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Are you a 2009 high school valedictorian in North Georgia?
April 30, 2009Are you a 2009 high school valedictorian in North Georgia? The Georgia Bulletin would like to acknowledge members of the archdiocese who are being honored as class valedictorians at public, private or Catholic high schools. Please send name, high school, student’s parish, and student contact information to: editor@georgiabulletin.org
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Pianist Plays Benefit As Concert Among Friends
April 30, 2009Enrique Chia still vividly remembers playing the piano in his parents’ living room when he was a young boy growing up in Cienfuegos, a “very beautiful city” on the southern coast of Cuba. Friends and strangers alike would stop by to listen to the talented Chia, which gave him “a feeling that is very special,” […]
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Badge-Winning Boy Scout Achieves Unique Goal
April 30, 2009Choosing from among his 121 Boy Scout merit badges, David Cano has a special fondness for two of them: water skiing and bugle. The first because he doesn’t own a boat and doesn’t get to a lake to practice too often. The second because it was a challenge and his last one to complete a […]
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Annual Festival Draws Over 100 Musical Students
April 30, 2009St. Joseph School hosted the fifth annual Archdiocesan Honors Music Festival on Saturday, March 28. Students and teachers from nine archdiocesan elementary and high schools participated in this fine arts event, which gathered almost 150 singers and instrumentalists for a harmonious day of music and learning. The festival included a full day of workshops beginning […]
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Sister Manuela Souto, CSJ, Former Teacher, Dies
April 30, 2009Sister Mary Manuela Souto, of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Louis Province, died April 19. She was 83. The daughter of Manuel Gonzales and Viola Souto, she was born in Mobile, Ala., on Feb. 9, 1926, and entered the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1946, making her final profession on Aug. 15, […]
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‘Soloist’ Finds Saving Grace Of Friendship
April 30, 2009While not a perfect film, “The Soloist” is a movie with a lot of heart. It is beautifully filmed, but the timing can be slow at times. The friendship at the center of the movie is a memorable one, however, and the film contains valuable messages about the healing power of companionship and the value […]
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Chapter Of Mats Like Walking With St. Francis
April 30, 2009The “reunion of all family reunions” took Brother Nicholas Wolfla to Assisi, Italy, where Franciscans celebrated the 800th anniversary of Pope Innocent III’s approval of the rule of life that established the order. For only the second time in its history—the first being in the year 1221—the order invited all Franciscans to gather for what […]
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Father Snyder Defends Collaboration To Help Poor
April 23, 2009Father Larry Snyder was running errands when he got the call. It was the White House. Father Snyder, the 58-year-old president of Catholic Charities USA, accepted the offer extended to him to sit on the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Since doing so earlier this year, the priest from the Archdiocese of […]
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NDA Is First IB-Accredited Catholic Elementary School
April 23, 2009The Notre Dame Academy fourth-grader sits in front of a computer eagerly participating in a research project. The young man, Jackson deLeede, is working on a class “Web quest” on the Civil War. “It’s really fun,” he said, trying to keep his eyes on the screen and remaining focused. “I get to learn about things […]
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Southern Catholic May Become Legion Institution
April 23, 2009Southern Catholic College, Georgia’s only residential Catholic college, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Legion of Christ, which opens the possibility for the small co-educational, liberal arts school to become a Legion institution. “We are excited about this development,” said Dr. Jeremiah J. Ashcroft, president of Southern Catholic, in a prepared joint statement. […] Full Story