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Fifth-Graders Learn About ‘Unique’ Vocations
October 18, 2007A fireman. A doctor. A teacher. A rock star. These are common responses to the perpetual question posed to children—“what do you want to be when you grow up?” But the archdiocesan Vocations Office and Office of Catholic Schools hope that the responses from fifth-graders in the archdiocese will also include occupations like priest, sister, […]
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Retrouvaille Is ‘Lifeline’ For Hurting Marriages
October 18, 2007Calling Retrouvaille “a lifeline” for hurting marriages, Bishop J. Kevin Boland of Savannah reminded married couples and priests at the movement’s 30th anniversary International Council Meeting, held recently in Atlanta, that money cannot eliminate pain from life or marriage. “Millions upon millions of dollars are spent to alleviate pain and to accentuate physical beauty,” said […]
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Wondering About Heaven? Seek Clues On Earth
October 18, 2007“What do you think heaven will be like?” people sometimes ask me, as if I had been there myself. Still, it is definitely a question worth pondering. Because, let’s face it: If we are all going to sit around playing harps while lolling about on clouds, that’s not much of an incentive for making the […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard
October 18, 2007One of our priests, Kevin Peek, told me last Saturday afternoon: “Archbishop, my dad recently reminded me for the third time to suggest to you that you ask our people to pray for rain!” I am very glad that Kevin and, even more so, that his dad made the suggestion for all of us to […]
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Archbishop’s Annual Appeal: Why It Does Matter
October 18, 2007“So what?” was the blunt, somewhat uncouth, question asked by one of my more unorthodox college professors of long ago after his discourses on organizational psychology. It forced us, as students, to cut across the lofty vocabulary or peel away at a complicated theory to get to and answer, as best we could, ‘why does […]
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Catholic Ministry Offers Prayer Books To Georgia Inmates
October 18, 2007Dismas Ministry, a national Catholic prison outreach named after the repentant criminal crucified with Jesus, is working with prison ministries here to get Catholic religious books to inmates. Some 20 state prisons in Georgia receive the ministry’s free Bibles, a Catholic inmate Bible correspondence course, a Catholic inmate faith correspondence course and a unique book […]
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Father Fitzpatrick, Priest And Teacher, Dies In Marietta
October 18, 2007Father John Joseph Fitzpatrick was equally at home under the bright stage lights as he was in the classroom at Aquinas High School in Augusta, where he was the beloved “Father Fitz.” The Savannah native entertained theatergoers as the milkman Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof” and as an aging vaudeville star in “The Sunshine […]
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Festival Choir Announces Plans For Fifth Season
October 18, 2007The Atlanta Festival Choir, made up of 80 singers representing over 40 parishes throughout the archdiocese, is making plans for its 2007-2008 season and invites all interested musicians to participate. Auditions will be held at Christ the King Cathedral, 2699 Peachtree Road, NE, Atlanta, on Saturday, Oct. 20, and Saturday, Oct. 27. New singers interested […]
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Run Highlights Kids Who Cross Borders Alone
October 18, 2007The dips and hills of the sixth Catholic Charities’ Scott’s Run race course got more than 250 runners, dog walkers, and parents with strollers huffing and puffing, but it was nothing compared to the two days in the desert that “Gabbie” survived. Gabbie was 13 years old, on her own and crossed the border in […]
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Retrouvaille Is ‘Lifeline’ For Hurting Marriages
October 18, 2007Calling Retrouvaille “a lifeline” for hurting marriages, Bishop J. Kevin Boland of Savannah reminded married couples and priests at the movement’s 30th anniversary International Council Meeting, held recently in Atlanta, that money cannot eliminate pain from life or marriage. “Millions upon millions of dollars are spent to alleviate pain and to accentuate physical beauty,” said […]