multicultural face of the archdiocese. “We have to show people our capability and our desire to be gathered as a big Francophone group. We must emphasize […]
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Priest Assignments
August 2, 2012Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following changes in priest and clergy assignments. Father Daniel Joseph Rogaczewski has been assigned as parochial vicar at All Saints Church, Dunwoody, effective June 23. Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales Father Joseph Pottemmel has been assigned as chaplain at the Monastery of the Visitation, Snellville, effective July […]
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More End-Of-Life Ministry Needed, Deacon Tells Interfaith Group
August 2, 2012Deacon Bob Hauert, chaplain at Hospice Atlanta and deacon at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, spoke on death, dying and the importance of hospice care at the North American Interfaith Network conference held in Atlanta July 15-18. Deacon Hauert, ordained a permanent deacon for the Archdiocese of Atlanta in 2010, shared his story with workshop […]
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Msgr. Donovan, Priest From 1944-2012 In Georgia, Dies
August 2, 2012Msgr. Walter J. Donovan died on Sunday, July 22, leaving a lasting legacy of schools and parishes in the Atlanta Archdiocese and the state. He was 96. A native of Little Falls, N.Y., Msgr. Donovan arrived in Georgia when it was still a mission state with an estimated 44,000 Catholics and he was the 30th […]
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Mission Call Led Father T.J. From Appalachia To Atlanta
August 2, 2012Father T.J. Meehan once carried a notebook where he wrote the names of patients he talked with during his stint at Grady Hospital. Some 1,400 of them were remembered. Most were patients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. “A few may be living, but not many,” he said. Seeking out the ill, the dying, the overlooked always appealed […]
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Denver prelate: Death, evil will not have last word
August 2, 2012The confusion and carnage that unfolded in the dark Aurora theater July 20 was surreal for Emily Stetson. The loud pops she heard and irritating smoke she inhaled eventually forced her and the midnight moviegoers out of the packed theaters inside Century Aurora 16. In the lobby, she witnessed a police officer cradle a child […]
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Notable
August 2, 2012At Holy Cross Church, Atlanta, an annual Taste of Life fundraiser, hosted by the AIDS ministry, raised more than $8,300 recently. Living Room, Georgia’s leading provider of supportive housing services for individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS, is helped by the support. Created by Living Room board member Pam Dorsett and her colleagues at the […]
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CCHD Grants Benefit Local Programs
August 2, 2012A chess program that encourages conflict resolution. A Catholic celebration of Earth Day. A center that aids refugees to learn job skills. These programs and others benefited from recent awards from the local Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Some $37,500 was given to nine programs that aim to transform people’s lives and break the cycle […]