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• Priests, deacons, seminarians and religious with credible allegations of sexual abuse of minors

  Published November 6, 2018

  The Archdiocese of Atlanta is committed to the protection of minors, as well as to compliance with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. In a spirit of transparency and the hope of continued healing for the survivors of abuse, I have decided to release the […] Full Story

• St. Paul of the Cross to have evangelization revival

  Published November 5, 2018

  ATLANTA—All are invited to join St. Paul of the Cross Church, Atlanta, for an Evangelization Revival celebrating Black Catholic History Month. The event will begin with Mass on Sunday, Nov. 11 at 10 a.m. Dewayne Smithers will conduct a motivational session for youth and young adults following the Mass. Smithers is a youth minister and […] Full Story

• IHM Church and School celebrate 60 years

  

  Published November 4, 2018

  ATLANTA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrated the 60th Anniversary Mass of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and School on Oct. 27. “I hear you’ve turned 60,” the Archbishop told the assembly at the beginning of the liturgy. “You look marvelous!” Concelebrants for the Mass included pastor Msgr. Albert Jowdy and parochial vicar Father Carlos Ortega and […] Full Story | En Español

• Field day at Corpus Christi helps transform church grounds

  

  Published November 3, 2018

  STONE MOUNTAIN—Parishioners of Corpus Christi Church in Stone Mountain joined 100 employees of Ruppert Landscape for a fun field day event Sept. 13. The end result was a much-needed landscape makeover for the church community. Employees of the Ruppert Landscape’s Lilburn and Mableton, and Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina branches descended upon the grounds of […] Full Story

• Mountain parish breaks ground on new parish hall

  

  Published November 3, 2018

  LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN—Parishioners of Our Lady of the Mount Church welcomed Bishop Joel M. Konzen, SM, to celebrate Mass and groundbreaking for the church’s new parish hall on Sunday, Oct. 14. Father Thomas Shuler, pastor, and members of the parish’s capital campaign, building committee and parish council joined Bishop Konzen outside as he blessed the ground […] Full Story

• Blessed Trinity retired the baseball jersey of a former player

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published November 2, 2018

  ROSWELL—During halftime of Blessed Trinity High School’s Oct. 26 football game, Matt Skole, a member of the class of 2008, was joined on the field by his family; Brian Marks, school president; Cathy Lancaster, school principal; Andy Harlin, baseball coach; and athletic director Ricky Turner as his baseball jersey, #25, was retired. Skole, who played […] Full Story

• Last year’s Georgia football finalists face off in a regular season rematch

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published November 2, 2018

  Ten months and 11 days after Blessed Trinity High School and Marist School, Atlanta, played for the Class AAAA state football championship on Marist’s field, the two teams squared off, Oct. 26, on Blessed Trinity’s field in a regular season contest. In a low-scoring, defensive battle, Blessed Trinity kicker Ethan Chauvin’s field goal early in […] Full Story

• ‘Engage to Educate’ brings Catholic teachers to first statewide conference

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published November 2, 2018

  ROSWELL—As students in Georgia’s Catholic schools enjoyed days off in early October, their teachers headed back to the classroom for three days of learning. Engage to Educate, the first combined educational conference held for teachers from the Atlanta Archdiocese and Savannah Diocese, took place Oct. 3-5 at Blessed Trinity High School and Queen of Angels […] Full Story

• PATH to have fundraiser dinner Nov. 8

  Published November 1, 2018

  ATLANTA—Post Abortion Treatment and Healing, PATH, will have its annual fundraising dinner on Thursday, Nov. 8 at Holy Spirit Church. This year’s guest speaker is Sheila Harper, president and founder of SaveOne Bible Study. The PATH Ministry became familiar with SaveOne in 2016 and began using that program for its weekly Bible studies, which are […] Full Story

• Atlanta’s Jewish and Catholic communities discuss finding unity in diversity

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 1, 2018

  ATLANTA—Days before a gunman attacked the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, more than 250 women and men of Christian and Jewish faiths focused on building unity in a divided society. The gathering on Thursday, Oct. 25, called Repairing the World, is the fourth annual event bringing together the two faith communities, organized by […] Full Story

