September 17, 2026
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Catholic Foundation donors reflect on faith as motivator for giving
By NATALIA DURON, Staff Writer
Published September 22, 2026The Catholic Foundation of North Georgia celebrated members of the Deo Gratias Society and Founders Society at a Sept. 3 Mass and reception at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Atlanta. Donors reflected on their gifts to the Archdiocese of Atlanta and what motivated them to support the Church.
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Gladly learn and gladly teach: Back to college with Chaucer
By DAVID A. KING, Ph.D.
Published September 21, 2026From the COVID pandemic to funding cuts, from admissions scandals and upheaval in athletics to anxiety about AI, the American college campus hasn’t seemed so fraught with crisis and controversy since the student uprising of the 1960s.
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Georgia pilgrims visit Alabama sites, celebrate Festival del Divino Niño
By NATALIA DURON
Published September 21, 2026On Sept. 4-5, St. Joseph Church in Dalton collaborated with Catholic speaker and EWTN host Paula Umaña to host a two-day pilgrimage in Alabama for the annual Festival del Divino Niño.
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A meeting of malicious minions
By LORRAINE V. MURRAY
Published September 21, 2026I hurried anxiously into the crowded room and took a seat, although I didn’t know why I was there. Then a creepy creature took the podium, and I cringed, when he announced the agenda. “We’re here to celebrate her sins.”
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Keeping watch with Jesus: Archdiocese of Atlanta installs council for nocturnal adoration
By NATALIA DURON, Staff Writer
Published September 18, 2026While many Georgians are sleeping at night, Catholics across the Archdiocese of Atlanta are awake praying before the Blessed Sacrament. This practice is known as nocturnal adoration.
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Ignatius House: 65 years of connecting others with God
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published September 18, 2026The Ignatius House Jesuit Retreat Center is marking its 65th anniversary, while celebrating the latest campus addition, The Upper Room.
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Catholic school days memorialized with love
By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Editor
Published September 18, 2026Members of the Class of 1966 of Saint Joseph Catholic High School memorialized the school’s existence with the dedication and blessing of a plaque at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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Red Mass, Blue Mass: How ‘color’ Masses serve professionals
By D.D. EMMONS, OSV News
Published September 17, 2026The Church has long offered Masses that recognize special occasions and needs. Among such Masses are those for professional groups, traditionally popularized by names of a color.
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A milestone of moves for St. Vincent de Paul Georgia’s Motel to Home initiative
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published September 17, 2026SVdP Georgia recently celebrated the 1,000th family that moved into long-term housing through its unique Motel to Home program, which helps pay security deposits and first month’s rent.
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A quarter century after 9/11: Remembering, grieving and hoping
By ARCHBISHOP GREGORY J. HARTMAYER, OFM Conv.
Published September 9, 2026This September marks 25 years since the morning the sky over three American cities filled with smoke, and the world as we knew it changed in the span of an hour.
