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• Falcons bring fun to the Family Promise Christmas gathering

  Published January 11, 2018

  DULUTH—A celebration the week before Christmas brought together members of the Atlanta Falcons football team and families and volunteers of Family Promise of Gwinnett County. Falcons linebackers Sean Weatherspoon and De’Vondre Campbell and defensive end Brooks Reed were on hand for a party held Dec. 19 in St. Augustine Hall at St. Monica Church in […] Full Story

• Parishes, schools earn grant money to be more energy efficient

  Published December 21, 2017

  ATLANTA—Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL), a faith-based nonprofit, recently awarded nine parishes and schools a total of $34,253 to upgrade facilities to improve energy usage. The grants come out of a study to reduce the carbon footprint of Catholic institutions and a collaboration between GIPL and the Atlanta Archdiocese. The effort found that schools […] Full Story

• Knights of Columbus trains others to respond to natural disasters

  Published December 21, 2017

  KENNESAW—Nearly 20 women and men graduated from the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training offered this fall by the Georgia Knights of Columbus at St. Catherine of Siena Church, Kennesaw. Sal Gullo is the state disaster coordinator for the Georgia Knights. Among the topics covered in the training are light search and rescue, team organization, […] Full Story

• Preparation and training for potential violence at church draws parish leaders

  Published December 21, 2017

  SMYRNA—Some 100 people attended a training to prepare church leaders for a potential active shooter attacking at a parish event. At Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory’s request, on Monday, Dec. 4, Bernard King, public programs coordinator for Cobb County Emergency Management Agency, and Alex Hagan, of Catholic Mutual Insurance, led the training The program leaders emphasized […] Full Story

• Nativity scene gets Georgia Statehouse ready for Christmas

  

  Published December 21, 2017

  ATLANTA—Legionaries Father Matthew Kaderabek, chaplain of the Lower School at Pinecrest Academy, participated in the fourth annual dedication of the Nativity at the Georgia State Capitol, on Tuesday, Dec. 5. The event was sponsored by the Georgia Nativity Scene Committee. Ann Witt, chairman of the committee and Pinecrest alumni parent, invited Father Kaderabek to offer […] Full Story

• Longtime, faithful parish faith leader celebrated

  

  Published December 21, 2017

  DECATUR—The RCIA Ministry of Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Decatur, honored Josie Mitchell Oct. 22 for more than three decades of service to the ministry. Because of her tireless witness, many have sought Christ in the sacraments and the parish community is larger and better due to her steadfast ministry, announced the church. The reception […] Full Story

• Football, volleyball players from Catholic schools earn end-of-season accolades

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published December 21, 2017

  ATLANTA—Six football players from St. Pius X High School were selected for the all-county team, and 18 were named to the all-region teams. Defensive lineman Marco Dinkins and kicker Nolan Aldrich were named to the All-DeKalb County First Team. Running back Nkem Njoku, linemen Connor Brown and Richard Brown and linebacker DeMarcus Mitchell were selected […] Full Story

• Atlanta Catholics make papal pilgrimage to Bangladesh

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published December 21, 2017

  ATLANTA–Catholics make up less than a quarter of one percent of Bangladesh’s population of 163 million, yet they have “tremendous joy,” said Donald “Danny” Sequeira, parishioner of St. Patrick Church, Norcross. Sequeira and Deacon Rick Medina, CEO of Catholic World Mission in Roswell, made a pilgrimage to Bangladesh coinciding with Pope Francis’s trip to the […] Full Story

• Marist girls, boys sweep cross-country championships in 2017

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published December 21, 2017

  ATLANTA—Marist School’s boys’ and girls’ teams won the Class AAAA state cross country championship during the Nov. 4 meet in Carrollton. For the Marist girls, it was their 10th consecutive state title. Kathleen Maley (second, 19:29.90), Josie Wirtz (fifth, 19:36.17), Kathleen Schellman (sixth, 20:10.39) and Kiki Popescu (eighth, 20:38.40) were the top four finishers for […] Full Story

• ‘Live in Peace’ theme of upcoming MLK celebrations

  

  Published December 21, 2017

  ATLANTA—The Office of Intercultural and Ethnic Diversity of the Archdiocese of Atlanta invites all to participate in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations on Jan. 14 and Jan. 20-21, 2018. The theme of this year’s observance is “Live in Peace, and the God of Love and Peace Will Be With You” from 2 Corinthians 13:1. […] Full Story

