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What I Have Seen And Heard
January 20, 2012For six years I have been warned by many of you of what a serious and crippling impact too much snow and ice can have on us in North Georgia. But as a native-born Chicagoan who had lived through many previous significant snow events in my life (including the January 1967 Chicago record snowfall of […]
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Lo Que He Visto Y He Oído
January 20, 2012Durante estos seis años, muchos de ustedes me han advertido sobre el impacto serio y catastrófico que una gran cantidad de nieve y hielo puede producir en el norte de Georgia. Pero viniendo de Chicago, donde ya antes viví muchos eventos importantes de nieve (inclusive la nevada de enero de 1967 en Chicago donde cayó […]
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Blessed Trinity Repeats As Catholic Duals Champion
January 19, 2012Blessed Trinity High School held onto its championship title as its wrestlers defeated Marist and St. Pius X High School during the seventh annual Catholic Duals. The wrestling tournament took place at Blessed Trinity’s gymnasium Jan. 4. Blessed Trinity managed to win this year’s tournament by defeating St. Pius 58-18 in the first match and […]
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Notable
January 19, 2012The Blessed Trinity High School varsity volleyball team presented a check of $4,186.48 to the American Cancer Society. The team hosted its fourth annual “Serve for the Cure” invitational volleyball tournament to support breast cancer research with the money going to the American Cancer Society. This year, the team’s effort brought in a record donation […]
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Bishop of Newton Visits St. John Melkite Church
January 19, 2012Bishop Nicholas Samra, the new Eparchial Bishop of the Greek Melkite Church in the United States, paid his first visit Jan. 6-9 to St. John Chrysostom Melkite Church, one of two Melkite parishes in Georgia and one of 43 in the country. The installation of Bishop Samra, 67, a native of Patterson, N.J., took place […]
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East Georgia Hospital Plans New Facility
January 19, 2012St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital plans to build a new hospital on 24 acres as it moves forward under new ownership. Good Samaritan Hospital, known as Saint Joseph’s East Georgia before Jan. 1, is now part of the St. Mary’s Health Care System based in Athens. In the ownership transfer, the hospital’s certificate of need […]
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Catholic Schools Week To Feature Spelling Bee, Banquet
January 19, 2012This year, Catholic Schools Week will focus on the theme, “Catholic Schools: Faith. Academics. Service.” This annual observance starts the last Sunday in January, running from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5. According to the website for the National Catholic Educational Association, the theme “focuses on three priorities that Catholic schools establish that make them stand […]
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Legionary Priest From Atlanta Ordained In Rome
January 19, 2012On Dec. 12, 2011, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, CS, the papal delegate for the Legionaries of Christ, ordained 49 new priests, including Father Juan Pablo Durán Rueda, formerly of Atlanta. Father Durán was a parishioner of the Cathedral of Christ the King while going to high school in Atlanta. Father Frank McNamee, rector of the […]
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Beth Mappes Will Speak At February Magnificat
January 19, 2012Beth Mappes, a mother, former Catholic school teacher and ministry leader in children’s music and performing arts, will be the guest speaker at the Magnificat breakfast for women to be held on Saturday, Feb. 25, at Holy Cross Church in Atlanta. All women are invited to attend the Magnificat, which is a morning of hospitality, […]
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Annual Catholic Day At The Capitol Set For Feb. 7
January 19, 2012The Archdiocese of Atlanta and Diocese of Savannah invite Georgia Catholics to participate in the fifth annual Catholic Day at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at the Georgia State Capitol. The day will begin with a legislative briefing at 8:30 a.m. at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Atlanta. Participants will then have the […]