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Ministry Forming To Aid Military Personnel, Families
September 17, 2009Catholic Charities Atlanta is holding a meeting for those interested in forming a ministry in their parish to respond to the emotional and mental health needs of military service members active and returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families. The meeting will be held in Nolan Hall at St. Ann Church, Marietta, on Wednesday, […]
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Music Symposium Gives Tools To Ministers
September 17, 2009Music ministers know just how difficult it is to get everyone to sing in church on Sunday mornings. That’s why it came as a surprise to a few of them when the opening Mass for the second annual Southeastern Liturgical Music Symposium was alive with powerful, booming voices. The focus of the symposium this year, […]
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Red Mass Brings Legal Community Together In Prayer
September 17, 2009The accomplished St. Thomas More Schola and the Atlanta Brass Society led a crowd of nearly 200 in song as Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Archbishop-emeritus John F. Donoghue and Bishop-designate Luis R. Zarama processed into Sacred Heart Church to a crowd of distinguished members of the Atlanta judiciary, legal and civic community. The annual […]
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GRACE Can Now Link Donor’s Gift To A School
September 17, 2009St. Ann Church is some 37 miles from Our Lady of Mercy High School, but a budding relationship between the affluent suburban parish on the north side of Atlanta and the Catholic high school where one in five student families lives below the poverty line is what organizers of the GRACE Scholars program hope to […]
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Four Catholic schools awarded Blue Ribbon title
September 17, 2009The Atlanta archdiocesan Office of Catholic Schools joined educators and parents throughout the archdiocese in welcoming exciting news on Tuesday, Sept. 15, when four Catholic elementary schools in metro Atlanta were awarded the prestigious Blue Ribbon School of Excellence title. The schools are Holy Redeemer, Johns Creek, Holy Spirit Preparatory, Atlanta, Immaculate Heart of Mary, […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (September 3, 2009)
September 3, 2009Before leaving the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1993 to become the bishop of Belleville, Ill., one of the last events in which I participated was a ceremony opening the observance of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Chicago Diocese in 1843. Obviously there were no participants at those events who were alive when […]
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God Pursues Us, But We Have To Stop Running
September 3, 2009I have a confession to make. Sometimes I see a salesman approaching my front door, and I pretend I’m not home when he rings the bell. And then I think about the times that God knocks on the doors of our hearts and how we evade him. For one, we are so busy. Perhaps we […]
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I Have Witnessed The Gift That Priests Are
September 3, 2009A priest is a man, clothed in tenderness, who speaks of God’s mercy, who prophetically pronounces the truth, unpleasant though it might be and who reflects God’s love to a hurting world. Sometimes he is shoring up souls and sometimes he is breaking up concrete. He’s comforting the grieving and challenging the young. He’s soothing […]
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Scott’s Run To Be Held At Chastain
September 3, 2009The eighth annual Scott’s Run, a 5K run and one-mile fun walk event sponsored by Catholic Charities Atlanta, will be held Saturday, Oct. 3, at Chastain Park. The memorial fundraiser begins at 9 a.m. and benefits Catholic Charities’ children’s programs in honor of the late Scott Starratt. Starratt, a Marietta native and immigration officer, was […]
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First GRACE Scholarships Help 43 Students Here
September 3, 2009Some Catholic schools are seeing an uptick of students as GRACE scholarships are handed out for the first time to help parents with costly tuition bills. Some 43 new students received the $2,000 scholarship and enrolled in archdiocesan schools as the academic year began. More than 80 hopefuls applied for the money, according to Diane […]