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Atlanta seminarians meet with newly appointed auxiliary bishop
By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
Published October 28, 2022Eight seminarians from the Archdiocese of Atlanta had the opportunity to meet the newly appointed auxiliary bishop for North and Central Georgia, Bishop-designate John Nhan Tran. The seminarians study at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, where the bishop-designate has been serving.
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Evangelizing, caring for others at core of deacons’ vocation, nuncio says
By Peter Finney Jr. Catholic News Service
Published August 7, 2018NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—The core vocational work of permanent deacons is to evangelize and care for others, not to perform office duties, the apostolic nuncio to the United States said July 22 to more than 1,300 deacons attending the 2018 National Diaconate Congress in New Orleans. In his post-Communion remarks at the opening Mass of the […] Full Story
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Priest says exorcism is ministry of healing that helps suffering people
By PETER FINNEY JR., Catholic News Service
Published November 3, 2017NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—Father Gary Thomas has served for the past 12 years in the Diocese of San Jose, California, as the priest authorized to perform the rite of exorcism. The rite is the Catholic Church’s largely hidden and often-misunderstood ministry of healing that Hollywood has transformed into a cash cow of blood, gore and fantasy. […] Full Story
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Atlanta man ordained a Jesuit priest
Published July 6, 2017
NEW ORLEANS—Four men were ordained as priests of the Society of Jesus, U.S. Central and Southern Province, on June 10 in New Orleans. Sylvester G. Tan, who grew up near Atlanta, and was a parishioner of Our Lady of Assumption Church, was one of the four. Father Tan, 38, grew up in the Atlanta area, […] Full Story
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Throwing out welcome mat is every Catholic’s job
By PETER FINNEY JR., Special to the Bulletin
Published November 3, 2016NEW ORLEANS—You had to laugh. In an October workshop on parish hospitality at the annual conference of the International Catholic Stewardship Council at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Christine Heusinger, the associate director of stewardship for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, put up a cartoon on the big screen. The 1988 cartoon by Steve Phelps is […] Full Story
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Sister of Mercy takes first vows
Published October 6, 2016
NEW ORLEANS—Sister Phuong Mai Dong made her first profession of vows as a Sister of Mercy on Saturday, Aug. 6, at Loyola University’s Ignatius Chapel in New Orleans with about 100 sisters, family members and friends attending. The ceremony took place in both English and Vietnamese, including a song presented by Sisters of the Holy […] Full Story
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Commercials with inviting message about Catholic Church hit movie screens
By PETER FINNEY JR, Catholic News Service
Published August 19, 2016NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—They represent a captive audience—the hundreds of people inside a movie theater waiting for the big screen to light up with the film they paid good money to see. Now the Archdiocese of New Orleans, perhaps in a bow to “Star Trek” and Pope Francis’ evangelizing message of encounter, will boldly go where […] Full Story
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When Harry ‘met’ Harry, years apart, under a New Orleans bridge
By PETER FINNEY JR., Catholic News Service
Published June 10, 2016NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—It didn’t start out as a Father’s Day present, but now the tables were turned. New Orleans-born Harry Connick Jr., 48, took the stage at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome May 21, dressed improbably in an academic robe, a costume he never imagined he would wear considering his college career at Loyola University New Orleans […] Full Story
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By declining case, high court allows monks to make, sell simple caskets
By PETER FINNEY JR., Catholic News Service
Published October 24, 2013NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—It took the U.S. Supreme Court to make the final decision. By declining to review a lower court’s ruling, the high court Oct. 15 left standing what Benedictine Abbot Justin Brown has known in his heart for the past six years: The Benedictine monks of St. Joseph Abbey in Covington are not breaking […] Full Story
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Lindy Boggs, former congresswoman and U.S. ambassador to Vatican, dies
By Peter Finney Jr., Catholic News Service
Published August 1, 2013NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—Former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Lindy Boggs, whose career in public service spanned 60 years, including four years in Rome during which she served as a staunch advocate for human trafficking victims, died July 27 at her home in Chevy Chase, Md. She was 97. Her funeral Mass was to be celebrated […] Full Story
