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Catholic Leaders See Hope, Challenges In Election
November 13, 2008Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Catholic bishops, congratulated President-elect Barack Obama on his “historic election” Nov. 4 as the first African-American to win the White House. “The people of our country have entrusted you with a great responsibility,” the cardinal said in a letter to Obama on behalf of the […]
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Msgr. Kenny Remembered As ‘One Of The Finest’
November 13, 2008Msgr. Thomas A. Kenny was remembered Nov. 5 and 6 as a priest who made each person feel as if he or she had a special claim on his heart and his prayers. Because of that bond so many felt, the vigil service and funeral Mass for Msgr. Kenny, who died Oct. 30 at his […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (November 6, 2008)
November 6, 2008A secular festival and two religious celebrations crowd the close of each October and the first two days of November. Halloween is just another commercialized holiday completely devoid of its religious roots and with little social value beyond the store sales that it might generate. The other two celebrations, however, continue to have something for […]
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Rites Comfort Those Who Are Ill Or Dying
November 6, 2008The Catholic faith accompanies the faithful throughout life and brings comfort and strength to those facing serious illness or death through its sacraments and rites. Anointing Of The Sick What many older Catholics grew up knowing as extreme unction is now called the sacrament of anointing. “The reason for the different name is because (extreme […]
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For Catholics, Cremation Allowed With Appropriate Respect
November 6, 2008While the Catholic Church places great favor on the burial of the body of the deceased, cremation has become an accepted practice when “serious reasons” present a need for it and when one’s attitude maintains respect for the sacredness of the body and belief in the resurrection of the dead. While the practice was forbidden […]
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Old Cemeteries Form Intriguing Part Of State’s Past
November 6, 2008A group of volunteers will work to reclaim one of the rural historic Catholic cemeteries in Georgia, with a goal to restore stone markers to unmarked graves and return the burial ground to its original appearance. “It’s an obligation. As Catholics, one of our corporal works of mercy is to bury our dead and remember […]
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Arlington Cemetery Mass Commemorates All Souls’ Day
November 6, 2008Shaded beneath old Georgia pines amid the joyful songs of countless birds, nearly 75 people assembled in a secluded spot of Arlington Cemetery on Monday, Nov. 3, to remember the souls of all the bishops, priests, deacons and lay people of the archdiocese who have died and are buried there. With an altar set up […]
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Priest Assignments
November 6, 2008Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following changes in priest assignments. Father Rafael Carballo has been assigned as administrator of St. Brendan the Navigator Church, Cumming, effective Oct. 21. Archbishop Gregory has confirmed the recommendation of Marist Father Ted Keating, provincial of the Society of Mary, and appointed Father John M. Walls, SM, as […]
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Msgr. Thomas Kenny Dies
November 6, 2008The Archdiocese of Atlanta and its Cathedral parish of Christ the King lost a beloved priest Oct. 30 when Msgr. Thomas A. Kenny died in his home at the age of 69. A native of County Sligo, Ireland, who studied at All Hallows College seminary in Dublin, Msgr. Kenny had served in the archdiocese for […]
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New Cemetery Offers Eco-Friendly Option
November 6, 2008Jack Jameson was the kind of guy who when a bum knee hobbled him took to lying down in the dirt to work in his beloved flower garden. When the 81-year-old father of five died in his sleep, his family buried him where butterflies dance from flower to flower and the hum of crickets fills […]