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• The congress is a hit on social media

  By ERIKA ANDERSON REDDING, Special to the Bulletin
  Published June 23, 2017

  COLLEGE PARK—Holding a cardboard frame, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory beams from the Archdiocese of Atlanta Instagram account. “Archbishop Gregory is excited for this year’s Eucharistic Congress! Are you ready?” the caption reads. In other pictures, both Bishop Luis R. Zarama and Bishop-designate Bernard E. “Ned” Shlesinger pose similarly. All photo captions end with #ATLEC2017, the […]

• Sister Mary Paul Cretello, who served at the cancer home, dies

  Published June 23, 2017

  ATLANTA—Sister Mary Paul Cretello, OP, died April 18 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home in Atlanta after an extended illness. She was 84 years old. She was born Anne M. Cretello on Jan. 25, 1933, in Long Branch, New Jersey, to Anthony Cretello and Antoinette (Cittandino) Cretello. She was preceded in death by her […]

• Four ordained as transitional deacons

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published June 1, 2017

  ATLANTA—Thunderous applause echoed off the stone walls of the Cathedral of Christ the King as four men presented themselves to be ordained as transitional deacons, a milestone toward serving as Catholic priests. As the men lay face down on the stone floor, friends and family filling the Gothic church’s wooden pews asked the saints to […]

• Innovative program funds buildings for rapidly growing churches

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published June 1, 2017

  ATLANTA—Making room for everyone at the Lord’s table is the spirit behind a focused new program in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. The Special Projects Program is funding the expansion of basic worship and religious education space in a few uniquely challenged parishes whose churches cannot hold all those coming for Mass or faith education. The […] Full Story | En Español

• St. Bernadette breaks ground for much-needed church building

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published June 1, 2017

  CEDARTOWN—Parishioners of St. Bernadette Church welcomed Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory for the groundbreaking on a new church building Sunday, May 7, celebrating with a festival-like event. Families tailgated in the 13-acre pasture next to the Second Baptist Church on Evergreen Lane, site of the proposed building to be backed through special projects funding of the […] Full Story | En Español

• Catholic advocates for immigrants assess how to win allies, combat fear

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published June 1, 2017

  ATLANTA—Frances McBrayer used to be able to focus on ensuring that refugees had an apartment to live in, the weary travelers were picked up at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and had jobs lined up to integrate families who had spent years in desolate camps into the Atlanta community. Her work would accompany families of refugees […]

• Msgr. Herbert, Father Kane remembered in joint funeral Mass in Atlanta

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published June 1, 2017

  ATLANTA—Two sons of Ireland were remembered with prayers at the Cathedral of Christ the King where a Book of the Gospels rested on each of their wooden caskets, to the left and to the right of the center aisle. Msgr. Leo P. Herbert and Father Terence “Terry” A. Kane came to the then-mission territory of […] Full Story

• Mercy Care Chamblee sponsors say new health clinic offers dignity, care to all

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published May 19, 2017

  CHAMBLEE—With prayers for “those who are sick or in distress and on those who help and minister to the sick in any way,” scores of supporters and donors on Monday, May 1, celebrated the ribbon cutting at the new $14 million Mercy Care Chamblee clinic. At the clinic, doctors, nurses, dentists and mental health specialists […] Full Story | En Español

• Students see Atlanta as holy ground during Holy Week

  

  Published May 19, 2017

  ATLANTA—Some Holy Spirit Preparatory School students, faculty, and families joined Mission Youth in downtown Atlanta to spend time on the holiest days of the church calendar. Anamaria Duran, a rising senior, said, “We were accompanying Jesus in the little ways we could.” From Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday some 80-90 missionaries participated, including students and […]

• Knights celebrate 30 years of service with special art at Sacred Heart

  

  Published May 19, 2017

  MILLEDGEVILLE—Knights of Columbus Council 9458 recently celebrated 30 years of serving Sacred Heart Church and the Milledgeville and Baldwin County communities. To commemorate the anniversary, Fayette County sculptor John Parker was commissioned to create art to be placed in the landscape of the Sacred Heart Church. The monument now sits in front of the church […]

