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• Sisters enliven faith in Cedartown

  

  By ANDREW NELSON acnelson@georgiabulletin.org
  Published November 11, 2022

  The Sisters Poor of Jesus Christ live together, pray together and seek to be of service to those who ask for it. Since arriving in early 2022, these four sisters have taken up residence in downtown Cedartown.

• Archbishop blesses long-anticipated new parish center for St. Bernadette

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published July 13, 2018

  CEDARTOWN—On the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrated a Mass of dedication and blessing of the new parish center for Cedartown area Catholics. On June 24, parishioners and invited community guests gathered at the just-completed worship and religious education center for St. Bernadette Church on Evergreen Lane […] Full Story

• Cedartown parish honors life of Blessed Stanley Rother

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published November 27, 2017

  CEDARTOWN—St. Bernadette Church, in Cedartown, along with its Guatemalan community celebrated a special Mass Sept. 16 in advance of the beatification of Father Stanley Rother. Blessed Rother, the first American-born martyr and priest to be beatified, spent 13 years ministering to the people of Guatemala. He was murdered there in July 1981. Father Timothy Gallagher, […]

• St. Bernadette breaks ground for much-needed church building

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published June 1, 2017

  CEDARTOWN—Parishioners of St. Bernadette Church welcomed Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory for the groundbreaking on a new church building Sunday, May 7, celebrating with a festival-like event. Families tailgated in the 13-acre pasture next to the Second Baptist Church on Evergreen Lane, site of the proposed building to be backed through special projects funding of the […] Full Story | En Español

• St. Bernadette Church’s first Knights of Columbus council is bilingual

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff writer
  Published August 18, 2016

  CEDARTOWN—The 75-year-old St. Bernadette Church in Cedartown has its first Knights of Columbus council after a June initiation ceremony welcoming 21 new Knights. The St. Bernadette Council will elect officers in mid-August and then receive its council number. Father Timothy Gallagher became pastor of St. Bernadette four years ago. Although long familiar with the organization […] Full Story

• Cedartown salutatorian also stands out for his faith, compassion

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Special to the Bulletin
  Published May 28, 2015

  CEDARTOWN—As a freshman Leobardo Rodriguez watched his big sister Maria graduate as salutatorian from Cedartown High School and quietly set his own goal to top her and become valedictorian. While he didn’t quite lock up the top spot, he now graduates as salutatorian in his own class with the satisfaction of having given it his […] Full Story

• Priest Joyfully Answers Call To First Pastorate

  By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
  Published July 19, 2012

  Father Timothy Gallagher, who grew up in a small Catholic community in Madison, Georgia, has now answered the call to serve as pastor of one of Atlanta’s smaller Catholic parishes, in Cedartown. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory recently assigned Father Gallagher, 40, to be pastor of St. Bernadette Church, west of Atlanta near the Georgia-Alabama border. […] Full Story

• Volunteers Make Christmas Connections A Success

  Published December 24, 2009

   Cold, wet weather did not dampen the spirits of people working in the parking lot at St. Bernadette Church for a children’s Christmas celebration. On Saturday, Dec. 19, community leaders welcomed youth volunteers from St. Pius X High School and Transfiguration Church who came to play with the children and organized hundreds of gifts for […] Full Story