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St. Pius Falls To Buford In Class AAA Title Game
December 20, 2012In a highly competitive state championship football game, played out before scores of boisterous fans at the Georgia Dome on Dec. 14, the difference in the game came down to one fourth-quarter play. That play would eventually give Buford High School a 10-3 victory and its ninth state championship. St. Pius X High School took […]
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Relish A Catholic Christmas Sampler
December 20, 2012All of us have Christmas traditions we cherish from our childhoods, rituals that we carry with us into our adult lives and pass on to our children. I grew up in a Southern home, so Claxton fruitcakes were a fixture. I’ve always passed on the fruitcake, but when the familiar rectangular box with its faux […]
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Jesuits Join Sponsorship Of Cristo Rey Atlanta
December 20, 2012The new board of directors of the proposed Cristo Rey Atlanta High School for economically disadvantaged youth is accelerating school fundraising and working to secure corporate work-study partners to meet its updated target opening date of fall 2014. It has also announced an agreement for Jesuit sponsorship of the school. The Cristo Rey Atlanta team, […]
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Movie Review: “The Guilt Trip”
December 20, 2012Warmhearted comedy about the relationship between a buttoned-up chemist (Seth Rogen) and his doting widowed mother (Barbra Streisand). Secretly hoping to reunite New York-based mom with a boyfriend from her youth who now lives in San Francisco, the researcher invites her along on a cross-country business trip during which he’ll be pitching a cleaning product […]
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Movie Review: “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
December 20, 2012Epic 3-D adaptation of the opening part of Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 children’s novel “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again,” directed by Peter Jackson. In this first installment of a trio of prequels to Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, also based on Tolkien’s fiction, a homebody hobbit (Martin Freeman) is reluctantly […]
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Movie Review: “Les Miserables”
December 20, 2012If your Christmas wish list includes a lavish, big-budget musical crafted in the classic Hollywood manner, then “Les Miserables” (Universal) is just the ticket. This rousing entertainment offers something for everyone: soaring anthems, tear-jerking romance, thrilling drama—and a positive portrayal of the Catholic faith. In fact, this faithful adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel, which […]
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A Parishioner Of St. Brigid Church Will Be Heading To College To Row
December 20, 2012Julia Neppl, a senior at Blessed Trinity High School in Roswell, signed a letter of intent to join the team at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. She is the daughter of Jeff and Susan Neppl of Johns Creek. Neppl rows for the St. Andrew Rowing Club, which trains on the Chattahoochee River. She rowed twice […]
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Atlanta Catholics Leading On The National Level
December 20, 2012Frank Mulcahy, the executive director of the Georgia Catholic Conference, was recently appointed to the board of Catholic Legal Immigration Network. He’ll see a friendly face sitting around the table at the next board meeting. Bishop Luis R. Zarama, of Atlanta, also is a director of the nonprofit. The board is required to have a […]
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Club At Our Lady Of Victory School Brings Home Awards
December 20, 2012Our Lady of Victory School, in Tyrone, announced the success of its National Junior Beta Club. The club placed “at the top” at the state Beta Club convention held in Macon. The school competed with 184 schools statewide and earned 10th place in the “Tower of Power” competition, fifth in cross-stitch, fifth in woodworking, third in language […]
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Catholic Group Wants To Be Better Advocates Against Death Penalty
December 20, 2012Leaders from the Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty came from Washington, D.C., to meet with the members of Atlanta’s Death Penalty Task Force. Director of Justice and Peace Ministries Kat Doyle, Deacon Richard Tolcher and Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory met with the group’s leaders to set goals and priorities. […]