• Airline worker brings trafficking victims’ faces into plain view

  

  By JEAN DRISKELL, Special to the Bulletin
  Published May 19, 2017

  DECATUR—The exploitation of girls and boys, women and men in human trafficking is not a remote problem but is occurring in front of people everywhere, said Donna Hubbard, who trains airline personnel to recognize trafficking victims. “Human trafficking is a $150 billion business, second only to drugs and weapons,” Hubbard said in a March 21 […]

• Catholic Emory graduate wins prestigious commencement award

  

  Published May 19, 2017

  DECATUR—Kaitlyn Posa is the 2017 Emory University undergraduate recipient of the Marion Luther Brittain Award, the university’s highest student honor. The Brittain Award is presented each year to two graduating students, one graduate and one undergraduate, under provisions of a gift by the late Dr. M. L. Brittain, former president of the Georgia Institute of […] Full Story

• St. Joseph parishioner is a top nursing student at Georgia College

  Published May 19, 2017

  MILLEDGEVILLE—Maria N. Boff graduated from the school of nursing at Georgia College, Milledgeville, as one of the valedictorians of the May 2017 graduating class. She was selected to give the Phi Kappa Phi valedictorian address during the graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 6. Boff plans to work at Northside Hospital, Atlanta, in the Blood and […] Full Story

• Father Terry Kane, priest for 49 years in archdiocese, dies

  Published May 18, 2017

  ATLANTA—Father Terence “Terry” A. Kane passed away on May 17 at the age of 75. Born Dec. 24, 1941, in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, Father Kane was among the 40 Irish priests drawn to the mission territory of Georgia by the invitation and inspiration of Msgr. P.J. O’Connor when he was vocations director of the […]

• Longtime priest of the archdiocese, Msgr. Leo Herbert, dies

  Published May 18, 2017

  ATLANTA—Msgr. Leo Herbert, who was recently honored for 50 years of priestly service in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, died May 15. The Irish native was 74. Born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, he was the youngest in a family of four sisters and a brother. Msgr. Herbert came to the United States after being ordained at […] Full Story

• Welcome Grants expanded to five archdiocesan schools for 2017-2018 year

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published May 18, 2017

  DECATUR—For principal Susanne Greenwood, the archdiocesan Welcome Grants played a significant role in getting parents to take a look at St. Peter Claver Regional School. The Decatur school is moving closer to its enrollment target, in large part because the grants eased parents’ financial costs, Greenwood said. “Many of our families desirous of a Catholic […]

• Seven Carmelite communities are helping lay Catholics live faith more deeply

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published May 18, 2017

  This is the third in an occasional series featuring area Catholics deepening their faith by affiliating with religious orders. MARIETTA—Joe Herzberg and Charles Trout stood in front of the altar at Holy Family Church to accept with prayers and blessings a brown square cloth, draped over their chest and back. For these two, the small […]

• Raleigh priest named as new Atlanta auxiliary bishop

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published May 18, 2017

  ATLANTA—Pope Francis has named Father Bernard E. “Ned” Shlesinger III, a priest of the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Bishop-designate Shlesinger, 56, was most recently the director of spiritual formation for St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, where he has been on the faculty for four […]

• According to friends, new bishop has ‘heart of a shepherd’

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published May 18, 2017

  ATLANTA—The newly named auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Bishop-designate Bernard E. “Ned” Shlesinger III, is a former Air Force pilot who enjoys fishing. Bishop-designate Shlesinger, the youngest of six children and a priest of the Raleigh, North Carolina, Diocese, speaks Spanish. “My teachers were the people of Raleigh. You really don’t learn Spanish […] Full Story | En Español

• Knights of Columbus assembly to hold Memorial Day Mass for fallen warriors

  Published May 18, 2017

  MARIETTA—The Bishop Charles P. Greco Assembly #2161 of the Knights of Columbus will have a Memorial Day Mass at the Marietta National Cemetery Monday, May 29, at 9 a.m. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will celebrate Mass for the more than 17,000 fallen warriors laid to rest at the cemetery, located at 500 Washington Avenue in […] Full Story