Notable

Atlanta

Young man at Most Blessed Sacrament Church completes Eagle Scout project

Caleb Taylor, 15, a rising junior at Westlake High School, is a step closer to joining his older brother, Joaquin, in earning the Boy Scouts of Americas’ highest award—Eagle Scout.

• New board chairman at Pregnancy Aid Clinic 

  Published March 9, 2021

  The Pregnancy Aid Clinic announced the appointment of Deacon Gary Schantz as chairman of the board of directors. He serves as a deacon at St. Jude the Apostle Church.

• Historian looks at Atlanta’s Our Lady of Lourdes Church

  

  Published March 3, 2021

  Dr. Leah Mickens focused on the city’s oldest historically Black parish, located a block from Ebenezer Baptist, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served. She examined how Black Catholics at Our Lady of Lourdes influenced and were influenced by religious and social change ushered in by the Second Vatican Council and the civil rights movement. 

• Pro-life billboard placed near Atlanta airport

  

  Published February 22, 2021

  A Mississippi pro-life initiative recently placed a billboard on I-85 north near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airport, reading “Choose Life—Pray, Pray, Pray.” Learn how to support the program.