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Blessed Trinity Kicker Raises Money To Beat Cancer
February 14, 2013The football season is in the history books. But this good work should not fall through the cracks. Blessed Trinity High School’s varsity kicker Marc Nolan out-raised his fundraising goal for Cure Childhood Cancer with his leg. Nolan earned the money by collecting donations for every point after touchdown kick or field goal for the […]
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Stock Market Wizards At Pinecrest Academy
February 14, 2013The Pinecrest Academy team won first in The Georgia Stock Market Game, hosted by the SIFMA Foundation and the Georgia Council on Economic Education. The independent Catholic school competed in the private school Northeast region section. The team included Robert Crone, Christian Marchione and Jacob Jennings. High school social studies teacher David Boaz assembled nine […]
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Advocate For Mentally Ill Receives McAuley Award
February 14, 2013Deborah Crockett, who is a veteran mental health caseworker, is the first recipient of the McAuley Award at Saint Joseph’s Health System. It is named for Catherine McAuley, the Irish-born founder of the Sisters of Mercy. The religious order established Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Atlanta, the first hospital in Atlanta. It has been a long-standing tradition […]
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“The Hobbit”: A Failed Cinematic Journey
February 14, 2013“All things come to an end,” reports the narrator in “The Hobbit,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved children’s book, “even this story.” I have rarely been so grateful to reach the end of any story as I was at the conclusion of Peter Jackson’s recent film “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” Of course, the conclusion of Jackson’s […]
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St. Toribio Romo Mission Growing In Murray County
February 14, 2013ATLANTA—The new St. Toribio Romo Mission welcomes Mexican immigrants and other people across Murray County, east of Dalton, to its first house of worship in a renovated car dealership on the main Chatsworth highway. Named after a popular saint among Mexican migrants, the mission of St. Joseph’s Church in Dalton held its first Mass on […]
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Father And Son Find Spiritual Healing At Lourdes
February 14, 2013ATLANTA—Millions of faithful people travel to Lourdes, France, every year seeking healing and forgiveness. It was no different for Bob Milani and his son, Jack, who traveled there with the Order of Malta last year seeking physical healing for Jack’s mitochondrial myopathy. The story of Lourdes is well known, especially among Catholics. In 1858, the […]
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OLM Educator ‘Lives And Breathes’ Teaching Vocation
February 14, 2013FAYETTEVILLE—Franck Launay-Fallasse followed his passion to serve the Church. He just didn’t know it was going to be as a schoolteacher. As a young man, he was a social worker for mentally impaired people in a L’Arche community. He also assisted unemployed adults. But what he calls a “series of providential events” led him to […]
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Music Key To Teaching For St. Catherine’s Mr. Griffith
February 14, 2013KENNESAW—Walk into Owen Griffith’s fourth-grade class and don’t be surprised to see the 47-year-old strumming on a guitar. A longtime musician, the teacher sings songs with the youngsters to help them learn prayers, the water cycle and the names of the planets. He was one of the teachers honored at the Archdiocese of Atlanta education […] Full Story
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Dedicated Pius Teacher Shares Love Of Reading
February 14, 2013ATLANTA—St. Pius X High School English teacher Charleen Klister has had a love of reading ever since she was a young girl growing up in De Pere, Wis. “I don’t remember life before I could read,” she said, smiling. Through her literature and writing classes, Klister brings this love of reading to students at St. […]
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Notre Dame Teacher Finds Life Lessons In Music
February 14, 2013DULUTH—Amy LoCurto’s music classes are about much more than music. While rhythm, melody and instruments do play a central role in the classroom, students naturally learn other life skills while studying music, according to LoCurto. Now in her fourth year at Notre Dame Academy, a Catholic, World International Baccalaureate school in Duluth, LoCurto covers a […]