Ministries

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Atlanta

Family, chaplain speak of Hawthorne Dominicans’ life-changing ‘oasis’

ROSWELL—“A Bouquet of Loving Hearts” was the theme of the 62nd annual luncheon supporting Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home, held at St. Peter Chanel Church on Oct. 20. The luncheon honored the Hawthorne Dominican Sisters who established the Atlanta home where they provide free care to terminally ill cancer patients. An estimated 350 guests […] Full Story

• Momentum grows for metro Atlanta Catholic radio station following pledge drive

  Published December 6, 2018

  ROSWELL—Listeners to Atlanta’s new Catholic radio station, AM 1160, the Quest, were taken on a “Journey through Atlanta Spirit Drive” on Oct. 23-25 as the station held its first on-air pledge drive. The drive was broadcast live from the station’s studio in Roswell. Guests, from local priests to ministry and apostolate leaders to a former […] Full Story

• Central Night Shelter, parish-supported programs serve metro’s homeless

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published December 6, 2018

  ATLANTA—When Cathal Doyle and Jessie Bashor walked down the steps of the red brick Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to Central Avenue as newlyweds in 2011 more than a dozen men from the Central Night Shelter greeted them to wish the bride and groom well. The Atlanta shelter and the men who stay there had […] Full Story

• Welcoming wives at diaconate formation classes magnifies impact

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Special to the Bulletin
  Published November 21, 2018

  ATLANTA—As her husband, Deacon Rick Medina, went through diaconate formation, Christy Medina also experienced a spiritual awakening and undertook her own journey of prayer, faith and study to become a chaplain and spiritual director. Earning a master’s degree, the mother of three now ministers as an Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital chaplain, inspired by her husband’s […] Full Story