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• Burmese Catholics Find Support In Parish, Deacon

  By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
  Published November 26, 2009

  As metro Atlanta continues to grow and expand culturally, the face of the Catholic Church in the local archdiocese is changing as well. The Catholic Burmese population throughout North Georgia is rising at a rapid rate, and Deacon Peter Swan of St. Philip Benizi Church, Jonesboro, has been there every step of the way to […] Full Story

• Art Collection Illustrates Bible As History

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 26, 2009

  An art exhibit at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum examines how the Bible became a weapon in a propaganda war as political and religious changes swept through 16th-century Europe. The Protestants with their new faith challenged the authority of the Catholic Church, and each claimed authority with biblical tracts. The exhibit “Scripture for the […]

• After 54 Years, Priesthood’s ‘A Wonderful Life’

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 26, 2009

  Father Richard Morrow is one of the longest serving priests in the Atlanta Archdiocese, ministering here since 1955. Father Morrow is a walking history book, from his memories of being a Catholic priest in the Bible belt and sitting beside Ethel Kennedy as her husband, Robert, worked a room in west Georgia, to the changes […]

• Sister Briege To Speak At CTK

  Published November 26, 2009

  The Cathedral of Christ the King and the Atlanta chapter of Legatus will host a special presentation, “Miracles Do Happen, God in Action,” by Sister Briege McKenna, OSC. The event will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. All are invited to attend. Sister Briege was born in Ireland and entered the Sisters […] Full Story

• Collection Marked For Elderly In Religious Orders

  Published November 26, 2009

  Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Atlanta will conduct the 22nd annual appeal for the Retirement Fund for Religious on Dec. 13. This year’s collection theme is “Share in the Care.” The collection, coordinated by the National Religious Retirement Office (NRRO) in Washington, D.C., benefits thousands of elderly women and men religious whose communities lack […]

• St. Thomas’ Blue Star Supports Soldiers, Families

  Published November 26, 2009

  The Blue Star Support Group of St. Thomas Aquinas Church recently completed a three-week fundraising project to send over 200 stockings and Christmas cards to military personnel “adopted” by the church. This is one of the many projects taken on by the active group since it was founded by Father Gregory Goolsby, pastor of St. […] Full Story

• Those in crisis find Sister Marie at their side

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 12, 2009

  If you want to know anything about Dominican Sister Marie Sullivan know this: On the afternoon civic leaders lauded her, she spent the morning with people who are homeless, linking them with employment, food and medical programs to help lift them up. Fifty years of service to men, women and children who risk having their […]

• Pinecrest Paladins Capture State Volleyball Title

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published November 12, 2009

  The Lady Paladins of Pinecrest Academy captured the 2009 Georgia Independent School Association (GISA) state varsity volleyball title in Monroe Oct. 24. It was the school’s second trip to the state finals, but their first state championship. On their way to the state finals, Pinecrest won the region title with a perfect record of 12-0. […]

• CCHD Helps Strengthen Marginalized Communities

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 12, 2009

  Parishioners will be asked to give money to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development next weekend as part of the church’s national and local efforts to tackle the roots causes of poverty. Leaders of the Catholic campaign are facing increasing demands for help as the number of men and women without work reaches its highest […]

• Patriarch Urges People Of Faith To Care For Environment

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 12, 2009

  The spiritual leader of the world’s 300-million Orthodox Christians traveled here to spread his concern about a Christian’s responsibility to the environment. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I spoke at the crowded Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, 2500 Clairmont Road, at an “ecumenical gathering of peace” on Thursday, Oct. 29. “We are not users but guardians […]

• Lyke House an oasis for students at six colleges

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 12, 2009

  Beneath towering pine trees and with a cold fall breeze blowing, college students, alumni and supporters from the Lyke House huddled in a horseshoe shape at the bronze grave marker of its namesake, Archbishop James P. Lyke. The crowd recited the morning prayer of Liturgy of the Hours with its ancient prayers and Scripture readings […]

• ‘Small Seed’ Of Faith Generates Thriving Calhoun Parish

  

  By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
  Published November 12, 2009

  St. Clement Church joins three other parishes in the Archdiocese of Atlanta celebrating silver anniversaries in 2009. However, the Calhoun community celebrated a double milestone, also marking 50 golden years since it began as a mission. Nearly 700 people filled the Calhoun Civic Center as Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory presided over an anniversary Mass there […]

• 2009 A Jubilee Year In Canton, Jasper, Lithonia

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 12, 2009

  Three churches in the Atlanta Archdiocese mark their silver jubilee as faith communities this year. They are Christ Our Hope Church, Lithonia; Jasper’s Our Lady of the Mountains Church; and Our Lady of LaSalette Church, Canton. Christ Our Hope, Lithonia Parishioners who stream into this Atlanta area church come from more than 50 countries, from […]

• Lengthy Marriages Celebrated At Annual Mass

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 12, 2009

  Couples repeated their “I do’s” at the annual archdiocesan Mass to celebrate marriage. St. Brigid Church, Johns Creek, hosted the brides and grooms, many years after they first walked down the aisle as young married couples. Certainly, there would have been more hair and fewer pounds the first time, but now there were grown children […]

• St. Mary Magdalene Relic To Visit Local Parishes

  Published November 12, 2009

  From the foot of the cross at Calvary to Frejus-Toulon, France, to Atlanta, Holy Spirit Church is excited and honored to participate in an historic event as the parish hosts a relic of St. Mary Magdalene later this month. The relic, a large piece of St. Mary Magdalene’s tibia, will be available for veneration in […]

• BT, St. Pius Leap To State Competition Heights

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published November 12, 2009

  Cheerleaders from Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, and St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, danced, flipped, leaped and vaulted their way to Columbus, where they will compete against some of the best cheerleading squads in all of Georgia Nov. 13-14. This is after the two schools vied for the coveted spots during the Georgia High […]

• Aquinas Center Welcomes New Board Members

  Published November 10, 2009

  The Aquinas Center of Theology announced six new board members at an Oct. 21 board meeting on the Emory University campus. They are Patricia Allgood, chair at Vistage in Atlanta; David Blumenthal, professor of Judaic studies at Emory University; Stephen Crim, chief executive officer of American Safety Insurance; Randy Hain, managing partner of Bell Oaks; […]

• Flood Of ‘Biblical Proportion’ Submerges Home

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published October 29, 2009

  As Sweetwater Creek started to rise, Jim Skelton moved the valuable items from the ground floor upstairs. The player piano was put on top of 5-gallon buckets, the refrigerator too. But when the flooding swept into his home, it wasn’t nearly enough. “This time it was moving six to eight inches in 10 minutes,” he […] Full Story

• Lourdes Sustains Saint’s Founding Work

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published October 29, 2009

  Stand outside the three-story red brick and Stone Mountain granite building near the intersection of Auburn Avenue and Boulevard, in the heart of the Sweet Auburn neighborhood, to see what a canonized saint who visited here help build. The school-turned-parish center at Our Lady of Lourdes was paid for by St. Katharine Drexel, the heiress […] Full Story

• Shrine Is City Of Atlanta’s Oldest Parish

  

  By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
  Published October 29, 2009

  On Martin Luther King Jr. Drive near the state Capitol, visitors to Atlanta will most likely pass another building of importance—a church that has a significant place in Catholic history and in the history of Georgia. Atlanta Catholics completed their first church building in 1848. Not yet named, it was known simply as “the Catholic […]