Georgia Bulletin

Loganville

• Fransalians launch construction of priest retirement home

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published February 17, 2021

  Friends and family of the Fransalian religious order gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony of a new retirement home for priests. The home is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

• Fransalians open Loganville spirituality center with blessing

  

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Special to the Bulletin
  Published July 11, 2019

  In eastern Gwinnett County, Walton, Rockdale and DeKalb counties, Catholics and all people will have ready access to books, gifts and religious articles at a new Catholic spirituality center.

• Father Martin Kopchik, MSFS, Dies

  Published November 11, 2010

  Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales Father Martin Kopchik, director of the Fransalians Spirituality Center, died Nov. 6. He was 61. The funeral vigil for Father Kopchik is to be on Thursday, Nov. 11, from 6-9 p.m. at St. Lawrence Church, 319 Grayson Highway, Lawrenceville. Evening prayer and a rosary will be prayed for the […] Full Story

• Longtime Atlanta Deacon Gary Womack Dies

  Published November 11, 2010

  Deacon Gary Womack was among the early pioneers to serve as a permanent deacon in the Atlanta Archdiocese. Ordained in 1987, he was among 51 men ordained in only the fourth class to serve the Catholics in North Georgia. “He just had a servant’s heart,” is how his fellow deacon and St. John Neumann Church […] Full Story

• BT, St. Pius Leap To State Competition Heights

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published November 12, 2009

  Cheerleaders from Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, and St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, danced, flipped, leaped and vaulted their way to Columbus, where they will compete against some of the best cheerleading squads in all of Georgia Nov. 13-14. This is after the two schools vied for the coveted spots during the Georgia High […] Full Story

• Blessed Alphonsa Canonization Draws Loganville Pilgrims

  Published October 9, 2008

  The canonization of the first Indian-born woman saint in Rome Oct. 12 will be attended by a group of 30 people from the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Blessed Alphonsa, a Franciscan Clarist nun, will be canonized by Pope Benedict XVI. Among those coming from around the world are a group of people who worship at Blessed […] Full Story