Georgia
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Mission Asks Other Parishes For Support On Rezoning Issue
By STEPHEN O’KANE, Staff Writer
Published January 22, 2009Following the strong showing at a Gwinnett County public hearing on Dec. 16, the members of Holy Vietnamese Martyrs Mission are taking to the proverbial streets, hoping to drum up even more support in opposition to the building of a waste transfer station adjacent to their property on Shackleford Road. The December meeting was the […]
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Forge On In Struggle For Human Dignity, Bishop Says
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published January 22, 2009Days before the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama, a standing-room-only crowd filled the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to honor the slain civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King who dreamed of racial equality. The 25th annual Catholic celebration honoring King opened with a dramatic call to worship with the blowing of a […]
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Catholics Reflect On ‘Radical Change’ They’ve Seen
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published January 22, 2009Growing up in rural Mississippi, Rudy Cadney earned pocket money in his hometown by cleaning the church in the white parish, St. Anne’s, while his family worshipped at the Catholic parish set aside for blacks. “There were segregated institutions for everything. Churches were segregated. Schools were segregated. Buses were segregated,” said Cadney, now a 35-year […] Full Story
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VT Priest Says Faith Rituals Help Students In Crisis
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published January 15, 2009The community at Virginia Tech continues to knit itself together after a rampaging gunman killed more than 30 students and faculty in 2007. As the second anniversary of the largest mass killing on a U.S. campus approaches, the Catholic priest serving at the university said a strength the church can bring to fearful and confused […] Full Story
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Research On Catholic Schools Aired At Five Meetings
By STEPHEN O’KANE, Staff Writer
Published January 15, 2009After two years of research, five consultative meetings were held in the archdiocese in late 2008 to share information gathered on ways to strengthen local Catholic schools, address financial challenges facing them, and identify places where there may be grassroots interest in exploring new schools. The meetings, sponsored by a Catholic education subcommittee of the […] Full Story
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Trappist Brother Emilio, Father Dehner Die
Published January 15, 2009
The Cistercian community at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Monastery lost two long-time members of their order in the last few months of 2008. Brother Emilio Quiros, 84, died on Nov. 19, 2008, and Father Philip Dehner, 90, died on Dec. 4, 2008. Both men spent the last years of their lives being cared […] Full Story
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Pinecrest Academy Sweeps Holy Spirit
By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
Published January 15, 2009Nine days into the new year, the Pinecrest Academy boys defeated their rivals Holy Spirit Preparatory 69-42 in the first of two meetings this season. The Holy Spirit gymnasium was a sea of green as frantic fans from both schools cheered on their respective teams. Nearly two minutes passed before the first point was scored […]
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Blessed Trinity Girls Lose Second Straight
By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
Published January 15, 2009After their third game in five days, the Blessed Trinity High School girls may have shown some fatigue as they lost to Etowah High School of Woodstock 76-52. Blessed Trinity held a four-point lead at the conclusion of the first period, but Etowah forged ahead 35-30 just before halftime. Etowah went on a 9-0 run […]
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Area Churches To Host Speaker Alan Ames
Published January 15, 2009
Australian evangelist and healer Alan Ames will return to Atlanta for three speaking engagements and healing services in February. All are welcome to attend. In his talks, Ames shares his conversion experience, which caused a dramatic change in his life and led him to a greater devotion to the sacraments and prayer. On Thursday, Feb. […] Full Story
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Campus Ministers Go Virtual To Draw Students
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published January 15, 2009Today’s college students are always plugged into technology, don’t carry the do-not-trust-anyone-over-30 hang-up and are not afraid to share details of their lives. But the idea of going out on a romantic date causes panic. So, how’s a Catholic campus minister supposed to engage them with the challenges of Jesus? Being where they are, advise […]
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Kathy Evanina To Speak At Magnificat Feb. 7
Published January 8, 2009
All women are invited to take part in a morning of friendship, prayer and socializing with other women in an atmosphere of faith at the Magnificat prayer breakfast on Saturday, Feb. 7. The speaker will be Kathy Evanina, of St. Stephen the Martyr Parish in Lilburn, who will talk about her faith journey from a […]
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Small Faith Community Rally Will Offer Options
By SUZANNE HAUGH, Special To The Bulletin
Published January 8, 2009Developing small faith communities at the parish level will be the focus of “Growing Your Community: A Small Faith Community Rally” to be held Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta. The event will begin with a continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m. followed by a workshop from 9 a.m. until […] Full Story
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New Curriculum Guidelines Chosen For Children’s Faith Formation
By SUZANNE HAUGH, Special To The Bulletin
Published January 8, 2009In an effort to more fully impart the Catholic faith to all its children, the Atlanta Archdiocese will be issuing new curriculum guidelines to be used in both parish faith formation programs for children and Catholic schools, from preschool to high school. The new curriculum guidelines are based on the four pillars presented and explained […] Full Story
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Resolving To Give Back? Let Catholic Foundation Help
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published January 8, 2009It is early in 2009. The glow of the year ahead hasn’t dimmed. Those resolutions still seem possible. And if getting your financial house in order is one of them, the rejuvenated Catholic Foundation of North Georgia may be able to help you. (And even if that didn’t make your New Year’s resolutions, it cannot […]
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Memorial Pro-Life Mass, Walk Scheduled for Jan. 22
Published January 8, 2009
To mark the 36th anniversary of the legalization of abortion, a national day of prayer and penance for life will be observed on Thursday, Jan. 22, with a rosary and Mass. Later during the day, there will be a silent anti-abortion march through the streets of Atlanta. All are invited to participate. On Jan. 22, […] Full Story
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Dr. King To Be Remembered At Annual Mass, Celebration
Published January 8, 2009
Days before the first African-American is sworn in as president, Catholics in the Atlanta Archdiocese will gather to remember the life and service of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Jan. 17 weekend. All are invited to attend. The theme of this year’s anniversary celebration is “Serve One Another Through Love,” a line written […] Full Story
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Pinecrest Academy Hosts Christmas Tournament
By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
Published January 8, 2009The Pinecrest Academy girls basketball team reached the finals of the first Pinecrest Christmas Classic with a 55-20 win over Monsignor Donovan High School, Athens. Pinecrest senior forward Danielle Anderson scored the team’s first five points and finished the night with 14 points. Sophomore guard Margaret Cassandra also poured in 20 points. In the Dec. […]
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Helping Adult Catholics Grow In Faith Is Top Priority
By SUZANNE HAUGH, Special To The Bulletin
Published January 8, 2009Glaciers have become an appropriate metaphor for the trek now underway by the staff of the Office of Religious Education, particularly for its director, Dennis Johnson Jr. He equates a glacier’s movement with how ORE must be poised to respond effectively to the church’s social climate while retaining essential principles when forming area Catholics in […] Full Story
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NBA Gives Turkeys In Time For Christmas Dinners
Published January 1, 2009
Thousands of families in National Basketball Association cities throughout the country enjoyed the holidays a little bit more this year as The National Basketball Players Association, Catholic Charities USA and Feed the Children delivered meals to 30,000 families. Catholic Charities in Atlanta helped distribute the food, which included 500 turkeys, for hundreds of families here. […] Full Story
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Parishes Receive Data As Catholic Population Surges
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published January 1, 2009Do you think the pews are getting a little bit more crowded? Parking harder to find? The number of Catholics in North Georgia continues to climb. Catholics are growing faster than the overall population in the Peach State as the official count of Catholics in the archdiocese climbs to 750,000, up from 650,000. The new […] Full Story
