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Dr. King To Be Remembered At Annual Mass, Celebration
January 8, 2009Days before the first African-American is sworn in as president, Catholics in the Atlanta Archdiocese will gather to remember the life and service of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Jan. 17 weekend. All are invited to attend. The theme of this year’s anniversary celebration is “Serve One Another Through Love,” a line written […]
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Book Affirms Healing Power Of Catholic Faith
January 8, 2009“REDEEMED : A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding” by Heather King. Viking (New York, 2008). 238 pp., $24.95. “Redeemed” is a stunning tale. After 20 years of what she labels “acute alcoholism,” author Heather King became sober, got married, passed the bar exam and began practicing […]
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Pinecrest Academy Hosts Christmas Tournament
January 8, 2009The Pinecrest Academy girls basketball team reached the finals of the first Pinecrest Christmas Classic with a 55-20 win over Monsignor Donovan High School, Athens. Pinecrest senior forward Danielle Anderson scored the team’s first five points and finished the night with 14 points. Sophomore guard Margaret Cassandra also poured in 20 points. In the Dec. […] Full Story
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Helping Adult Catholics Grow In Faith Is Top Priority
January 8, 2009Glaciers have become an appropriate metaphor for the trek now underway by the staff of the Office of Religious Education, particularly for its director, Dennis Johnson Jr. He equates a glacier’s movement with how ORE must be poised to respond effectively to the church’s social climate while retaining essential principles when forming area Catholics in […]
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NBA Gives Turkeys In Time For Christmas Dinners
January 1, 2009Thousands of families in National Basketball Association cities throughout the country enjoyed the holidays a little bit more this year as The National Basketball Players Association, Catholic Charities USA and Feed the Children delivered meals to 30,000 families. Catholic Charities in Atlanta helped distribute the food, which included 500 turkeys, for hundreds of families here. […]
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Movie Underscores Theme Of Appreciating Life
January 1, 2009“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a beautiful fairy tale of a film. Although it moves slowly in spots, it never loses track of its central theme of living life to its fullest. Directed by David Fincher and with a screenplay by Eric Roth, “Benjamin Button” is very loosely based on a short story […]
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Parishes Receive Data As Catholic Population Surges
January 1, 2009Do you think the pews are getting a little bit more crowded? Parking harder to find? The number of Catholics in North Georgia continues to climb. Catholics are growing faster than the overall population in the Peach State as the official count of Catholics in the archdiocese climbs to 750,000, up from 650,000. The new […]
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Star Gazing: A Son Reminisces
January 1, 2009When we were young, you took me and Jimmy to the planetarium in New York City. It was our birthday, and it was to be a good day for we also went to the Museum of Natural History and had lunch in the cafeteria. I remember the taste of the lemonade. We went by subway […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (January 1, 2009)
January 1, 2009As we look back on 2008 in preparation for 2009, most of us participate in an annual ritual, which is the human tendency to attempt to rank the events that the year held in store for each one of us. What were the highlights and the disappointments of the past year and what are our […]
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Prayer For The Holy Innocents
January 1, 2009In the sparkle of the Christmas and New Year season, it is easy to overlook a day that reminds us of something many might prefer to forget. Even during the joyous time when the Christ Child was born, darkness descended upon the world as Herod unleashed a blood bath on little boys under the age […]