Georgia
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Catholic Schools Debut iPad Program As School Begins
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 18, 2011Textbooks will be staying on the shelves as some students return to the classroom carrying only lightweight iPads. Six schools in the Atlanta Archdiocese are embracing the touch-screen iPads as the newest classroom tool to recreate Civil War battles in social studies, reinforce math lessons with instructional videos or write a classroom blog to improve […]
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New Principals Tell What Drew Them To Education
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 18, 2011Four Catholic elementary schools have new principals this year. They responded to a series of questions from The Georgia Bulletin about their background, passion for education and first thoughts about their new communities. John H. Tarpley, Principal St. Mary’s Catholic School, Rome Previous Position: Ten years as principal of Pinecrest Academy in Cumming and prior […]
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Transcription Project Brings Priest’s Writings To Light
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 4, 2011This article was corrected for spelling errors on November 22, 2011. In the late 1700s, Father James Archer inked his thoughts on thin paper about faith during a time when Catholics in England were persecuted—or worse, killed. Now, more than 200 years later, people can transcribe the aged pages bound together with a thread to […]
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100-Year-Old Monk Sees History Preserved
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 4, 2011Father Luke Kot sits in the midst of the barn-turned-museum at Holy Spirit Monastery and reminisces. Stairs in the corner once led to the second-floor “cells,” as bedrooms for monks are called. Here was the abbot’s office. And over against that wall he had a close encounter with a chicken. “She sat close by me. […]
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Pilot For Catholic Sitcom Filmed In Conyers
By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
Published August 4, 2011The kitchen table where the Willits family usually eats is covered this morning with cables, batteries, audio and recording paraphernalia—equipment to start filming a possible Catholic sitcom. A crew of six and Father Robert Reed, president of CatholicTV, have flown in from Boston, turning the Willits’ home into a set for the pilot of the […]
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CRS Rep Speaks On Experience In Eastern Europe
By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
Published August 4, 2011Catholic Relief Services Country Representative Jacob Hershman recently spoke to a group of local Catholics about his experiences and the programs the international humanitarian agency is implementing in a struggling area of Eastern Europe. Hershman, the country representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, came back to the United States for a few weeks to visit his […]
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Local Catholics Prepare For World Youth Day Travels
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 4, 2011Grace Lee will be one of millions of young people streaming into Madrid on a pilgrimage of faith. The Spanish capital in late August hosts the 2011 World Youth Day, a three-day celebration of faith, built around the theme: “Planted and built up in Jesus Christ, firm in the faith.” On her first trip to […]
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Catholic Bible Conference Takes Papal Text As Guide
By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
Published August 4, 2011The corridors of the St. Peter Chanel Church complex hummed with voices July 22 and 23 as hundreds took advantage of the presence of national Catholic biblical scholars speaking on a tripod of themes inspired by a recent papal document on the Bible. Some 350 people from 33 states and from Pakistan, Israel and Canada, […]
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Transfiguration To Host Catechist Faith Formation Day
Published July 21, 2011
Transfiguration Church will be the site of the Catechist Faith Formation Day on Saturday, Aug. 13, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. All are welcome to attend. This annual catechist certification day is being hosted by the churches of the North and Northwest Metro deaneries. This event gives local catechists access to national level speakers […]
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Longtime Georgia Bulletin Ad Representative Dies
Published July 21, 2011
Leonard Markun, who served as the advertising representative of The Georgia Bulletin for over 40 years from 1956 to 1998, died July 5. He was 92 and lived in Chamblee. He was a U.S. Army veteran, having served from 1942 to 1946. A native of New York City, where he met and married his wife […]
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Athens Hospital Honored For Palliative, Hospice Care
Published July 21, 2011
St. Mary’s Health Care System has been named a Circle of Life honoree for palliative and hospice care by the American Hospital Association (AHA). St. Mary’s was recognized for innovative programs that improve quality of care for patients near the end of life or who are living with chronic conditions. Only seven organizations in the […]
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Worry Spreads In Georgia’s Immigrant Community
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published July 21, 2011Latin rhythms played by the two guitarists, a drummer and three women singers spilled out of the parish hall at St. Joseph Church. Hundreds of women, men and children swayed, raised their hands in prayer and danced to the loud, upbeat music. “This is my life. It’s my fuel,” said Roxana Quezada, 25, who works […]
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Father James Flanagan At Work In First Pastorate
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published July 21, 2011Father James Flanagan is serving in his first pastorate at St. James the Apostle Church, McDonough, where he hopes to help strengthen the spiritual lives of the faithful. “I’m definitely looking forward to working with and teaching the wonderful people of St. James about how beautiful their Catholic faith really is. Along with that, I […]
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Each Heard God’s Call To Religious Life
By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
Published July 21, 2011This year several sisters in the Archdiocese of Atlanta are celebrating jubilee milestones. Here are the stories of three of them: Sister Angela Abood, Sister Jodi Creten and Sister Esther Ordoñez. The other sisters celebrating jubilees will be featured in an upcoming issue of The Georgia Bulletin. Sister Angela Abood Sitting comfortably in a chair […]
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Bishop-Designate Hartmayer Named For Savannah
By ANDREW NELSON and STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writers
Published July 21, 2011Conventual Franciscan Father Gregory John Hartmayer has been appointed the 14th bishop of the Diocese of Savannah. Pope Benedict XVI appointed Father Hartmayer July 19 to head the diocese in south and middle Georgia, taking him from his role as the pastor of the parish of St. John Vianney, Lithia Springs, in the Atlanta Archdiocese. […]
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EXCITE! Youth Track Big Draw For St. Mary’s Teens
By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
Published July 7, 2011Two buses full of more than 80 parishioners from St. Mary Church took to the road just after 7 a.m. on Saturday morning, June 25, heading toward the Georgia International Convention Center for the 2011 Eucharistic Congress. With a large group of teens tagging along, the EXCITE! youth track was on the top of the […]
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Young Adults Called Church’s Gifted ‘People Of Today’
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published July 7, 2011Former fashion model Mario St. Francis encouraged a crowded room of more than 400 young adults to listen to the quiet voice speaking to their hearts. God speaks at unexpected times and in unexpected places, he said, but always has the best outcome. “It’s like a voice. It’s like a thought. It’s like an inspiration,” […]
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Priest Urges Vietnamese To Grow In Faith In New Land
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published July 7, 2011With voices strong, the Vietnamese Catholic community sang a traditional hymn in praise of the Eucharist. Urged on by Archbishop Pierre Nguyen Van Tot, the tight-knit community from across the Atlanta region joined together in prayer and celebration. “It’s an opportunity to reconnect,” said Susan Duong, a member of the Holy Vietnamese Martyrs Church, Norcross. […]
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Expanded Spanish Track Draws Thousands
By LUISA ZALZMAN, Special To The Bulletin
Published July 7, 2011Organizers at this year’s Eucharistic Congress allotted a much larger space to this year’s Spanish track, based on overflowing attendance in this track over the past few years. Following the procession and morning Benediction, attendees flowed into the newly expanded space in even greater numbers, filling it with a multitude of enthusiastic Catholics. Jairo Martinez, […]
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Speakers’ Stories Reveal Faith Grows Against All Odds
By REBECCA RAKOCZY, Special To The Bulletin
Published July 7, 2011A former Protestant pastor who felt haunted by the hidden God in the presence of the Eucharist. A tiny Iraqi nun whose Catholic faith life grew living among the homeless amidst the devastation of war, even though she wasn’t Catholic. A priest who encouraged others to seek freedom from life’s material attachments—and let grace flow through […]
