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Georgia Senate Asked To Sideline Immigration Bill
March 20, 2008Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory is asking the Georgia Senate to sideline a legislative proposal targeting illegal immigrants driving cars in the state, saying it would unfairly punish families. The bill proposes allowing law enforcement officials to seize the car or truck driven by an undocumented person who is in an accident or commits a traffic […]
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SVDP Moving Thrift Store, Designing Client Center
March 20, 2008Atlanta’s St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store is getting new digs this month, and in the process, they’re transforming their present quarters into a unique grocery store for their clients. While the St. Vincent de Paul conference offices, including the classroom space and a thrift store “clearance center,” will remain at its current location at […]
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College Students Bring Stations Of Cross To Life
March 20, 2008Two golfers braving the rainy weather at Gold Creek Golf Club stopped their golf cart and looked on with curiosity as Jesus was nailed to the cross. They were unexpectedly witnessing the living Stations of the Cross, as Southern Catholic College students in costume and in somber reflection acted out each moment of the Lenten […]
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What I Have Seen And Heard (March 13, 2008)
March 13, 2008Several weeks ago a wonderful gentleman from one of our parishes called me with a question that I had never faced before in nearly 25 years as a bishop. It seems that he had been invited to serve as the confirmation sponsor for one of our teenagers, and he was deeply honored by that request. […]
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Thoughts On Examining One’s Heart During Lent
March 13, 2008A friend of mine recently wrote to me, and in the letter she mentioned that it was much easier, and more pleasurable, to sit and write a letter than to balance her checkbook. The reason she wrote that was because the task of the balancing of her accounts was pressing upon her. It is something […]
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Book Gives Chilling Tour of Hell
March 13, 2008MY VISIT TO HELL; by Paul Thigpen; Realms, 2007; 304 pp; paperback; $12.99. Many people like to fantasize about what heaven will be like. Maybe there will be streams and lakes and big lush trees. Maybe there will be huge banquet tables with delicacies we can devour without ever getting fat. Oddly enough, though, these […]
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It’s A Bull’s Eye For Holy Spirit Prep Archery
March 13, 2008Ten students from the Holy Spirit Preparatory School’s archery team competed with over 70 other participants from Georgia and South Carolina in the Georgia Junior Olympic Archery Development State Indoor Shoot, Feb. 9 in Conyers. Seven students took home medals: Adam Kendall – first place, male cub novice Caroline Suarez – first place, female cub […]
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Rose Begley’s Old-Fashioned Irish Soda Bread Recipe
March 13, 2008Every year a group of six women of Irish heritage bake many dozen scones and loaves of Irish bread of all types to serve Mass-goers at a brunch following the annual St. Patrick’s Day Mass at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta. From raisin breads to brown breads and cranberry scones, the tables […]
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Chrism Mass To Be At 5 P.M.
March 13, 2008On Tuesday, March 18, at 5 p.m., the Cathedral of Christ the King will host the priests of the Archdiocese of Atlanta for the traditional Chrism Mass, when Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory blesses the chrism, the mixture of olive oil and balsam, to be used throughout the coming liturgical year for the sacraments of baptism, […]
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Gift Planning Director Matches Givers And Good Works
March 13, 2008Helping others with money has always been something close to the heart of Diane Duquette, the new director of gift planning for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Her professional journey, which began in the private sector as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, has now led her into a position combining that desire to help others with […]