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Conyers Festival To Feature Ecological Lecture Series
September 13, 2012The Monastery of the Holy Spirit will hold its fall festival on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the monastery grounds. All are invited to the festivities, which will have activities for all ages, including hayrides, a petting zoo and pony rides, a marketplace, organic farm produce, and tours of the […] Full Story
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Our Faith Should Transform Our Politics
September 13, 2012The start of the Year of Faith and our country’s elections will take place less than a month apart. And we have an excellent opportunity as Catholics to apply the principles of our faith to our political system—not only in how we vote, but in how we choose to influence our country’s political discourse, too […]
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Faith & Public Policy Workshops In 8 Parishes
September 13, 2012The conventions are over. Election Day is less than two months away. Now the voters have their work cut out for them. Researching candidates’ positions yourself, listening to or reading well-informed commentators, analyzing the difficult decisions ahead and the character and wisdom of those running for office, these tasks fall to the citizen, in order […]
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Students Hit The Books At New St. Joseph, Athens
September 13, 2012ATHENS—Under overcast skies, students and parents lined up outside the doors of the new St. Joseph School Wednesday, Sept. 5, awaiting the official opening of its doors for the 2012-2013 school year. The key to the new brick building was given to a young pre-kindergarten student at the back of the line and passed through […]
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The Dignity Of Labor
September 3, 2012This is Labor Day weekend—so all should look happy and be content. Sadly that is not so for millions of our people. At this time there are 12 million workers looking for a job. Over 10 million families are “working poor”—they work hard, but their pay does not meet their basic needs. Forty million U.S. […]
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Map of Atlanta’s Catholic Bookstore
August 31, 2012View Catholic Gift Shops and Books in a full screen map This map helps you find Atlanta Catholic bookstores near you. It’s a companion to our story in this week’s edition. We talk to bookstore owners how they compete with online retailers. Please read the story on our Web site. Thanks for reading and subscribing […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard for August 30, 2012
August 30, 2012“Is it a sin to get a tattoo?” That was one of the questions that I fielded at Milledgeville last Tuesday evening as I made my annual visit to the Campus Catholics ministry at Georgia College. While I assured the young person that tattoos themselves were not sinful, it’s an entirely different question about them […]
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Catholic Foundation Spring Grants Announced
August 30, 2012The Catholic Foundation of North Georgia issued 25 grants totaling $115,700 in the spring of 2012. These grants will provide support to a variety of causes throughout the Archdiocese of Atlanta. The following 17 grants from the general grants program were funded by the foundation’s community services fund, the Conrads education fund, the general fund, […]
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Message From A Smiling Madonna
August 30, 2012Things were going downhill fast. There had been an unsettling phone call from a relative, and when I tried to gently offer advice, she hung up on me. It was early morning on a cloudy day, and I felt a deep yearning to go to Mass, but my local parish doesn’t have morning Masses during […]
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Priest Assignment
August 30, 2012Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following change in priest assignment. Father Francisco Javier Munoz-Garcia has been assigned as parochial vicar at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Fayetteville, N.C., in the Diocese of Raleigh, effective June 28.