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• Teens Encouraged To Act On Pro-Life Convictions

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
  Published January 27, 2005

  Dina Rowland was a junior at the University of Georgia in Athens when she had an abortion. A graduate of St. Pius X High School, she was a straight A student and cheerleader who came from a large and loving family. But when she became pregnant 19 years ago, the happy life she’d led threatened […]

• Sister Helen Prejean To Speak At St. Brendan Church

  Published January 27, 2005

  Sister Helen Prejean will present “Raising Life & Death Questions” at St. Brendan Church in Cumming at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 2. A Gospel perspective on issues of life and death will be the focus of this special presentation by the internationally acclaimed Sister of St. Joseph, who ministers to prisoners on Death Row […] Full Story

• Actress Brings Life Of Dorothy Day To Local Churches

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published January 27, 2005

  The Open Door Community of Atlanta and the Seamless Garment Catholic Worker of Marietta invite the public to a performance of “Fool for Christ: A Story of Dorothy Day.” Actress Sarah Melici stars in this one-woman dramatization portraying the life of the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. The performance begins at 7 p.m. on […]

• Parish Offers Job Ministry

  Published January 27, 2005

  Transfiguration Church sponsors an active CareerCare Ministry, which supports those who are in career transition either through unemployment, misemployment, or who have a desire to change their present job situation. CareerCare meets on Monday evenings and Tuesday mornings in the adult education/OCI room at the church, 1815 Blackwell Road. On Mondays from 7-7:30 p.m. a […]

• Sister Mary Ann Foggin Will Speak At Magnificat

  Published January 27, 2005

  Sister Mary Ann Foggin, a former Cathedral of Christ the King parishioner who recently professed her final vows as a woman Religious, will speak at the Magnificat breakfast for women on Saturday, Feb. 12, in Lilburn. A native of Staten Island, N.Y., the oldest of three girls, Sister Foggin attended high school in Connecticut and […] Full Story

• Prince Of Peace Parish Mission Entitled ‘Behold The Man’

  Published January 27, 2005

  Prince of Peace Church will sponsor a parish mission from Sunday, Jan. 30, through Thursday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m. The mission, which has the theme “Behold the Man,” will explore Jesus in his divine humanity. An experienced and skilled Catholic mission team from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., will lead the community experience. Participants will seek […] Full Story

• Young Adults Invited To ‘Spin Dating’ Dinner Dance

  Published January 27, 2005

  The archdiocesan Office of Young Adult Ministry is sponsoring Spin Dating, a singles mixer-dinner dance on Friday, Feb. 11, from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. at The Pavillion, 3880 Roswell Road. A cocktail hour will be held from 7-8 p.m. followed by a three-course mixer dinner from 8-10 p.m., where participants will sit at different […] Full Story

• ‘Holy Grounds’ Coffeehaus Opens In Lent

  Published January 27, 2005

  The Office of Young Adult Ministry (YAM) will sponsor Holy Grounds, the annual Lenten coffeehaus speaker series on Wednesdays, Feb. 16 and 23 and March 2, 9 and 16 at Marist School, 3790 Ashford Dunwoody Road. Each night will begin with a 6:30 p.m. optional Mass in the Marist chapel, followed by fellowship and a […]

• Catholics Encouraged To Participate In Pro-Life Events

  Published January 20, 2005

  The archdiocesan Pro-Life Office encourages Catholics around the archdiocese to participate in the annual Mass for the Unborn followed by the Together for Life Memorial Service and Silent Walk this Friday, Jan. 21, to mark the 32nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion. The actual anniversary of the Supreme […] Full Story

• Family Shares Roots Of Archbishop’s Faith

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published January 20, 2005

  Elaine Swenson recalled how her brother Archbishop Wilton Gregory liked as a boy to convert the kitchen table to an altar and say Mass. “So we kind of had an inkling” of his vocation to the priesthood, she said with a smile. And his eighth-grade teacher at St. Carthage School in Chicago had told her […] Full Story

