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• Local church reflects worldwide growth

  August 20, 2015

  During the past few weeks, several media outlets have turned their attention to our rapid and expansive growth. Our Pastoral Plan is designed to help us address some of the challenges of a growing and expanding Catholic presence here in north and central Georgia. As you may have read, the American South in general is […]

• World’s mayors head to Vatican, vow to tackle climate change, poverty

  August 7, 2015

  VATICAN CITY (CNS)—After decades of world leaders trying to set global goals to address climate change and extreme poverty, city mayors gathered at the Vatican to pledge they will take real action and lead the fight on their streets. Pope Francis told the mayors that they were important because they were at the “grass roots” […]

• Cardinal urges senators to back measure to defund Planned Parenthood

  August 7, 2015

  WASHINGTON (CNS)—The head of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee Aug. 3 urged U.S. senators to take the federal money that goes to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and instead fund women’s health care providers that do not promote abortion. “It has long been troubling to many Americans that the nation’s largest abortion network, performing […]

• Alabama parish a waypoint for NAACP Selma-to-D.C. march

  August 7, 2015

  WASHINGTON (CNS)—A small parish in Montgomery, Alabama—with its own links to the civil rights movement—became the first stopover in the NAACP’s “Journey for Justice” march, which started Aug. 1 in Selma, Alabama, and is scheduled to end in Washington in mid-September. St. Jude Parish has been hosting 100 to 150 marchers for the first week […]

• St. Anna’s new church, with historic bells, graces Walton County landscape

  August 6, 2015

  MONROE—The gleaming white bell tower of St. Anna Church in Monroe is a new landmark on the landscape of Walton County. St. Anna parishioners celebrated the culmination of seven years of planning, work and sacrifice at a Mass of dedication for their new church July 26 — the feast day of St. Anna and St. […]

• Mass of inclusion celebrates anniversary of Americans With Disabilities Act

  August 6, 2015

  MARIETTA—Twenty-five years ago, a Mass like the one Bishop David P. Talley celebrated at the Church of St. Ann July 26 may not have been possible. The annual archdiocesan Mass of Inclusion marked a special celebration this year—the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act. “This sign of our government, that […]

• Marist Father John Sullivan, 50 years a priest, dies

  August 6, 2015

  ATLANTA—Father John Sullivan, SM, 78, parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Brookhaven, died July 28. He professed religious vows to the Society of Mary on Sept. 8, 1959, and recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Father Sullivan was raised and educated in California. He earned degrees […]

• Vocations director, seminarians see hunger for Gospel in Tanzania mission trip

  August 6, 2015

  ATLANTA—Joy is the souvenir from a recent mission trip to Tanzania for Father Tim Hepburn, director of vocations for the archdiocese, and seminarians Jack Knight and Juan Carlos Pacheco. The three traveled from Atlanta to the east African nation in July for a 16-day trip with Renewal Ministries. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based ministry focuses on […]

• Catholic Relief works in Tanzania on developing small farms, aiding refugees

  August 6, 2015

  ATLANTA—In the east African country of Tanzania, Catholic Relief Services’ programs range from teaching schoolchildren about sanitation and hygiene to supporting agricultural livelihoods and assisting refugees from other nations. “Our CRS projects are scattered all over the country,” said Cullen Larson, Southeast regional director for the agency. “It’s quite varied.” Larson worked as interim country […]

• Eucharist is a call to mission, to feeding the poor, pope says

  August 6, 2015

  SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (CNS)—The Eucharist is a missionary sacrament; it calls people to give all they are and have to God, seek his blessing and then take his love to the world, Pope Francis said at the opening Mass for Bolivia’s national Eucharistic congress. Obeying Jesus’ command to “do this in memory of me,” he […]