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At St. Ann’s, Bread Raises Money For Refugees
August 20, 2009The Widowed Helping Others group from St. Ann Church is offering Branka Bread to raise funds and awareness of refugees’ plight. This bread, which is made from the family recipe of Branka Dondur, a Catholic Charities refugee resource coordinator, is being sold to help the Catholic Charities refugee resettlement program. The resettlement program helps refugees […]
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Local Filipino-Americans Remember Corazon Aquino
August 20, 2009Salamat, Tita Cory, Paalam! Thank you, Tita Cory, goodbye! Those words were repeated a million times by Filipinos all over the world, as they paid their last respects and homage to President Corazon C. Aquino, the 11th president of the Republic of the Philippines, who passed away on Saturday, Aug. 1. After more than a […]
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Tech Student Finds ‘Grace’ After Violent Assault
August 20, 2009This could be a story about an ambitious Georgia Tech student, who with final exams behind him spends his summer focused on school and growing his business. But it isn’t. Patrick Whaley was shot. His plans for his college break were left behind May 4 as the ambulance worker scissored through his bloody T-shirt in […]
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Notable
August 20, 2009Kallie O’Haren interned during the summer in the Parish & Social Justice Ministries office of Catholic Charities Atlanta. O’Haren, a Marist senior and chaplain/member of the track team, wasn’t interested in spending her time making photocopies. She researched Catholic social teaching, Catholic Relief Services’ Fair Trade program and the new encyclical Caritas in Veritate, as […]
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Bilingual Prayer Group Prays For World’s Needs
August 20, 2009Using Scripture, spoken prayer and song, the bilingual prayer group at Prince of Peace Church prays for the healing of the world by interceding for those who are in deepest need. Kneeling before the tabernacle of the Blessed Sacrament in the dimly lit sanctuary on a Friday afternoon, a handful of Spanish- and English-speakers listened […]
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Planning Process Gives Way To Implementation
August 20, 2009The Archdiocesan Planning Committee has concluded a three-year process of examining the needs—existing and future—of the Archdiocese of Atlanta and making a prioritized, strategic plan to position the church appropriately for the next 10 to 15 years. The committee brought its work to a close with the announcement of initiatives and recommendations for various elements […]
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Prayers For The Man I Call ‘Brother’
August 6, 2009“I wish we had never left the Garden of Eden.” This was the longing I expressed to a friend upon hearing that my brother-in-law had been diagnosed with lung cancer. I wished the devil had never tempted Adam and Eve, and they had never succumbed to sin, so mankind would still be living disease-free and […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (August 6, 2009)
August 6, 2009Those of you who are the parents of teenagers or young adults are quite accustomed to having them introduce new words and phrases into your lives. Words that are often amalgamations of well-known terms and phrases that appear in new combinations that are used to indicate something that is novel but that makes sense in […]
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The Priest, Throughout Life
August 6, 2009Alter Christus … the Priest, another Christ. In his love and wisdom, God did not leave us alone on this earth but gave us the priest. During my pilgrimage here on earth, the priest has accompanied me, helping me to navigate and stay on the path that will lead me to my eternal home. He […]
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Priest Finds Vocation As Counselor
August 6, 2009Growing up in the Unitarian Universalist faith, Father Stewart Wilber wasn’t exposed to liturgy as Catholics know it. But it was the celebration of the Mass that drew him to the faith in his mid-30s and into the life as a priest. “I fell in love with the Mass. I wanted to say Mass. I […]