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ATLANTA—During this season of Lent, amid the coronavirus pandemic, parishes in the Archdiocese of Atlanta have found ways to mark the liturgical season.

ATLANTA–As the nation reached a heartbreaking milestone of more than 500,000 lives lost to the COVID-19 virus, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer asked all parishes to celebrate memorial Masses for [...]

GAINESVILLE—Families and friends paid their final respects to workers killed at a poultry plant at funeral Masses.

ATLANTA–Roger Meyer took up cooking when his first wife became ill and he learned to prepare meals for himself and three older children.

LOGANVILLE—On the Jan. 24 feast day of St. Francis de Sales, friends and family of the Fransalian religious order gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony of a new retirement home for priests.

ATLANTA—In the midst of an unrelenting pandemic, with more than 440,000 killed by the coronavirus and economic uncertainty, it turns out a brief book telling of a Jewish girl’s courage has a [...]

VATICAN CITY (CNS—Pope Francis said that unless there is a serious new wave of COVID-19 infections in Iraq, he has every intention of visiting the country in early March.

WASHINGTON (CNS)–Before he became guardian and commissary of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington in 2013, Franciscan Father Larry Dunham made his first trip to the Holy Land.

ATLANTA—The annual campaign bringing Christians together to end abortion begins its journey on Feb. 17.

ATLANTA–Seven men were ordained Feb. 6 to serve the community in the Archdiocese of Atlanta as deacons.

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Ash Wednesday, as with many other things right now, will have a different look at many Catholic parishes across the United States this year.

ATLANTA—In the midst of an unrelenting pandemic, with more than 440,000 killed by the coronavirus and economic uncertainty, it turns out a brief book telling of a Jewish girl’s courage.

ATLANTA—About 40 people gathered virtually for a town hall on hunger and justice the evening of Jan. 26. The event was sponsored by Justice and Peace Ministries of the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

ATLANTA—Hal Plummer, superintendent of Catholic schools for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, announced Jan. 22 that Our Lady of Victory School in Tyrone and Our Lady of Mercy High School in [...]

On Feb. 6, seven men will present themselves to me in the Cathedral of Christ the King, and I will be honored to ordain them to the Order of Deacon.

ATLANTA—Nearly 12 years have gone by since I photographed Gina Parnaby with her daughter Elizabeth.

Many hope that the pandemic will soon end. We may look back on this historical period as a time of unhappy memory.