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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 […]
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At Hearing, 1,000 Oppose Waste Transfer Station
January 1, 2009Father Francis Tuan Tran, administrator of the Holy Vietnamese Martyrs Church, stood in solidarity with nearly 1,000 of his parishioners Dec. 16, hoping numbers would help prevent approval of a new waste transfer station next to the mission. The priest addressed the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners at a public hearing, pleading with board members […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (December 11, 2008)
December 22, 2008“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” The famous opening line from Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” summarized two different stories that I heard within a 24-hour period last week. Two Catholic gentlemen told me about two individual football games that had occurred on two separate occasions, and […]
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Lo Que He Visto Y He Oído (18 Deciembre 2008)
December 18, 2008El entusiasmo de esta hermosa época del año lo podemos percibir ahora mientras nos preparamos para celebrar el Misterio de la Navidad, la libre opción de Dios Todopoderoso de hacerse uno entre nosotros: nacer Niño de una Madre Virgen. Dios nos podría haber redimido de infinitas maneras; sin embargo optó por incorporar la historia humana […]
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The Christmas Band
December 18, 2008A hush fell over the large crowd gathered for the annual parish Christmas concert. The concert was held in the school auditorium of the St. Thomas More parochial school in Fairfield, N.J., where I was assigned as a parish priest many years ago. Like any orchestra, the sounds of instruments being tuned could be heard […]