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• Do you have any good books?

  October 2, 2014

  There’s a saying in journalism, “get the name of the dog.” It encourages writers to keep their eyes open for details to add to a story. These details can pull back the curtain to reveal the person beyond their words. On assignment I often poke around to look at books in a person’s home. Or I may ask […]

• Archbishop Gregory interview on reorganizing Chancery administration

  September 19, 2014

  This is the full text of the Georgia Bulletin question-and-answer interview with Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory about his appointment of a chief operating officer of the Atlanta Archdiocese and other administrative changes made in July 2014. A story based on the written interview was published Sept. 18, 2014.  Q. You and David Spotanski have a […]

• ‘It pierced my heart like a knife,’ nun says after visit to Iraqis

  September 18, 2014

  BEIRUT (CNS)—Sister Marie Claude Naddaf, provincial leader of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd for Lebanon and Syria, is still shaken by what she witnessed visiting Irbil, Iraq. Representing the Union of the Superior Generals of women religious in Lebanon, Sister Marie Claude accompanied Catholic Near East Welfare Association on its Sept. 2-5 mission to […]

• Ukrainian church leader: West must help stop Russian interference

  September 18, 2014

  WARSAW, Poland (CNS)—A Ukrainian church leader said Western governments need to use “all available means” to curb Russian military interference. “Every right-thinking European should realize that what’s happening here has worldwide implications,” said Bishop Bohdan Dzyurakh, secretary-general of the Ukrainian Catholic Synod of Bishops. “Besides raping all international law, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin is also […]

• At wedding, pope says spouses make each other better people

  September 18, 2014

  VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Presiding over the wedding of 20 couples in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated marriage as the union of a man and woman playing complementary roles during their common journey through life. “This is what marriage is all about: man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever […]

• Pope: People have yet to learn that war is madness, indifference a sin

  September 18, 2014

  VATICAN CITY (CNS)—When will people ever learn that war is madness and conflicts are only resolved by forgiveness, Pope Francis asked. The pope said it is believed that more than 8 million soldiers and 7 million civilians died during World War I—a four-year-long conflict that began 100 years ago. The number of so many lost […]

• Cristo Rey graduate says it was a ‘life-changer’

  September 18, 2014

  CHICAGO—Andy Laureano, a graduate of the original Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, received a full ride scholarship to the University of San Francisco. It was a long way from the gang-infested neighborhood of Little Village where he grew up. “I definitely had a great experience there,” said Laureano of his time as a […]

• ‘What if every student had a job?’ Atlanta takes up the Cristo Rey challenge

  September 18, 2014

  Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School opened its doors in August with some 160 students in the inaugural freshman class of this Atlanta school. It’s the first Catholic high school to open in the center of the city since the 1970s when St. Joseph High School closed. Marist School moved from its downtown campus beside […]

• Priests convene, add their pastoral plan recommendations

  September 18, 2014

  BUFORD—Priests of the Atlanta Archdiocese paused from their ministries recently as they voted on what may become the pastoral priorities of the Catholic Church here over the next five years. Some 180 clergymen attended the convocation of priests, held at Legacy Lodge at Lake Lanier, from Monday, Sept. 8, to Thursday, Sept. 11, to add […]

• Statement of Catholic bishops of Georgia regarding unaccompanied minor children and refugee families

  September 18, 2014

  The plight of people migrating because of oppression arouses our compassion particularly when those migrants and refugees include so many children and young families. As pastors, we are deeply moved by the rapidly increasing number of children unaccompanied by parents or guardians as well as parents with young children who have fled their homes in […]