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Archdiocese Impacted By Year 2 Of Strategic Planning: Working Groups Advise Archbishop In Four Key Areas
October 16, 2008During the past year more than 50 women and men have been wrestling with the future of the Catholic Church in North Georgia. Through meetings, interviews and research, groups of lay people, pastors and archdiocesan officials have wrapped their arms around a church in flux, trying to look at the present condition with objective eyes […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (October 9, 2008)
October 9, 2008I was on a recent flight from Washington, D.C., to Chicago when a lady in the seat in front of me turned around and remarked, “You’re that bishop aren’t you?” Well, I was wearing my collar, and I did look the part. She told me that she recognized me from television and was very happy […]
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Respect Life Sunday Reminds Us Of Christ’s Teachings
October 9, 2008When Respect Life Sunday rolls around each year on the first Sunday of October, I often wonder about some folks in the congregation. How is it possible for Catholics to hear the message about life proclaimed and still disagree with it? It would be tempting to say people are entitled to their own opinions, but […]
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How To Donate to the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal
October 9, 2008Catholics can make a one-time donation or pledge an amount to be given over a 10-month period. Each household is asked to prayerfully consider pledging a tithe of 1 percent of the total annual household income to the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal. Households that have been especially blessed are asked to consider an even larger gift […]
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Archbishop’s Annual Appeal Parish 2009 Goals
October 9, 2008Parish City Goal All Saints Dunwoody $192,509 Cathedral of Christ the King Atlanta $382,708 Christ Our Hope Lithonia $27,580 Christ Our King and Savior Greensboro $33,495 Christ Redeemer Dawsonville $10,694 Corpus Christi Stone Mountain $84,748 Good Samaritan Ellijay $14,007 Good Shepherd Cumming $76,297 Holy Cross Atlanta $118,818 Holy Family Marietta $90,337 Holy Spirit Atlanta $291,565 […]
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Priest Assignments
October 9, 2008Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following change in priest assignment. Father Pedro Poloche Rodriguez has been assigned to the Metropolitan Marriage Tribunal, effective Sept. 26. He has also been assigned to serve part-time as parochial vicar at Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, where he will reside.
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St. Ann Celebrates Rededication Of Renovated Church
October 9, 2008Evening Mass captured the light of the sun fading through the windows of St. Ann Church and the reenergized light of a community re-gathering inside the parish’s renovated sanctuary. After a year of celebrating Mass in temporary worship spaces with folding chairs, hundreds of parishioners took their places in new pews Sept. 23 as Archbishop […] Full Story
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Cindy Palmer Is November Speaker At Magnificat
October 9, 2008Seeing her parents living their faith as she grew up and listening to the faith stories of the people—priests, sisters and good-hearted people—they brought around the family’s kitchen table has laid the foundation that Cindy Palmer has relied on in her own life. On Saturday, Nov. 8, Palmer, who grew up in Athens and Monroe, […]
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St. Philip Benizi Celebrates Its International Diversity
October 9, 2008Hundreds savored a feast of food from around the world as people at St. Philip Benizi Church reveled in its 10th annual multicultural celebration. Booths from 30 nationalities covered the grounds of the parish: shepherd’s pie from Ireland, kartofelsalat from Germany, tamales from Mexico, jerk chicken from Jamaica, hamburgers from the United States. A mariachi […]
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Blessed Alphonsa Canonization Draws Loganville Pilgrims
October 9, 2008The canonization of the first Indian-born woman saint in Rome Oct. 12 will be attended by a group of 30 people from the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Blessed Alphonsa, a Franciscan Clarist nun, will be canonized by Pope Benedict XVI. Among those coming from around the world are a group of people who worship at Blessed […] Full Story