Archbishop Calls Pro-Life Movement ‘Persistent Answer To Violence Of Abortion’

ROSWELL—Several Blessed Trinity High School students reverently entered the school gymnasium, each holding a candle, before their annual Mass for the Unborn began. Each candle represented 1 million infants aborted since Roe v. Wade, a 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. Nearly 50 candles stood aglow on a table throughout the Mass.

Following the Mass, some 40 students packed into a bus and went to join the thousands who participate in the March for Life every year in downtown Atlanta sponsored by Georgia Right to Life.

Photo: Young people and adults, each representing one of the 37 years since the legalization of abortion in the United States, hold their signs before the large crowd gathered Jan. 22 at the Georgia Capitol. (Photo by Michael Alexander)

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Parishes Raise Over $750,000 For Haiti, Plus Goods

ATLANTA—Emergency shelter and food top the needs of Haitians as the country digs out from its devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.

Recovery from the disaster is expected to take close to a decade as world leaders discuss rebuilding the ravaged country.

Volunteers from Atlanta and development experts have switched focus from emergency assistance aid to sustaining the homeless and tentative steps toward rebuilding after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake.

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Archbishop’s Statement On Catholic School Education

Each year we celebrate Catholic Schools Week and we commemorate the high standards of excellence and the quality of education available in Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

We recognize the educational and social excellence that our Catholic school students have attained through their many accomplishments and achievements. We sincerely thank all the parents and guardians because we know you are the primary teachers of your children and you have made tremendous sacrifices to carry out the important responsibility to raise your children in the practice of the Catholic faith. The Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of Atlanta support you in your role as your child’s teacher in the ways of faith.

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GRACE Scholars Donations Vault To $2.9 Million

ATLANTA—As the GRACE Scholars program completed its second year, encouraging signs continue to move the program forward.

In 2008, its first year, GRACE brought in over $86,000 to help with tuition for students who newly entered Catholic schools throughout the state of Georgia.

In 2009, nearly $2.9 million has been directed to the program through more than 1,300 donors, marking a staggering increase from its freshman year.

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