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• City Honors Civil War Priest Who Saved Downtown Churches

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 22, 2007

  Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin posthumously recognized Father Thomas O’Reilly with the Phoenix Award, which was placed by his marker at Atlanta City Hall on March 9. A small crowd gathered for the annual wreath-laying ceremony for Father O’Reilly at the marker dedicated to him. This year Father O’Reilly also received the Phoenix Award for his […] Full Story

• Alpharetta Parish To Present ‘Technicolor’ Show

  Published March 16, 2007

  The St. Thomas Aquinas Theatre Company will present the musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” on Aug. 23-26. This Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is based on the story of Jacob’s son Joseph and his 11 brothers. Show time is 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Aug. 23, 24 and 25. A Sunday, Aug. […] Full Story

• Play Dramatizes Theme Of Welcoming Strangers

  Published March 16, 2007

  Theatrical Outfit’s latest production, “The Immigrant,” which is being presented March 15-April 8, is a timely play about a young Jewish couple fleeing Russia in the early 1900s who land in a tiny community of Hamilton, Texas, strangers in a new land. But Southern Baptists Milton and Irma Perry set aside their own fears and […] Full Story

• IHM Parishioner Finds The ‘Nunsense’ In Life

  By JANE WILSON, Special To The Bulletin
  Published March 15, 2007

  For Nicole Nappo, the role of the Reverend Mother Sister Mary Regina in the Atlanta Lyric Theatre’s production of the musical comedy “Nunsense” is heaven-sent: It allows her to express her lifelong devotion to the Catholic Church through her love of musical theater. A longtime parishioner at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Nappo began her musical […] Full Story

• Both Vicars General Honored By Pope Benedict XVI

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published March 15, 2007

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory announced March 7 that two priests who serve as vicars general of the archdiocese have been named Chaplains of His Holiness with the title of monsignor by Pope Benedict XVI. They are Msgr. W. Joseph Corbett and Msgr. Luis R. Zarama. “I am deeply grateful that our Holy Father has bestowed […] Full Story

• Dads Reflect On Role In Lives Of Their Children

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published March 15, 2007

  Some 120 current, former, and even future St. Pius X High School dads gathered at the school for the 16th annual Dads Morning of Recollection Jan. 27. In his 26th year as a religion teacher at St. Pius X, Msgr. Richard Lopez has facilitated this event every year since it started. The morning began with […] Full Story

• New OLA Hispanic Ministry Reaches Neighborhoods

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published March 15, 2007

  Our Lady of the Assumption Church opened the wood doors of its elegant Gothic church for its first Spanish Mass on Feb. 18 to serve Hispanics in the area, fulfilling its mission to compassionately welcome and serve its community. As worshippers departed from the OLA Indonesian Mass and Hispanics in the area and their supporters […] Full Story

• Scholar Maria Lichtmann To Speak At Gordon College

  Published March 15, 2007

  Award-winning scholar, educator and author Maria Lichtmann will speak at Gordon College on Saturday, March 31, at 11 a.m. in the student center auditorium. Her talk is entitled “Teaching From the Heart of Love.” The event is free and open to the public. A graduate of Yale University, Lichtmann now teaches at Appalachian State University […]

• Dancer Heads For Irish World Championships

  By SUZANNE HAUGH, Special To The Bulletin
  Published March 15, 2007

  Fourteen-year-old Catie Foley has accomplished the almost impossible. The St. Brigid’s parishioner has “hop-two-three’d” into the relatively small international pool of Irish dancers preparing to compete in the World Championships. And she’s done it as someone practically foreign to the elite ranks of the Irish dancing world—an American Southerner. “This little girl is amazing!” said […]

• St. Pius X Girls Retain Their Basketball Crown

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published March 15, 2007

  To St. Pius X High School and Marist School supporters it could have been dubbed the second annual Lenten Classic, but in reality it was the girls Class AAAA state basketball finals between the two Atlanta Catholic schools. For the second consecutive year, Marist and St. Pius X met on the Gwinnett Arena court. After […] Full Story

