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Parish Joyful As ‘Stewardship Adventure’ Ends
November 1, 2007When she first heard of the plan, Judy Baker’s reaction was “oh, pu-leeze.” About a week later, she started to think, “This is fun.” A year later, she says the adventure her parish has had in deepening generosity “was an absolute blast.” At St. Matthew Church, enjoyment wasn’t the long-range goal of the “Adventures in […]
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Teams Record Wins Down The Stretch
November 1, 2007Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, posted its highest point total of the season with a 49-7 defeat of Druid Hills High School. Blessed Trinity amassed 392 yards of offense, while the defense held Druid Hills to 82 yards. Junior running back Kyle Milo led the team in rushing with 123 yards on 13 carries and […]
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On All Souls’ Day, Remembering Flannery O’Connor
November 1, 2007For the past six months, I have been immersed in the world of a woman who died in 1964. When I was in college, I read this woman’s short stories and had little notion at the time that she was Catholic because my professors dealt with her faith as if it were some odd embarrassment. […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (October 29, 2007)
October 28, 2007I usually begin to write my weekly column over the weekend. It is the time when I am most often with you at some parish ceremony or an Archdiocesan event. The weekend is a time when I can reflect upon what has transpired or is happening in this local Church. This week I am starting […]
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Two Local Schools Named To National Honor Roll
October 25, 2007The Catholic High School Honor Roll announced Oct. 17 that Holy Spirit Preparatory School, Atlanta, and Pinecrest Academy, Cumming, were named to its 2007 list of America’s top 50 Catholic secondary schools. The annual Honor Roll, initiated in 2004, provides a resource to parents and educators by acknowledging those schools that best maintain high academic […]
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Catholic Physicians Challenged To Apply Their Faith
October 25, 2007Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory reminded Catholic physicians and healthcare workers attending the 76th annual Catholic Medical Association conference that they should strive to be “Catholic first” in a profession that often challenges church wisdom. Long-held classical and biblical ideals of reason and freedom have been “trumped” by modern notions of “self-determination” and “self-creation,” “deeply invad(ing) […]
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Seminar Spotlights Shadows Of Child Pornography
October 25, 2007After hearing from federal investigators, advocates for children, canon lawyers and technology experts, archdiocesan officials are examining how to raise awareness in Catholic churches across North Georgia of the crime of child pornography. Sue Stubbs, the director of the archdiocesan Office of Child and Youth Protection, said the church can influence the fight against the […]
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Let Go Of Fears, Live Life In Faith
October 25, 2007Her name was Doris, and she was a waitress in a small café in the town where I grew up. The café was on the main street. I was assigned to a parish in the town, and the café was within walking distance from the church. I must have gone to that café hundreds of […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (October 25, 2007)
October 25, 2007An important component of every bishop’s ministry, no matter where he might serve, is his chancery. There are certain aspects to every chancery that connect them to all others. They all have divisions and departments that are assigned responsibility for different dimensions of the life of a local Church—education, finance, catechesis, vocations, communications, etc. The […]
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Marist Students ‘Came, Saw, Read’ For Worthy Cause
October 25, 2007From dawn until dusk on Oct. 12, approximately 175 Marist School students, faculty, staff and administrators lent their voices in a public reading of Vergil’s epic poem the Aeneid to raise funds for the “Lost Boys” of Sudan. The event raised $1,400, which will assist the young men from Sudan who are pursuing coursework at […]