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Legionary Brother Ordained At Pinecrest
August 2, 2012Legionary of Christ Brother Ronald Conklin was ordained to the transitional diaconate June 24, the feast day of John the Baptist, by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory. The ordination took place in the chapel at Pinecrest Academy. Originally from Temperance, Mich., Brother Conklin joined the Legion in 2000. After high school, he entered the Regnum Christi […]
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‘First And 12’ With Pinecrest’s New Head Football Coach
August 2, 2012Coach Todd Winter is in the midst of a sizzling summer as football workouts at Pinecrest Academy get underway. Earlier this year Winter was named the second head football coach at the private Catholic school in Cumming, replacing Coach Charles Wiggins, who headed up the program for eight years. Before assuming the reins at Pinecrest, […]
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Parishioners Help Teens, Runaways Avoid Exploitation
August 2, 2012Scanning the crowded terminal of the Greyhound bus station on the edge of downtown Atlanta, Breon Haskett hones in on a lone teenage girl standing in line waiting to buy her ride out of town. Haskett, a tall, broad-shouldered Marine Corps vet who now works as the youth minister at Transfiguration Parish in suburban Marietta, […]
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Atlanta’s Faith Community Tackles Sex Trafficking
August 2, 2012Crystal Ward works hard helping people to think in new ways about the commercial sex industry and its victims. Young girls being forced to sell themselves for sex are not prostitutes, she told a group of 30 church leaders from throughout metropolitan Atlanta; the girls are victims of sexual exploitation in illegal networks run by […]
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Good Shepherd Sister Offers Guiding Hand To Youth
August 2, 2012For nearly 20 years Good Shepherd Services’ summer program for youth has been a vital part of the services provided by the community-based charity. “I value the importance of the program because it speaks to the mission of Good Shepherd Services and my order, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd,” said Sister Christine Truong My […]
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Flannery O’Connor And The Hardest Lesson Of All
August 2, 2012It came on suddenly like so many physical maladies do. One day I noticed numbness in my leg, and it didn’t go away for quite a while. The doctors said the problem was a pinched nerve in my back. What to do? Stop sitting at the computer for long periods at a stretch was one […]
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’Epidemic’ Of Child Sexual Exploitation Gets Atlanta’s Attention, But Still Grows
August 2, 2012Sitting on the bench of the Fulton County Juvenile Court in 2000, then-Judge Nina Hickson saw 12- and 13-year-old girls with the “look of death” in their eyes. Those eyes were empty, as if “whatever life was there was gone,” Hickson said. Usually repeat offenders for underage drinking, fighting or truancy, the girls showed little […]
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Reconnecting With An Old Friend and Making New Ones
July 26, 2012I recently visited the Shallowford Terrace location of Good Shepherd Services, where I reconnected with Sister Christine Truong My Hanh. Sister Christine is the executive director of Good Shepherd Services, a community based charity she founded in 1993. While many of the people they serve are from the Vietnamese community, their help to the poor […]
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Georgia Olympians with Catholic Roots
July 24, 2012If you are an Olympic fan, make sure to be on the lookout for Team USA swimmers Kathleen Hersey and Eric Shanteau. Both have roots in the Catholic community in Atlanta. Kathleen graduated from the Marist School, class of 2008. She was a member of the swim team and also competed with Swim Atlanta. She […]
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"Wonderfully Made"
July 20, 2012A week ago Tuesday, I heard the first cries of my daughter. She was 10 days early when she arrived with long fingers and a full head of dark hair at 6:16 p.m. People tell me that won’t be the last time my life is turned sideways by a child. She’s called “Bean” by loved […]