Georgia Bulletin

Atlanta

• Georgia Tech Catholic Center planning big celebration Oct. 2-4

  Published September 4, 2015

  ATLANTA—The year 2015 marks a special year for the Catholic Center at Georgia Tech with celebration of its 30th anniversary. The current facility on 4th Street, in the heart of the Georgia Tech campus, was dedicated in October of 1985. Thirty years later, the Catholic Center is busy as ever and continues to welcome with […] Full Story

• Women to convene for annual AACCW convention

  Published August 21, 2015

  ATLANTA—The 59th annual convention of the Atlanta Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women (AACCW) will be held Friday to Sunday, Sept. 25-27, at the Wyndham Peachtree Hotel and Conference Center, Peachtree City. All women of the archdiocese are invited to attend, along with priests and deacons. The theme of the convention is “Strong Faith, Strong Family,” […]

• Blue Mass in Atlanta on Sept. 11 to honor first responders

  Published August 20, 2015

  ATLANTA—The Archdiocese of Atlanta will have its first Blue Mass for all public safety officials and first responders on Friday, Sept. 11, at the Cathedral of Christ the King, 2699 Peachtree Road, NE, Atlanta. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will be the celebrant of the Mass, which begins at 10:30 a.m. It is intended to become […] Full Story

• Pregnancy Aid Clinic to open new center in north Fulton County

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published August 20, 2015

  ATLANTA—The Pregnancy Aid Clinic is expanding to the north side of Fulton County to open an additional clinic to serve a new group of women. The new office is scheduled to open Oct. 1 in Roswell, enlarging the service area for the only Catholic crisis pregnancy center. This will be its third facility. The original […] Full Story

• New principals take charge of three Catholic schools

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published August 20, 2015

  ATLANTA—Three Catholic schools have new administrators as the 2015-2016 school year begins. The new principals/heads of school, who will serve at Holy Spirit Upper School, Atlanta, St. Joseph School, Athens, and Sophia Academy, Atlanta, are introduced here as they also talk about the teachers who helped them believe in their talents.   Jocelyn Sotomayor, Upper […] Full Story

• Habitat invites people to help with Pope Francis build

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published August 20, 2015

  ATLANTA—Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, with the help of an anonymous donor, has raised the majority of funds needed to begin construction of a home in honor of Pope Francis this November. The Pope Francis build is one of a number that Habitat for Humanity has organized in conjunction with the visit of the pope to […] Full Story

• Marist Father John Sullivan, 50 years a priest, dies

  Published August 6, 2015

  ATLANTA—Father John Sullivan, SM, 78, parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Brookhaven, died July 28. He professed religious vows to the Society of Mary on Sept. 8, 1959, and recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Father Sullivan was raised and educated in California. He earned degrees […]

• Vocations director, seminarians see hunger for Gospel in Tanzania mission trip

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published August 6, 2015

  ATLANTA—Joy is the souvenir from a recent mission trip to Tanzania for Father Tim Hepburn, director of vocations for the archdiocese, and seminarians Jack Knight and Juan Carlos Pacheco. The three traveled from Atlanta to the east African nation in July for a 16-day trip with Renewal Ministries. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based ministry focuses on […]

• Catholic Relief works in Tanzania on developing small farms, aiding refugees

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published August 6, 2015

  ATLANTA—In the east African country of Tanzania, Catholic Relief Services’ programs range from teaching schoolchildren about sanitation and hygiene to supporting agricultural livelihoods and assisting refugees from other nations. “Our CRS projects are scattered all over the country,” said Cullen Larson, Southeast regional director for the agency. “It’s quite varied.” Larson worked as interim country […]

• Cyclist raises over $13,500 for Cristo Rey Atlanta

  

  Published August 6, 2015

  ATLANTA—Cyclist Dick Marklein completed his cross-country trek to raise scholarship money for Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School. That’s 52 days and 3,900 miles. The cyclist began on May 31 in San Francisco and ended in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 21 where Marklein dipped his bike into the Atlantic Ocean. The trip was the cyclist’s […] Full Story

