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Marist School’s first lay president centers year around students, teachers 

Masses, sporting events and enthusiastic assemblies have filled the calendar of J.D. Childs, the new president of Marist School. “Teachers and students are the most important folks at Marist School,” said Childs. “So my hope for my first year as president surrounds them.” He is the first lay president of Marist in the school’s 122-year history.

• Father Eduardo Rodriguez, OCSO, remembered

  

  Published October 26, 2023

  Father Eduardo Rodriguez, OCSO, a monk at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit, died Oct. 24, at the monastery infirmary in the company of his brothers.

• Emory author hopes to inspire view of parishes as ‘schools of solidarity’ 

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published October 9, 2023

  Susan B. Reynolds studies and teaches Catholic theology at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She recently published her first book, which takes a deep dive into a working-class parish in Boston. 

• Castranio Georgia Bulletin Fund to sustain work of archdiocesan newspaper 

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
  Published October 5, 2023

  For 60 years, The Georgia Bulletin has been the source of Catholic news for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. In commemoration of the anniversary, an endowment named for its late executive editor Mary Anne Castranio has been established.