A Salute To 2013's Inspiring Grads

Seven graduating seniors from the Catholic high schools in the Atlanta Archdiocese are profiled in this issue of The Georgia Bulletin.

Eucharistic Congress Speakers Set To Engage, Inspire

COLLEGE PARK-When the 18th annual Eucharistic Congress convenes at the Georgia International Convention Center in a few short weeks, it will be an event hosted by Atlanta's three bishops—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Auxiliary Bishop Luis R. Zarama and Auxiliary Bishop David P. Talley—attended by thousands and featuring prayer, music, halls filled with exhibitors and many renowned speakers and musicians.

As part of the Year of Faith, which in the Archdiocese of Atlanta is also a Marian Year, the theme of the Congress is "Do Whatever He Tells You—Mary and the Year of Faith."

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Pilgrims To Fatima Include Many Devoted Popes

ATLANTA—Pope Francis, in asking that his papacy be consecrated to Our Lady of Fatima, continues the close interrelationship between popes and this 20th-century apparition of Mary.

On May 13, 2013, the bishops of Portugal are expected to pray on Pope Francis' behalf this prayer of consecration, as he has asked them to do.

Photo: Pilgrims walk on their knees at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal May 12, 2012. Thousands of pilgrims arrived at the shrine to attend the 95th anniversary of the first apparition of Mary to three shepherd children. Lucia dos Santos and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, received the first of several visions of Mary May 13, 1917. (CNS photo/Rafael Marchante, Reuters)

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MAP Brings Medical Aid To Missionaries, Clinics

ATLANTA—Scott Walters doesn't mind holding out a tin cup. In fact, he loves it.

"I tell people I have the world's best job. I have the privilege of begging for the poor," said Walters, the chief development officer for MAP International. "It's truly humbling and a joyful, joyful experience," he said.

Photo: A child in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa, receives treatment from medicine supplied by MAP International. More than 2 billion people have benefited from its work since its founding in 1954 as a Christian ministry to deliver medicine and medical supplies to ministries serving the poor around the globe. (Photos courtesy of MAP International)

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