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What I Have Seen and Heard (May 25, 2006)
May 25, 2006The parish of Saint Luke’s in Dahlonega is a delightful community that I visited for the first time this past Sunday. It is a quaint community that is growing quickly with the expansion of young families who are settling in that part of the Archdiocese. There were a lot of little ones in arms and […]
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St. Catherine Of Siena School Wins Fourth-Grade Battle Of Books
May 25, 2006St. Catherine of Siena School, Kennesaw, won the fourth-grade level competition in the Battle of the Books archdiocesan championship held May 4 at Christ the King School. St. Catherine of Siena School participated in the competition with children in third-grade through sixth-grade levels. St. Catherine of Siena participants included Garrett Blinkhorn, Nick Casaburri, Danielle Chandler, […]
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Archbishop Discusses ‘Da Vinci Code’ Film
May 25, 2006Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory recently shared his thoughts in a question-and-answer session about “The Da Vinci Code,” a controversial movie that debuted at movie theatres on May 19. Based on Dan Brown’s popular novel, the film had a successful opening weekend, earning about $224 million worldwide while receiving generally negative reviews from movie critics and […]
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‘Pure Fashion’ Spurs Rousing Revolution Of Modesty
May 25, 2006A revolution isn’t always started by a bunch of angry rebels. Sometimes it’s instigated by a gaggle of girls in pretty dresses. At the seventh annual Pure Fashion show, held April 30 at the Georgia World Congress Center, girls of all ages—mothers and daughters, grandmothers, sisters—and a few dads and brothers, joined together to celebrate […]
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Smyrna Parish To Celebrate 40th Anniversary
May 25, 2006On a Sunday morning in the mid-1960s, about 300 people, excusing themselves as they carefully squeezed by one another into narrow rows of fixed seats, their shoes smacking with the stickiness of each step on the concrete floors, finally settled themselves into well-worn plush seats and reverently turned their attention to the front of the […]
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CSS Employee Receives Liberty Bell Award
May 25, 2006The Atlanta Bar Association (ABA) recently recognized Sue Colussy, program director for Immigration Services of Catholic Social Services, Inc., with the 2006 Liberty Bell Award for outstanding service to the community by strengthening the American system of freedom under the law. Colussy received the award on May 5 during the annual ABA award breakfast. The […]
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Conference Highlights St. Brigid Stewardship
May 25, 2006More than 300 people from 82 parishes across five dioceses attended the fifth annual Regional Stewardship Day Conference, held in Cary, N.C., on April 29 and sponsored by the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the dioceses of Charlotte, Raleigh, Charleston and Savannah. The keynote speaker was Dan Conway, president of RSI Catholic Services Group. Conway has […]
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St. Pius X Hispanic Community Prays For Vocations
May 25, 2006On World Day of Prayer for Vocations, St. Pius X Parish initiated a new push for home prayer. During the Sunday Mass for Spanish-speaking people, a new mahogany carved crucifix was blessed as an icon to promote prayers for vocations in the homes of parishioners. Selected families will take the cross each week and use […]
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Ethicist Discusses ‘Slippery Slope’ Of Cloning
May 25, 2006Imagine this: A doctor takes the nucleus from a patient’s skin cell and fuses it with an egg cell to create a human clone. Then the cloned embryo isn’t just destroyed for the harvesting of stem cells to treat the patient without risk of immune system rejection, which is called “therapeutic cloning.” Instead, the doctor […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (May 16, 2006)
May 18, 2006Pride will be written all over the faces of countless thousands of people during these next two weeks as our local graduates walk across a stage somewhere to receive a diploma. Grammar school, high school and college graduates have the universal ability to bring tears to the eyes of parents and grandparents with the simple […]