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The year’s inspiring ‘Super Seniors’
May 4, 2017ATLANTA—Kindness, leadership, strength in the face of adversity—these are but some of the terms used to describe this year’s “Super Seniors” from the Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. The seven students, nominated by their high schools to be featured in The Georgia Bulletin, are examples of remarkable young people who are working […]
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Archbishop Gregory announces new priest assignments
May 4, 2017ATLANTA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following priest assignments, effective July 1, unless otherwise noted. Administrator Father Feiser Muñoz has been assigned administrator of St. Clement Church, Calhoun, effective Aug. 19. Chaplain Father S. Patrick Scully has been assigned as chaplain at Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Atlanta. Parochial Vicars Father Valery […]
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Catholic high schools name top scholars of senior class
May 4, 2017ATLANTA—The top two students academically in the class of 2017 at Our Lady of Mercy High School, Fayetteville, are valedictorian Cathy Tran and salutatorian Natalie Standard. Tran, the daughter of Hung The Cao and Uyen Ngoc Thi Vu, will be entering Augusta University, Augusta. The family attends Our Lady of Vietnam Church, Riverdale. Standard is […]
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Siblings admire what their sisters, brothers bring to the game
May 4, 2017Caroline and Lexi Orman of St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, inspired “The Siblings of Spring Sports,” a series that concludes in this issue of The Georgia Bulletin. The Orman twins were on the National Signing Day list in the Feb. 23 issue as they committed to play soccer at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama. Their […]
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Why be afraid when God is always showing the way, pope says
May 4, 2017VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Christians always have hope, no matter how bleak, bad or uncertain the journey, because they know God is always by their side, Pope Francis said. In fact, “even crossing parts of the world (that are) wounded, where things are not going well, we are among those who, even there, continue to hope,” he […]
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Unmask violence posing as holy, pope tells leaders in Egypt
May 4, 2017CAIRO (CNS)—Calling his visit to Egypt a journey of “unity and fraternity,” Pope Francis launched a powerful call to the nation’s religious leaders to expose violence masquerading as holy and condemn religiously inspired hatred as an idolatrous caricature of God. “Peace alone, therefore, is holy, and no act of violence can be perpetrated in the […]
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Theme of 2017 Eucharistic Congress is faith in the family
May 4, 2017COLLEGE PARK—The Eucharistic Congress of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, an opportunity for Catholics in the Southeast to gather for prayer, adoration, Mass and faith programs, will be held June 16-17 at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park. The theme of the 22nd annual event is from chapter 24, verse 15, of Joshua, “As […]
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Love Jesus in all who suffer, pope says on Palm Sunday
April 20, 2017VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Jesus does not ask that people only contemplate his image, but that they also recognize and love him concretely in all people who suffer like he did, Pope Francis said. Jesus is “present in our many brothers and sisters who today endure sufferings like his own—they suffer from slave labor, from family tragedies, […]
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Congo’s bishops: Catholics face new wave of violence
April 20, 2017KINSHASA, Congo (CNS)—Congo’s bishops said Catholics are facing a new wave of violence following the collapse of a church mediation plan, and in some places church leaders have fled to the forest. In late March, the bishops abandoned attempts to arrange a government-opposition power-sharing settlement and, within days, violence erupted in eastern Congo. “The militias […]
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Tolton Ambassadors Atlanta celebrate blessing of icon
April 20, 2017SMYRNA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory blessed an icon of Father Augustus Tolton, a priest who served in the archbishop’s hometown of Chicago, April 5 at the Chancery of the Archdiocese. The icon, by artist Joseph Malham, will be displayed in the archdiocesan Office of Intercultural and Ethnic Diversity. Father Tolton, granted the title of “Servant of […]