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• 32 New Priest Assignments Announced

  Published June 2, 2005

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following priest assignments. FIRST ASSIGNMENTS AS PASTORS Father Luke Ballman, parochial vicar at Holy Spirit Church, Atlanta, has been assigned as pastor of St. Augustine Church, Covington, effective June 16. This is his first assignment as a pastor. Father Eric Hill, parochial vicar at Prince of Peace Church, […]

• Smyrna Parish Celebrates Vibrant Pentecost

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published June 2, 2005

  Hispanic parishioners from St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Smyrna packed their tuna sandwiches, tortillas and tacos in coolers, dressed in red, loaded themselves and their children in their cars, and traveled across town on the drizzly Sunday morning of May 15 to the Mable House Amphitheater for a Pentecost day of revival. Families locked […]

• Father Joseph Ware, Retired Priest From Atlanta, Dies

  Published June 2, 2005

  Father Joseph F. Ware, 82, died in Savannah on May 31 after a long illness. A priest of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Father Ware was a native of Savannah and had lived in retirement in his hometown since 1991. A wake was held at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah on Thursday, […]

• Woman’s Right To Know Bill Becomes Law In Georgia

  Published June 2, 2005

  Georgia became the 27th state to pass the Woman’s Right to Know Act as Gov. Sonny Perdue signed the bill into law May 10 in a ceremony at the State Capitol. The bill (HB 197) passed the General Assembly with strong bi-partisan support in March. Rep. Sue Burmeister sponsored the bill in the House along […]

• Hispanic Program Launched At Southern Catholic

  Published June 2, 2005

  Southern Catholic College, a regional private Catholic college opening on Sept. 8, recently announced the formal launch of its Hispanic Outreach program with the appointment of Ricardo Vazquez as director of Hispanic Services. As part of the Hispanic Outreach program, Vazquez is responsible for promoting the college to prospective Hispanic students, as well as marketing […]

• Holy Spirit Students Excel On National Latin Exam

  Published June 2, 2005

  Students from Holy Spirit Preparatory School recently excelled in the National Latin Exam, which was taken worldwide by over 140,000 students. Overall 35 percent of Holy Spirit Prep students were awarded a gold or a silver medal, more than twice the national average. Most impressive were the 14 gold medals that the students earned. This […]

• Casino Night Helps The Needy In Tyrone

  Published May 26, 2005

  Two community organizations were awarded checks totaling $5,000 from St. Matthew Church in Tyrone May 22. The money was raised during the church’s annual Casino Night celebration, which was attended by more than 300 people at Our Lady of Mercy High School in Fairburn April 30. The $3,000 given to the parish’s St. Vincent de […]

• ‘Goodness Spent’ Holds True For Retiring Principal

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
  Published May 26, 2005

  She has been their co-worker, their teacher, their principal and their friend for the past 27 years. And on April 24, members of the Our Lady of the Assumption School community came together to celebrate with a Mass and reception the years of service and sacrifice that their retiring principal, Joan Tiernan, Ph.D., had brought […]

• New OLA Principal Comes Full Circle By Returning

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
  Published May 26, 2005

  Mary Jane Ritchie began her career in Catholic education and couldn’t be happier to return to her roots. “I feel like I’m coming home,” she said. “I’m just thrilled.” Ritchie has been named the new principal at Our Lady of the Assumption School and will officially begin her role July 1. Ritchie’s first position in […]

• Catholic Credit Union Merges, Expands Services

  Published May 26, 2005

  The Greater Atlanta Catholic Federal Credit Union (GA Catholic FCU) has merged with the Georgia Federal Credit Union, enabling it to provide more financial services to the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Some of the services available to members of the Archdiocese of Atlanta will be PC home banking, e-statements, online bill pay, a 24-hour telephone teller […]

• Noted Healer, Evangelist To Speak At Local Parishes

  Published May 26, 2005

  Alan Ames, visionary, evangelist and healer, will speak and lead healing services in several parishes in the archdiocese in early June. Ames, who is graced with the gift of spiritual, emotional and physical healing, will speak and lead a healing service on Sunday, June 5, following a 2 p.m. Mass at Christ Our King and […]

• Eucharistic Event Promises To Nurture The Faithful

  By MARY ANNE CASTRANIO, Staff Writer
  Published May 26, 2005

  In the tradition of Eucharistic renewal in Atlanta, Catholics and non-Catholics will gather as a community of faith to pray, to listen and to learn at the Eucharistic Congress, an annual event sponsored by the Archdiocese of Atlanta and open to all on Friday and Saturday, June 3-4. Free of charge, the Congress will be […]

• Sister Elizabeth Moran, GNSH, Dies At 93

  Published May 19, 2005

  Sister Elizabeth Mary Moran, GNSH, 93, a former teacher and principal at Christ the King High School in Atlanta, died April 22 at St. Joseph Manor in Meadowbrook, Pa., in her 66th year as a Religious. A lifelong educator, she taught students at the elementary, high school and college level. She taught at Christ the […]

• Summer Festival Offers Organ Performances

  Published May 19, 2005

  The 2005 Summer Organ Festival will begin on Wednesday, June 29, at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, with a concert by organist Jonathan Biggers, professor of organ at the State University of New York in Binghamton. On Wednesday, July 6, Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, Atlanta, will present organist Gerre Hancock, former director […]

• Western Music Grounded In Gregorian Chant

  Published May 19, 2005

  The Second Vatican Council recognized Gregorian chant as being especially suited to the Roman liturgy and other things being equal, said it should be given pride of place in the liturgy. Albert Ahlstrom, Ph.D., director of music at Holy Spirit Church, Atlanta, said that Gregorian chant is actually the foundation not only of all Catholic […]

• Annual Workshop Hones Children’s Voices

  Published May 19, 2005

  In February, 150 children who sing in choirs around the Atlanta Archdiocese gathered for a Saturday workshop with Paige Mathis, director of Young Singers of Callanwolde. The daylong workshop, an annual event that began in 1997, ended with the children singing together as an archdiocesan children’s choir at the 5:30 p.m. Mass at Holy Spirit […]

• Pipe Organ ‘To Be Held In High Esteem’

  Published May 19, 2005

  As the Second Vatican Council spoke of the value of having authentic elements in liturgy, Hamilton Smith, music director at the Cathedral of Christ the King, spoke of the value of a church having a pipe organ. While acknowledging that some parishes are unable to have one, he said a pipe organ produces pure sounds […]

• Memorial Mass Planned For Father Drohan

  Published May 19, 2005

  A memorial Mass for the repose of the soul of Father Joseph Walter Drohan will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 25, at the Cathedral of Christ the King, 2699 Peachtree Road, NE. The celebrants for the Mass will be Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory and the priests of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. All […]

• New Priest To Be Ordained May 28

  Published May 19, 2005

  On Saturday, May 28, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will ordain Rev. Mr. Neil Joseph Herlihy to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. All are invited to attend the ordination Mass, which will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta. On Friday, May 27, all are invited to pray […]

• Two Missions Build One Foundation On The Rock

  Published May 19, 2005

  And on this Rock two west central Georgia mission communities built their church. The rural communities of St. John the Baptist Mission, Thomaston, and St. Ann’s Mission, Barnesville, united as a parish May 1 for their first Mass in their new building named St. Peter the Rock Church, located between the two former worship sites […] Full Story