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• New Legion Of Christ Priests Have Ties To Atlanta

  Published February 14, 2013

  ATLANTA—Forty-four Legion of Christ seminarians were ordained priests in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, Italy, in December. Six have ties to Atlanta, including a man who performed as Buzz, the mascot of Georgia Tech. Father Andrew Dalton, 31, graduated in 1999 from Lassiter High School in Marietta, as valedictorian, National Honor Society […]

• Holy Spirit’s Whelan Wins National Soccer Award

  

  Published February 14, 2013

  ATLANTA—The 2012 US Youth Soccer Goal and Save of the Year award recipients were announced at an awards gala on Jan. 18 in Indianapolis, Ind. Luke Whelan, a junior at Holy Spirit Preparatory School, Atlanta, was awarded the US Youth Soccer Save of the Year. The save that won “Save of the Year,” came during Holy […]

• Area Catholic Athletes Sign On To Play College Sports

  Published February 14, 2013

  ATLANTA—This year’s National Signing Day took place on Wednesday, Feb. 6. Local Catholic high school seniors joined other athletes around the country by making it official when they signed binding national letters of intent to play collegiate sports at the college or university of their choice. The list below includes, by high school, the area […]

• St. Toribio Romo Mission Growing In Murray County

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published February 14, 2013

  ATLANTA—The new St. Toribio Romo Mission welcomes Mexican immigrants and other people across Murray County, east of Dalton, to its first house of worship in a renovated car dealership on the main Chatsworth highway. Named after a popular saint among Mexican migrants, the mission of St. Joseph’s Church in Dalton held its first Mass on […]

• Father And Son Find Spiritual Healing At Lourdes

  By STEPHEN O'KANE
  Published February 14, 2013

  ATLANTA—Millions of faithful people travel to Lourdes, France, every year seeking healing and forgiveness. It was no different for Bob Milani and his son, Jack, who traveled there with the Order of Malta last year seeking physical healing for Jack’s mitochondrial myopathy. The story of Lourdes is well known, especially among Catholics. In 1858, the […]

• OLM Educator ‘Lives And Breathes’ Teaching Vocation

  

  By ANDREW NELSON
  Published February 14, 2013

  FAYETTEVILLE—Franck Launay-Fallasse followed his passion to serve the Church. He just didn’t know it was going to be as a schoolteacher. As a young man, he was a social worker for mentally impaired people in a L’Arche community. He also assisted unemployed adults. But what he calls a “series of providential events” led him to […]

• Music Key To Teaching For St. Catherine’s Mr. Griffith

  

  By ANDREW NELSON
  Published February 14, 2013

  KENNESAW—Walk into Owen Griffith’s fourth-grade class and don’t be surprised to see the 47-year-old strumming on a guitar. A longtime musician, the teacher sings songs with the youngsters to help them learn prayers, the water cycle and the names of the planets. He was one of the teachers honored at the Archdiocese of Atlanta education […]

• Dedicated Pius Teacher Shares Love Of Reading

  

  By STEPHEN O'KANE
  Published February 14, 2013

  ATLANTA—St. Pius X High School English teacher Charleen Klister has had a love of reading ever since she was a young girl growing up in De Pere, Wis. “I don’t remember life before I could read,” she said, smiling. Through her literature and writing classes, Klister brings this love of reading to students at St. […] Full Story

• Notre Dame Teacher Finds Life Lessons In Music

  By STEPHEN O'KANE
  Published February 14, 2013

  DULUTH—Amy LoCurto’s music classes are about much more than music. While rhythm, melody and instruments do play a central role in the classroom, students naturally learn other life skills while studying music, according to LoCurto. Now in her fourth year at Notre Dame Academy, a Catholic, World International Baccalaureate school in Duluth, LoCurto covers a […] Full Story

• Archdiocese Honors Teachers, Staff At Banquet

  Published February 14, 2013

  ATLANTA—At the close of Catholic Schools Week this year, teachers and employees of the archdiocesan and independent Catholic schools in the Atlanta Archdiocese gathered for the sixth annual Archbishop’s Banquet for Catholic Education on Feb. 2 at the Marriott Atlanta Perimeter Center. At the banquet a teacher or staff member from each of the 23 […]

• Catholics Represented At Annual Day At The Capitol

  

  By ANDREW NELSON
  Published February 14, 2013

  ATLANTA—The Georgia Catholic Conference aims to help shape state laws on key topics important to the church—from education tax credits and abortion to human trafficking. The annual Catholic Day at the Capitol, held this year on Jan. 29, drew more than 100 people to the Statehouse, said organizers. The participants got a taste of what […]

• Blessed Trinity Goes For Blood

  Published January 31, 2013

• Youth Must Learn Painful Past To Carry Torch

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published January 31, 2013

  ATLANTA—The vision of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. today challenges people to “carry every sister and brother who is disconnected in this world,” said Msgr. Henry Gracz. “What pockets cry out for justice?” he asked. People are numbed by addictions to “a world of stuff,” by the continuing effects of violence, racism and sexism, […] Full Story

• Mary Boyert: Education Helps Change Hearts, Minds

  By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
  Published January 31, 2013

  ATLANTA—Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion, Mary Boyert remembers a couple coming to speak at her Ohio parish about what they believed would be the horrifying consequences of the decision. After speaking at Mass that day at St. Columbkille Church, in Parma, Ohio, the couple invited parishioners […]

• Archbishop: ‘Timeless Message’ Sustains 40-Year Struggle

  

  By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
  Published January 31, 2013

  ATLANTA—Commemorating four decades since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in the landmark cases Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton in 1973, Catholics gathered Jan. 22 for the annual Mass for the Unborn at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to rededicate themselves to the cause of defending human life from the time of […] Full Story

• GSU Catholics Welcome New Gathering Space

  

  By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
  Published January 19, 2013

  Members of the Georgia State University Catholic Student Association are giving thanks for the new gathering space dedicated to their campus ministry. On Jan. 11, the new space, furnished with an altar, tabernacle, ambo and icons, was blessed and dedicated by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, marking the culmination of an effort years in the making. […]

• Catholic Charities Honors 2012 Leadership Class

  Published January 17, 2013

  ATLANTA—Catholic Charities Atlanta recently honored 42 graduates of its 2012 Leadership Class. The class is an opportunity for young and mid-management professionals to enhance their leadership skills and integrate their Catholic faith in the workplace. A graduation ceremony for the 2012 Leadership Class was held at the Georgian Club in Atlanta earlier this month. The […]

• Social Worker Before Seminary

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published January 17, 2013

  ATLANTA—Before the seminary, Bishop-designate David P. Talley was a young social worker, trying to prevent child abuse in housing projects that dotted Atlanta’s Fulton County. The turmoil faced by families at the crime-filled complexes was “incredibly violent and horrifying and beyond belief,” a reality he confronted with colleagues from the Fulton County Division of Family […]

• Pope Appoints Atlanta’s Second Auxiliary Bishop

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published January 17, 2013

  ATLANTA—An historic appointment of a second auxiliary bishop for the Atlanta Archdiocese has been made from among the priests of the archdiocese, as Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop-designate David P. Talley, 62, to assist Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory. A native of Columbus, who was raised as a Southern Baptist and entered the Catholic Church during […]

• STM Girls Take The Court For A Cause

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published January 17, 2013

  The St. Thomas More sixth-grade girls basketball team was crowned champion of the sixth annual Sam Robb Memorial Holiday Classic Basketball Tournament, which was held Dec. 27-29. The team raised over $800 for pediatric cancer research. Of that money, $350 was raised prior to the tournament during a cookie swap fundraiser at the home of […] Full Story