2022
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Catholic Foundation awards 30 for 30th
By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
Published July 7, 2022The Catholic Foundation of North Georgia issued 30 parish enrichment grants instead of the traditional 10 during the spring grant cycle in celebration of the foundation’s 30th anniversary.
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Parish Milestones: St. Thomas Aquinas Church celebrates 50 years
By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
Published July 7, 2022Parishioners of St. Thomas Aquinas Church celebrated the community’s 50th anniversary on Pentecost weekend. Started as a mission, it was elevated to parish status in June 1972 by Archbishop Thomas Donnellan.
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Friday Congress events focus on Christ’s transformative, healing nature
By ERIKA ANDERSON REDDING, Special to the Bulletin
Published July 7, 2022Kicking off a weekend that many had anticipated for two years, the Friday evening events of the 25th Eucharistic Congress drew a crowd who couldn’t wait to get started.
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Atlanta’s Eucharistic Congress celebrates joyful return, launches national revival
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published July 4, 2022The Archdiocese of Atlanta’s Eucharistic Congress returned with a roar, the traditional waving of banners and upbeat noise of drums, impromptu singing and horn-blowing of the eucharistic procession, attracting thousands and welcoming back ‘the lost and the broken.’
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Atlanta pro-life advocates offer concrete ways to help moms in need
By NICHOLE GOLDEN and SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writers
Published June 29, 2022Keri Ninness leads the Walking with Moms in Need (WWMIN) initiative at her parish, St. Joseph Church in Marietta. She said the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is a call to action for Catholics.
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A father’s reflection: More than just a journal
By DONNELL SUGGS, Catholic News Service
Published June 17, 2022My 7-year-old son puts everything he sees on our walks into his new journal. I had the opportunity to pass on one of my oldest traditions—journaling—to him this year and he’s taken to it faster than I could have expected.
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Jesus rescues us when we fall
By LORRAINE V. MURRAY, Commentary
Published June 10, 2022The gardener had pruned some trees for me and called me outside to see the results. I took a look and was quite pleased, then headed inside to get his check.
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Anonymous donor helps Cathedral acquire Pietà replica
By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
Published June 10, 2022The Cathedral of Christ the King recently announced that the marble replica of Michelangelo’s Pietà will become a permanent installation of the cathedral.
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Mercy grad grateful for GRACE Scholars support
By ABIGAIL WHEELER, Special to the Bulletin
Published June 10, 2022The blessing of Catholic education can be difficult to attain for some families. Fortunately, through the generosity of donors, the GRACE Scholars program provides assistance to make that education an option for a wider array of students.
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Hearts longing for God: praying outside the chapel
By WILLIAM FREIDANK, Special to the Bulletin
Published June 10, 2022The sentiments from a broken relationship are too often seen superficially, in novels or over the airwaves. Others dismiss them as an inevitable “syndrome” in need of healing. All miss the significance behind the reality—to be heartbroken is not a tragedy of nature, nor a thing to be romanticized.
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The spiritual cost of binge watching
By JULIAN SAVIANO
Published June 10, 2022Just one more episode. Counting the perpetual instances I’ve uttered those words is embarrassing to contemplate.
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Sharing the Good News
By TEO HARRISSON, Special to The Bulletin
Published June 10, 2022We can all recall moments in our lives when the things that once brought us joy and accomplishment begin to fade in color. For some, this incompleteness occurs in times of success and surrounded by friends, for others in moments of suffering and solitude.
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Honoring the war dead on Memorial Day
By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
Published June 10, 2022On Memorial Day, Bishop Joel M. Konzen, SM, auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Atlanta, celebrated Mass at the Marietta National Cemetery to honor the souls of fallen American service members.
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GRACE Scholars prepares for new website, opens registration July 1
By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
Published June 9, 2022GRACE Scholars, a Georgia nonprofit corporation and tax-exempt charity, will launch its new website and open 2023 registration on July 1.
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Friday food drive, family track new to Eucharistic Congress
By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
Published June 9, 2022The Eucharistic Congress returns June 17-18 following a two-year hiatus. The 25th Congress at the Georgia International Convention Center will include a new family track, a food drive in partnership with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and veneration of relics to launch a period of eucharistic renewal.
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Georgia Martyrs art blessed at Holy Spirit Church
By Georgia Bulletin Staff
Published June 9, 2022On Wednesday, May 18, Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer, OFM Conv., celebrated Mass at Holy Spirit Church and then blessed a new painting of the five Georgia Martyrs. Msgr. Edward Dillon, pastor, commissioned Pamela Gardner to paint the portrait.
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Save the mothers, save the world
By KRISTINA MCGOVERN, Special to the Bulletin
Published June 9, 2022Once we save children from being killed by abortion, what’s next? We, as Catholics, cannot stop at protecting children in the womb.
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U.S. bishops urge Congress to address gun violence
By CAROL ZIMMERMANN, Catholic News Service
Published June 9, 2022In response to the mass shootings in recent weeks, the chairmen of four U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to “stop the massacres of innocent lives.”
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Using freedom to serve the good of others
By BISHOP BERNARD E. SHLESINGER III
Published June 9, 2022What might Jesus say to the graduates of today as they embark on a new adventure and the freedom to pursue their dreams?
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Meet the newly ordained archdiocesan priests
Published June 9, 2022
Learn more about Atlanta’s four newest priests, ordained by Archbishop Hartmayer on May 28.
