Georgia
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Notre Dame finds success at first region, state track meet
Published April 28, 2016
DULUTH—Notre Dame Academy high school students Kelsey Benoit and Austin Wilwayco placed in their respective events as the school participated in its first Georgia Independent Christian Athletic Association East Region Track Meet at Briarwood Academy, Warrenton, April 14. Benoit was the region champion in the 400-meter run and she finished third in the high jump. […]
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Corpus Christi USO volunteers honored
Published April 28, 2016
ATLANTA—The Atlanta Airport hosted the 2016 Airport Volunteer Appreciation Awards Dinner on Monday, April 11, at the Atlanta Marriott Gateway Hotel. Many parishes in the Atlanta Archdiocese were represented as USO volunteers. Pat and Jack Horvath accepted an award from the USO on behalf of the Corpus Christi Church Seniors. The award reads: “75th Anniversary […] Full Story
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Pastor walks in footsteps of Christ in Holy Land
Published April 28, 2016
ISRAEL—Father Neil Dhabliwala celebrated Mass overlooking the Dead Sea during a recent trip to the Holy Land. It was a pilgrimage and a retreat to the Holy Land for the pastor of St. Luke Church, in Dahlonega, because he celebrated Mass at these sites linked to Jesus’ life. The experience was very moving and powerful, […] Full Story
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Marist School marks Society of Mary founding
Published April 28, 2016
ATLANTA—Marist School recently celebrated Fourviere Week April 11-15 in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Society of Mary, the religious congregation that owns and operates the school. The international celebration of the 200th anniversary will occur in France on July 23 with representatives from all Marist branches in attendance. At Marist […] Full Story
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Marist junior’s art wins scholastic medal
Published April 28, 2016
ATLANTA—Artistry is in the Dockter family DNA. Jefferson Dockter, a junior at Marist School, Atlanta, earned two gold key awards in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Georgia level competition, which qualified him for national recognition. His work was recognized with a silver medal for one of his two pieces. This award places him in […] Full Story
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Fifth annual Embrace Mass to be celebrated at Cathedral of Christ the King
Published April 28, 2016
ATLANTA—Each year families in the Archdiocese of Atlanta come together for a memorial Mass in honor of their children who were lost to miscarriage, stillbirth and infant loss. This Mass, sponsored by All Embrace, Inc., is a tangible way to celebrate these babies as members of Christ’s kingdom, as well as a means to provide […] Full Story
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Groundbreaking on May 5 for restoration of state’s first Catholic church
Published April 28, 2016
SHARON—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will conduct a special groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, May 5, at 4:30 p.m. in Sharon to mark the formal start of restorations to the Church of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Georgia’s first Catholic church. All are welcome to attend. Purification Church dates from 1790, when a small band […] Full Story
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Catholic educator calls role as first president of St. Pius High School a ‘dream job’
By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
Published April 28, 2016ATLANTA—The leadership structure of Atlanta’s oldest archdiocesan high school has been modified to become a president and principal model. A youthful Catholic administrator will become its first president. Chad Barwick, a Catholic middle and high school principal in Montgomery, Alabama, who entered teaching through the University of Notre Dame ACE program, will be the first […] Full Story
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Blessed Trinity High School well established as founding principal retires
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published April 28, 2016ROSWELL—Frank Moore spent many weekends recruiting students and convincing parents that a school that wasn’t complete and a faculty that wasn’t hired would deliver a top-notch Catholic high school education. The “student pioneers” gave Blessed Trinity High School its foundation when it opened in 2000, he said. “When you open a new school, there’s the […] Full Story
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Tree planting keeps acts of care for the earth in spotlight
By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
Published April 28, 2016SMYRNA—Justice and Peace Ministries of the Archdiocese of Atlanta encourages parish groups, schools and families to plant a Laudato Si’ tree in celebration of Earth Day 2016. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory launched the campaign by blessing and planting a donated white dogwood tree on the grounds of the Chancery in Smyrna April 21. The tree […] Full Story
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UGA scientists, Catholics let pope know they got the ‘Laudato Si’’ message
