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• Holy Spirit student helps save mother’s life

  Published January 23, 2014

  A student at Holy Spirit Prep Lower School, Olivia Centola, helped save her mother’s life over the holidays. While driving down to Florida for Christmas, Olivia’s mother, Shannon, had what was later called by doctors a “mini-stroke.” Olivia helped her mother pull over safely, called 911 on one cell phone and her father on a […]

• St. Pius senior reads at Ebenezer Church King service

  Published January 23, 2014

  Erin Sheppard, a St. Pius X High School senior, participated in the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Service at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. The televised service was carried live on Atlanta’s FOX 5 television station on Jan. 20. Following an interview and audition process, Sheppard was selected to share in a reading of the Nobel […] Full Story

• Charism School, Miracle Healing Service set for Feb. 7-9

  Published January 23, 2014

  ATLANTA—A school to receive teaching and training in some of the charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit will be offered in Atlanta Feb. 7-9, led by Damian Stayne, a lay evangelist from England who is also the founder of a Catholic charismatic and contemplative community there. The Charism School will focus upon the gifts of […]

• Mary Ann McNeil, PATH founder, to speak at Magnificat Feb. 22

  Published January 23, 2014

  ATLANTA—Mary Ann McNeil, the founder and director of PATH, the Post Abortion Treatment and Healing ministry, will be the guest speaker at the Magnificat breakfast for women on Saturday, Feb. 22. The breakfast will be held at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 2855 Briarcliff Road, NE, Atlanta, in the parish hall. All women are invited […]

• Lyke House students put words into action

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published January 23, 2014

  ATLANTA—College students and young adults put their faith into action Jan. 16 at Lyke House, the Catholic Center at Atlanta University Center, by creating hygiene kits for people in need. Students and graduates of Morehouse College, Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University assembled these concrete and intangible gifts as part of the weekend celebration of […] Full Story

• Hour of adoration leavens stressful grind for Georgia Tech students

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published January 23, 2014

  ATLANTA—Sunrise is still an hour away. The Georgia Tech campus is in its pre-dawn quiet. In a dimly lit chapel, students pray. The open doors of the tabernacle show the Eucharist exposed in a small monstrance.  Small flames from four candles shine in the room. A girl sits on the floor.  Another reads from her […]

• Father Austin Fogarty, priest for 32 years, dies

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published January 23, 2014

  ATLANTA—Father Austin Fogarty, the pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Alpharetta and a dedicated prison ministry chaplain, died Wednesday, Jan. 15, at Emory University Hospital Midtown. He was 61. A priest of the Archdiocese of Atlanta for over 30 years, Father Fogarty was a native of Dublin, Ireland, born on May 18, 1952. The […]

• Frigid weather brings challenges, chances to help others

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published January 23, 2014

  ATLANTA—Georgia’s record-breaking, polar temperatures in early January left some parishes in the archdiocese scrambling to fix broken pipes, and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul preparing for what’s to come. Nine parishes reported burst water or sprinkler pipes in the days after the deep freeze the week of Jan. 6. Four claims have been […] Full Story

• Birmingham bomb victims remembered at 2014 MLK Mass

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published January 23, 2014

  ATLANTA—A leader in the Kenyan Catholic community was celebrated at the annual Archdiocese of Atlanta Mass for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. observance. Victoria Mburu, 41, received the Father Bruce Wilkinson Founders Award for bringing the East African immigrants together for support, friendship and worship. “I was definitely honored. I couldn’t do it by […] Full Story

• Catholic Foundation announces fall grant recipients

  Published January 23, 2014

  ATLANTA—For the fall 2013 grant cycle, the Catholic Foundation of North Georgia awarded 29 general grants totaling $92,100, and 10 parish enrichment grants totaling $10,000. According to Nancy Coveny, executive director of the Catholic Foundation, the foundation received its greatest number of requests to date during this grant cycle. Forty-four applications totaling just over $440,000 […] Full Story

• Catholic Charities Atlanta announces graduation of 2013 Leadership Class

  

