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• UGA Catholic Center’s Sister Barbara Daniels marks 50 years of religious life

  

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Special to the Bulletin
  Published September 20, 2018

  ATHENS—As a Missionary Sister of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Sister Barbara Daniels has educated in faith and mathematics from the remote Pacific country of Papua New Guinea and cities across Africa to Catholic schools across Pennsylvania and an international spirituality center in France. And since 2012 she has joyfully carried out her latest […] Full Story

• ‘Voices of young people’ can overcome resurgence of bigotry, archbishop says

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff writer
  Published August 24, 2017

  ATHENS—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory urged Catholic college students to have the courage of faith to respond to hatred and bigotry. Speaking to about 500 students at the Catholic Center at the University of Georgia, the archbishop focused on a faith response to the violent and hate-filled demonstrations that took place during a rally of white […] Full Story | En Español

• Athens hospital honors former employee, now volunteer

  

  Published August 24, 2017

  ATHENS—Frankie Jones, of Oglethorpe County, and long-time St. Mary Hospital employee turned volunteer, was recently named St. Mary’s Foundation 2017 Auxiliary Volunteer of the Year. Jones began working at the Athens hospital in 1950. During her initial years at St. Mary’s, Jones lived on the hospital property in a house that the Missionary Sisters of […] Full Story

• Laudato Bee Honey sold for environmental projects by UGA Catholics

  Published July 6, 2017

  ATHENS—The Laudato Si’ Squad, of the Catholic Center at the University of Georgia, is comprised of a small group of students who collaborate with the community to spread awareness of human connection to the rest of God’s creation and each other. The group is focused on initiatives at the Catholic Center, from planting native flower […] Full Story

• Doors close for the last time at St. Joseph’s Prince Avenue church

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 9, 2017

  ATHENS—Josephine Strickland was baptized in 1932 at St. Joseph Church. The fifth generation of her family to worship there, she had the task of ceremoniously closing its 1912 doors with a timeworn padlock. “I thought of all the things that happened here. I’m going to miss it. It will always be special to me,” said […] Full Story

• UGA center hosts Irish writer Colm Toíbín

  Published March 9, 2017

  ATHENS—The Willson Center at the University of Georgia will host a program featuring internationally known Irish novelist, dramatist, scholar and critic Colm Toíbín; Irish Times writer, literary editor and drama critic Fintan O’Toole; and Irish singer/composer/musicologist Iarla Ó Lionáird. Toíbín is presenting as the second annual Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. He is the […] Full Story

• St. Pius grads earn places on UGA homecoming court

  Published October 20, 2016

  ATHENS—St. Pius X alumni Aneek James ‘13 and Frank Martin ‘13 were two of the five men recently chosen for the University of Georgia Homecoming Court. James was nominated by the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society and Martin by the university’s visitors center. James and Martin were chosen from 220 nominees. The Homecoming King and […] Full Story

• New class of medical residents learn skills at St. Mary’s Hospital

  Published September 1, 2016

  ATHENS—The Internal Medicine Residency Program, a joint effort of the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership and St. Mary’s Health Care System, this summer welcomed its second group of medical residents. The 10 residents are in the final phase of their medical education. Each completed medical school and now begins a three-year medical residency that […] Full Story

• Athens women to hike The Camino

  Published September 1, 2016

  ATHENS—Two Athens women are planning to hike The Camino de Santiago de Compostela (The Way of St. James of Compostela), the pilgrimage route to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. The two Athens residents, Marianne Reeves and Marty Ledenham, trained together but first met on a Kennesaw Mountain hike sponsored by the […] Full Story

• Emergency department tech receives top hospital award

  

  Published July 7, 2016

  ATHENS—Debbie Boyle, an emergency department supply tech at St. Mary’s Hospital, Athens, received the highest award from St. Mary’s Healthcare System. Boyle was honored with the 2016 Catherine McAuley Award. The award, named in honor of the foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, was presented at the June 14 Tenure Banquet, honoring 278 employees for […] Full Story