• Pitch a tent for National Migration Week

  Published December 21, 2017

  ATLANTA—In celebration of National Migration Week, Jan. 7-14, and in support of the Share the Journey campaign introduced by Pope Francis in September, the Archdiocese of Atlanta’s Justice & Peace Ministries asks parishes to share in the journey of migrants by pitching small tents in front of church buildings with signs proclaiming, “Love Your Neighbor—Share […] Full Story

• Celebrating Our Lady of Guadalupe

  Published December 21, 2017

  ATLANTA—In December, parishes and missions across the Archdiocese of Atlanta celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, with Masses, Aztec dances, processions and prayers. Several hundred people participated in a two-mile procession on the eve of the feast, Dec. 11, at San Felipe de Jesús Mission in Forest Park. The […] Full Story | En Español

• ‘Southern Celtic Christmas Concert’ to air Dec. 24

  Published December 21, 2017

  ATLANTA—For the fifth year in a row, the Emmy Award-winning “Southern Celtic Christmas Concert” will be featured on PBS stations nationwide and on Georgia Public Broadcasting at 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve. The concert, produced by the W.B. Yeats Foundation, celebrates the Christmas traditions of Ireland in music, dance, poetry and story and the continuation […] Full Story

• Blessed Trinity defeats Marist to win its first state football championship

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published December 21, 2017

  ATLANTA—For the first time ever, the two teams competing for Georgia’s Class AAAA football championship were from Catholic high schools. Roswell’s Blessed Trinity High School defeated Marist School 16-7 to claim the trophy. Originally scheduled for Dec. 9 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the game was rescheduled to Dec. 15 because of Atlanta’s surprise pre-Christmas snowstorm. […] Full Story

• A retrospective look at 2017 in Atlanta’s Catholic community

  

  Published December 21, 2017

  ATLANTA—As 2017 nears its conclusion, it’s time to look back at some of the significant stories of the Catholic community in the Atlanta Archdiocese. With some two dozen issues of The Georgia Bulletin published each year, inevitably great stories are overlooked and left out. We know that parishes, ministries and believers quietly offer women, men […] Full Story

• Hermit finds great joy in journey to perpetual vows

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published December 21, 2017

  CONYERS—After a spiritual journey filled with “beautiful challenges,” Sister Mary Beatrice Raphael made perpetual vows to live as a hermit, the first in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. In the sacred ceremony, Sister Beatrice vowed to give herself to God “in silence and solitude, in preserving prayer and joyful penitence, in humble labor and holiness of […] Full Story

• Trappist Father Jerome Hickey dies Nov. 22

  Published December 7, 2017

  CONYERS—Father Jerome Hickey, OCSO, a Cistercian monk of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, died Wednesday, Nov. 22. He was 87. He endured a period of illness that confined him to the monastery’s infirmary for 13 years, the last seven of which he was bedridden. He was an example of long-suffering patience as […] Full Story

• Deacon Will A. MacDonald, who ministered to Corpus Christi, dies

  Published December 7, 2017

  ROME—Deacon Will A. MacDonald of Rome died Sunday, Nov. 12. He was 95. He was born in North East, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 7, 1922, son of the late Bruce and Marie Spath MacDonald. He was preceded in death by his wife, Edna Marie Bataille MacDonald in 2007; son-in-law Tom Gutierrez; sisters Helen Kuhn and Zola Smith; […] Full Story

• Our Lady of Fatima is focus of charismatic renewal anniversary event

  By CATHY WEAVER BISCAN, Special to the Bulletin
  Published December 7, 2017

  ATLANTA—The Atlanta Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference, held Oct. 13-14, marked the 50th anniversary of the renewal as well as the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fatima, Portugal. Marked by a miracle of the sun spinning in the sky at midday, the Virgin Mary appeared to three children in […] Full Story

• Deacon Fernando Barrueta dies Nov. 21

  Published December 7, 2017

  CONYERS—Deacon Fernando Barrueta, who served at St. Pius X Church in Conyers, died Nov. 21. He was 77. Born May 30, 1940, in Havana, Cuba, Deacon Barrueta studied at a preparatory school there. He was a graduate of the Inter-American Aviation School as an air-conditioning mechanic. He was preceded in death by his wife, Raquel. […] Full Story