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Msgr. Zarama Named Atlanta Auxiliary Bishop
August 6, 2009Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory led a press conference the morning of Monday, July 27, joyfully announcing Pope Benedict XVI’s appointment of Msgr. Luis R. Zarama as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. The formal announcement was made in Washington the same day by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States. Bishop-elect Zarama, […]
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Pope Appoints Msgr. Zarama As Auxiliary Bishop Of Atlanta
July 27, 2009ATLANTA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory led a press conference the morning of Monday, July 27, joyfully announcing Pope Benedict XVI’s appointment of Msgr. Luis Rafael Zarama as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. The appointment was first announced in Washington on July 27 by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States. Archbishop Gregory […]
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My Summer Vacation With Flannery O’Connor
July 16, 2009Published: July 16, 2009 This is not how I planned to spend my summer. I wanted to sit by the pool and get a break from writing. After all, I told myself, it’s time to relax: You’ve written five books in nine years! But it doesn’t look like I will get to the pool very […]
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Image, Faith And The Photograph
July 16, 2009We offer a retreat here on faith and photography. We have had two such retreats so far, and a third is scheduled for next year. I love photography and have long been captivated by the relationship between the discipline involved in taking a photograph, the beauty of the picture, and the desire to know and […]
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Signs Of Grace
July 16, 2009The “Catechism of the Catholic Church” describes grace as the “free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God.” My husband, Frank, and I have experienced God’s “undeserved help,” as we have wrestled with His plan for our family. We now know it was God’s grace […]
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Couples Married 50, 60 Years To Be Honored
July 16, 2009The Family Life Office is looking for the brides and grooms of 1959 and 1949. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory would like to honor couples on their 50th or 60th year of marriage with an invitation to a Golden/Diamond Wedding Anniversary Mass on Saturday, Oct. 3, at noon at St. Brigid Church in Johns Creek. A […]
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Atlantan Since Birth, Cathedral Is ‘Home’: Father Nicholas G. Azar
July 16, 2009Every Catholic milestone in Father Nicholas Azar’s life has taken place within the walls of Christ the King Cathedral. From baptism and first Communion to first confession and confirmation, the celebrations have all taken place at the Peachtree Road mother church of the Atlanta Archdiocese. Now, add holy orders. “I like that I have been […]
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New Priest Has Come From Vietnam To Georgia: Father Dominic Tho Tran
July 16, 2009Father Dominic Tho Tran, 37, has come to the priesthood in Atlanta, Georgia, truly from the other side of the globe. Born in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, a military area during the Vietnam War, he was a toddler when the war ended. One of eight children, the greatest impact was that for five years he didn’t […]
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Many saw him as priest: Father Brian Lorei
July 16, 2009When person after person would approach young Brian Lorei and ask him if he had ever thought about becoming a priest, he would typically respond, “Yes, I thought about it … and I thought, no way.” The priest, 46, the son of Barbara and the late Paul Lorei, grew up in a family of 10 […]
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Mexico Native Ordained To Serve In North Georgia
July 16, 2009Affectionately called “Nacho” by his friends and Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Father Ignacio Morales Solis is quick with a smile. After some 16 years in classrooms studying at seminary, the Mexican native fulfilled a dream by being among the eight men ordained in June as priests for the Atlanta Archdiocese. “Don’t you think it is […]