April 2, 2020
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Online learning continues in Atlanta’s Catholic schools
By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
Published April 2, 2020Online learning has become the new normal in Catholic schools since being closed on March 16 due to the coronavirus.
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Lilburn students serve others with sandwiches
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published April 2, 2020People are still hungry. That’s what the community at St. John Neumann Regional School knows. They are just one of the Catholic schools responding to the pandemic.
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Gregg’s Pantry at Decatur parish continues outreach amid pandemic
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published April 2, 2020As other food pantries shut down, volunteers at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Decatur continued to serve their neighbors.
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St. Clement’s renovated spaces, new altar are fruits of parishioners’ labors
By IMELDA RICHARD, Special to the Bulletin
Published April 2, 2020The community of St. Clement Church, Calhoun, gathered to celebrate renovations and participate in the consecration of a new altar March 8. Bishop Joel M. Konzen, SM, celebrated the Mass.
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Parishes find new ways to minister to the faithful
By NICHOLE GOLDEN, ANDREW NELSON and SAMANTHA SMITH
Published April 2, 2020Parish priests and their staff have been prompted by the virus outbreak to find new ways of serving from providing faith formation to meeting spiritual needs.
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Summit held to address church’s ‘twin crises’ of abuse, leadership failure
By MARK ZIMMERMANN, Catholic News Service
Published April 2, 2020The Catholic Partnership Summit, Feb. 28-29, had as its theme, “From Crisis to Co-Responsibility: Creating a New Culture of Leadership.” It drew leaders from 63 U.S. dioceses, including Atlanta.
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Atlanta Catholics participate in national partnership summit
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published April 2, 2020Area Catholics attending the Catholic Partnership Summit roundtable in Washington, D.C. came back with ideas on opening parish life and the Archdiocese of Atlanta to the voices of its lay members.
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Service for reporting sexual misconduct involving U.S. bishops launched
By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
Published April 2, 2020A new reporting system for sexual misconduct allegations against United States bishops began March 16.
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Eucharistic Congress canceled due to coronavirus
By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
Published April 2, 2020The 2020 Eucharistic Congress scheduled for June 12-13 has been canceled, but the event is slated to return in 2021.
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Jesus’ last words become prayers for a pandemic
By LORRAINE V. MURRAY, Commentary
Published April 2, 2020This Lenten season surely will be etched into our memories forever. Our usual offerings to God pale compared to the sacrifices we’re called to make during the coronavirus pandemic.
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COVID-19 is a call to live differently, pope says
By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Published April 2, 2020Pope Francis meditated on the meaning of the pandemic and its implications March 27 before raising a monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament and giving an extraordinary blessing “urbi et orbi”