• IHM Church honors saint with Lebanese celebration

  Published August 6, 2015

  ATLANTA—The community at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church celebrated a saint from Lebanon with a Middle Eastern potluck and a hafla, a traditional gathering among friends and relatives. The Atlanta parish marked the July 24 feast day. The event began with the community reciting the collect prayer for the feast of St. Sharbel. Then with […] Full Story

• Atlanta youth honored at National Junior Beta Convention

  Published August 6, 2015

  ATLANTA—Rising high school freshman Joshua Owens earned an award at the National Junior Beta Convention. Owens, who will be attending Our Lady of Mercy High School, Fayetteville, competed in social studies at the convention in Nashville, Tennessee. He earned third place on the national stage. In an earlier Georgia contest, he placed second in the […] Full Story

• New Lyke House chaplain engaged in working toward the common good

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff writer
  Published August 6, 2015

  ATLANTA—A new chaplain will greet students as they return to Lyke House at the Atlanta University Center. Society of the Divine Word Father Urey P. Mark in July became the director and chaplain of the Catholic Center for Atlanta’s historically black colleges and universities, including Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College and Clark […]

• A priest for 41 years, Msgr. Branch wants to turn his attention to the poor

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff writer
  Published August 6, 2015

  ATLANTA—Msgr. Edward Branch has stepped aside from his longtime ministry at the Atlanta University Center, the campus of four historically black colleges and universities, and is “refocusing” his ministry. A priest for more than 40 years, he wants his next chapter in life to be about the poor and the marginalized. He envisions serving with […]

• Local groups plan rendezvous with Pope Francis in Philadelphia

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published July 23, 2015

  ATHENS—St. Joseph Church parishioner Lynn Renna has done her papal pilgrimage homework. For months Renna has been researching transportation and accommodation details associated with a parish trip during Pope Francis’ visit to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September. Pope Francis will be in the United States Sept. 22-27, giving talks and making […]

• CTK pitches in so summer vacation doesn’t mean some go hungry

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published July 23, 2015

  ATLANTA—Schoolteacher Carol Hunt worried about her students, inside the classroom and out. Some 20 years ago, she had the thought of putting together a simple bagged lunch when her school’s cafeteria was closed for the summer and delivering the lunches to students herself. “I knew they didn’t have food during the summer months,” said Hunt, […]

• Jeremiah verse empowered Mary Boyert to speak tirelessly for life causes

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published July 23, 2015

  ATLANTA—After more than 15 years of serving as director of Respect Life for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Mary Boyert will “look and see” what the next call to serve might be. Boyert retired July 1. Before taking the Respect Life Ministry’s helm in 1999, she worked for 21 years at Georgia Right to Life. Boyert’s […]

• Jubilarian Father Richard Kieran planted Gospel, encouraged evangelizing faith

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published July 23, 2015

  ATLANTA—Father Richard Kieran, who marked 50 years in the priesthood June 20, enjoyed tending gardens as a young priest. A native of Ireland, Father Kieran also had a green thumb when it came to establishing new ministries now firmly rooted in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. In 1958, Atlanta’s then vocation director, Msgr. P.J. O’Connor, spoke […]

• Parishioners pack meals bound for West Africa in CRS collaborative

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published July 23, 2015

  ATLANTA—Area parishes are embracing a solidarity-building program that draws together Catholics here and people in need in West Africa. Helping Hands is a volunteer event founded on the mandate from Jesus in the Gospel of St. Matthew (Mt 25:35) and Catholic social teaching. It is a meal-packaging program for adults and children developed collaboratively by […]

• Anna Milam will speak at the Aug. 15 Magnificat for women

  Published July 23, 2015

  ATLANTA—Anna Milam, a parishioner of St. Pius X Church, Conyers, will be speaking of her faith journey at the August Magnificat, a prayer breakfast open to all women. The Magnificat will be held on Saturday, Aug. 15, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Holy Cross Church in Atlanta, which is just off the Chamblee-Tucker […]