  Published January 23, 2014

  ATLANTA—The 42 men and women of the 2013 Leadership Class sponsored by Catholic Charities Atlanta (CCA) graduated in a ceremony held Jan. 8 at the Georgian Club. The leadership program, concluding its third year, continues to grow as young faithful Catholic leaders seek opportunities to learn servant leadership and incorporate their faith in the workplace. […]

• Opportunities to serve in the spotlight at upcoming ‘Salt and Light’ exposition

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, ngolden@georgiabulletin.org
  Published January 23, 2014

  ATLANTA—“Being Salt and Light” is the theme of the second annual archdiocesan Justice and Peace Exposition. Admission and parking are free for the Saturday, Feb. 8, event, to be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Chancery offices, located at 2401 Lake Park Drive, in Smyrna. “All they need is an open heart,” […] Full Story

• High school integration meant an Atlanta black Catholic could ‘come home’

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published January 9, 2014

  ATLANTA—Charles Reginald Moore was the first African-American to graduate from St. Joseph’s High School in Atlanta. Entering in the fall of 1962, when the first black students desegregated Catholic schools in the Atlanta Archdiocese, Moore came in as a junior. He graduated in 1964 from the archdiocesan high school, which was then located on Courtland […]

• Photo inspires look back at era when Catholic schools desegregated

  

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published January 9, 2014

  ATLANTA—Fifty years ago, federal court pressure was forcing Atlanta to dismantle an unjust segregated public school system. The bishops of Georgia and South Carolina decided that this was the right time to also desegregate the Catholic schools. Documents in the Archdiocese of Atlanta Archives show what a stressful and carefully planned effort this was over […]

• Soldiers thank Immaculate Heart of Mary students

  

  Published January 9, 2014

  Students at Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Atlanta, support overseas members of the military with care packages several times a year. But this time students were on the receiving end of thank you notes and pictures. Soldiers wrote to the students how much the handwritten notes, lip balm, crackers and assorted odds and ends mean […]

• Students take mission trip to Nicaragua

  

  Published January 9, 2014

  Half of Atlanta’s Sophia Academy’s high school students and two staff members went last November on a weeklong mission trip to Chinandega, Nicaragua, with Amigos for Christ. Before their departure, Father Joseph Peek showed the high school students a relic of the first degree of Jesus’ cross—the students kissed the relic in preparation for their […]

• Reception for Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Prayer Journal’ set for Jan. 26

  By PAULA LAWTON BEVINGTON, Special to the Bulletin
  Published January 9, 2014

  Flannery O’Connor, arguably Georgia’s preeminent author, has a new book out. Never mind that she has been dead nearly 50 years. “A Prayer Journal,” written by O’Connor and edited by William A. Sessions, was published in November 2013 and has evoked high praise from reviewers. The board of the Flannery O’Connor – Andalusia Foundation will […]

• Annual Valentine event focuses on World Marriage Day

  Published January 9, 2014

  ATLANTA—The second Sunday of February has become “World Marriage Day” in 43 states and several military bases in foreign countries. World Marriage Day honors couples as the head of the family, the basic unit of society.  The observance salutes the beauty of a couple’s fidelity, sacrifice and joy in married life. The Atlanta Area Worldwide Marriage […]

• Memorial Mass set for Archbishop Gregory’s mother

  Published January 9, 2014

  ATLANTA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will celebrate Mass in memory of his mother, Ethel Duncan Gregory, who died Dec. 10, 2013, in Chicago. The Mass will be celebrated Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta. A reception will follow in Kenny Hall. All are welcome to attend.

• Retirement for priests can open new avenues for ministry

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published January 9, 2014

  ATLANTA—Although officially retired from active ministry, many diocesan priests continue dedicated ministries serving in Atlanta and beyond. Father Richard Morrow, Msgr. William Hoffman, Father Walter Foley and Father Patrick McCormick have a combined 192 years of service as priests. ‘I’m 84 and I’m still needed’ Father Richard “Dick” Morrow has been a priest for 58 […]