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Marist Retains Wrestling Championship
January 22, 2009Marist School held onto its title as reigning Catholic Duals wrestling champion during the seventh annual tournament on its home mats Jan. 7. Teams from Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, Our Lady of Mercy High School, Fairburn, and St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, faced off against each other and Marist. In a triple round […]
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Mission Asks Other Parishes For Support On Rezoning Issue
January 22, 2009Following the strong showing at a Gwinnett County public hearing on Dec. 16, the members of Holy Vietnamese Martyrs Mission are taking to the proverbial streets, hoping to drum up even more support in opposition to the building of a waste transfer station adjacent to their property on Shackleford Road. The December meeting was the […]
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Forge On In Struggle For Human Dignity, Bishop Says
January 22, 2009Days before the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama, a standing-room-only crowd filled the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to honor the slain civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King who dreamed of racial equality. The 25th annual Catholic celebration honoring King opened with a dramatic call to worship with the blowing of a […]
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Catholics Reflect On ‘Radical Change’ They’ve Seen
January 22, 2009Growing up in rural Mississippi, Rudy Cadney earned pocket money in his hometown by cleaning the church in the white parish, St. Anne’s, while his family worshipped at the Catholic parish set aside for blacks. “There were segregated institutions for everything. Churches were segregated. Schools were segregated. Buses were segregated,” said Cadney, now a 35-year […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (January 22, 2009)
January 22, 2009A triptych is a form of art that normally is religious in theme. The threefold panel work of art usually follows a common inspiration, although each of the three sections might well tell an individual artistic story. Frequently triptychs are found as altar centerpieces that portray the story of the crucifixion of the Lord. Occasionally […]
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VT Priest Says Faith Rituals Help Students In Crisis
January 15, 2009The community at Virginia Tech continues to knit itself together after a rampaging gunman killed more than 30 students and faculty in 2007. As the second anniversary of the largest mass killing on a U.S. campus approaches, the Catholic priest serving at the university said a strength the church can bring to fearful and confused […]
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The Forgotten Heart Of Feminism
January 15, 2009When I tell people I’m an ex-feminist, some look stricken, while others smile. Many go on to confide that they too are members of the same club. I don’t know how big this club is, frankly, because the word “feminist” is so widely misunderstood. Many people think a feminist is someone who believes women should […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (January 15, 2009)
January 15, 2009“May they be also the best of teachers, bearing witness to the faith by what they say and do, in Christ Jesus our Lord.” So reads a portion of the final blessing over the parents at the conclusion of the ritual for the baptism of children. Being the best of teachers is a fervent desire […]
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In Praise Of George W. Bush
January 15, 2009The following is best appreciated if read aloud in the best Irish accent you can manage: Paddy, the local scoundrel, was dead. The entire population of the village where he spent a lifetime making others miserable attended the funeral Mass—some, doubtless, to make sure he was really gone. Knowing the congregation’s sentiments, the wise old […]
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Research On Catholic Schools Aired At Five Meetings
January 15, 2009After two years of research, five consultative meetings were held in the archdiocese in late 2008 to share information gathered on ways to strengthen local Catholic schools, address financial challenges facing them, and identify places where there may be grassroots interest in exploring new schools. The meetings, sponsored by a Catholic education subcommittee of the […]