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Catholic Conference Evaluates Bills After “Crossover Day”
March 14, 2013A proposal in the Statehouse loosens gun restrictions, including allowing gun owners to carry firearms into churches. That was one bill that cleared “crossover” day, the date by which bills must be approved by at least one house of the Legislature in order to have a chance of becoming law in this session. Georgia Catholic […]
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Miguel San Juan Named New Catholic Charities CEO
March 14, 2013Catholic Charities Atlanta (CCA) has announced that Miguel R. San Juan has been appointed the organization’s new chief executive officer. He began his duties March 1. San Juan has been active in public service at local, state and federal levels. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush appointed him as the first National Export Council president. […]
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Praying for the new pontiff
March 14, 2013As the three of us walked back up the hill to the North American College in Rome where I am staying, after a late evening pizza, I mentioned to Father Luke Ballman and Matthew Dalrymple (our Atlanta seminarian at the college) that I had to come up with a topic for my column for The […]
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Lo Que He Visto Y He Oido
March 14, 2013Después de haber disfrutado de una pizza, le mencioné al Padre Luke Ballman y a Matthew Dalrymple (nuestro seminarista de Atlanta que estudia en Roma) quienes me acompañaban subiendo la colina en el camino de regreso al North American College en Roma donde me encuentro hospedado, que debía hallar un tema para mi columna de […]
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Nine New Monsignors Named For Archdiocese
March 14, 2013Seated in the wood-paneled conference room, the priests waited. They did not know why they had been told to come to the meeting at the archdiocesan Chancery on March 7. “Everybody’s looking at each other. Why are we here?” said Father Frank McNamee, rector of the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta. And then the […]
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Local Catholics Share Joy Of New Pope’s Election
March 14, 2013Catholics watched TVs and huddled around computers here to watch the smoke rise from the small chimney in darkened, rainy Vatican City. The telltale white smoke was visible a little after 2 p.m. More than an hour later, people saw the first pope from Latin America, Pope Francis, walk on to the central porch of […]
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Pope Francis’ Remarks From Balcony After His Election
March 14, 2013VATICAN CITY — Here is the English translation of Pope Francis’ remarks delivered from the balcony after his election as pope. Brothers and sisters, good evening. You know that the task of the conclave was to give Rome a bishop. It seems my brother cardinals went almost to the ends of the earth to find […]
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Argentine Cardinal Bergoglio Elected Pope; Takes Name Francis
March 14, 2013VATICAN CITY — Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, the leader of a large urban archdiocese in Latin America, was elected the 266th pope and took the name Francis. He is the first pope in history to come from the Western Hemisphere and the first non-European to be elected in almost 1,300 years. The Jesuit […]
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Pope Francis
March 13, 2013HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM — Pontifex (@Pontifex) March 13, 2013
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March 12, 2013Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory is in Rome acting as an analyst for ABC News.