Georgia
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Mountain parish breaks ground on new parish hall
Published November 3, 2018
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN—Parishioners of Our Lady of the Mount Church welcomed Bishop Joel M. Konzen, SM, to celebrate Mass and groundbreaking for the church’s new parish hall on Sunday, Oct. 14. Father Thomas Shuler, pastor, and members of the parish’s capital campaign, building committee and parish council joined Bishop Konzen outside as he blessed the ground […] Full Story
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Blessed Trinity retired the baseball jersey of a former player
By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
Published November 2, 2018ROSWELL—During halftime of Blessed Trinity High School’s Oct. 26 football game, Matt Skole, a member of the class of 2008, was joined on the field by his family; Brian Marks, school president; Cathy Lancaster, school principal; Andy Harlin, baseball coach; and athletic director Ricky Turner as his baseball jersey, #25, was retired. Skole, who played […] Full Story
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Last year’s state football finalists face off in a regular season rematch
By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
Published November 2, 2018Ten months and 11 days after Blessed Trinity High School and Marist School, Atlanta, played for the Class AAAA state football championship on Marist’s field, the two teams squared off, Oct. 26, on Blessed Trinity’s field in a regular season contest. In a low-scoring, defensive battle, Blessed Trinity kicker Ethan Chauvin’s field goal early in […] Full Story
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‘Engage to Educate’ brings Catholic teachers to first statewide conference
By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
Published November 2, 2018ROSWELL—As students in Georgia’s Catholic schools enjoyed days off in early October, their teachers headed back to the classroom for three days of learning. Engage to Educate, the first combined educational conference held for teachers from the Atlanta Archdiocese and Savannah Diocese, took place Oct. 3-5 at Blessed Trinity High School and Queen of Angels […] Full Story
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PATH to have fundraiser dinner Nov. 8
Published November 1, 2018
ATLANTA—Post Abortion Treatment and Healing, PATH, will have its annual fundraising dinner on Thursday, Nov. 8 at Holy Spirit Church. This year’s guest speaker is Sheila Harper, president and founder of SaveOne Bible Study. The PATH Ministry became familiar with SaveOne in 2016 and began using that program for its weekly Bible studies, which are […] Full Story
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Atlanta’s Jewish and Catholic communities discuss finding unity in diversity
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 1, 2018ATLANTA—Days before a gunman attacked the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, more than 250 women and men of Christian and Jewish faiths focused on building unity in a divided society. The gathering on Thursday, Oct. 25, called Repairing the World, is the fourth annual event bringing together the two faith communities, organized by […] Full Story
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St. Clare of Assisi Church built with helping hands
By ADRIANNE MURCHISON, Special to the Bulletin
Published November 1, 2018ACWORTH—Hundreds of smiling parishioners filled their new sanctuary at St. Clare of Assisi Church on a recent celebratory Sunday. With afternoon sunlight beaming through windows, choirs and instrumentalists led hymns in English and Spanish. Yet it was the beautiful silences that captured the joy and emotion of the dedication Mass Oct. 28. Bishop Joel M. […] Full Story | En Español
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Courage Apostolate member Daniel Mattson shares story at Georgia Tech
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 1, 2018ATLANTA—When asked by a student how to talk to a gay friend about the morality of homosexuality, author Daniel Mattson told an audience of students at the Georgia Tech Catholic Center, “Your job is to love him, as he is.” “You relate to him, one on one. That is really the way of the Gospel,” […] Full Story
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Father James Martin shares bridge-building message at Atlanta parishes
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published November 1, 2018DECATUR—When a gunman killed 49 people at Miami’s Pulse Nightclub in 2016, Jesuit Father James Martin was struck by the silence from some American bishops in expressing solidarity with the slain gay patrons, unlike their responses to other mass shootings. “It seemed to me, even in death, LGBT people were more or less invisible to […] Full Story
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Marist School gets goats to help battle creek erosion
By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
Published November 1, 2018ATLANTA—Rented goats visited the campus of Marist School Oct. 16-23 upon the invitation of environmental science students and their teacher Kelly Mandy. Students in Mandy’s science classes began researching ways to help restore riparian zones along the banks of the school’s Nancy Creek. Riparian zones are the 50-foot areas that border rivers and other bodies […] Full Story
