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• Cyclist makes it cross country for Atlanta student scholarships

  By Andrew Nelson
  Published July 27, 2015

  Cyclist Dick Marklein completed his cross-country trek to raise scholarship money for Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School. That’s 52 Days and 3900 Miles. The cyclist began on May 31st in San Francisco and ended in Portsmouth, N.H., where Marklein dipped his bike into the Atlantic Ocean. The trip was the cyclists’ once in a […] Full Story

• A parish name spurs sibling rivalry

  Published July 9, 2015

  I traveled down memory lane the other day editing a Catholic News Service news briefs with a dateline Abu Dhabi. It seems a new Catholic church there was being dedicated. The capital of the United Arab Emirates isn’t a center of Catholicism by most measures. But it turns out the church in this Arab country […] Full Story

• UGA Catholic Center leader dies

  By Andrew Nelson
  Published July 6, 2015

  It is with a heavy heart that we have to let everyone know that our beloved Fr Tom has passed away tonight. We know he… Posted by UGA Catholic Center on Saturday, July 4, 2015 I met Franciscan Father Tom Vigliotta a handful of times, traveling to Athens and the Catholic Center at the University of […] Full Story

• ***UPDATE: Giving Glory To God Through Gardening

  By Michael Alexander, Staff Photographer
  Published May 21, 2015

  Gloria Nelson, a dedicated gardener who attends St. Peter Chanel Church in Roswell, and the inspiration for the initial gardening blog post in 2013, has sent me some garden photos from April and May. Once again I’m calling on all the garden and flower lovers out there to send us some of your garden photos […] Full Story

• Interactive Photo: Sr. Helen Prejean talks to the Catholic Center at UGA

  Published April 14, 2015

   Photo: Michael Alexander, Georgia Bulletin  

• How much do you value bookstores?

  Published March 24, 2015

    I wrote about the Trinity Book Store for our March 19 issue. I left there impressed with the care the owner, Lisa Randolph, took to create a environment beyond the buying and selling of items. It made we wonder, does our culture value these type of places or in this age of online shopping is […] Full Story

• A December day marks the Advent arrival of an archbishop

  

  By Michael Alexander, Staff Photographer
  Published December 9, 2014

  Ten years ago today the late Archbishop John F. Donoghue stood at the podium on the first floor of the old Chancery on West Peachtree in Midtown Atlanta, where he conducted an afternoon press conference to announce his successor, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory. The press conference took place on a Thursday. In those days The […] Full Story

• A walk among the dead can heighten the senses of the living

  

  By Michael Alexander, Staff Photographer
  Published November 13, 2014

  On two previous occasions I had driven to Sharon, Ga., home to Georgia’s oldest Catholic church, Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary; however, I had never been to the Locust Grove Cemetery, Georgia’s oldest Catholic cemetery. It’s approximately three miles from the church, in a wooded area, off an unpaved road. I was there to […] Full Story

• The stories of love grow over the time of a long marriage

  

  By Michael Alexander, Staff Photographer
  Published October 16, 2014

  Last Saturday I was taking photographs at the archdiocesan Chancery during “The Joy Filled Marriage,” a pre-marriage program conducted by the Archdiocese of Atlanta’s Office of Formation and Discipleship. One of the couples I met was Taylor Fairey of St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Alpharetta, and his fiancée Lauren Mathews of St. Benedict Church, Johns Creek. […] Full Story

• Lyke House marks a decade and a half of ministry to AUC students

  

  By Michael Alexander, Staff Photographer
  Published October 16, 2014

  This weekend, Oct. 17-19, Lyke House, the Catholic Center at Atlanta University Center, marks the 15th anniversary of its dedication. Students, alumni, benefactors and a whole host of people in the community who assist in cultivating and shaping the mission of Lyke House will be there to celebrate the occasion. This has been a banner […] Full Story

• Blue Ribbons, cake and Bomb Pops

  

  By Michael Alexander, Staff Photographer
  Published October 2, 2014

  This past Tuesday, Sept. 30, it became public knowledge that two archdiocesan Catholic schools, Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, and St. Jude the Apostle School, Atlanta, and one independent Catholic school, Pinecrest Academy, Cumming, were named National Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence for 2014 by the U.S. Department of Education. For months these honors had […] Full Story

• Do you have any good books?

  By Andrew Nelson
  Published October 2, 2014

  There’s a saying in journalism, “get the name of the dog.” It encourages writers to keep their eyes open for details to add to a story. These details can pull back the curtain to reveal the person beyond their words. On assignment I often poke around to look at books in a person’s home. Or I may ask […] Full Story

• Portraits of a Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School student

  By Michael Alexander, Staff Photographer
  Published September 18, 2014

  For nearly three weeks I have had the opportunity to shadow two Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School freshmen, Sean McNeal and Bethy Ramirez-Sanchez. I followed the teens around school to various classes and study hall during a typical school day. On one occasion I met them outside of their school environment and I saw […] Full Story

• Voting at the priest convocation

  Published September 10, 2014

  The vote tally zoomed up to 100, then 125, paused at 160 jumped to 170, and finally the stragglers would finally get around to casting their ballots with the handheld voting devices. I watched the votes Tuesday afternoon coming in at the Archdiocese of Atlanta Priest Convocation at Lake Lanier Islands Resort. It was one step […] Full Story

• ‘On with the show!’

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff writer
  Published August 28, 2014

  Holy Cross Church in Atlanta celebrates its golden anniversary this year — 50 years of reaching out to the community. One of the unique ministries at Holy Cross is its theater program, started formally five years ago. The theater productions began as a way to fund the parish’s Friends of St. Martin de Porres ministry to […] Full Story

• Inside Atlanta’s Melkite Catholic Church

  Published August 15, 2014

  I don’t often have the chance to attend an Eastern Catholic church, but a recent assignment took me to the former Candler mansion on Atlanta’s Ponce de Leon Avenue where Melkite Catholics worship and gather as a community. St. John Chrysostum Greek Catholic Church  has been here for more than 50 years. Here’s the lede for my […] Full Story

• ***UPDATE: Giving Glory To God Through Gardening

  

  By Michael Alexander, Staff Photographer
  Published August 4, 2014

  Gloria Nelson, a dedicated gardener who attends St. Peter Chanel Church, and the inspiration for the initial gardening blog post in 2013, has sent me some garden photos once again. August is already upon us, so I’m calling on all the garden and flower lovers out there to send us some of your garden photos […] Full Story

• Vatican astronomer saluted for his efforts by American Astronomical Society

  

  Published July 18, 2014

  Here’s an update to story we ran in 2010. Catholic News Service reported earlier this week Jesuit Br. Guy Consolmagno, an astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, received the prestigious Carl Sagan Medal for “outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist.” The award is from the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences. The whip-smart guy spoke […] Full Story

• Prayers from Prison

  

  Published June 2, 2014

  Within moments of clearing security at the prison gate, I felt the apprehension about my first ever jail visit disappear. On the evening of May 6, Georgia Bulletin photographer Michael Alexander and I received permission to accompany a group of prison ministry volunteers to witness confirmations and baptisms of several inmates at Lee Arrendale State […] Full Story

• Curious about this icon?

  Published May 23, 2014

  Learn more about this icon and the recent ecumenical gathering by clicking here. It’ll take you to an interactive display. We’ll have the story in the next issue of the Georgia Bulletin. -Andrew