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Court Report Dec. 4-6
December 11, 2008Boys Holy Spirit Preparatory 71 Young Americans Christian 66 Marist School 79 Stone Mountain High School 57 North Cobb Christian School 70 Our Lady of Mercy High School 60 Our Lady of Mercy 74 Holy Innocents 63 Bethesda Day School 111 Pinecrest Academy 66 Girls St. Pius X High School 75 Blessed Trinity High School […]
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Hundreds Join Archbishop At Silver Jubilee Mass
December 11, 2008An elaborate procession, complete with candles, incense and more than 120 priests, began a reverent and nostalgic Mass honoring Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory on his silver jubilee as a bishop. Clutching programs that proclaimed the archbishop’s episcopal motto, hundreds of friends and colleagues, as well as nine bishops from the Southeast region and around the […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (December 4, 2008)
December 4, 2008I am not certain just how many people who are currently living in the Archdiocese of Atlanta will have paused this past Monday to remember the event that took place in Chicago 50 years earlier. I daresay that it will have meant more for those folks who are my age and older or who like […]
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Priest Assignment
December 4, 2008Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following change in priest assignment. Father Francis G. McNamee, pastor of St. Peter Chanel Church, Roswell, has been assigned as pastor of the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta, effective Jan. 1, 2009.
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14-Hour Day A Snapshot Of Archbishop’s Routine
December 4, 2008A recent 14-hour day spent with Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory began with prayers in an intimate chapel and stretched into a dark drive home as an excited radio announcer declared the Philadelphia Phillies baseball’s world champions. In between, the archbishop heard a youngster proclaim he knew the archbishop’s grandchildren (chalk it up to a case […]
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Four Bishops, Once In Chicago Together, Share Jubilee
December 4, 2008There’s no place like home, and when you can’t live there perhaps the next best thing may be sharing memories of it with friends. A cherished camaraderie has formed over the years for the four “Chicago guys” ordained auxiliary bishops together on Dec. 13, 1983. It continues even after they were sent by the church […]
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His Appointment ‘Broadened Vision Of The Church’
December 4, 2008For many in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory goes by just that name. For others, particularly from his hometown of Chicago, it’s just Wilton. From his middle-school days at St. Carthage Grammar School to his ministry as one of the auxiliary bishops there, friends and acquaintances with Chicago roots recalled Archbishop Gregory’s […]
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Friendships Built At Seminary Working Side By Side
December 4, 2008Chicago pastor Father Dominic Grassi was ordained a priest with Father Wilton Gregory in 1973. Along with two other seminary classmates, they became inseparable, “the four horsemen of the apocalypse, the four musketeers,” Father Grassi said. As seminarians, they worked as chaplains at a juvenile detention center, taught religion classes at a nearby high school […]
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Archbishop Works Hard To Stay Close To Priests
December 4, 2008While the need for vocations to the priesthood continues to rise, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has taken steps toward staying close to those priests who have already answered the call to serve the Archdiocese of Atlanta. By keeping the lines of communication open, and making himself accessible in several ways, the archbishop hopes to continue […]
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Actions Show ‘He Is With Us,’ Hispanic Leaders Say
December 4, 2008Celebrating an Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass on a chilly December night in the dilapidated warehouse that formerly housed Our Lady of the Americas Mission, affirming in Spanish their place in the church of Atlanta to many struggling immigrants packed inside. Traveling to Mexico City’s Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe to bring back 16 […]