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Meet The Deacon Class of 2010.
February 18, 2010Deacon Robert G. Brunton Age: 53 Date of Birth: October 23, 1956 Place of Birth: Brooklyn, N.Y. Family: He and his wife, Marianne, have been married for 31 years. They have four children, Eric, Katie, Courtney and Emily. Education: Law degree, Fordham University School of Law, N.Y., 1982; bachelor of arts in history, Fordham University, […]
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Fifteen Joyfully Ordained As Permanent Deacons
February 18, 2010As fifteen men were ordained as new permanent deacons of the archdiocese Feb. 6, the archbishop encouraged them to be “ablaze” with the fire of the Gospel. The 2010 class of candidates entered a church full of family, friends, about 100 of their brother deacons and 50 priests. The ordination Mass, celebrated at the Cathedral […]
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Credit Union To Award Donoghue Scholarship
February 10, 2010The Catholic division of the Georgia Federal Credit Union is holding an essay contest to find the recipient of the 2010 Archbishop-emeritus John F. Donoghue Scholarship, an annual scholarship that awards $1,500 to the first-place winner and $1,000 to the runner up. Senior high school students in the Archdiocese of Atlanta are invited to participate. […]
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The True Story
February 4, 2010In this issue, The Georgia Bulletin included a column for Catholic Press Month made available from Our Sunday Visitor: http://www.osv.com/tabid/7621/itemid/5951/The-true-story.aspx
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A mystical answer to prayers
February 4, 2010Some people were disappointed when the man dubbed the “mystery priest” turned out to be just an ordinary clergyman who showed up at the right place at precisely the right time. Still, the fact that he was a flesh-and-blood human being—rather than, say, an angel from heaven—doesn’t detract from the mystical wonder of that day’s […]
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Hospital Seeks Partnership Within Catholic Mission
February 4, 2010With the future of U.S. healthcare uncertain and the increasing competition among metro area hospital systems, officials at the only Catholic hospital in the city, Saint Joseph’s Hospital, are working on plans to assure the continued vibrancy of the hospital’s mission. Saint Joseph’s, first established in 1880 in Atlanta by the Sisters of Mercy, is […]
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Catholic Schools Do Their Part To Help Haiti
February 4, 2010Since the devastating earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, the Marist School and St. Pius X High School have been doing their part to reach out to the people of Haiti in love and support. Both schools immediately took up school-wide collections. The schools usually ask students to donate with a promise of an “out-of-uniform […]
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Kelly Will Take Catholic Formation To National Zoo
February 4, 2010Overlooking sleeping pandas at Zoo Atlanta, Dennis Kelly talked about how important conservation and biodiversity is in the world today. “Species are going extinct at a rate that we haven’t seen since the dinosaur era. Many, many of those species are going extinct because of what humans are doing. That is really what anyone who […]
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GRACE Scholars Donations Vault To $2.9 Million
February 4, 2010As the GRACE Scholars program completed its second year, encouraging signs continue to move the program forward. In 2008, its first year, GRACE brought in over $86,000 to help with tuition for students who newly entered Catholic schools throughout the state of Georgia. In 2009, nearly $2.9 million has been directed to the program through […]
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Moving A Church From Buffalo To Norcross
February 4, 2010Marble block by marble block, that’s how parishioners at Mary Our Queen Church hope to move a historic, basilica-style church in Buffalo, N.Y., to the Atlanta suburbs. Backers of the idea—dubbed “preservation through relocation”—see it as an opportunity to reuse an architectural gem for a parish that has outgrown its own church. It is nearly […]