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Seniors led May crowning at Pinecrest Academy
May 26, 2022Pinecrest Academy welcomed Bishop Joel M. Konzen, SM, to campus on April 29. As the main celebrant of an all school Mass, Bishop Konzen joined high school students for their annual May crowning ceremony.
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Father James H. Sexstone Jr. remembered
May 26, 2022Father James H. “Jim” Sexstone, a priest of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, died May 19 after a battle with cancer, surrounded by family and his brother priests. He was 78 years old.
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Catholic–Jewish dialogue group visits Atlanta’s King Center, other civil rights sites
May 26, 2022Leaders of the Catholic and Jewish faith communities gathered for fellowship and to find ways to heal the hatred of racism in a three-day journey to civil rights landmarks with stops in Atlanta.
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Texas bishop says mass shootings ‘most pressing life issue’
May 25, 2022U.S. bishops spoke against easy accessibility to guns following a rampage that left at least 19 children and two of their teachers dead in Texas. “The darkness first takes our children who then kill our children, using the guns that are easier to obtain than aspirin, said Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville.
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Archbishop Hartmayer offers statement in wake of Texas school shooting
May 25, 2022Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., offered words to the faithful in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, encouraging all to offer light in a dark time.
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Secret Masses in the forest
May 19, 2022Father Walter Ciszek, SJ, wrote about his grueling years of imprisonment in Russian camps, where prisoners were forced to work in the freezing cold while wearing the thinnest clothing
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2022 priest assignments announced
May 18, 2022Archbishop Gregory John Hartmayer, OFM Conv., announces priest assignments and appointments, effective July 1 in the archdiocese.
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Former Atlanta priest ordained to lead Charleston diocese
May 17, 2022About 2,500 people gathered on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima for the ordination of the first Haitian American bishop to lead a diocese in the United States. Bishop Jacques Fabre-Jeune, CS, was ordained as the 14th bishop of the Diocese of Charleston. He was formerly administrator of San Felipe de Jesús Mission, Forest Park.
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Saints’ lives prove God’s love for all, pope says at canonization Mass
May 17, 2022An estimated 45,000 pilgrims from around the world assembled in St. Peter’s Square for a May 15 canonization Mass. Pope Francis canonized 10 new saints who exemplify the Christian call “to offer our lives without expecting anything in return, or any worldly glory.”
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Atlanta archbishop denounces hate-motivated shooting in Buffalo, church shooting in California
May 16, 2022Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., was deeply disturbed to hear about a deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.