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November 11, 2010If the walkers’ spirits flagged during a 60-mile walk to raise money for breast cancer research, a group of Daisy Girl Scouts from Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Atlanta, were there to cheer them up. Early Sunday, Oct. 31, members of first-grade Daisy Troop 10560 came out to support walkers raising money with the […]
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Suzanne Haugh’s WYD Film Project Featured On EWTN
November 11, 2010A World Youth Day 2011 and beyond film initiative created by Catholic journalist Suzanne Haugh is scheduled to be featured on EWTN’s “Life on the Rock” program on Thursday, Dec. 2. The program airs at 10 p.m. and is usually later re-aired during the Catholic network’s Friday and Saturday programming. Haugh, of Louisville, Ky., a […]
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Archbishop Grateful Parish Let Him Be Their Priest
November 11, 2010Retired Archbishop John F. Donoghue thanked the people of All Saints Parish recently for giving him the best retirement gift, and the most unexpected one: the chance to be a parish priest again. Speaking at the end of a Mass Oct. 17 in his honor, the 82-year-old archbishop emotionally told parishioners that when he retired […]
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Vocations Search Expands Into Social Media
November 11, 2010Father Luke Ballman is a convert. A convert to using Facebook in ministry. He resisted the popular social networking site for a long time. But now the vocations director is hooked. “It allows me to present myself as a real person,” he said. He posts updates there and shares events in his life with men […]
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The Candy Shop
November 10, 2010After seeing the trailer for a new short film entitled The Candy Shop (see link below), I wasn’t really sure what to expect at the recent screening for the movie. A “fairy tale” about sex trafficking? The Candy Shop, a visually stunning 30 minutes of work, follows the story of a young newspaper boy who […]
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Who would have thought?
November 5, 2010Today when I came cross the story of the School Sisters of Notre Dame selling a Honus Wagner baseball card for more than $260,0o0, I kicked myself for tossing my extensive collection of cards all those years ago. Not that I had any particular card that could compare to an early 1900s item of such […]
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A different kind of Wednesday at St. Peter Chanel
October 29, 2010For the last two months at St. Peter Chanel Church, Roswell, Wednesday has become more than an evening of Parish School of Religion (PSR) sessions. It’s also Wednesday Night Family Supper. The family dinner concept came about to foster community and fellowship among families bringing their children to PSR. Elementary PSR runs from 4:30p – […]
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Conference For Catholic Men To Be Held Nov. 6
October 28, 2010The first Georgia Catholic Men’s Conference will be held Saturday, Nov. 6, at the Georgia International Convention Center. The event is open to all men 18 years and older to revive their Catholic faith with thousands of other men and well-known speakers. According to the website, the daylong conference is to revive the spiritual lives […]
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Luncheon Benefits Sisters’ Ministry To Dying
October 28, 2010The Hawthorne Dominican sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home were surrounded by 350 friends and supporters on Saturday, Oct. 9, as the annual luncheon was given for the 54th year, this time in McDonough Hall at Holy Spirit Church. The catered champagne luncheon, and the fund drive held by the home’s auxiliary leading […]
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SJN Students, First Principal, Swap Anniversary Gifts
October 28, 2010Founding and current members of the St. John Neumann Regional Catholic School community together reflected on 25 years of education the school has provided for thousands of students at an anniversary Mass celebrated by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory. Reflecting both the present and the past, the Oct. 14 Mass was celebrated in the new St. […]