Georgia
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Archbishop Hartmayer admits five seminarians to candidacy for holy orders
By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
Published September 3, 2025During a morning Mass on July 29, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., admitted five seminarians to candidacy for holy orders at Christ the Redeemer Church.
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St. Pius X Church welcomes Knights leaders
Published September 3, 2025
An Atlanta area parish hosts newly elected Georgia Knights of Columbus officers.
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Archbishop Hartmayer’s statement on Minnesota Catholic school shooting
By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
Published August 27, 2025Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., of Atlanta, who serves as chair of the board of the National Catholic Educational Association, offered a statement regarding the deadly Minnesota school shooting. “The murder of children worshipping at Mass is unspeakable,” he said.
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Removal of homeless encampment near Atlanta’s Shrine part of broader initiative
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 27, 2025For more than two years, tents and tarps filled the sidewalks alongside the Shrine of Immaculate Conception, one of the oldest parishes in Atlanta. Now, a city-led effort to end homelessness has come to the church’s front steps.
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Catholic filmmaker experiences ‘Triumph of the Heart’
By SYLVIA DORHAM Special to the Bulletin
Published August 26, 2025“Triumph of the Heart” will be released in September in U.S. theaters. Atlanta videographer Patrick Blonski was part of the film crew for the movie about the final days of St. Maximilian Kolbe.
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As numbers decline, communities age, women religious urged to discern their ‘emerging future’
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 21, 2025Several hundred Catholic sisters and guests gathered in downtown Atlanta for the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious Aug. 12-15 for conversation, prayer and friendship.
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Atlanta Archdiocese to have Mass of Thanksgiving for Acutis, Frassati canonization
By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
Published August 18, 2025Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving to mark the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati on Sept. 7 at Holy Vietnamese Martyrs Church.
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Archdiocese, Catholic Leadership Institute collaborate to strengthen parish life
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 13, 2025Church leaders are choosing 25 communities for a program to reimagine how parishes can reach people in a culture where church is not central to daily life. It’s the next step of a multi-year collaboration between parishes and missions in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, and the Catholic Leadership Institute.
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CTK volunteers and MUST Ministries on a mission to fight hunger
By NATALIA DURON, Staff Writer
Published August 11, 2025Volunteers at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta gathered to pack 10,000 meals for children through the MUST Ministries Summer Lunch Program.
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Catholic Charities Atlanta marks 50 years of refugee resettlement services
By NATALIA DURON, Staff Writer
Published August 11, 2025For decades, Catholic Charities Atlanta (CCA) has helped thousands of refugees rebuild their lives in Georgia. This year marks 50 years of service, even as the future of refugee resettlement grows uncertain.
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Archdiocese of Atlanta welcomes new school principals
By NATALIA DURON, Staff Writer
Published August 10, 2025The 2025-26 school year ushers in new leaders at archdiocesan elementary and high schools.
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Lessons learned ‘By the Tree’
By ANDREA FENN
Published August 10, 2025Christy Kuriatnyk directed the play, “By the Tree” at St. Matthew Church in Tyrone as part of its Children’s Theatre ministry. “Kids need the performing arts to feel engaged with others and as a creative outlet when so much of the world tells them how to act, think and feel,” she said.
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Atlanta hosts National Conference for Hispanic Deacons
By NATALIA DURON, Staff Writer
Published August 6, 2025Deacons and Catholic leaders from across the country gathered in Atlanta on July 24 to attend the National Conference for Hispanic Deacons.
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St. Paul the Apostle’s new reliquarium a sacred space
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published July 25, 2025Believers seeking a deeper connection to the sacred gather in a newly blessed chapel in St. Paul the Apostle Church in Cleveland, now home to 33 relics of saints and martyrs.
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Archbishop Hartmayer ordains friar priest at Holy Cross Church
By KEVIN KEENAN, Special to the Bulletin
Published July 21, 2025Our Lady of the Angels Province welcomed a new friar priest—Friar Franck Lino Sokpolie, OFM Conv.—ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., July 19. He will serve at Holy Cross Church, Atlanta.
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Woman’s vocational journey leads to chicken coops and life of prayer
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published July 16, 2025Time spent among the brush, caring for chickens and roosters in Conyers, is how Sister Irina Zavala lives out the Catholic practice of “Ora et Labora”–prayer and work.
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Nuestra Fe: 15 years of sharing the faith
By TATIANA VILLA
Published July 14, 2025Nuestra Fe Catholic Broadcasting, Inc. recently celebrated 15 years of service to the Hispanic community with a fundraiser breakfast at St. Benedict Church in Duluth.
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Bishop Tran to speak at August Magnificat
Published July 14, 2025
Bishop John Nhan Tran, who answered God’s call through Pope Francis to be an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Atlanta in 2022, will be the speaker for the August Magnificat meal.
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The miracle monk of Lebanon
By ROBIN CONTE ISAF, Special to the Bulletin
Published July 12, 2025He is known as “the Miracle Monk of Lebanon,” with more than 33,000 recorded miracles attributed to his intercession. He lived as a hermit for 23 years, renowned for his holiness and asceticism. And yet, he is widely unknown to Roman Catholics.
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The celebration of Corpus Christi
By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
Published July 11, 2025With processions large and small, Atlanta Catholics celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi during the weekend of June 21-22. The Chinese Catholic community of The Holy Name of Jesus Mission in Norcross marked the days leading up to Corpus Christi with a week-long revival.
