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ATLANTA—On Monday, Oct. 7, the Supreme Court of Georgia reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban that was struck down by Judge Robert McBurney of Fulton County Superior Court one week before.

Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., shares this week’s letter to members of the Jewish community of Atlanta as they observe High Holy Days.

ATLANTA—Our Lady of the Assumption School celebrated its 14th annual Day of Service on Sept. 18. Centered around community service, the day teaches students about the value of helping those in need.

ATLANTA—As Tropical Storm Helene moved north from Florida, it downed trees, flooded neighborhoods and left communities dealing with destruction, power loss and lack of water.

Georgia's bishops offered a statement Oct. 1, following the ruling that struck down the state's LIFE Act. In it they ask for all people of goodwill to take the cause for life to prayer and action.

VATICAN CITY (CNS)–While people can get caught up in the pursuit of power and greatness, Jesus teaches that true power is found in the humility of being a servant to the most vulnerable, Pope [...]

WINDER—Family, friends, classmates and teachers filled the pews at St. Matthew Church to attend the funeral of Christian Gabriel Angulo, a 14-year-old student who died in the tragic shooting at [...]

ATLANTA—Hundreds of middle school youth renewed their baptismal promises at “Holy Fire,” a Sept. 14 event featuring music, encouraging speakers, the sacrament of reconciliation and Mass.

ROSWELL—Vietnamese hymns fill the gymnasium of Blessed Trinity High School, marking the start of a new spiritual community.

ATLANTA—Three weeks ago, Aimee Viana was relocating her family to Georgia from Virginia, helping her daughter move into her college dorm and prepping her two youngest children for their first day [...]

ATLANTA—Pregnancy Aid Clinic (PAC) will host “An Evening for Life” gala on Oct. 27 at the Georgia Aquarium.

FLOWERY BRANCH—The Archdiocese of Atlanta is preparing to open a new school in Hall County.

ATLANTA—Cathy Schneider and many others kept vigil for countless hours outside of the Atlanta Women’s Center, hoping to encourage pregnant mothers to consider an alternative to abortion.

NEW YORK (OSV News)–The passage of 23 years has only strengthened Frank Siller’s resolve that first responders to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the soldiers lost in the war that followed will [...]

WINDER — “I could really use my prayers right now. My school is getting shot up.”

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS)–Even members of the most remote, smallest and poorest Christian communities are called to share the Gospel and to do so, first, by the way they live, Pope Francis told [...]

In October I will return to Vietnam after 31 years to exhume the remains of my mother and oldest brother.

ATLANTA–Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., was joined by Atlanta’s auxiliary bishops in offering prayers for healing for the Winder community following the Sept. 4 shooting at Apalachee [...]

(OSV News)–The U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on Hispanic Affairs conducted a survey of dioceses and archdioceses in the country’s 14 episcopal regions and released its results Aug. 21.

Like many of you, I had the opportunity and privilege to attend the beautiful National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis in July.