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Atlanta Rally Echoes Call To Rescind HHS Mandate
March 29, 2012Catholics and others crowded the Georgia statehouse plaza on Friday, March 23, and spilled across Washington Street at a rally for religious freedom. Standing under umbrellas in the spring rain, speakers passionately opposed a recent U.S. Health and Human Services’ mandate, which requires health insurance plans to include and pay for employees’ contraception, including abortion-inducing […]
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Religious Freedom Rally in Atlanta
March 23, 2012Here’s a report about the Stand Up Rally in Atlanta. Let me apologize for the unclear footage of the second speaker. Something, perhaps the rain, got on the lens and made it blurry. You’ll hear from folks who attended the rally, their motivation for attending and other insights, along with photos in next March 29 […]
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‘Pip’ Moves with The Voice
March 20, 2012“Pip” Arnold, who was recently the focus of a story in the Georgia Bulletin, made it past the battle round of The Voice. He worships at St. Joseph Church, Marietta, where he got his start singing for Life Teen and other worship services. Here’s his latest appearance on the national hit show:
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Cathedral Organist Talks about Playing
March 15, 2012As part of the day-in-the-life series at the Cathedral of Christ the King featured in this week’s “Georgia Bulletin,” I spent some time with Tim Wissler, the organist at the Cathedral of Christ the King. He plays for three Sunday liturgies and aims to practice three hours a day. And here’s a little known trivia: […]
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Anno Hardage Tapped For Catholic Charities Atlanta Role
March 15, 2012When she was chancellor of the archdiocese in the late 1990s, Anno Hardage helped oversee the “Building the Church of Tomorrow” campaign that generated over $70 million to help build new Catholic schools and campus centers, fund endowments for archdiocesan needs, and give parishes a share of the donations for their big-ticket projects. A dozen […]
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Reader’s Lenten Recipe: Testing Day Soup – Or Tortellini Soup
March 15, 2012Reader Jeannine Ferrara, school counselor at St. Jude the Apostle School, Atlanta, sent in this recipe with a story: “During school admissions testing, I make lunch for the teachers and staff who come in on two Saturdays in February and evaluate potential students. One of the teachers is a vegetarian and one of the student […]
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Being free
March 15, 2012A group of high school seniors came here to the monastery a while back. I was asked to speak with them on what it means to be free. We met in our new Welcome Center, where there is a large and comfortable conference room. I enjoy it when young people come here. They are just […]
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On Being Free
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What I Have Seen and Heard
March 15, 2012We here in the Archdiocese of Atlanta celebrated a quiet anniversary just a few weeks ago without much public attention. On February 21 of this year, we observed our 50th anniversary as an archdiocese. On February 21, 1962, we were separated from the Province of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and became a new independent ecclesiastical […]
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Priest Assignment
March 15, 2012Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following change in priest assignment. He has confirmed the recommendation of Father Joseph G. Bachand, provincial superior of the Missionaries of Our Lady of LaSalette and Father Claude F. Rheaume, local superior and director of LaSalette of Enfield, and has assigned Father Roger J. Plante, MS, as senior […]