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A Salute To Manly-Man Catholics!
October 14, 2010A friend was attending a men’s retreat at our parish, and his wife asked me to write a letter to encourage him. In the letter, I told him something that I’ve always thought about him, but never expressed. I consider him a manly-man Catholic. Since that is not a household term, let me start by […]
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Long-Wed Couples Inducted Into Marriage ‘Hall Of Fame’
October 14, 2010For Jim and Margaret Rosentreter, it started with matchmaking that went awry. William and Marilyn Meyer caught each other’s eye on a New York City trolley. He was on his way home from basketball. She was riding after registering for Catholic high school. Gene and Rose Gangarosa grew up across the street from each other […]
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Sister Connie Thompson, RGS, Celebrates 50 Years
October 14, 2010The people I have journeyed with have enriched my life to love my God deeper,” Sister Mary Constance Thompson, RGS, said. Better known as Sister Connie, she celebrated her golden jubilee with a Mass at Holy Cross Church, Atlanta, on Saturday, Aug. 14. “I found it very uplifting, emotional and moving,” she said about the […]
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Dates For Annual Appeal Changed
October 14, 2010Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced some changes for the 2011 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, to simplify the process and synchronize the Appeal with the calendar year. Typically, the Annual Appeal begins in the fall and continues through the next year, lasting for more than 12 months and overlapping with the subsequent year’s campaign. Under this […]
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Pius, Marist, Holy Spirit Prep Run The Course In Cross Country
October 14, 2010St. Pius X High School is currently ranked first in Class AAA cross country and third in the state in all classifications behind nationally ranked Brookwood High School, Snellville, and Parkview High School, Lilburn. Pius finished third at last month’s Berry Invitational, Rome, behind Brookwood and Parkview and second at the Marist School Double Dip. […]
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Mercy Welcomes Alumni Back With A Victory
October 14, 2010When Our Lady of Mercy High School defeated Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy 35-26 on homecoming night, Oct. 8, it reached a historic milestone by capturing more than four victories in a single season. Sophomore running back Rashard Fant led the offensive attack as he scored a touchdown in each quarter. Fant ran from six yards […]
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O’Connor Home To Host Book Award Announcement
October 14, 2010The 20 finalists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature for the 2010 National Book Awards were to be announced for the first time at Flannery O’Connor’s childhood home in Savannah on Oct. 13. The site was selected from among more than 75 venue suggestions for the 2010 National Book Award finalist announcement from […]
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Vision, Vocation, Redemption In O’Connor’s Fiction
October 14, 2010Reading this piece as you are, you immediately join the company of the audience that Georgia author Flannery O’Connor most wanted to address: an informed modern Catholic reader. That many of you are also no doubt natives of O’Connor’s home state and region is a fact that would have also pleased her. And yet, paradoxically, […]
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Dinner, Jaime Thietten Performance To Benefit PATH
October 14, 2010The annual fundraiser and dinner for PATH (Post Abortion Treatment and Healing) will be held on Thursday, Nov. 4, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at the Cathedral of Christ the King. The event will include a performance by singer Jaime Thietten. Tickets are $35 per person. Msgr. Richard Lopez, chaplain and teacher at St. […]
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Apostolate Marks 10 Years Of Weekly Mass In Polish
October 14, 2010As the Archdiocese of Atlanta grows more and more culturally diverse, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory is taking time to celebrate with each international community. He recently celebrated Mass with the well-established Polish community to recognize 10 years of continuous ministry. The archdiocese has included Polish Catholics for many years—longer than a decade—but Polish Masses were […]