Georgia
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Mass Embraces Gulf Area Students In Georgia
Published November 17, 2005
A familiar tune echoed through the Our Lady of Mercy High School gymnasium on Tuesday, Nov. 8. For many in the room, it was a song heard many times in the city they once called home, hundreds of miles away from the red and white gym with the snarling bobcat painted on the wall. But […]
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St. Pius X Announces Christmas Classic Tournament
Published November 10, 2005
The sixth annual “Christmas Classic Basketball Tournament” sponsored by St. Pius X High School will be held Dec. 27-29 at the school. The tournament draws boys and girls varsity basketball teams from across the country to play in this holiday season event. In a short amount of time, the St. Pius X “Christmas Classic” has […]
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Prisoners Find ‘Something Bigger Than Themselves’
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published November 10, 2005LeThicia Davis, a counselor who coordinates the Faith and Character-Based Dormitory at Hays State Prison, is already seeing positive signs of change among prisoners from the state’s pilot initiative. She recalled one inmate, who had severe behavioral problems and had been in and out of prison since the age of 17, who was transformed through […] Full Story
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North Georgians Help Christians In Holy Land
By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
Published November 10, 2005The vocation of Father Peter Vasko, OFM, crystallized when he saw the fivefold cross of Jerusalem. “It was like an ax slicing me in two.” While on retreat some 25 years ago at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit in Conyers the successful businessman was seeking the next step in his life. […]
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Women And Christ Make ‘Mighty Great Combination’
By JEAN DRISKELL, Special Contributor
Published November 10, 2005The 49th annual convention of the Atlanta Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women (AACCW) was held at St. Joseph Church on Saturday, Oct. 1. The convention, dedicated to Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, was a one-day event as the AACCW had also hosted the national convention of the National Council of Catholic Women in Atlanta in September. […]
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CCHD Awards Grants To Local Parishes, Programs
By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
Published November 10, 2005The Catholic Campaign for Human Development in the Archdiocese of Atlanta recently awarded grants totaling $120,000 to seven parishes and several community programs. The grants were presented at an awards ceremony held Oct. 18. CCHD receives its funds from individual Catholics who donate to a nationwide church collection each year. This year, during the weekend […]
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Volunteer Raises Money To Help Feed The Hungry
Published November 10, 2005
Participating in a 5K walk for charity may be tough for some people, but not for Emiliana (Emmy) Barnes of Doraville. Barnes, who is retired and a member of Holy Cross Church, Atlanta, has walked four years in a row now at the annual Hunger Walk/Run in Atlanta. This year, she raised $1,983 for her […]
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Notre Dame Academy Commemorates Saints Day
Published November 10, 2005
The fastest way to learn about the saints may be to walk in the shoes of one. That is the lesson many Notre Dame Academy students realized on All Saints Day when they represented their chosen saint. The students in the Pre-K through eighth grade Catholic school dressed the part for a special morning Mass […]
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CTK Students Giving Hair For A Cause
Published November 10, 2005
Three students at Christ the King School—Elizabeth Quirk, Brady Gwynn and Samantha Allen —are growing their hair long in order to donate their tresses to the Locks of Love organization. Locks of Love is a nonprofit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children 18 years and younger suffering from long-term medical hair loss. Most […]
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Apple Annie Marks 25th
Published November 10, 2005
Over 135 of the Southeast’s finest artisans and crafters will come together at the Catholic Church of St. Ann on Dec. 2 and 3 for the 25th anniversary of the Apple Annie Crafts and Arts Show. The Women’s Guild at St. Ann’s presents Apple Annie, now one of the largest nonprofit shows in the Southeast. […]
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Two Inmates Find Faith’s Freedom Inside Prison
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published November 10, 2005Hays State Prison inmate Michael Roberts is at peace for the first time in his life as he and fellow inmate Matthew Cahill took important steps on their journeys of conversion to the Catholic faith and to follow Jesus Christ. Archbishop-emeritus John F. Donoghue, wearing red and gold vestments and miter, baptized and confirmed Roberts […] Full Story
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Gulf Coast Groups Get To NCYC On Wave Of Love
By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
Published November 3, 2005“Winds of Change” was the spiritual theme of the 2005 National Catholic Youth Conference, but the phrase could as easily describe the extraordinary upheaval some conference participants, youths and adults, have experienced since hurricanes demolished their Gulf Coast communities this fall. Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes of New Orleans, who sat with about 75 teens from […]
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Speakers Exhort Teens To Trust God With Their Lives
By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
Published November 3, 2005Amid the cheers, despite the silly hats and T-shirts, in the midst of the fun and excitement of the National Catholic Youth Conference held Oct. 27-29, there were lessons to be learned. The message of the conference was heard loud and clear by the teens. “God loves you, is always with you—and that love can […]
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Teens Learn To See The Face Of Poverty Firsthand
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published November 3, 2005Teens from the confirmation class at St. Michael’s Church in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, have discovered that even as youth they can be Christ’s voice for social justice in their state legislature as they address the problems of homelessness and decrepit low-income public housing on their island. They were looking for a project to address a societal […]
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Youth Get ‘Extreme Makeover,’ Atlanta-Style
Published November 3, 2005
As teen musicians hold a jam session on the nearby Catacombs Café stage, Hiroki Saotome, a high school senior from Michigan, huddles over a white binder with piles of Christmas cards and foam board before him. He has placed a yellow cross, an orange ichthus symbol and a picture of the Nativity on the cover […]
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Young People Asked To Discern Media’s Messages
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published November 3, 2005First came vinyl records, then tapes and CDs, and now digital audio players for files called MP3s. From “M*A*S*H” and “Charlie’s Angels” and the days of the three TV kings of ABC, CBS and NBC, to “Desperate Housewives,” and no less than 150 reality shows in the age of satellite and cable TV. From the […]
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Teens ‘Animate’ Words In Dance, Song At Event
Published November 3, 2005
She had sung the song perfectly during practice just a few minutes before the Mass, but as Mary Williams took the stage to lead the nearly 17,000 people, including over 120 priests and 15 bishops in the Georgia Dome in the responsorial psalm, her voice, so strong just a few minutes earlier, came out as […]
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Devoted Monk And Author, Brother Bill Reams Dies
Published November 3, 2005
Brother William Reams, OCSO, a monk of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, died peacefully on Sunday, Oct. 30, in the monastery infirmary. He persevered faithfully in the monastic life for 49 years and died of complications of leukemia. Later known as Brother Bill, he was born George William Reams on June 2, […]
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DeKalb Choral Guild To Perform At Monastery
Published November 3, 2005
On Sunday, Nov. 6, at 3:30 p.m., the DeKalb Choral Guild will present “Toward the Light,” a musical manifestation of inspiration and inner vision, featuring an encore performance of “A Celebration Mass” by Atlantan Sharon J. Willis, at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit. The director of the DeKalb Choral Guild, Bryan F. Black, noted […]
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Jubilant Teens Gather In Atlanta For NCYC
By SUZANNE HAUGH, Special Contributor
Published November 3, 2005Picture this: thousands of Catholic teenagers, many wearing T-shirts with slogans like “Discover Jesus” and “i pray,” sprinting through stadium aisles to claim front row seats—not for a football game, hockey game or concert—but for Mass. Over 16,500 teens from across the United States gathered for Mass to conclude the 2005 National Catholic Youth Conference […]