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• Dominican Sees Vitality In Church Roots, Frontiers

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published April 12, 2012

  Father Timothy Radcliffe stood out on the Emory University campus in his white robe, rosary beads looped around his belt, his white hair appearing unbrushed. He sat in a chair in the Modern Catholicism class, the kind of chair with a small stationary desk, but he stood up to stand closer to students as he […] Full Story

• Archdiocesan Festival Choir Celebrates 10th Anniversary

  Published April 12, 2012

  The Archdiocesan Festival Choir of Atlanta will celebrate its 10th anniversary concert on Saturday, April 21. The concert will feature music from its previous seasons and will be highlighted by the Festival Choir’s first performance of Giovanni da Palestrina’s “Missa Brevis.” “Now the Festival Choir has become a part of the musical fabric of the […] Full Story

• Aquinas Center Vision Recharging In 25th Year

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published April 12, 2012

  The Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University is marking its 25th anniversary with a renewed vision. “Transforming lives through the search for God’s wisdom” is its new logo as it looks to its future. Executive Director Phillip Thompson said the center’s goal is to “represent the breadth and depth of the Catholic intellectual and […] Full Story

• Spring Hill Summer Institute Announces New Format

  Published April 12, 2012

  Spring Hill College’s department of theology and ministry has announced a new format and class schedules for this year’s Summer Institute of Christian Spirituality in Atlanta. Beginning this year, courses will be offered in an intensive weekend format at Ignatius Retreat House along with additional online options. The new format has been designed to provide […] Full Story

• OLA Second-Graders Raise $1,051 For Heifer Project

  

  Published April 12, 2012

  The second-grade classes at Our Lady of the Assumption School presented Heifer International president Pierre U. Ferrari with a check in the amount of $1,051 when he visited the Atlanta school March 26. Back in February second-grade teacher Teri Camp read “Beatrice’s Goat” to her class to start a discussion on problem solving. “Beatrice’s Goat” is […] Full Story

• Priest Assignment

  Published April 12, 2012

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following change in priest assignment. At the recommendation of Passionist Father Robert H. Joerger, provincial superior, Archbishop Gregory has confirmed the appointment of Father Alberto A. Cabrera, CP, as parochial vicar for St. Paul of the Cross Church, Atlanta, effective March 29.

• Oils Blessed For Sacraments, Priests Renew Promises

  

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published April 12, 2012

  A few days before the Easter Vigil, when over 2,000 new Catholics would enter the Church in North Georgia’s parishes and missions, the sacred oils that would be used in their sacraments of baptism and confirmation were blessed at the annual Chrism Mass. The Holy Week liturgy is a prelude each year to the renewal […] Full Story

• Office Of Formation, Discipleship Set On Renewal

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 29, 2012

  With new faces and a new focus, members of the Office of Formation and Discipleship aim to be of service to pastors and parish leaders as they reach out to the Catholic community. “The focus of the office is support of pastors and the parish leadership in the mission to catechize and form the faithful,” […] Full Story

• Reader’s Lenten Recipe: Pizza Fish

  Published March 29, 2012

  Rose Levitan, of St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Smyrna, sent in this recipe for preparing fish that she’s used over the years. She said, “My husband is not a big fish eater, so I had to get creative during Lent. I came up with this recipe, and it has been a big hit with him […] Full Story

• Reader’s Lenten Recipe: Tuna Macaroni Salad

  Published March 29, 2012

  Joy Stumpo, a parishioner of Mary Our Queen Church, Norcross, sent in this recipe for a salad that she cooks during Lent or “any time of year.” She notes that she also prepares this salad with canned salmon. Ingredients: 1 cup macaroni, uncooked 2 5-oz. cans of tuna (add more tuna, if you like it) […]

