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• Fightin’ Irish Dash to boost ND scholarships

  Published September 12, 2013

  All you fans of Notre Dame football, don’t just cheer for the team. Now you can help a Domer by lacing up your running shoes. The Notre Dame Atlanta Fightin’ Irish Dash 5K/10K is to take place on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 8 a.m. at Cochran Shoals Park, 5450 Interstate North Parkway, Sandy Springs. Both […]

• Break a leg, Father Joseph Peek and Matt Calvo

  Published September 12, 2013

  The play “A Few Good Men” at Act3 Playhouse in Sandy Springs this month has two Catholics in ministry in featured roles. Father Joseph Peek, parochial vicar at All Saints Church in Dunwoody, plays the sergeant at arms. Matt Calvo, media director and web designer at Transfiguration Church in Marietta, acts as Lt. Jack Ross. The […] Full Story

• At Pax Christi Event, Members Look At Future Plans

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published September 27, 2012

  SANDY SPRINGS—From fighting racism and building bridges between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land to visiting prisons, Catholic activists with Pax Christi USA talked about a vision for the international peace movement. Some 40 members of the organization spent Saturday, Sept. 15, at St. Jude Church, Sandy Springs, talking with each other and the […]

• Q&A With Sister Patricia Chappell Of Pax Christi

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published September 27, 2012

  Sister Patricia Chappell is helping to build a road map for the future of Pax Christi USA, the Catholic peace movement. Its executive director for the last nine months, Sister Chappell is going around the country to gauge the opinions of and pick up insights from members of the organization. She spent some time in […]

• Stuart Has ‘Graduated Into Heaven,’ Priest Says

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Special To The Bulletin
  Published September 13, 2012

  Stuart Utterback defied the odds from the moment he was born. Stuart was gregarious, well liked. He loved being involved in his parish as an altar server. He lived his life with joy. Stuart was special. Stuart, 61, died Aug. 27. When Stuart was born with Down syndrome in 1951, doctors told his parents their […]

• St. Jude To Host Annual Music Symposium

  Published July 19, 2012

  Sponsored by the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the Southeastern Liturgical Music Symposium is an annual gathering of musicians who share an interest in advancing the quality of Catholic liturgical music. This year’s symposium will be hosted by St. Jude the Apostle Church on August 24–25 and will focus on how to select appropriate music for the […]

• Brazilian Catholics Honor Their Country’s Patroness

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published October 27, 2011

  Members of the local Brazilian Catholic community gathered at St. Jude the Apostle Church for a Mass commemorating the feast day of Brazil’s Our Lady of Aparecida (“Our Lady Who Appeared”) Oct. 12. Her feast day has been observed as a public holiday in Brazil since the late Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica […]

• Brazilian Catholics Honor Their Country’s Patroness

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published October 27, 2011

  Members of the local Brazilian Catholic community gathered at St. Jude the Apostle Church for a Mass commemorating the feast day of Brazil’s Our Lady of Aparecida (“Our Lady Who Appeared”) Oct. 12.  Her feast day has been observed as a public holiday in Brazil since the late Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica […]

• Local Catholic Races To Help Those With Endometriosis

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published May 27, 2010

  As founder of the No Time For Pain 5K, an inaugural road race scheduled for Sunday, June 13, St. Anthony of Padua parishioner Kenya Turner, 33, is taking endometriosis head on in an effort to bring attention to this disease—she was diagnosed with stage 4 endometriosis in 2008. The Georgia Bulletin recently talked with Turner […]

• Pinecrest Girls Pull Off Upset, Head To State Tourney

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published February 19, 2009

  The Pinecrest Academy Lady Paladins upset the top-ranked Dominion Christian Lady Knights 45-37 to win the Georgia Independent School Association (GISA) AAA region one title Friday, Feb. 13. Dominion came into the game as the number one seed with a record of 27-0. Dominion had defeated Pinecrest by more than 25 points in each of […] Full Story

• Arlington Cemetery Mass Commemorates All Souls’ Day

  

  By STEPHEN O’KANE, Staff Writer
  Published November 6, 2008

  Shaded beneath old Georgia pines amid the joyful songs of countless birds, nearly 75 people assembled in a secluded spot of Arlington Cemetery on Monday, Nov. 3, to remember the souls of all the bishops, priests, deacons and lay people of the archdiocese who have died and are buried there. With an altar set up […]

• Papal Organist To Perform At St. Jude’s

  Published September 7, 2006

  The St. Jude the Apostle music ministry will present organist St. James E. Goettsche, principal organist for the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, in a recital to dedicate the new Allen digital organ at the Sandy Springs church, on Wednesday, Sept. 20, at 8 p.m. This recital offers a unique opportunity to enjoy […] Full Story