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A milestone of moves for St. Vincent de Paul Georgia’s Motel to Home initiative 

SVdP Georgia recently celebrated the 1,000th family that moved into long-term housing through its unique Motel to Home program, which helps pay security deposits and first month’s rent.

• Red Mass, Blue Mass: How ‘color’ Masses serve professionals

  

  By D.D. EMMONS, OSV News
  Published September 17, 2026

  The Church has long offered Masses that recognize special occasions and needs. Among such Masses are those for professional groups, traditionally popularized by names of a color.

• Georgia’s bishops urge pardons board to commute death sentence of Stacey Humphreys

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
  Published September 14, 2026

  Georgia’s Catholic bishops are asking the state’s board of pardon and paroles to commute the sentence of death row inmate Stacey Humphreys.

• A quarter century after 9/11: Remembering, grieving and hoping

  

  By ARCHBISHOP GREGORY J. HARTMAYER, OFM Conv. 
  Published September 9, 2026

  This September marks 25 years since the morning the sky over three American cities filled with smoke, and the world as we knew it changed in the span of an hour.