• Reader’s Lenten Recipe: Spinach Pie

  Published March 29, 2012

  Mimi Arsenault offers this recipe for a meatless Lenten Friday from her retirement home in south Florida. She said that she usually makes at least two pies. “They freeze well,” she said. A resident of Monroe for 29 years, a Georgia educator and parishioner, she would bring this spinach pie to school for faculty gatherings, […] Full Story

• Priest Assignments

  Published March 29, 2012

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following changes in priest assignments. Father Alvaro D. Avendano has been assigned as administrator of St. Helena Mission, Clayton, effective Feb. 15. Msgr. Francois Smith Jeannot, who has retired from ministry in the Jacmel Diocese in Haiti, has been assigned as presiding priest for Masses for the Haitian […] Full Story

• AACCW Recognition Day Honors Those Who Serve

  

  By JEAN DRISKELL, Special To The Bulletin
  Published March 29, 2012

  Nominated by their parish communities, 58 women and 54 senior high school youth of the Atlanta Archdiocese were honored March 3 for their ministry and service to the church at the 35th annual Recognition Day, sponsored by the Atlanta Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women. AACCW president Dana Lee Willis, speaking at the Recognition Day Mass, […] Full Story

• Catholic Charities Atlanta Gala Honors Sister Valentina

  Published March 29, 2012

  A Sister of Mercy who has served for more than 60 years in various roles in the archdiocese, from Catholic school superintendent and parish administrator to director of mission integration at Saint Joseph’s Hospital, will be honored at the fifth annual Catholic Charities Atlanta Gala. Sister Valentina Sheridan, RSM, is to receive the Archbishop John […]

• Pilgrimage To Link Christ’s Passion, Social Justice

  By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
  Published March 29, 2012

  The 32nd annual Good Friday Pilgrimage, which is a “walking prayer” linking the solemn remembrance of Christ’s Passion with contemporary social justice questions, will take place on April 6, sponsored by the social justice ministries of the archdiocese. Participants will gather on the steps of the state Capitol at 8:45 a.m. on Good Friday. Archbishop […] Full Story

• Social Justice Series Starts With Nuclear Disarmament

  By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
  Published March 29, 2012

    A new series for Catholics will begin in April, with the aim of providing in-depth discussions on current social justice topics that are often overlooked. The first program will focus on the Church’s teaching on nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction and nuclear disarmament. “Part of the reason we are doing the series is […] Full Story

• Emory Chaplain Sees ‘Profound Faith’ In Students

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 29, 2012

  During the past months, The Georgia Bulletin has profiled the new college and high school chaplains in the Atlanta Archdiocese. Father Diosmar Natad, 45, serves the Catholic students at Emory University and Agnes Scott College. His first undergraduate degree was in chemical engineering. Later he went on to study philosophy in seminary and earn two […] Full Story

• For Sixth ‘Via Crucis,’ Parishioner Portrays Jesus

  By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
  Published March 29, 2012

  Throughout Lent and leading up to Holy Week, Catholics are encouraged to meditate on the Passion, death and resurrection of Jesus through many means, whether by fasting, sacrifice or special prayers such as the Stations of the Cross. For Sacred Heart Basilica parishioner Justo Roman Zepeda, Holy Week has taken on special meaning. For the […] Full Story

• Atlanta Rally Echoes Call To Rescind HHS Mandate

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 29, 2012

  Catholics and others crowded the Georgia statehouse plaza on Friday, March 23, and spilled across Washington Street at a rally for religious freedom. Standing under umbrellas in the spring rain, speakers passionately opposed a recent U.S. Health and Human Services’ mandate, which requires health insurance plans to include and pay for employees’ contraception, including abortion-inducing […] Full Story

• Anno Hardage Tapped For Catholic Charities Atlanta Role

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 15, 2012

  When she was chancellor of the archdiocese in the late 1990s, Anno Hardage helped oversee the “Building the Church of Tomorrow” campaign that generated over $70 million to help build new Catholic schools and campus centers, fund endowments for archdiocesan needs, and give parishes a share of the donations for their big-ticket projects. A dozen […] Full Story