Atlanta
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After 44 Years As Priest, Msgr. Gracz Still Energized
By JEAN DRISKELL, Special To The Bulletin
Published December 10, 2009“A priest, in some ways, is expressing God to His people, and God uses other people to speak to us priests. It’s a dialogue,” Msgr. Henry Gracz, pastor of Atlanta’s Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, said about his experiences as a priest. “I love being in church with God’s people, searching out ways to continue […]
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St. Pius To Host 10th Annual Christmas Tournament
Published December 10, 2009
St. Pius X High School will host the tenth annual “Christmas Classic Basketball Tournament,” at its gymnasium Dec. 26, 28-30. The St. Pius X Christmas Classic is designed to bring together Catholic high school basketball teams from across the country for tournament competition. This year 16 boys and girls teams from nine different states will […] Full Story
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SVdP Atlanta Working Harder, Seeking Help
By MARY ANNE CASTRANIO, Staff Writer
Published December 9, 2009In a year marked by economic distress, the Atlanta Council of the St. Vincent de Paul Society saw an increase in contributions—an estimated $1 million more this year than last year. The published amount of public support and contributions for the Society in 2008 was $5,183,525—in 2009 that number increased to an estimated $6,250,269. Coinciding […] Full Story
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Liturgies To Remember Those Affected By HIV/AIDS
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 26, 2009Parishes in the Atlanta Archdiocese are observing World AIDS Day. A candlelight procession at Sacred Heart Church on Peachtree Street starts a Mass for people touched by HIV/AIDS. Organizers at the downtown church want to highlight the connection between the sufferings of Jesus and the suffering by people with the disease. Also, St. Philip Benizi […] Full Story
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Greek Orthodox, Catholic Churches To Celebrate Advent
Published November 26, 2009
The Greek Orthodox and Catholic communities are invited to join in an Advent Vesper service on Sunday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m. at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation. Both Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory and Archbishop Alexios will officiate. The Cathedral is located at 2500 Clairmont Road, NE, Atlanta.
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Family Finds Hospice A Comfort In Time Of Need
By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
Published November 26, 2009Every night Dr. Anton Reel Jr. pushes a second hospital bed next to his wife’s and holds her hand as she falls asleep. It is a tradition to which he has held true throughout 64 years of marriage. He continues to speak encouragingly to his wife, who is now under home hospice care from Hospice […] Full Story
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Art Collection Illustrates Bible As History
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 26, 2009An art exhibit at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum examines how the Bible became a weapon in a propaganda war as political and religious changes swept through 16th-century Europe. The Protestants with their new faith challenged the authority of the Catholic Church, and each claimed authority with biblical tracts. The exhibit “Scripture for the […] Full Story
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After 54 Years, Priesthood’s ‘A Wonderful Life’
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 26, 2009Father Richard Morrow is one of the longest serving priests in the Atlanta Archdiocese, ministering here since 1955. Father Morrow is a walking history book, from his memories of being a Catholic priest in the Bible belt and sitting beside Ethel Kennedy as her husband, Robert, worked a room in west Georgia, to the changes […] Full Story
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Sister Briege To Speak At CTK
Published November 26, 2009
The Cathedral of Christ the King and the Atlanta chapter of Legatus will host a special presentation, “Miracles Do Happen, God in Action,” by Sister Briege McKenna, OSC. The event will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. All are invited to attend. Sister Briege was born in Ireland and entered the Sisters […]
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Collection Marked For Elderly In Religious Orders
Published November 26, 2009
Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Atlanta will conduct the 22nd annual appeal for the Retirement Fund for Religious on Dec. 13. This year’s collection theme is “Share in the Care.” The collection, coordinated by the National Religious Retirement Office (NRRO) in Washington, D.C., benefits thousands of elderly women and men religious whose communities lack […] Full Story
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Those in crisis find Sister Marie at their side
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 12, 2009If you want to know anything about Dominican Sister Marie Sullivan know this: On the afternoon civic leaders lauded her, she spent the morning with people who are homeless, linking them with employment, food and medical programs to help lift them up. Fifty years of service to men, women and children who risk having their […] Full Story
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CCHD Helps Strengthen Marginalized Communities
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 12, 2009Parishioners will be asked to give money to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development next weekend as part of the church’s national and local efforts to tackle the roots causes of poverty. Leaders of the Catholic campaign are facing increasing demands for help as the number of men and women without work reaches its highest … Continue reading CCHD Helps Strengthen Marginalized Communities
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Patriarch Urges People Of Faith To Care For Environment
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 12, 2009The spiritual leader of the world’s 300-million Orthodox Christians traveled here to spread his concern about a Christian’s responsibility to the environment. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I spoke at the crowded Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, 2500 Clairmont Road, at an “ecumenical gathering of peace” on Thursday, Oct. 29. “We are not users but guardians […] Full Story
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Lyke House an oasis for students at six colleges
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 12, 2009Beneath towering pine trees and with a cold fall breeze blowing, college students, alumni and supporters from the Lyke House huddled in a horseshoe shape at the bronze grave marker of its namesake, Archbishop James P. Lyke. The crowd recited the morning prayer of Liturgy of the Hours with its ancient prayers and Scripture readings […] Full Story
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2009 A Jubilee Year In Canton, Jasper, Lithonia
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 12, 2009Three churches in the Atlanta Archdiocese mark their silver jubilee as faith communities this year. They are Christ Our Hope Church, Lithonia; Jasper’s Our Lady of the Mountains Church; and Our Lady of LaSalette Church, Canton. Christ Our Hope, Lithonia Parishioners who stream into this Atlanta area church come from more than 50 countries, from […] Full Story
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Lengthy Marriages Celebrated At Annual Mass
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 12, 2009Couples repeated their “I do’s” at the annual archdiocesan Mass to celebrate marriage. St. Brigid Church, Johns Creek, hosted the brides and grooms, many years after they first walked down the aisle as young married couples. Certainly, there would have been more hair and fewer pounds the first time, but now there were grown children […] Full Story
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St. Mary Magdalene Relic To Visit Local Parishes
Published November 12, 2009
From the foot of the cross at Calvary to Frejus-Toulon, France, to Atlanta, Holy Spirit Church is excited and honored to participate in an historic event as the parish hosts a relic of St. Mary Magdalene later this month. The relic, a large piece of St. Mary Magdalene’s tibia, will be available for veneration in […] Full Story
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Aquinas Center Welcomes New Board Members
Published November 10, 2009
The Aquinas Center of Theology announced six new board members at an Oct. 21 board meeting on the Emory University campus. They are Patricia Allgood, chair at Vistage in Atlanta; David Blumenthal, professor of Judaic studies at Emory University; Stephen Crim, chief executive officer of American Safety Insurance; Randy Hain, managing partner of Bell Oaks; […] Full Story
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Lourdes Sustains Saint’s Founding Work
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published October 29, 2009Stand outside the three-story red brick and Stone Mountain granite building near the intersection of Auburn Avenue and Boulevard, in the heart of the Sweet Auburn neighborhood, to see what a canonized saint who visited here help build. The school-turned-parish center at Our Lady of Lourdes was paid for by St. Katharine Drexel, the heiress […] Full Story
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Shrine Is City Of Atlanta’s Oldest Parish
By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
Published October 29, 2009On Martin Luther King Jr. Drive near the state Capitol, visitors to Atlanta will most likely pass another building of importance—a church that has a significant place in Catholic history and in the history of Georgia. Atlanta Catholics completed their first church building in 1848. Not yet named, it was known simply as “the Catholic […] Full Story
