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Lithia Springs

• A safe place to worship: St. John Vianney Church hosts sensory Mass

  

  By NATALIA DURON, Reporter
  Published October 3, 2025

  In a spirit of welcome, St. John Vianney Church in Lithia Springs hosted its first sensory Mass on Sept. 15 for parishioners with autism, Down syndrome and other sensory sensitivities.

• St. John Vianney holds a Taste Fest

  By Michael Alexander, Staff Photographer
  Published August 18, 2016

  LITHIA SPRINGS—Hundreds of parishioners attended the Taste of St. John Vianney Church in Lithia Springs on Saturday, Aug. 6. Under various tents cuisine from Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe and South America was served to eager patrons. In addition to the food, the festival included games, face painting, music and a large water slide for […]

• Father Morales begins first pastorate, ‘a privilege’ he is grateful to embrace

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Special to the Bulletin
  Published September 4, 2015

  LITHIA SPRINGS—Three years after his ordination, Father Ignacio Morales respectfully declined an invitation to accept his first pastorate, continuing instead to labor joyfully in ministry as a parochial vicar at Good Shepherd Church in Cumming. “I said, no, I wasn’t ready,” Father Morales recalled. “I was kind of enjoying my assignment at Good Shepherd. … […]

• Flood Of ‘Biblical Proportion’ Submerges Home

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published October 29, 2009

  As Sweetwater Creek started to rise, Jim Skelton moved the valuable items from the ground floor upstairs. The player piano was put on top of 5-gallon buckets, the refrigerator too. But when the flooding swept into his home, it wasn’t nearly enough. “This time it was moving six to eight inches in 10 minutes,” he […]

• Immigration Forum For Cobb, Douglas Set

  Published February 19, 2009

  St. John Vianney Parish in Lithia Springs has received a financial grant from Catholic Charities to create a program which would aid local immigrants in two major areas: current United States law and the immigration and educational services available to children in the Douglas and Cobb County school systems. The program, held once in February, […]

• St. Anthony Triduum Planned

  Published September 14, 2006

  A St. Anthony of Padua Triduum will be held at St. John Vianney Church in Lithia Springs from Sept. 24-27, which will include a relic of St. Anthony. Father Jude Winkler, a Conventual Franciscan Friar and priest from the St. Anthony of Padua Province, will conduct the sessions. Father Winkler will conduct all Masses at […]

• Women Of Northwest Deanery To Meet Feb. 12

  Published February 10, 2005

  Catholic women from the 32 parishes in the Northwest Deanery of the Atlanta Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women are invited to a meeting on Saturday, Feb. 12, at St. John Vianney Church, 1920 Skyview Drive. The program will include updating bylaws and electing members to serve on the nominating committee for the AACCW and for […]