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Tired, But Renewed
April 24, 2008A full six-day event with Pope Benedict XVI has brought me abundant joy, hope, serenity, confidence, love, and God’s providence in my heart and deep down in my “thirsty” soul. Despite the tiredness of my physical body, my spiritual and emotional life on the contrary is completely renewed in God’s amazing way. My credentials as […]
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Shy Pope Takes City By Storm
April 24, 2008As a professor of English literature, I am trained to look for ambiguity, paradox, hyperbole, litotes, and other rhetorical tropes—especially in the written word. Irony, defined as the discrepancy between the appearance and the reality, is perhaps my favorite literary device. Its use in literature continues to give me pleasure. Our trip to New York […]
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On First U.S. Trip, Pope Focuses On Critical Matters
April 24, 2008On his first trip to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI achieved three objectives that could be considered critical to the pastoral future of the American church. First, the pope brought a certain closure to the priestly sex abuse scandal that has shaken the church for more than six years, expressing his personal shame at […]
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Traveling Light
April 17, 2008Among the logistical challenges for those from Atlanta who attended the papal Mass in New York City was figuring out how to get from Yankee Stadium to the airport. With less than two hours between the scheduled end time of the Mass and the flight departure and the inability to bring a private vehicle anywhere […]
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What I Have Seen And Heard (April 17, 2008)
April 17, 2008The Catholic Church in the United States of America will be the focus of intense media attention this week because Peter will be in our midst! People everywhere travel extensively in today’s world, and among those who regularly travel is the Roman Pontiff. Long gone are the days when the pope was “the prisoner of […]
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What I Have Seen And Heard
April 17, 2008The Catholic Church in the United States of America will be the focus of intense media attention this week because Peter will be in our midst! People everywhere travel extensively in today’s world, and among those who regularly travel is the Roman Pontiff. Long gone are the days when the pope was “the prisoner of […]
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Sandwiches, Treasure Hunts—And The Search For God
April 17, 2008When I was a child, I loved going on treasure hunts. My mother would draw an intricate map for my sister and me, packing us peanut butter sandwiches for the journey. In truth, we didn’t go far, since she had hidden the treasures somewhere in our yard. But the thrill of the chase was intense […]
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Donovan High School Looking For First Win
April 17, 2008The Rams of Monsignor Donovan High School, Athens, visited Mount Vernon Presbyterian School, Atlanta, April 7, but despite a gritty effort they were defeated in six innings 12-2. Mount Vernon scored the first run in the bottom of the first inning on a RBI double by junior pitcher Clint Echols and added two more in […]
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In Plane Interview, Pope Discusses U.S. Issues
April 17, 2008Pope Benedict XVI said he hoped to help heal the wounds of priestly sex abuse during his visit to the United States and promised steps to ensure that such acts do not happen again. The pope made his remarks to reporters aboard his chartered Alitalia jet April 15, about an hour after taking off from […] Full Story
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Mass To Mark Bicentennials Of U.S. Archdioceses
April 17, 2008The April 20 Mass at Yankee Stadium will mark the bicentennials of the archdioceses of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Louisville, Ky., which was founded as Bardstown, Ky. The four dioceses, before being named archdioceses, were erected in 1808 from the Baltimore Diocese, the nation’s first diocese, which became an archdiocese that year. The coats […] Full Story