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Catholic Foundation’s ‘loving witness’ celebrated at Deo Gratias Mass 

The Catholic Foundation honored donors who have established endowment funds or made a planned gift at an annual Deo Gratias Mass at Holy Spirit Church.

• Jaella Mac Au reflects on National Eucharistic Pilgrimage journey

  

  By NATALIA DURON
  Published November 4, 2024

  University of Georgia student Jaella Mac Au started her journey as a perpetual pilgrim in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage on May 19. Her journey to the National Eucharistic Congress was “hard, but worth every second,” she said.

• Multicultural procession of Pilgrims of Hope draws crowd 

  

  By ANDREW NELSON
  Published October 30, 2024

  A fall procession route linked St. Patrick Church and Holy Vietnamese Martyrs Church, Norcross, and Our Lady of Americas Mission, Lilburn, in a prayerful march defending an attack on belief in the Eucharist.

• Archbishop asks for prayers to see delayed school opening to fruition

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published October 23, 2024

  A grade school scheduled to open in Hall County is to be deferred as education leaders wrestle with an unexpected wrinkle: a time crunch to set up a permanent school.