Georgia Bulletin

Atlanta

• Cristo Rey Jesuit High School under construction

  Published February 6, 2014

  Demolition continues as the Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School takes shape. Some 44 students have been accepted into the school, which serves families in economic hardship, according to a news release. The school is slated to open in the fall with 125 students in its inaugural year. Demolition at the Midtown building began before […] Full Story

• Lecture series to explore Flannery O’Connor’s faith, writings

  Published February 6, 2014

  ATLANTA—With the recent publication of her prayer journal and growing anticipation regarding film adaptations of her work, interest in writer Flannery O’Connor is at a peak. “The Prayer Journal” affirmed at last, even for those remaining skeptics, the profound importance O’Connor’s Catholic faith had to her fiction works. “I write the way I do because […] Full Story

• ‘Great Music’ program to cap Cathedral anniversary

  Published February 6, 2014

  ATLANTA—The Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta will conclude its 75th anniversary celebration with a special program of music on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m. More than a concert, “Great Music for Great Cathedrals” uses music, narrations and the church’s magnificent interior to celebrate the role cathedral churches have played in the development […]

• Three Catholic high schools bring groups to Washington March for Life

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published February 6, 2014

  ATLANTA—United for a powerful cause, students from all three archdiocesan Catholic high schools—Blessed Trinity in Roswell, Our Lady of Mercy in Fayetteville and St. Pius X in Atlanta—traveled together for the first time to the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. The students and chaperones met up at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to catch […]

• In the spirit of Dr. King, a summit begins

  

  Published January 23, 2014

  Fifty-five middle school students, 29 from St. Jude the Apostle School, Sandy Springs, and 26 from Greenfield Hebrew Academy, gathered on the Atlanta campus of the Jewish school for the first Acceptance Summit Jan. 16. It provided an opportunity for a dialogue of religious understanding and tolerance. The summit was facilitated by the Anti-Defamation League […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […] Full Story

• 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 […] Full Story

• 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 […] Full Story

• 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 […] Full Story

• 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 […]

• 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 […] Full Story