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Marist School gets goats to help battle creek erosion
November 1, 2018ATLANTA—Rented goats visited the campus of Marist School Oct. 16-23 upon the invitation of environmental science students and their teacher Kelly Mandy. Students in Mandy’s science classes began researching ways to help restore riparian zones along the banks of the school’s Nancy Creek. Riparian zones are the 50-foot areas that border rivers and other bodies […]
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Archbishop answers Catholics’ questions on abuse
November 1, 2018ATLANTA—In the weeks since scandals related to former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and troubling revelations of heinous abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses have come to light in the national media, many parishioners in churches across the Atlanta Archdiocese have met together for prayer and to share their concerns in an open or town hall format. […]
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My encounter with the goat at Marist School
October 31, 2018Who wouldn’t want to come face to face with the GOAT (the greatest of all time)? GOAT has been a part of our sports jargon for over two decades It’s such a big deal it was among the 840 words added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary this year. It’s often reserved for a select group of […]
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Remembering a life of service to the Archdiocese of Atlanta
October 25, 2018Every good author needs an editor who’s better. When I write, I generally cannot notice my own mistakes or that the words I have written might be misunderstood or are ambiguous. I was so fortunate during these past almost fourteen years to have had Mary Anne Castranio, executive editor of The Georgia Bulletin, to help […]
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For Catholics, St. Oscar Romero’s canonization a dream come true
October 24, 2018ROME (CNS)—For many pilgrims from El Salvador and for many Catholics who focus on the tie between faith and justice, waiting for the canonization of St. Oscar Romero was an exercise in patience. The declaration of the sainthood of the Salvadoran archbishop, who was assassinated while celebrating Mass in 1980, teaches men and women that […]
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Pinecrest Academy celebrates 25th anniversary with groundbreaking for new building
October 24, 2018CUMMING—An estimated 1,000 supporters of Pinecrest Academy celebrated the school’s 25th anniversary on Friday, Sept. 7 as it embarked on building permanent lower school classrooms. Prayers were said and the ground was sprinkled with holy water as the school broke ground for the building on the campus of the independent Catholic school in Forsyth County. […]
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Adrian Dominican Sister Mary Priniski remembers an ‘amazing 50 years’
October 23, 2018DECATUR—Adrian Dominican Sister Mary Priniski, Ph.D., has devoted her life to advocating for the rights of workers and the marginalized, first inspired by a 1971 Vatican synod that declared social justice a constitutive element of the Gospel. Now in her 50th year of religious life, she perseveres in her labors with new vigor as interim […]
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Walker Percy’s ‘Why Are You A Catholic?’
October 23, 2018Over the past few weeks—in the wake of the crisis in the Catholic Church—I’ve had a number of experiences, encounters, and exchanges that have been by turns puzzling, maddening, and serendipitous. Two weeks ago, for example, when my family and I were enjoying several days in New York City, we visited St. Patrick’s Cathedral. We […]
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Bishop Shlesinger celebrates Green Mass on feast of St. Francis
October 23, 2018ATLANTA—Karen Jimenez relies on the papal encyclical “Laudato Si” as inspiration when teaching her ecology class at Holy Spirit Preparatory School, Atlanta. In his papal encyclical, Pope Francis included two prayers on environmental issues—one an interfaith prayer for all and one specifically for Christians. The prayers often open and close Jimenez’s class, which is largely […]
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Father Michael Steven Sherliza, a priest of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, dies
October 23, 2018MARIETTA— Father Michael Steven Sherliza, a priest of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, died Oct. 22 after battling a long series of illnesses. He was 62. The son of Robert Joseph Sherliza and Lizzette (Sullivan) Sherliza, he was born on Oct. 2, 1956, the feast of the Guardian Angels, in Attleboro, Massachusetts. He attended St. Mary’s […]