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Hispanic Ministry Head Aims For Service, Collaboration
November 13, 2008The new leader of the Hispanic Ministry Office wants to build closer relationships between the Spanish-speaking community, parishes and other archdiocesan offices. Jairo Martinez, 54, took over as director this summer after serving as the administrator in the office for the past five years. Father Jose Duvan Gonzalez, the previous director, took another assignment in […]
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Students, Alumni Dedicate Plaza To Beloved Chaplain
November 13, 2008Nearly 200 students and alumni of the Georgia Institute of Technology came together on Saturday, Oct. 25, to dedicate the Catholic Center plaza to the Catholic student center’s former spiritual guide, Franciscan Father Mario Di Lella. Father Tim Hepburn, who took over for Father Mario after he retired earlier this year at the age of […]
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Brazilian Community Celebrates Marian Feast With Joy
November 13, 2008Waving blue and white fabrics high above their heads in homage to the Blessed Virgin Mary, nearly 400 Brazilians clapped and sang in Portuguese, marking the beginning of the feast day Mass of Our Lady of Aparecida, the patron saint of Brazil. The Mass was a gathering of the growing Brazilian community in metro Atlanta, […]
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Collections Offer Treasures For Spiritual Journey
November 13, 2008“Modern Spiritual Masters: Writings on Contemplation and Compassion” edited by Robert Ellsberg. Orbis (Maryknoll, N.Y., 2008). 183 pp., $18. “The Best American Spiritual Writing” edited by Philip Zaleski. Houghton Mifflin (Boston, 2008). 229 pp., $28. People from around the world may look on Americans as materialistic, assertive and insensitive in foreign relations, and lacking in […]
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Lourdes Dominates Catholic Men’s Basketball League
November 13, 2008In its second season of existence, the Catholic Men’s Basketball League at Our Lady of Mercy High School is thriving. Just over 100 men from Atlanta-area parishes are running the 84-foot court in a competitive and friendly environment. The excitement of the previous season is back. Teams from Our Lady of Lourdes and Holy Trinity […]
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Dunwoody Wrests Region Title From St. Pius
November 13, 2008St. Pius dropped its first game of the football season and lost the region championship Nov. 7 to Dunwoody High School 20-14. St. Pius was going after its first regional title since 1968, but Dunwoody, who also came into the game undefeated, had its own hopes of wearing the crown. Just 2:07 into the game, […]
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Catholic Leaders See Hope, Challenges In Election
November 13, 2008Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Catholic bishops, congratulated President-elect Barack Obama on his “historic election” Nov. 4 as the first African-American to win the White House. “The people of our country have entrusted you with a great responsibility,” the cardinal said in a letter to Obama on behalf of the […]
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Msgr. Kenny Remembered As ‘One Of The Finest’
November 13, 2008Msgr. Thomas A. Kenny was remembered Nov. 5 and 6 as a priest who made each person feel as if he or she had a special claim on his heart and his prayers. Because of that bond so many felt, the vigil service and funeral Mass for Msgr. Kenny, who died Oct. 30 at his […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (November 6, 2008)
November 6, 2008A secular festival and two religious celebrations crowd the close of each October and the first two days of November. Halloween is just another commercialized holiday completely devoid of its religious roots and with little social value beyond the store sales that it might generate. The other two celebrations, however, continue to have something for […]
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Rites Comfort Those Who Are Ill Or Dying
November 6, 2008The Catholic faith accompanies the faithful throughout life and brings comfort and strength to those facing serious illness or death through its sacraments and rites. Anointing Of The Sick What many older Catholics grew up knowing as extreme unction is now called the sacrament of anointing. “The reason for the different name is because (extreme […]