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Hospital Seeks Partnership Within Catholic Mission
February 4, 2010With the future of U.S. healthcare uncertain and the increasing competition among metro area hospital systems, officials at the only Catholic hospital in the city, Saint Joseph’s Hospital, are working on plans to assure the continued vibrancy of the hospital’s mission. Saint Joseph’s, first established in 1880 in Atlanta by the Sisters of Mercy, is […]
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Catholic Schools Do Their Part To Help Haiti
February 4, 2010Since the devastating earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, the Marist School and St. Pius X High School have been doing their part to reach out to the people of Haiti in love and support. Both schools immediately took up school-wide collections. The schools usually ask students to donate with a promise of an “out-of-uniform […]
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Kelly Will Take Catholic Formation To National Zoo
February 4, 2010Overlooking sleeping pandas at Zoo Atlanta, Dennis Kelly talked about how important conservation and biodiversity is in the world today. “Species are going extinct at a rate that we haven’t seen since the dinosaur era. Many, many of those species are going extinct because of what humans are doing. That is really what anyone who […]
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GRACE Scholars Donations Vault To $2.9 Million
February 4, 2010As the GRACE Scholars program completed its second year, encouraging signs continue to move the program forward. In 2008, its first year, GRACE brought in over $86,000 to help with tuition for students who newly entered Catholic schools throughout the state of Georgia. In 2009, nearly $2.9 million has been directed to the program through […]
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Moving A Church From Buffalo To Norcross
February 4, 2010Marble block by marble block, that’s how parishioners at Mary Our Queen Church hope to move a historic, basilica-style church in Buffalo, N.Y., to the Atlanta suburbs. Backers of the idea—dubbed “preservation through relocation”—see it as an opportunity to reuse an architectural gem for a parish that has outgrown its own church. It is nearly […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (February 4, 2010)
February 4, 2010I should know better by now, but I felt personally offended by a recent news article that purported to describe Pope John Paul II’s practice of self-mortification. The author wrote that the late Holy Father frequently slept on the floor of his bedroom and occasionally engaged in the practice of self-flagellation, alleging, “He whipped himself […]
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Searching For Jesus In Great Anxiety
February 4, 2010It’s a scene in St. Luke’s Gospel that sends shivers up and down my spine. Mary and Joseph have lost their boy on a journey, and it takes three days to find him. At first, this seems improbable, until you realize they were traveling in a crowd, and it would be easy to assume Jesus […]
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Archbishop’s Statement On Catholic School Education
February 4, 2010Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, stated in his address to Catholic educators in 2008, “Education is integral to the mission of the church to proclaim the Good News.” (Christ Our Hope. 2008) I could not agree more, along with the American bishops. “Our vision is clear: our Catholic […]
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Parishes Raise Over $750,000 For Haiti, Plus Goods
February 4, 2010Emergency shelter and food top the needs of Haitians as the country digs out from its devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. Recovery from the disaster is expected to take close to a decade as world leaders discuss rebuilding the ravaged country. Volunteers from Atlanta and development experts have switched focus from emergency assistance aid to sustaining […]
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Archdiocese Hires Youth Ministry, Inculturation Director
February 4, 2010The Brooklyn diocesan coordinator of adolescent faith formation, Marilyn Santos, has joined the archdiocesan Office of Formation and Discipleship as associate director of youth ministry and associate director of inculturation. Santos, who is a native of New York, spent the last three years on the staff of the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y. Prior to that […]