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Address to New Orleans Clergy: ‘The Alpha and Omega of Our Lives’
Published June 10, 2010
NEW ORLEANS—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory addressed the convocation of the bishops and priests of the Archdiocese of New Orleans on Sept. 17. Following is an excerpt from his talk, entitled “The Alpha and Omega of Our Lives.” In light of this current Year of Faith, which Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI introduced, to commemorate the 50th anniversary […] Full Story
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Curia meeting seen as way to give pope more input from ‘entire church’
By PETER FINNEY JR., Catholic News Service
Published April 1, 2010NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, one of eight cardinals appointed by Pope Francis to advise him on possible reforms of the Roman Curia, said Sept. 18 he has received extensive feedback from cardinals and archbishops in the U.S. and Canada in preparation for an Oct. 1-3 meeting with the pope. In New Orleans […] Full Story
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‘Women Of The Storm’ To Blitz Washington Again
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published September 14, 2006Anne Milling answered with delight a call late one July afternoon from a businessman she had tried to reach unsuccessfully since May. Her perseverance paid off, as the caller donated $25,000 to help her and nearly 130 other civic-minded New Orleans women of diverse races, ages and religions to head to Washington, D.C., for the […] Full Story
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New Orleans Parish Finds ‘Our Faith In Misery’
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published September 14, 2006Steven Madere drives 30 miles daily from the house he bought following Hurricane Katrina to Resurrection of Our Lord Church and School to assist Father Michael Joseph Vinh Nguyen as a volunteer in cleaning up, painting, landscaping and coordinating volunteers from across the nation as they help to rebuild nine parish buildings. Madere had had […] Full Story
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81-Year-Old Priest Happy He Can Serve Rebuilding Church
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published August 24, 2006A year ago, then 80-year-old Father Royce Mitchell walked in pitch-black darkness along I-610 for some three miles with thousands of others, carrying an overnight bag, praying and striving to support others while enduring a stifling sense of dread about the future. During the interstate exodus in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with everyone from […] Full Story
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New Orleans Archdiocese Increases Outreach To Hispanic Laborers
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published August 24, 2006At 6:15 a.m. Hispanic men gather in clusters and sit curbside chatting and eating tacos con huevos y frijoles being sold from the back of a sedan. Honduran native Wilfredo Quevara steps aside to describe the problems that he and other day laborers face getting paid for their construction work to help rebuild New Orleans. […] Full Story
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Famed Marching Band Returns With ‘Sweet Relief’
By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
Published August 24, 2006It’s a sweltering hot Louisiana day in late July. The sun is beating down upon the heads of the 70 or so teenage boys standing on the asphalt across the street from their school. Their faces are set in determination, though beads of sweat trace lines down their foreheads and cheeks. As their instructors yell […] Full Story
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Efforts To Rebuild Start With Helping Of Soul Food
By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
Published August 24, 2006Joron Smith shields his eyes from the glare of the sun and looks out onto an empty lot. The lot will soon be the site of his first home and with it, the culmination of the hopes, dreams and dedication of a humble man and his family. “You’re looking at a person who basically came […] Full Story
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Life Goes On For Close-Knit Parish
By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
Published August 24, 2006Nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina left its heavy footprint on New Orleans, residents are finding a new sense of normalcy. Some are rebuilding while others have found new homes. But through it all, they have turned to their faith and their parish families for support. At St. Maria Goretti Parish in the heavily damaged […] Full Story
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Xavier President Says Recovery Is ‘Little By Little’
By PETER FINNEY JR.,CNS
Published December 15, 2005Like thousands of other New Orleanians, Norman Francis, the president of Xavier University, lost his house in Hurricane Katrina. He nearly lost the university he has led since 1968 and built into a national powerhouse. And now the man who arguably has done more than others over the last 40 years to change the face […] Full Story