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• Gainesville parish partners with health officials to immunize at-risk members

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 15, 2021

  A February collaboration between St. Michael Church in Gainesville and the Hall County Department of Public Health converted the church’s roomy parish hall into a vaccination site to help turn the corner on the pandemic.

• Day of abstinence lifted for Solemnity of St. Joseph

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
  Published March 11, 2021

  In a March 10 decree, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., lifted the day of abstinence for Friday, March 19 as it is the Solemnity of St. Joseph.

• New board chairman at Pregnancy Aid Clinic 

  Published March 9, 2021

  The Pregnancy Aid Clinic announced the appointment of Deacon Gary Schantz as chairman of the board of directors. He serves as a deacon at St. Jude the Apostle Church.

• Coach Tom Hall returns to Blessed Trinity to lead football program

  Published March 4, 2021

  Blessed Trinity High School has announced the appointment of Coach Tom Hall as the third head football coach in school history.

• St. Pius X selects Chad Garrison as new football coach

  Published March 4, 2021

  Coach Chad Garrison, who has served as the offensive line coach with the Golden Lion program since 2000, has been named as St. Pius X High School’s head football coach.

• Local Catholic student athletes sign on to play college sports

  

  Published March 4, 2021

  National Signing Day took place on Feb. 3. Catholic seniors in public, private and Catholic high schools joined other athletes around the country by making it official when they signed binding national letters of intent to play at the college or university level.

• In Rite of Election, hundreds journey toward the church

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published March 4, 2021

  Nearly 1,200 people are expected to join the Catholic Church at this year’s Easter Vigil in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Four parishes hosted Rites of Election on Feb. 20.

• Atlanta priests, bishops take part in racial healing program

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 4, 2021

  A panel examining how to respond to racism in the church said healing will take place once women and men burdened by it are listened to and placed in the center of the conversation. “Pastoral Strategies for Racial Healing in Our Communities” brought together some 50 priests and bishops for an online presentation Feb. 15.

• A second career leads Kelly Wood to serve as St. Catherine of Siena principal

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 4, 2021

  Kelly Wood has been named the new principal for St. Catherine of Siena School after years as a parent volunteer and then a teacher. 

• Archbishop Hartmayer speaks in support of House Bill 485

  Published March 3, 2021

  Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., Archbishop of Atlanta, has released the a statement in support of House Bill 485, which would abolish the death penalty in Georgia.

• Archbishop of Atlanta clarifies stance on COVID-19 vaccines

  

  Published March 3, 2021

  Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., Archbishop of Atlanta, has released a statement on COVID-19 vaccines following the approval of a third vaccine in the United States. 

• IHM appoints interim principal to leadership role

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published March 3, 2021

  After six months of serving as interim principal, Laura Cichanski was appointed to the leadership role at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in early February.

• Support grows for bi-partisan effort to repeal Georgia’s death penalty

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF, editor@georgiabulletin.org
  Published March 3, 2021

  The Archdiocese of Atlanta, including Georgia Catholics Against the Death Penalty (GCADP) and the Georgia Catholic Conference, are joining other advocacy groups to support a house bill to repeal Georgia’s death penalty.

• Historian looks at Atlanta’s Our Lady of Lourdes Church

  

  Published March 3, 2021

  Dr. Leah Mickens focused on the city’s oldest historically Black parish, located a block from Ebenezer Baptist, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served. She examined how Black Catholics at Our Lady of Lourdes influenced and were influenced by religious and social change ushered in by the Second Vatican Council and the civil rights movement. 

• Archbishop Hartmayer asks parishes to celebrate memorial Masses on March 2

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
  Published February 26, 2021

  As the nation reached a heartbreaking milestone of more than 500,000 lives lost to the COVID-19 virus, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer asked all parishes to celebrate memorial Masses for victims and others who have died in the last year.

• Prayer, fasting and giving guide Catholics during Lenten season

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
  Published February 24, 2021

  Ideas for simple meatless meals and ways to help those in need can be found in the annual tradition of the Lenten rice bowl by Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Originally called “Operation Rice Bowl,” the program was created in 1975 to respond to famine in Africa.

• Deacon Edward Krise, who served at All Saints, dies January 31

  Published February 22, 2021

  Deacon Edward Lyle Krise, who served at All Saints Church for more than a decade, died Jan. 31. He was 79 years old.

• Pro-life billboard placed near Atlanta airport

  

  Published February 22, 2021

  A Mississippi pro-life initiative recently placed a billboard on I-85 north near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airport, reading “Choose Life—Pray, Pray, Pray.” Learn how to support the program.

• Fransalians launch construction of priest retirement home

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published February 17, 2021

  Friends and family of the Fransalian religious order gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony of a new retirement home for priests. The home is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

• Meet the 2021 class of deacons

  Published February 17, 2021

  Learn more about each of the 2021 deacons, ordained on Feb. 6.