• Blessed Trinity Presents Spring Musical ‘Barnum’

  By ANTHONY ALEXANDER, Special To The Bulletin
  Published March 15, 2007

  “Barnum’s the name. P.T. Barnum. And I want to tell you that tonight you are going to see bar-none, every sight, wonder and miracle that name stands for!” Just one week after Blessed Trinity High School’s previous theater production, “Advise and Consent,” ended, the school’s Theatrical Alliance had already started preparing for this year’s spring […] Full Story

• Catholic Charities To Help With Citizenship Drive

  Published March 15, 2007

  The Georgia chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is joining with over 20 other state chapters across the country to provide free assistance with the United States citizenship application process during a one-day event on March 24. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Inc. will join AILA attorneys and trained volunteers to […] Full Story

• Catholics Converge On Capitol To Represent Church, Faith

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 15, 2007

  Twenty-five fourth-grade and eighth-grade students from St. Peter Claver Regional School in Decatur were among the more than 100 Catholics who proudly stood overlooking the vast House of Representatives at the Georgia State Capitol as the representatives below turned and gave them a standing ovation. The St. Peter Claver students were among approximately 150 people […] Full Story

• Catholic Charities Employee Named ‘Unsung Hero’

  Published March 8, 2007

  The Emory School of Law Public Interest Committee (EPIC) gave its 2007 “Unsung Hero” Inspiration Award to Susan H. Colussy, program director for immigration services for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Inc. The award was presented Feb. 13, during the group’s annual award celebration. EPIC, a student-led group at Emory School of Law, […]

• New Committee Focuses On Archdiocese’s Future

  By MARY ANNE CASTRANIO, Staff Writer
  Published March 8, 2007

  A diverse, cohesive group of Catholics from around the archdiocese has been convened as the Archdiocesan Planning Committee, forming in September 2006 at the request of Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory. Its mission is to study the needs, issues and growth of the Catholic Church in North Georgia and to provide sound advice for those leading […] Full Story

• New Archdiocesan Chief Financial Officer Named

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published March 8, 2007

  The chief financial officer of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Gary Meader, plans to retire at the end of the fiscal year, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory announced March 2. The archbishop also announced that following an extensive search process, Bradley J. Wilson, the chief financial officer and treasurer for Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Sales & Services Co. in […]

• Gift Places Historic Gospel Text In Heart Of Church

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published March 8, 2007

  The evening of Jan. 20 Frank Hanna III, his wife Sally, and daughter Elizabeth descended into the vault holding the rarest documents of the Vatican Apostolic Library to view the Bodmer Papyrus XIV-XV, the oldest manuscript in existence of the Gospel of St. Luke and one of the two oldest of St. John’s Gospel. They […]

• Blessed Trinity High School Responds To Emergency

  Published March 8, 2007

  Blessed Trinity High School officials acted swiftly to ensure the safety of the students and the facility on Monday, March 5, when students in a science classroom exhibited apparent signs of a skin rash. A few students also experienced throat irritation. The students were transferred to the school’s clinic for treatment, while the Roswell police […] Full Story

• Track Meet Runs The Course For Hunger

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published March 8, 2007

  Track and field athletes from Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, Marist School, Atlanta, Our Lady of Mercy High School, Fairburn, and St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, came together for the second annual Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory Invitational Track Meet, Feb. 24. The St. Vincent de Paul Society sponsors the meet, and the more than […] Full Story

• Retired Priests Honored At Roswell Event

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 8, 2007

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory held a special Mass and luncheon at St. George Village to honor the retired priests of the archdiocese Feb. 19. Archbishop-emeritus John F. Donoghue concelebrated the Mass, along with several of his retired brother priests and Father Joe Corbett, vicar general, and Father Frank McNamee, pastor of St. Peter Chanel Church, […] Full Story