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Event Honors Yearlong Efforts Of Parish Ministers
April 17, 2008So often it is easy to forget the many faces of those who work behind the scenes. To remedy this, Dennis Johnson Jr., director of the Office of Religious Education, and the ORE staff arranged a special evening in honor of those who work with children, youth, young adults, adults and in catechist formation ministries […]
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A Nation Ready To Hear A Message Of Hope
April 17, 2008A papal visit is usually meant to bring hope to a country where the economy is in turmoil, its citizens divided over an unpopular war, where millions are hungry, one in eight are in poverty or the latest entertainment involves 6-year-old children engaged in cage fighting. Typically the pope is met at the airport by […]
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Groundbreakings Signal Growth In North Georgia
April 17, 2008On a recent Sunday, some 100 people filled the parish hall at St. Helena Church, Clayton, straining to listen and watch Mass on a large screen TV as the sound from the stereo speakers faded in and out. A year from now, the parishioners of this small country parish in the North Georgia mountains, near […] Full Story
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Question, Answer Book Reveals Secret Of Pope’s Joy
April 17, 2008QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; by Pope Benedict XVI. Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. (Huntington, Ind., 2008). 175 pp. hardcover; $14.95. Do we have to go to confession every time we receive holy Communion? How can priests avoid discouragement, faced with so much work and so few vocations? And why is premarital sex wrong? These are a few […]
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Documentary Illuminates ‘Invisible’ Community
April 17, 2008In San Diego, Calif., not far from neighborhoods full of well-appointed homes that cost millions of dollars, live hundreds of migrants, mostly men, who have come over to the United States from Mexico. These men struggle to earn a living and support their families back home, and they live in very basic conditions, residing in […]
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Marietta Parish To Host Rosary Rally
April 17, 2008A May Rosary Rally will be held on Saturday, May 10, at 2 p.m. at St. Joseph Church. All are invited to attend. The Rosary Rally will be offered for vocations in keeping with the theme, “Mary, Mother of Divine Grace.” Archbishop-emeritus John F. Donoghue will be the principal celebrant. The program will begin inside […]
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Pinecrest Team Wins 2008 GISA Academic Bowl
April 17, 2008Pinecrest Academy’s varsity academic team won the 2008 Georgia Independent School Association (GISA) annual Academic Bowl tournament held at Wesleyan School on Saturday, March 29. This is the first year the Pinecrest team competed in this event. The Pinecrest team, Roberto Ocon, Michael Williams, Rob Herd and Kate Foster, won the championship in the varsity […]
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Moda Real Fashion Show To Be Held May 3
April 17, 2008The second annual Moda Real Fashion Show will be held at the upper school campus of Holy Spirit Preparatory School, Atlanta, on Saturday, May 3, at 4 p.m. All are invited to attend this event, which is the highlight of a yearlong outreach project of the girls from Holy Spirit who participate in the national […]
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Archbishop: Blessing To Have ‘Peter In Our Midst’
April 17, 2008When Pope Benedict XVI speaks during his first papal visit in the United States, Catholics should consider the pope’s message with “an open heart,” said Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory. “I like to use the words from the Gospel of Luke that describe the Blessed Mother. That we ponder his words in our heart and […]
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What I Have Seen And Heard (April 10, 2008)
April 10, 2008Msgr. Luis Zarama and I were “playing in the dirt” last weekend as we both had the honor to participate in two separate parish groundbreaking ceremonies. He returned to the church community of St. Helena’s in Clayton, where he had served as pastor, to help them kick off the building project of a new church, […]