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Fish fry season a time for fellowship 

Community comes together at St. Thomas More Church on Fridays like it does at parishes around the Atlanta Archdiocese as hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of meals are served at traditional Lenten fish frys.  

• Athens’ Monsignor Donovan High School walks with students facing cancer

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published marzo 16, 2023

  Prayers for the intercession of St. Peregrine were added to the morning announcements at Monsignor Donovan High School as two of its students had their lives altered by cancer. Eduardo Blanco and John Paul Abrigo learned of their cancer diagnoses within weeks of each other.

• Chesterton Academy hires headmaster, prepares for inaugural year

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published marzo 16, 2023

  A new high school featuring a classical education on the campus of St. Catherine of Siena Church achieved a milestone with the recent hiring of a headmaster, along with naming its faculty. 

• Prayer services honor student slain outside Lyke House Newman Center 

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published marzo 2, 2023

  With heavy hearts, the Lyke House Newman Center community remembered a slain college student during two prayer services. A 20-year-old Chicago native was shot Feb. 28 outside the Atlanta center that serves four college campuses.