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Forest Park and Haitian communities say farewell to beloved priest
May 27, 2022The Haitian Catholic community in Atlanta and parishioners of San Felipe de Jesús Mission in Forest Park said goodbye to their spiritual leader, appointed by Pope Francis to become the next Bishop of Charleston.
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Saints author speaks at Decatur’s St. Thomas More Church
May 27, 2022St. Thomas More Church hosted author and speaker Meg Hunter-Kilmer to study the risen Christ’s encounters with the people he loved
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Enlightening numbers on young Catholics
May 26, 2022In a major research study released in 2021 (Springtide Research Institute), young Catholics between the ages of 13 and 25 were asked numerous questions about their spirituality, faith and beliefs. The study is important because it’s the largest such study we have to tell us how young Catholics are thinking.
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Catholic schools prepare for new family in the fall
May 26, 2022For two Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the end of the school year comes with bittersweet feelings as their communities consolidate to become St. Mary’s Academy in Fayetteville.
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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