• Services Begin With Archbishop Speaking To His Priests

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published January 20, 2005

  In his opening words to the priests of the archdiocese, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said that this was a time for hope and promised to work with them in collaboration and respect and to offer them the love of a bishop for his priests. Acknowledging that the welcoming of a new archbishop has its awkwardness […] Full Story

• Thousands Share In Grace, Excitement Of Installation

  By SUZANNE HAUGH, Staff Writer
  Published January 20, 2005

  People from across the Atlanta Archdiocese and beyond gathered at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park, joyful to be present to witness the beginning of Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory’s ministry as shepherd to North Georgia Catholics. Dressed in the regalia of the Knights of Peter Claver, Thomas M. Brito, a parishioner at St. […]

• Old Friends Gather To Share Celebration In Atlanta

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
  Published January 20, 2005

  In the late 1970s as a young priest and student in Rome, Father Wilton Gregory could often be seen blending in with other Italians, zipping around the city on his Vespa scooter. Msgr. James Margason, Archbishop Gregory’s vicar general in the Diocese of Belleville, Ill., recalls fondly his time spent with the future archbishop while […]

• Archbishop’s First Atlanta Mass Honors Dr. King

  Published January 20, 2005

  It was a day to celebrate the past and present as Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrated his first archdiocesan Mass in honor of the man who touched the world, his life and the life of the city he is now calling home. On Saturday, Jan. 15, two days before his installation as archbishop of Atlanta, […] Full Story

• Coat Of Arms Reflects Archbishop’s Catholic Heritage

  Published January 20, 2005

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory’s personal coat of arms is not only a reflection of his life experiences and identity but also of his particular preparation to shepherd the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Archbishop Gregory’s archiepiscopal heraldic achievement, or coat of arms, joins elements of his personal arms with the coat of arms of the Atlanta Archdiocese, […] Full Story

• Archdiocese’s History Shows Strong Faith, Growth

  Published January 20, 2005

  From a simple log church in Locust Grove, Ga., where the faithful worshipped in 1790, the Catholic population in North Georgia has experienced steady growth. By 1820 the Catholic population had grown to 1,000 in the Carolinas and Georgia under the leadership of Bishop John England. At the time of the Civil War, there were […] Full Story

• Mercy’s Taizé Choir Sings For Installation Mass

  By MARIE MULVENNA, Special Contributor
  Published January 20, 2005

  Members of Our Lady of Mercy High School’s Taizé choir had a unique experience Jan. 17, as they sang for the Canonical Rite of Installation of Atlanta’s new archbishop, Wilton D. Gregory. The students will long cherish the special moment, for they were the only high school choir selected to take part in the historic, […]

• Golf Pro Admires Balance In Archbishop’s Life

  Published January 20, 2005

  Of all the guests in town for the installation, none had a more unique perspective on the man at the center of the events than Dan Polites, the golf pro who has been giving golf lessons to the bishop of Belleville for the last eight or nine years. The Catholic coach of the golf team […] Full Story

• National Crisis Spotlighted Archbishop’s Leadership

  By SUZANNE HAUGH, Staff Writer
  Published January 20, 2005

  The nation looked to Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, then the bishop of Belleville, Ill., and the first African-American president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as news began to stream out into the public concerning the sexual abuse of minors by priests and others working on behalf of the church. “It was all unexpected,” […] Full Story

• Archbishop Welcomed In Splendid, Colorful Event

  By MARY ANNE CASTRANIO, Executive Editor
  Published January 20, 2005

  An ecumenical, diverse crowd gathered with joy for the Mass of Canonical Installation on Monday, Jan. 17, at the Georgia International Convention Center, to witness the installation of Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory as the sixth archbishop of Atlanta. Archbishop Gregory was formerly the bishop of the Diocese of Belleville, Ill., and recently completed a three-year […]