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• New Curriculum Guidelines Chosen For Children’s Faith Formation

  By SUZANNE HAUGH, Special To The Bulletin
  Published January 8, 2009

  In an effort to more fully impart the Catholic faith to all its children, the Atlanta Archdiocese will be issuing new curriculum guidelines to be used in both parish faith formation programs for children and Catholic schools, from preschool to high school. The new curriculum guidelines are based on the four pillars presented and explained […] Full Story

• Resolving To Give Back? Let Catholic Foundation Help

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published January 8, 2009

  It is early in 2009. The glow of the year ahead hasn’t dimmed. Those resolutions still seem possible. And if getting your financial house in order is one of them, the rejuvenated Catholic Foundation of North Georgia may be able to help you. (And even if that didn’t make your New Year’s resolutions, it cannot […] Full Story

• Memorial Pro-Life Mass, Walk Scheduled for Jan. 22

  Published January 8, 2009

  To mark the 36th anniversary of the legalization of abortion, a national day of prayer and penance for life will be observed on Thursday, Jan. 22, with a rosary and Mass. Later during the day, there will be a silent anti-abortion march through the streets of Atlanta. All are invited to participate. On Jan. 22, […] Full Story

• Dr. King To Be Remembered At Annual Mass, Celebration

  Published January 8, 2009

  Days before the first African-American is sworn in as president, Catholics in the Atlanta Archdiocese will gather to remember the life and service of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Jan. 17 weekend. All are invited to attend. The theme of this year’s anniversary celebration is “Serve One Another Through Love,” a line written […] Full Story

• Helping Adult Catholics Grow In Faith Is Top Priority

  

  By SUZANNE HAUGH, Special To The Bulletin
  Published January 8, 2009

  Glaciers have become an appropriate metaphor for the trek now underway by the staff of the Office of Religious Education, particularly for its director, Dennis Johnson Jr. He equates a glacier’s movement with how ORE must be poised to respond effectively to the church’s social climate while retaining essential principles when forming area Catholics in […]

• NBA Gives Turkeys In Time For Christmas Dinners

  Published January 1, 2009

  Thousands of families in National Basketball Association cities throughout the country enjoyed the holidays a little bit more this year as The National Basketball Players Association, Catholic Charities USA and Feed the Children delivered meals to 30,000 families. Catholic Charities in Atlanta helped distribute the food, which included 500 turkeys, for hundreds of families here. […] Full Story

• Parishes Receive Data As Catholic Population Surges

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published January 1, 2009

  Do you think the pews are getting a little bit more crowded? Parking harder to find? The number of Catholics in North Georgia continues to climb. Catholics are growing faster than the overall population in the Peach State as the official count of Catholics in the archdiocese climbs to 750,000, up from 650,000. The new […]

• Marist advances to championship game in dome

  

  Published December 11, 2008

  Marist School did what any Coach Alan Chadwick football team does most seasons and that’s play the game to the end. Marist was in a dogfight all night Dec. 5 with Rome High School and it took a touchdown run by senior wide receiver Kevin Allman on the final play of the game to propel […] Full Story

• Mass Helps Those With AIDS And Those Who Minister

  Published December 11, 2008

  The Sunday evening service at Holy Cross Church included this reading from the prophet Isaiah: “Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God.” Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory led the worship at the crowded church as Catholics gathered on Dec. 7 to mark the Archdiocesan Mass for a World Living With AIDS, an annual commemoration […]

• Father McNamee Named To Cathedral Parish

  Published December 11, 2008

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has appointed Father Frank McNamee to serve as the new pastor of the Cathedral of Christ the King, effective Jan. 1, 2009. The announcement was made on Nov. 29. Father McNamee will succeed the late Msgr. Thomas Kenny, who died in late October. Msgr. Kenny was the Cathedral rector for 18 […]

• Priest Assignment

  Published December 11, 2008

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following change in priest assignment. Father Peter J. Rau, pastor of Good Shepherd Church, Cumming, has been assigned as pastor of St. Peter Chanel Church, Roswell, effective Jan. 1, 2009.

• Deacon Assignments

  Published December 11, 2008

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following changes in deacon assignments. Deacon Victor L. Taylor has been assigned to serve at St. Michael the Archangel Church, Woodstock, effective Nov. 24. Deacon John J. Barone has returned to active ministry and will serve at St. Mark Church, Clarkesville, effective Jan. 1, 2009.

• Hundreds Join Archbishop At Silver Jubilee Mass

  

  Published December 11, 2008

  An elaborate procession, complete with candles, incense and more than 120 priests, began a reverent and nostalgic Mass honoring Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory on his silver jubilee as a bishop. Clutching programs that proclaimed the archbishop’s episcopal motto, hundreds of friends and colleagues, as well as nine bishops from the Southeast region and around the […]

• Priest Assignment

  Published December 4, 2008

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following change in priest assignment. Father Francis G. McNamee, pastor of St. Peter Chanel Church, Roswell, has been assigned as pastor of the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta, effective Jan. 1, 2009.

• 14-Hour day a snapshot of archbishop’s routine

  

  Published December 4, 2008

  A recent 14-hour day spent with Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory began with prayers in an intimate chapel and stretched into a dark drive home as an excited radio announcer declared the Philadelphia Phillies baseball’s world champions. In between, the archbishop heard a youngster proclaim he knew the archbishop’s grandchildren (chalk it up to a case […]

• Four Bishops, Once In Chicago Together, Share Jubilee

  Published December 4, 2008

  There’s no place like home, and when you can’t live there perhaps the next best thing may be sharing memories of it with friends. A cherished camaraderie has formed over the years for the four “Chicago guys” ordained auxiliary bishops together on Dec. 13, 1983. It continues even after they were sent by the church […]

• His Appointment ‘Broadened Vision Of The Church’

  Published December 4, 2008

  For many in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory goes by just that name. For others, particularly from his hometown of Chicago, it’s just Wilton. From his middle-school days at St. Carthage Grammar School to his ministry as one of the auxiliary bishops there, friends and acquaintances with Chicago roots recalled Archbishop Gregory’s […] Full Story

• Friendships Built At Seminary Working Side By Side

  Published December 4, 2008

  Chicago pastor Father Dominic Grassi was ordained a priest with Father Wilton Gregory in 1973. Along with two other seminary classmates, they became inseparable, “the four horsemen of the apocalypse, the four musketeers,” Father Grassi said. As seminarians, they worked as chaplains at a juvenile detention center, taught religion classes at a nearby high school […] Full Story

• Archbishop Works Hard To Stay Close To Priests

  Published December 4, 2008

  While the need for vocations to the priesthood continues to rise, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has taken steps toward staying close to those priests who have already answered the call to serve the Archdiocese of Atlanta. By keeping the lines of communication open, and making himself accessible in several ways, the archbishop hopes to continue […]

• Actions Show ‘He Is With Us,’ Hispanic Leaders Say

  Published December 4, 2008

  Celebrating an Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass on a chilly December night in the dilapidated warehouse that formerly housed Our Lady of the Americas Mission, affirming in Spanish their place in the church of Atlanta to many struggling immigrants packed inside. Traveling to Mexico City’s Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe to bring back 16 […] Full Story