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She Puts Herself In Refugees’ Shoes
January 7, 2010Hanging on the wall in Gini Eagen’s small office is a print of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Madonna and child in an African setting, a drawing of flowers by a death row inmate she has visited for nine years. A large globe fills a corner. It was a gift from a former pastor as […] Full Story
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‘Our Family’ Teaches English, Life Skills In Parish
January 7, 2010The women scribble in three-ring binders as the teacher gently corrects a mispronunciation of the word birth. “You have to get your tongue out and spit,” says Martha Paris, a former school principal who waves her hands in the air and points to the stumbling student. The students laugh as they coax their uncooperative tongues […] Full Story
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Soupremes Have Cooked Shelter Dinners For Decades
January 7, 2010Tonight’s menu is turkey tetrazzini, cold green bean salad, along with dinner rolls as the kitchen at Our Lady of the Assumption School takes on the buzz of a restaurant. Instead of going to tables of paying customers, this meal is headed to feed men who live on the streets. The Soupremes prepare meals weekly […]
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Parish Food Drive Structured To Aid Missionaries
January 7, 2010The world is shrinking, and dire Third World poverty is no longer out of sight for North Georgians. It is just to the south in Haiti and Jamaica or Central America. Mission trips have created deep links between churches here and Catholic missionaries there. But how do you help when the scope of the need […]
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Pope to lead Vatican prayer vigil for peace in Syria
January 7, 2010VATICAN CITY (CNS)—On the evening of Sept. 7, days before U.S. lawmakers vote on President Barack Obama’s proposal for a military attack on Syria, Pope Francis will lead thousands in St. Peter’s Square in a prayer vigil for peace. “We will gather in prayer and in a spirit of penance, invoking God’s great gift of […]
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St. Vincent De Paul Takes On McDonough Food Pantry
January 7, 2010Cheerios cereal, mac-n-cheese boxes, beets and apple juice brought the plastic bag to the breaking point. The bags wait for the monthly giveaway at the food pantry run by St. Vincent de Paul Society volunteers at St. James the Apostle Church, McDonough. “We try to put so much stuff in it and they tear,” said […]
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Amen I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.
January 7, 2010Another new year has arrived, with the requisite opportunity for making changes in one’s life and all the hopefulness of fresh beginnings. For some, the emphasis is on finding stability in financial changes, while others resolve, as ever, to get in shape and get healthy. Some strive to quit smoking, while others want to […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (December 24, 2009)
December 24, 2009This time of year always brings out the best in most of us. We are inclined to be more gentle and caring about one another. Even the news reports take time to broadcast many of the acts of charity and compassion that seem to abound during the weeks and days that surround Christmas. The lead […]
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Santa Remains Symbol Of Generosity And Love
December 24, 2009I can still see the large pair of bright red trousers flapping ominously on the clothesline. They looked suspiciously like something Santa Claus might wear. I was with a crowd of my older cousins who were eager to dispel any illusions that a little child might have. “See those pants?” one of them chortled. “They […]
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Volunteers Make Christmas Connections A Success
December 24, 2009Cold, wet weather did not dampen the spirits of people working in the parking lot at St. Bernadette Church for a children’s Christmas celebration. On Saturday, Dec. 19, community leaders welcomed youth volunteers from St. Pius X High School and Transfiguration Church who came to play with the children and organized hundreds of gifts for […] Full Story