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• Athens’ Monsignor Donovan High School walks with students facing cancer

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 16, 2023

  Prayers for the intercession of St. Peregrine were added to the morning announcements at Monsignor Donovan High School as two of its students had their lives altered by cancer. Eduardo Blanco and John Paul Abrigo learned of their diagnoses within weeks of each other.

• Chesterton Academy hires headmaster, prepares for inaugural year

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 16, 2023

  A new high school featuring a classical education on the campus of St. Catherine of Siena Church achieved a milestone with the recent hiring of a headmaster, along with naming its faculty. 

• Archbishop Hartmayer issues St. Patrick’s Day dispensation 

  

  Published March 8, 2023

  Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., has granted a dispensation to the faithful from the obligation of abstinence on March 17. 

• Patrick: the saint and the legend   

  

  By FATHER JOHN KIERAN, Commentary
  Published March 8, 2023

  Separating the long-standing legends associated with St. Patrick and the man himself is a tricky task. The saint’s fame is worldwide, in every country, celebrated by millions on March 17, the day of his death. 

• Church of the Purification celebrates 200 years 

  

  Published March 6, 2023

  On Feb. 2, six bishops, several priests and laymen and women celebrated the 200th anniversary of the historic Church of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

• Trappist Monastery remembers Brother Elias Marechal 

  Published March 3, 2023

  Brother Elias Marechal, OCSO, a monk of the Cistercian (Trappist) Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, died Saturday, Feb. 25. Brother Elias, a monk of 30 years, was 86 years old. 

• Prayer services honor student slain outside Lyke House Newman Center 

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 2, 2023

  With heavy hearts, the Lyke House Newman Center community remembered a slain college student during two prayer services. A 20-year-old Chicago native was shot Feb. 28 outside the Atlanta center that serves four college campuses.

• Buckhead’s Catholic, Baptist communities join together to offer preschool program 

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Editor
  Published March 2, 2023

  A friendship between two pastors—one Catholic and one Baptist—led to the launch of a preschool to serve the children of both their church communities. Christ the King Preschool at Second-Ponce is celebrating its inaugural school year.

• Father Richard K. Young, former Atlanta priest, dies February 9 

  Published March 2, 2023

  Father Richard Knox Young, a priest of the Diocese of Savannah, died Feb. 9 in Sri Lanka. He served for several years in the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

• Remembering Deacon John S. Strachan 

  Published March 2, 2023

  Deacon John S. Strachan of Roswell died on Feb. 10. He was 77 years old. 

• The spiritual side of retirement planning: the lagniappe step

  By BILL CLARKE
  Published March 2, 2023

  Several years ago, I had a rather serious surgery and was recuperating in intensive care. It was almost midnight, and it was very quiet in the ICU. I had tubes connected measuring my vital signs.

• St. Brendan’s shroud exhibit offers story of hope 

  

  Published March 2, 2023

  An exhibit examining the Shroud of Turin is expanding its collection, giving visitors another perspective on the mystery surrounding the burial cloth. A bronze sculpture of Jesus as he was laid in the tomb helps visitors imagine the man wrapped in the shroud.

• Make room in the pews as 1,800 new believers join the church 

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 1, 2023

  On April 8, at Easter Vigil liturgies across the Archdiocese of Atlanta, 1,831 catechumens and candidates will receive the sacraments for the first time.  

• Archbishop Hartmayer blesses tabernacle at world’s busiest airport 

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 1, 2023

  Travelers going through Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport now have the Blessed Sacrament to pray with. Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., blessed a tabernacle for the airport in February.

• Christ will do the work

  

  By MICHELE MCHALE-PICKARD, Special to the Bulletin
  Published February 26, 2023

  I grew up during the changing landscape after the Second Vatican Council, and adoration wasn’t a practice that I came to know and love until well into my adult life as a wife and mother.

• Meet the deacons of 2023

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
  Published February 23, 2023

  Get to know Atlanta’s newly ordained deacons, serving in parishes across the archdiocese.

• Deacon Keith Kolodziej to speak at March Magnificat   

  

  By Georgia BullETIN STAFF
  Published February 20, 2023

  Deacon Keith Kolodziej, of St. Peter Chanel Church, will be the speaker at the Magnificat gathering for women on March 18. He is the liaison to the archdiocese for the Atlanta Catholic Charismatic Renewal. 

• Archbishop Hartmayer asks for prayers for President Carter

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
  Published February 19, 2023

  Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., asks that all join him in prayer for President Jimmy Carter and his family as he nears the end of his life.

• Senior soccer captain at St. Mary’s Academy fueled by love of game, teammates 

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published February 18, 2023

  It was at the age of 5 that Eva Launay-Fallasse stepped onto a soccer field for the first time. The St. Mary’s Academy senior is now co-captain of the school’s soccer team and also a leader off the field.

• Together for Life Rally draws scores to the Georgia Statehouse 

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published February 18, 2023

  Scores of men and women came out in support of the Together for Life rally at the Georgia State Capitol. The midday rally on Feb. 9 was organized by nine civic and faith groups, including the Archdiocese of Atlanta, in opposition to abortion and to promote a culture of life.