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CTK To Host Noted Pro-Life Speaker
January 7, 2010Cheryl Ringuette Ciamarra will be the featured speaker on “Building a Culture of Life” at the Cathedral of Christ the King Circle of Life Speaker Series on Friday, Jan. 15, at 7:15 p.m. All are welcome to attend. Ciamarra, who resides in Birmingham, Ala., has worked on behalf of human life since 1990. She founded […]
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Parishioners Find Pen Pals In Prison
January 7, 2010Some people write letters to their friends and family. Others have pen pals halfway across the globe. But when a prisoner named Buck approached Paul Caruso during a prison ministry visit and said he had never received a letter in over 15 years of being locked up, Caruso knew there was a ministry to be […] Full Story
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Compassion Toward Sick, Dying Is Vocation Of Love
January 7, 2010The Hawthorne Dominican sisters dressed in white habits with black veils and rosaries draped at the waist gather for Mass at 6:30 a.m. in the chapel at the home where they care for terminally ill patients with cancer. Their chaplain, Father Joseph Mullakkara, MSFS, reflects on the Scriptures of the day, the parable of two […]
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Seamless Garment Is Haven For Expectant Mothers
January 7, 2010This modest white home mirrors the other small houses on the street, except for a small plaque which greets people at the front door: “Peace be to this house.” And to the women who call it home, they find that peace. Maybe for the first time. “I’m not alone. Someone cares,” said Tenisha Dorlus, cradling […]
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Youth, Young Adults Provide Christmas For Families
January 7, 2010Many adults still cherish childhood memories of waking up on Christmas to find an array of colorfully wrapped gifts beneath an elaborate tree. This Advent, young adults in the archdiocese came together for the sixth year in hopes of creating Christmas memories for children who otherwise would not have that experience or even the essentials. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […] Full Story
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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 […]