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Dr. Peter Kreeft To Speak At Roswell Parish
October 29, 2009St. Peter Chanel Church will host the “Jesus Shock Conference” on Saturday, Nov. 14, in the parish’s McNamee Hall. Participants will meet and listen to Dr. Peter Kreeft, professor at Boston College, author and speaker, as he encourages attendees to passionately commit their lives to Jesus Christ. Kreeft, a professor of philosophy at Boston College […]
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Knights Of St. Peter Claver To Hold Centennial Mass
October 29, 2009To celebrate 100 years of Catholic action through Claverism, the Knights of Peter Claver, the Knights of Peter Claver Ladies Auxiliary and the Junior Knights and Junior Daughters of the Atlanta area are hosting a Founders Day Mass and a semi-formal celebration. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory is scheduled to be the principal celebrant at the […]
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St. Pius X Dominates Grady At The Dome
October 29, 2009St. Pius X High School defeated Grady High School 37-13 in the inaugural game of the Atlanta Public Schools’ Domecoming Football Classic at the Georgia Dome, Oct. 24, to capture the Region 5-AAA, Division B sub-region championship for the second year in a row. Both teams entered the game with perfect records, but St. Pius […]
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Family Keeps Faith Despite Losing Home, Van
October 29, 2009Dried mud still marks the bushes and trees where nearly six feet of water once stood. Chunks of drywall and broken appliances line the street. What was once the home and neighborhood of the Rodriguez family now looks more like the set of Hollywood’s latest disaster movie. To Maria and Jose Rodriguez it is all […]
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Catholic officials protest court ruling to teach about abortion rights
October 23, 2009BOGOTA, Colombia (CNS) — Catholic officials are protesting a mid-October court decision requiring all schools to teach students about abortion rights. “We Catholic educators are not going to teach this; we’re going to teach respect for life,” said Auxiliary Bishop Juan Cordoba Villota of Bucaramanga, secretary-general of the Colombian bishops’ conference. “We emphatically reject this […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (October 15, 2009)
October 15, 2009Archbishop Gregory sent his column from Rome, Italy, where he is participating in the Synod of Bishops for Africa as a member chosen by Pope Benedict XVI. This is the third Synod of Bishops that I have attended, and I believe that I have begun to understand the typical dynamic of this collegial exercise of […]
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Language Muddles Abortion Debate
October 15, 2009Choices have become idols in our society. It is seen as greatly liberating when we walk into the supermarket and face a breathtaking array of toothpastes, paper towels and shampoos. Even so simple an action as buying dog food has become a big deal. One must scrutinize the labels because there are now so many […]
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Green Beret Shawn McCloskey Honored At Funeral
October 15, 2009Cars, trucks, delivery vans came to a standstill on Joel Cowen Parkway as the funeral procession of Sgt.1st Class Shawn P. McCloskey drove past. Women, children, men, families stood outside their cars, some with hands over their hearts, as police with ramrod straight salutes paid their respects to the soldier who was killed in Afghanistan. […]
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Colleges Feed Adults’ Hunger For Catholic Theology
October 15, 2009By day, Maureen Alexander eyes numbers as an accountant, keeping track of IRS forms and watching the financial books for small businesses. By night, Alexander wrestled with the meaning of the Trinity, defended the incarnation of Jesus and studied the finer points of church ritual. This summer, after a two-year effort, she earned a Certificate […]
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‘Go Roman’ At Georgia Tech Catholic Center
October 15, 2009Between fall rush and football, where does faith fit in? On campuses around Georgia, chaplains have to be creative and undaunted by challenges as they provide a Catholic niche for students and faculty, using whatever resources they have at their disposal. At Georgia Tech, Father Tim Hepburn estimates there are about 3,800 Catholics in the […]