By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
Published April 14, 2016ATHENS—As birds chirped in Rosella’s Garden at the Catholic Center of the University of Georgia April 5, scientists, students and members of the interfaith community gathered to celebrate a formal response to a special letter. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory and recently retired UGA environmental scientist Susan Varlamoff led the celebration of the official Action Plan […] Full Story
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Teacher marries beau with second-graders in the front row
By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
Published April 14, 2016ATLANTA—Beth Anne Ross and William Dempsey III were united in the sacrament of marriage Friday, April 1, at the morning Mass of St. Jude the Apostle School. Dempsey and Ross, longtime friends and running and hiking partners, became husband and wife at the first wedding in the school community’s history. A second-grade teacher at St. […] Full Story
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Joshua Bishop, executed March 31, was a ‘powerful witness for forgiveness’
By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
Published April 14, 2016CONYERS—Joshua Bishop, who died by lethal injection March 31, was remembered by his faith community, friends and supporters at a funeral Mass celebrated April 12 at St. Pius X Church in Conyers by Father Tom Zahuta. Bishop, who became a Catholic in prison, regularly attended Mass and other faith gatherings. He met with visiting deacons […]
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Archbishop Gregory shares reaction to new apostolic exhortation
By ARCHBISHOP WILTON D. GREGORY, Commentary
Published April 14, 2016ATLANTA—With the April 8 release of the document, “‘Amoris Laetitia’ (The Joy of Love), from Pope Francis, The Georgia Bulletin asked Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory a few questions about this latest document from the pontiff. He shared his thoughts in this Q&A for Catholics in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Georgia Bulletin: What is an apostolic […] Full Story
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Preschool teacher of the year, ‘Ms. Jerry’ just loves her OLA kids
By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
Published April 14, 2016ATLANTA—Jaroslava Patak, known as “Ms. Jerry” to her students at Our Lady of the Assumption Church preschool, is the 2016 Distinguished Teacher of the Year of the Georgia Preschool Association. Patak received the award at the association’s annual meeting Feb. 26 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. She has served on the OLA preschool […] Full Story
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Witness to executions, advocate for victims, Sister Prejean to speak May 9
Published April 14, 2016
ALPHARETTA—Sister Helen Prejean, known for sparking national dialogue on the death penalty, will speak at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Alpharetta on Monday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. Sister Helen was born on April 21, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and joined the Congregation of St. Joseph in 1957. She spent her first years teaching […]
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Brian Marks returns to Blessed Trinity as principal July 1
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published April 14, 2016ROSWELL—A veteran administrator of Blessed Trinity High School is returning as its new principal. Brian Marks, who spent 13 years serving as assistant principal at the Roswell high school, begins in the new position July 1. He succeeds Frank Moore, the only principal the school community has known since its doors opened 16 years ago. […] Full Story
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Archdiocese responds to victims group’s protest
Published April 14, 2016
ATLANTA—A small group of members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) held signs as part of a press conference outside the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta, April 4. The group asked that the Archdiocese of Atlanta publish on its website a list of those priests, deacons and religious who were […] Full Story
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Divine Mercy Sunday marked with bilingual Mass, veneration of relics
By JEAN DRISKELL, Special to the Bulletin
Published April 14, 2016LAWRENCEVILLE—The Polish community of St. Marguerite d’Youville Church, along with other members of the parish and the archdiocese, celebrated Divine Mercy Sunday April 3 with Mass, the Divine Mercy chaplet, veneration of relics of St. John Paul II, St. Faustina and Blessed Mother Teresa, and a documentary on the history of the original image of […]
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Deacon J. Eugene Whitmeyer dies
Published April 14, 2016
LILBURN—Deacon J. Eugene Whitmeyer of Lilburn died March 20. He was 83. Deacon Whitmeyer was a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Korean War. He was a graduate of Kent State University in Ohio and became an architect design engineer. Deacon Whitmeyer was ordained to the permanent diaconate for the Archdiocese of Atlanta on […] Full Story
