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Unity, Not Uniformity, At Hispanic Ministry Encounter
August 4, 2011“Unity without uniformity” was the broad theme of this year’s Encounter of Hispanic Ministries, as organizers intentionally left the Encuentro untitled this year to explore how to serve the growing and complex community of Latino Catholics. Conventual Franciscan Father Kenneth G. Davis, a preacher and bilingual author specializing in Hispanic ministry, led the workshop July […]
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CRS Rep Speaks On Experience In Eastern Europe
August 4, 2011Catholic Relief Services Country Representative Jacob Hershman recently spoke to a group of local Catholics about his experiences and the programs the international humanitarian agency is implementing in a struggling area of Eastern Europe. Hershman, the country representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, came back to the United States for a few weeks to visit his […]
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Local Catholics Prepare For World Youth Day Travels
August 4, 2011Grace Lee will be one of millions of young people streaming into Madrid on a pilgrimage of faith. The Spanish capital in late August hosts the 2011 World Youth Day, a three-day celebration of faith, built around the theme: “Planted and built up in Jesus Christ, firm in the faith.” On her first trip to […]
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Notable
August 4, 2011Published: August 4, 2011 On Thursday, July 14, the Atlanta Archdiocese hosted the Archdiocesan Users Group Conference, drawing more than 120 clergy, parish and school staff and volunteers representing 63 parishes, schools and other organizations. Shannon Wiggins, training coordinator in the archdiocesan Finance Department, said registrants attended presentations by several archdiocesan departments and five guest […]
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Catholic Bible Conference Takes Papal Text As Guide
August 4, 2011The corridors of the St. Peter Chanel Church complex hummed with voices July 22 and 23 as hundreds took advantage of the presence of national Catholic biblical scholars speaking on a tripod of themes inspired by a recent papal document on the Bible. Some 350 people from 33 states and from Pakistan, Israel and Canada, […]
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Happy Birthday to Father Luke!
August 3, 2011Today, Wednesday, Aug. 3, Father Luke Kot, a monk at the Trappist Holy Spirit Monastery in Conyers, turns 100. You can see the multimedia slide show photographer Michael Alexander and I did when he was a young man at 98. We’ve done a few of the slideshows and this remains one of my favorites. –Andrew
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Photographing Sisters of Distinction
July 28, 2011One of my assignments this month has been tracking down five of the six sister jubilarians celebrating between 25 and 60 years of service with their respective religious orders. I set out to take their portraits with one light in order to capture various moods and expressions. The first sister I photographed was Missionary Sisters […]
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In Suffering, Author Dubus Discovered God’s Love
July 22, 2011One of the central Christian mysteries, and one of the most difficult to understand, is the gift of suffering. The paradox of finding God’s love and mercy in the midst of grief, illness and doubt has challenged us all, regardless of the form our suffering takes. The great contemporary American writer Andre Dubus was immersed […]
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Making Sense Of The Senseless
July 21, 2011What can you say about a senseless murder? I just learned of the killing of Father Ed Everitt, OP, in Waveland, Miss. He was the priest who catechized me as I entered the Catholic Church in Holy Cross Parish in Atlanta many years ago. I was stunned, and then I remembered how he impacted me. […]
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Transfiguration To Host Catechist Faith Formation Day
July 21, 2011Transfiguration Church will be the site of the Catechist Faith Formation Day on Saturday, Aug. 13, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. All are welcome to attend. This annual catechist certification day is being hosted by the churches of the North and Northwest Metro deaneries. This event gives local catechists access to national level speakers […]