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Rome Salutatorian To Enter Georgia Tech
June 9, 2011The Georgia Bulletin invited readers to send the names of Catholic students who graduated at the top of their class in 2011 at public high schools in North Georgia. Here are interviews with five outstanding students, who earned the rank of valedictorian or salutatorian in Gainesville, Rome, Alpharetta, McDonough and East Point. Rome High School […]
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St. Benedict Valedictorian Heads For Harvard
June 9, 2011The Georgia Bulletin invited readers to send the names of Catholic students who graduated at the top of their class in 2011 at public high schools in North Georgia. Here are interviews with five outstanding students, who earned the rank of valedictorian or salutatorian in Gainesville, Rome, Alpharetta, McDonough and East Point. St. Benedict parishioner […]
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Engaging Congress Speakers To Share Diverse Experiences
June 9, 2011When the doors open on Friday, June 24, and the 16th annual Eucharistic Congress commences, a group of renowned speakers will offer talks during the evening and throughout the next day on various aspects of the Eucharist and vocations—in six languages, in nine tracks, geared to attendees of all ages. Some 30,000 or more are […]
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Stepping Out In Faith: Two Ordained Deacons
June 9, 2011Nearly 20 members of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Church surrounded Rev. Mr. Mark Starr, heads bowed in prayer. Ordained to the diaconate for less than an hour, the former parishioner at the Douglasville parish offered a prayer for the group of friends, from white-haired senior citizens to gangly teens. “He has so many […]
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Video Interview with Father James Martin
June 2, 2011Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest and best-selling author, visited Atlanta during the last week in May. He did a Q & A with young people at the Ignatius Jesuit Retreat House in Atlanta. Some 60 people came to hear him speak. After talking for close to two hours, posing for photos and signing his […]
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Pretty Good Mission Statement
May 31, 2011The great thing about the Web is how way leads on to way. You can forget where the trail started. That’s how I stumbled on this essay at a publication called Ekklesia: A New Way of Thinking. As someone who has hung out with the Religion Newswriters Association (RNA) types for a half century, I’d […]
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The Wall of Scholars
May 27, 2011Newman Scholar portraits hang on the wall at Lyke House. Before the seniors at the Atlanta University Center marched to the sound of “Pomp and Circumstance” and the underclassmen returned home, Lyke House – the Catholic Center at Atlanta University announced its 2011 Newman Scholar. Since 1992 a Newman Scholar has been named at the […]
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Easter Celebrated On North Georgia Campuses
May 26, 2011College campuses are a place to find and nurture the Catholic faith. That’s the story told this Easter at Catholic centers at Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia, Emory University and the Atlanta University Center, where young adults experienced their first sacraments. “Every year I find my confidence in God’s grace strengthened by the RCIA […]
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Catholic Conference Has Some Success In This Session
May 26, 2011The Georgia Catholic Conference successfully lobbied for new laws in front of the state Legislature during the recently concluded 2011 session. Two of the most prominent laws toughened penalties for sex trafficking of children in the state and another revised the law governing GRACE Scholars, a scholarship program funded with redirected tax dollars. The Georgia […]
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Retired St. Thomas More Principal, Gail Msezane, Dies
May 26, 2011Gail Patrick Msezane, retired principal of St. Thomas More School, Decatur, died May 1 at home in the presence of her family. She was 66. Mrs. Msezane was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan and pursued a career as an educator, first as a teacher and progressing to her […]