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August 18, 2011Fourteen teens and three adults from St. Marguerite d’Youville Church, Lawrenceville, traveled this summer to Chicago for a mission trip. The St. Marguerite d’Youville mission trip participants pose outside a community center in Chicago where they help feed the homeless. The mission was built around the theme “I Refuse.” The young adults lived the motto: […]
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1951 vows still inspiring Sister Marie Sullivan’s life
August 18, 2011Sister Marie Sullivan celebrates her 60-year anniversary as a Sinsinawa Dominican sister this year, reaching a milestone in her journey as a servant of the church. The life and ministry of Sister Marie is as interesting and varied as the personality of the small-framed nun herself, working with the poor, women and children before founding […]
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Waugh’s ‘Brideshead’ Explores Grace, Wholeness
August 18, 2011In a famous apology for his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930, the British novelist Evelyn Waugh responded to his critics among the intelligentsia by explaining that, contrary to conventional wisdom, his decision to become a Catholic had nothing to do with Jesuit evangelism, attraction to ritual and ceremony, or an inability to reason for […]
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‘First And 10’ With BT’s New Head Football Coach
August 18, 2011Coach Tim McFarlin is no stranger to North Fulton County football. McFarlin was Roswell High School’s head coach for 10 seasons, but he retired after the 2007 season with a career record of 82-34-1. His retirement was short lived because he returned as an assistant coach with King’s Ridge Christian School, Alpharetta, in 2009 and […]
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Catholic Schools Debut iPad Program As School Begins
August 18, 2011Textbooks will be staying on the shelves as some students return to the classroom carrying only lightweight iPads. Six schools in the Atlanta Archdiocese are embracing the touch-screen iPads as the newest classroom tool to recreate Civil War battles in social studies, reinforce math lessons with instructional videos or write a classroom blog to improve […]
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New Principals Tell What Drew Them To Education
August 18, 2011Four Catholic elementary schools have new principals this year. They responded to a series of questions from The Georgia Bulletin about their background, passion for education and first thoughts about their new communities. John H. Tarpley, Principal St. Mary’s Catholic School, Rome Previous Position: Ten years as principal of Pinecrest Academy in Cumming and prior […]
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Sharing A Common Date In August
August 11, 2011Today, August 11, is the feast of Italy’s St. Clare. This young woman left her life of nobility to follow St. Francis of Assisi and give her life over to God. St. Clare is also the founder of the order of nuns known as the Poor Clares. Back on Palm Sunday of this year the […]
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A Monk For The Ages
August 5, 2011Last week writer Andrew Nelson and I went out to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, Conyers, to interview and photograph Father Luke Kot, someone I would only describe as a real gem and living legend in monastic circles. It was a week before his 100th birthday. I arrived about 40 minutes ahead of our […]
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Transcription Project Brings Priest’s Writings To Light
August 4, 2011This article was corrected for spelling errors on November 22, 2011. In the late 1700s, Father James Archer inked his thoughts on thin paper about faith during a time when Catholics in England were persecuted—or worse, killed. Now, more than 200 years later, people can transcribe the aged pages bound together with a thread to […]
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100-Year-Old Monk Sees History Preserved
August 4, 2011Father Luke Kot sits in the midst of the barn-turned-museum at Holy Spirit Monastery and reminisces. Stairs in the corner once led to the second-floor “cells,” as bedrooms for monks are called. Here was the abbot’s office. And over against that wall he had a close encounter with a chicken. “She sat close by me. […]