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Mission Call Led Father T.J. From Appalachia To Atlanta
August 2, 2012Father T.J. Meehan once carried a notebook where he wrote the names of patients he talked with during his stint at Grady Hospital. Some 1,400 of them were remembered. Most were patients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. “A few may be living, but not many,” he said. Seeking out the ill, the dying, the overlooked always appealed […]
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Denver prelate: Death, evil will not have last word
August 2, 2012The confusion and carnage that unfolded in the dark Aurora theater July 20 was surreal for Emily Stetson. The loud pops she heard and irritating smoke she inhaled eventually forced her and the midnight moviegoers out of the packed theaters inside Century Aurora 16. In the lobby, she witnessed a police officer cradle a child […] Full Story
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August 2, 2012At Holy Cross Church, Atlanta, an annual Taste of Life fundraiser, hosted by the AIDS ministry, raised more than $8,300 recently. Living Room, Georgia’s leading provider of supportive housing services for individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS, is helped by the support. Created by Living Room board member Pam Dorsett and her colleagues at the […]
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CCHD Grants Benefit Local Programs
August 2, 2012A chess program that encourages conflict resolution. A Catholic celebration of Earth Day. A center that aids refugees to learn job skills. These programs and others benefited from recent awards from the local Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Some $37,500 was given to nine programs that aim to transform people’s lives and break the cycle […]
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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 […] Full Story
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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, […] Full Story
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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 […] Full Story
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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 […]