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• Mental health professionals give tips on handling pandemic stress

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH and ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writers
  Published April 16, 2020

  Since much of the community has gone into isolation, people’s anxieties and concerns have ramped up considerably. Catholic counselors and therapists discuss ways to cope.

• Catholic Charities, SVdP respond to coronavirus

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published April 16, 2020

  Families being self-sufficient takes on a new meaning as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused great job loss in the United States. Catholic Charities Atlanta and SVdP Georgia are responding to the needs.

• Recognition Day spotlights parish women, youth, with giving hearts

  

  By JEAN DRISKELL, Special to the Bulletin
  Published April 16, 2020

  The Atlanta Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women honored 60 women and 52 youth for their faith and service to the church, family and community at the 43rd annual Recognition Day Mass.

• Women and Youth of the Year honorees named

  Published April 16, 2020

  The AACCW shares the names of those honored at their annual recognition day Mass on March 7.

• Good Friday decree issued for health care workers

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Editor
  Published April 4, 2020

  Health care workers in the Archdiocese of Atlanta are dispensed from the obligation on Good Friday to abstain from eating meat and from fasting.

• Online learning continues in Atlanta’s Catholic schools

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published April 2, 2020

  Online learning has become the new normal in Catholic schools since being closed on March 16 due to the coronavirus.

• Lilburn students serve others with sandwiches

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published April 2, 2020

  People are still hungry. That’s what the community at St. John Neumann Regional School knows. They are just one of the Catholic schools responding to the pandemic.

• Gregg’s Pantry at Decatur parish continues outreach amid pandemic

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published April 2, 2020

  As other food pantries shut down, volunteers at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Decatur continued to serve their neighbors. 

• St. Clement’s renovated spaces, new altar are fruits of parishioners’ labors

  

  By IMELDA RICHARD, Special to the Bulletin
  Published April 2, 2020

  The community of St. Clement Church, Calhoun, gathered to celebrate renovations and participate in the consecration of a new altar March 8. Bishop Joel M. Konzen, SM, celebrated the Mass.

• Parishes find new ways to minister to the faithful

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, ANDREW NELSON and SAMANTHA SMITH
  Published April 2, 2020

  Parish priests and their staff have been prompted by the virus outbreak to find new ways of serving from providing faith formation to meeting spiritual needs.

• Atlanta Catholics participate in national partnership summit

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published April 2, 2020

  Area Catholics attending the Catholic Partnership Summit roundtable in Washington, D.C. came back with ideas on opening parish life and the Archdiocese of Atlanta to the voices of its lay members.

• Service for reporting sexual misconduct involving U.S. bishops launched

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published April 2, 2020

  A new reporting system for sexual misconduct allegations against United States bishops began March 16.

• Eucharistic Congress canceled due to coronavirus

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published April 2, 2020

  The 2020 Eucharistic Congress scheduled for June 12-13 has been canceled, but the event is slated to return in 2021.

• Mass suspension continues through April 19, school closures extended

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Editor
  Published March 27, 2020

  Due to the continued spread of COVID-19 in Georgia, the archdiocese will extend suspension of the Masses through Divine Mercy Sunday, April 19. Catholic school building closings will be extended through Friday, April 17.

• Roswell Catholic schools notify communities of a positive COVID-19 case 

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Editor
  Published March 21, 2020

  Administrators at Queen of Angels School and Blessed Trinity High School notified their respective communities on March 18 and 19 of a positive COVID-19 diagnosis for an elementary school staff member.

• Changes to installation Mass for Archbishop Hartmayer announced

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF, editor@georgiabulletin.org
  Published March 20, 2020

  Bishop Joel M. Konzen, SM, diocesan administrator for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, announced today that the installation of the new archbishop of Atlanta will take place in a private ceremony.

• A different kind of Lent

  

  Published March 19, 2020

• Abate takes vows to the hermitic life

  

  Published March 19, 2020

  Bishop Joel M. Konzen, SM, was celebrant for the profession of vows and investiture for Nicholas Abate to the hermitic life.

• Catholics adjust to worship, life disruptions in time of coronavirus

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published March 19, 2020

  Catholics are believers shaped by ritual and sacraments, so without the community or sacraments, it can be jarring, said Father Dennis Dorner. He hopes during this time of separation that people learn to create their “own ritual and faith life within their own sacred space.”

• Pinecrest and Walker split in baseball doubleheader

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Writer
  Published March 19, 2020

  After a rainout prevented Pinecrest Academy and The Walker School baseball teams from playing the previous day, they decided to play an evening doubleheader on Walker’s lighted field Wednesday, March 11.