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Archbishop answers Catholics’ questions on abuse
Published November 1, 2018
ATLANTA—In the weeks since scandals related to former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and troubling revelations of heinous abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses have come to light in the national media, many parishioners in churches across the Atlanta Archdiocese have met together for prayer and to share their concerns in an open or town hall format. […] Full Story | En Español
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Pinecrest Academy celebrates 25th anniversary with groundbreaking for new building
Published October 24, 2018
CUMMING—An estimated 1,000 supporters of Pinecrest Academy celebrated the school’s 25th anniversary on Friday, Sept. 7 as it embarked on building permanent lower school classrooms. Prayers were said and the ground was sprinkled with holy water as the school broke ground for the building on the campus of the independent Catholic school in Forsyth County. […] Full Story
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Adrian Dominican Sister Mary Priniski remembers an ‘amazing 50 years’
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Special to the Bulletin
Published October 23, 2018DECATUR—Adrian Dominican Sister Mary Priniski, Ph.D., has devoted her life to advocating for the rights of workers and the marginalized, first inspired by a 1971 Vatican synod that declared social justice a constitutive element of the Gospel. Now in her 50th year of religious life, she perseveres in her labors with new vigor as interim […]
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Bishop Shlesinger celebrates Green Mass on feast of St. Francis
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published October 23, 2018ATLANTA—Karen Jimenez relies on the papal encyclical “Laudato Si” as inspiration when teaching her ecology class at Holy Spirit Preparatory School, Atlanta. In his papal encyclical, Pope Francis included two prayers on environmental issues—one an interfaith prayer for all and one specifically for Christians. The prayers often open and close Jimenez’s class, which is largely […] Full Story
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Father Michael Steven Sherliza, a priest of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, dies
Published October 23, 2018
MARIETTA— Father Michael Steven Sherliza, a priest of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, died Oct. 22 after battling a long series of illnesses. He was 62. The son of Robert Joseph Sherliza and Lizzette (Sullivan) Sherliza, he was born on Oct. 2, 1956, the feast of the Guardian Angels, in Attleboro, Massachusetts. He attended St. Mary’s […]
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Mass spotlights those who are building the church of the future
By JEAN DRISKELL, Special to the Bulletin
Published October 19, 2018ATLANTA—The 2018 Deo Gratias Mass and brunch honoring the members of the Deo Gratias and Founders Society of the Catholic Foundation of North Georgia was held at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta, Aug. 25. The gathering spotlights ordinary people who are helping to ensure that the church in the archdiocese continues to thrive […] Full Story
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‘Body of Christ’ the unifying theme of national liturgical meeting
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published October 19, 2018ATLANTA—Some 130 members of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions attended its national meeting recently held in Atlanta. It was the 49th meeting of the organization, based in Washington, D.C. The theme of the gathering at the Omni Atlanta Hotel from Oct. 2-4 was “The Body of Christ: A Prophetic Sign of Unity and Concord.” […] Full Story
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Cathedral to hold All Souls’ Day Requiem
Published October 19, 2018
ATLANTA—The feast of All Souls is Nov. 2, and November is a month traditionally dedicated to remembering our ancestors and loved ones who have died. The Cathedral of Christ the King, 2699 Peachtree Road, NE, Atlanta, will offer its moving remembrance of All Souls in a special liturgy. On Friday, Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m., […]
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Hope Transformed is first ever capital campaign of St. Vincent de Paul Georgia
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published October 19, 2018CHAMBLEE—St. Vincent de Paul Georgia is kick-starting the first capital campaign in its 115-year history, aimed at doubling in size its local food market and creating a safety-net pharmacy to help low-income clients. The Catholic human service agency hopes to raise some $6.5 million as it now prepares for the public phase of fundraising. More […] Full Story
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Georgia Bulletin Executive Editor Mary Anne Castranio dies at 61
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published October 18, 2018ATLANTA—One of Mary Anne Castranio’s biggest joys came only after facing her fears. Castranio hated to fly but still boarded an airplane for a life-altering trip in June 1998. Then in her early 40s, she traveled to China to be united with her daughter, Amy, whom she adopted. Marking the 20th anniversary of the adoption […] Full Story