• St. Clare of Assisi Church built with helping hands

  By ADRIANNE MURCHISON, Special to the Bulletin
  Published November 1, 2018

  ACWORTH—Hundreds of smiling parishioners filled their new sanctuary at St. Clare of Assisi Church on a recent celebratory Sunday. With afternoon sunlight beaming through windows, choirs and instrumentalists led hymns in English and Spanish. Yet it was the beautiful silences that captured the joy and emotion of the dedication Mass Oct. 28. Bishop Joel M. […] Full Story | En Español

• Courage Apostolate member Daniel Mattson shares story at Georgia Tech

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 1, 2018

  ATLANTA—When asked by a student how to talk to a gay friend about the morality of homosexuality, author Daniel Mattson told an audience of students at the Georgia Tech Catholic Center, “Your job is to love him, as he is.” “You relate to him, one on one. That is really the way of the Gospel,” […] Full Story

• Father James Martin shares bridge-building message at Atlanta parishes

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 1, 2018

  DECATUR—When a gunman killed 49 people at Miami’s Pulse Nightclub in 2016, Jesuit Father James Martin was struck by the silence from some American bishops in expressing solidarity with the slain gay patrons, unlike their responses to other mass shootings. “It seemed to me, even in death, LGBT people were more or less invisible to […] Full Story

• Marist School gets goats to help battle creek erosion

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published November 1, 2018

  ATLANTA—Rented goats visited the campus of Marist School Oct. 16-23 upon the invitation of environmental science students and their teacher Kelly Mandy. Students in Mandy’s science classes began researching ways to help restore riparian zones along the banks of the school’s Nancy Creek. Riparian zones are the 50-foot areas that border rivers and other bodies […] Full Story

• Archbishop answers Catholics’ questions on abuse

  

  Published November 1, 2018

  ATLANTA—In the weeks since scandals related to former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and troubling revelations of heinous abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses have come to light in the national media, many parishioners in churches across the Atlanta Archdiocese have met together for prayer and to share their concerns in an open or town hall format. […] Full Story | En Español

• Pinecrest Academy celebrates 25th anniversary with groundbreaking for new building

  

  Published October 24, 2018

  CUMMING—An estimated 1,000 supporters of Pinecrest Academy celebrated the school’s 25th anniversary on Friday, Sept. 7 as it embarked on building permanent lower school classrooms. Prayers were said and the ground was sprinkled with holy water as the school broke ground for the building on the campus of the independent Catholic school in Forsyth County. […] Full Story

• Adrian Dominican Sister Mary Priniski remembers an ‘amazing 50 years’

  

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Special to the Bulletin
  Published October 23, 2018

  DECATUR—Adrian Dominican Sister Mary Priniski, Ph.D., has devoted her life to advocating for the rights of workers and the marginalized, first inspired by a 1971 Vatican synod that declared social justice a constitutive element of the Gospel. Now in her 50th year of religious life, she perseveres in her labors with new vigor as interim […] Full Story

• Bishop Shlesinger celebrates Green Mass on feast of St. Francis

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published October 23, 2018

  ATLANTA—Karen Jimenez relies on the papal encyclical “Laudato Si” as inspiration when teaching her ecology class at Holy Spirit Preparatory School, Atlanta. In his papal encyclical, Pope Francis included two prayers on environmental issues—one an interfaith prayer for all and one specifically for Christians. The prayers often open and close Jimenez’s class, which is largely […] Full Story

• Father Michael Steven Sherliza, a priest of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, dies

  Published October 23, 2018

  MARIETTA— Father Michael Steven Sherliza, a priest of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, died Oct. 22 after battling a long series of illnesses. He was 62. The son of Robert Joseph Sherliza and Lizzette (Sullivan) Sherliza, he was born on Oct. 2, 1956, the feast of the Guardian Angels, in Attleboro, Massachusetts. He attended St. Mary’s […] Full Story

• Mass spotlights those who are building the church of the future

  

  By JEAN DRISKELL, Special to the Bulletin
  Published October 19, 2018

  ATLANTA—The 2018 Deo Gratias Mass and brunch honoring the members of the Deo Gratias and Founders Society of the Catholic Foundation of North Georgia was held at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta, Aug. 25. The gathering spotlights ordinary people who are helping to ensure that the church in the archdiocese continues to thrive […] Full Story