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’Epidemic’ Of Child Sexual Exploitation Gets Atlanta’s Attention, But Still Grows
August 2, 2012Sitting on the bench of the Fulton County Juvenile Court in 2000, then-Judge Nina Hickson saw 12- and 13-year-old girls with the “look of death” in their eyes. Those eyes were empty, as if “whatever life was there was gone,” Hickson said. Usually repeat offenders for underage drinking, fighting or truancy, the girls showed little […]
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Reconnecting With An Old Friend and Making New Ones
July 26, 2012I recently visited the Shallowford Terrace location of Good Shepherd Services, where I reconnected with Sister Christine Truong My Hanh. Sister Christine is the executive director of Good Shepherd Services, a community based charity she founded in 1993. While many of the people they serve are from the Vietnamese community, their help to the poor […]
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Georgia Olympians with Catholic Roots
July 24, 2012If you are an Olympic fan, make sure to be on the lookout for Team USA swimmers Kathleen Hersey and Eric Shanteau. Both have roots in the Catholic community in Atlanta. Kathleen graduated from the Marist School, class of 2008. She was a member of the swim team and also competed with Swim Atlanta. She […]
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"Wonderfully Made"
July 20, 2012A week ago Tuesday, I heard the first cries of my daughter. She was 10 days early when she arrived with long fingers and a full head of dark hair at 6:16 p.m. People tell me that won’t be the last time my life is turned sideways by a child. She’s called “Bean” by loved […]
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St. Jude To Host Annual Music Symposium
July 19, 2012Sponsored by the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the Southeastern Liturgical Music Symposium is an annual gathering of musicians who share an interest in advancing the quality of Catholic liturgical music. This year’s symposium will be hosted by St. Jude the Apostle Church on August 24–25 and will focus on how to select appropriate music for the […] Full Story
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How ‘The Catholics Next Door’ Found NFP
July 19, 2012It’s inevitable that once you crack the door open looking for God, he can’t help but enter in. Such was the case for Greg and Jennifer Willits, parishioners at St. Pius X Church in Conyers and co-hosts of SiriusXM’s radio program, “The Catholics Next Door.” Well into their marriage and en route to a deeper […] Full Story
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Good Shepherd Sister Anita Marks 60 Years A Nun
July 19, 2012Sister Anita Kristofco found herself as a young adult challenged by teenaged girls and youngsters from poor neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Coming from a small town in the western part of the state, she knew little about their homes or life, things like the special hair care needed for black girls was foreign to her. But […]
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Adrian Dominican Sister Celebrates Golden Jubilee
July 19, 2012As a young child, Dominican Sister Sharon McGuire decided that she either wanted to be a nun or a nurse. And for the last few decades, Sister McGuire has answered God’s call to both vocations, serving people in a medical and spiritual capacity as part of the Adrian Dominican order. Celebrating her golden jubilee this […]
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Lessons I Failed To Learn In My Younger Years
July 19, 2012I was in high school when the advent of the birth-control pill was announced to the world, and it was declared by secular society to be a wondrously liberating device. For married women, the pill was touted as offering freedom from a string of pregnancies. For single women, the pill was hailed as a way […]
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Tilting At Windmills
July 19, 2012In Miguel de Cervantes’ masterpiece, “Don Quixote,” the title character famously attacks some windmills, which he mistakes for “ferocious giants”: “Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, ‘Fortune is guiding our affairs […]