• Monsignor Donovan senior makes volunteering a habit

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published May 26, 2016

  ATHENS—Monsignor Donovan High School valedictorian Rachel Krunkosky encourages incoming students to get involved. “Take an interest you have and do everything in that field,” said Krunkosky. A glance at her résumé shows her advice to new students comes from first-hand experience. Current president of the Student Government Association and the Leo Club at the independent […] Full Story

• Athens students create winning art for statewide contest

  Published May 26, 2016

  ATHENS—Three St. Joseph School, Athens, young artists have had their designs chosen as winners in the statewide Give Wildlife a Chance poster contest. Kindergarten student Ginna Dugas won first place in her grade level for her drawing of sea turtles done with sharpie and tempo. Clayton Scott, in second grade at the Athens Catholic school, […] Full Story

• UGA scientists, Catholics let pope know they got the ‘Laudato Si’’ message

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published April 14, 2016

  ATHENS—As birds chirped in Rosella’s Garden at the Catholic Center of the University of Georgia April 5, scientists, students and members of the interfaith community gathered to celebrate a formal response to a special letter. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory and recently retired UGA environmental scientist Susan Varlamoff led the celebration of the official Action Plan […] Full Story

• Monsignor Donovan captures first GISA state basketball title

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published March 18, 2016

  ATHENS—Fifth-year head coach Dodd Rentz and the Lady Rams of Monsignor Donovan High School won the school’s first Georgia Independent School Association state basketball championship in a 45-34 victory over Crisp Academy of Cordele at Mercer University, Macon, on March 5. Monsignor Donovan led 21-18 at halftime. They extended the lead to 33-27 at the […] Full Story

• 5K to raise funds for UGA Catholic Center outreach, alternative spring breaks

  

  Published March 18, 2016

  ATHENS—The 38th annual 5K Human Race will take place on the streets of Athens on Saturday morning, April 16, with the goal of funding charitable projects of the Franciscan-staffed University of Georgia Catholic Center. Last year’s race drew over 250 participants and raised over $25,000 for Franciscan Outreach Ministries, which supports many local services that […] Full Story

• St. Mary’s, Athens, named top community hospital

  Published October 29, 2015

  ATHENS—St. Mary’s Health Care System in Athens was named 2015 Large Hospital of the Year by the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals at its 32nd annual conference. The “Hospital of the Year” award highlights the impact of member hospitals on individual patients, the health and wellness of Georgians, and the quality of life of their […] Full Story

• First woman athletic director in local Catholic schools named at Monsignor Donovan

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published August 20, 2015

  ATHENS—Wynter Kelly, the new athletic director at Monsignor Donovan High School in Athens, is finding an “overwhelmingly warm” welcome. “I’ve had so many people reach out to me,” said Kelly. A longtime coach and mother of five, including a collegiate student-athlete, Kelly moved from Rhode Island July 23 and began work at Monsignor Donovan the […] Full Story

• UGA chaplain, Father Tom Vigliotta, died July 4; Franciscan prodded students to live deeper faith

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published July 9, 2015

  ATHENS—The leader of the Catholic community at the University of Georgia, Franciscan Father Thomas Vigliotta, died on July 4. He was a member of the Franciscan community for 34 years and a priest for 29 years. The New York native also served in parishes in South Carolina, New York and in retreat ministry. Due to […] Full Story

• Sister Helen Prejean: Lethal injection is ‘experimentation’ on death row inmates

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published April 2, 2015

  ATHENS—The country’s preferred method of executing prisoners relies on increasingly hard-to-find key drugs. To make up the shortfall, state executioners turn to compounding pharmacies to acquire new combinations of the lethal drugs. In a talk at the Catholic Center at the University of Georgia, Congregation of St. Joseph Sister Helen Prejean called these drug cocktails […] Full Story

• St. Mary’s employees donate 130 turkeys to Food Bank

  

  Published January 8, 2015

  ATHENS—St. Mary’s Health Care System’s employees and volunteers donated on Nov. 24 some 130 turkeys to the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia to help families during the holiday season. Each year, St. Mary’s gives a free turkey to employees and volunteers as a token of appreciation for their dedication and service. The health care system […] Full Story