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ATLANTA—Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22. The Georgia Bulletin will include a listing of Lenten parish missions, retreats, penance services and fish fry dinners in the Feb. 16 print edition [...]

SMYRNA—Outside St. Francis of Assisi Church, a garden with native Georgia flowers replaced a barren patch of soil.

JUBA, South Sudan (CNS)–In a twist of fate despite a horrible situation, the millions of displaced South Sudanese people can contribute to rewriting their nation’s history by working together and [...]

VATICAN CITY (CNS)–Pope Francis expressed his “spiritual closeness” and “solidarity” with those affected by a pair of powerful earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria Feb. 6.

ATLANTA—A pop-up kitchen was opened in a church parking lot after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle in 2018. Carloads of hungry residents were fed.

KINSHASA, Congo (CNS)–In a country where most people are Christian and all are suffering from decades of violence and atrocities, Pope Francis told the Congolese to lay down their weapons and [...]

ATLANTA—The night before his ordination, Bishop-designate John Nhan Tran took an opportunity to pray with the priests of his new archdiocese.

SMYRNA—Outside St. Francis of Assisi Church, a garden with native Georgia flowers replaced a barren patch of soil.

The Eucharistic Revival taking place in the United States excites me for reasons that, at times, I cannot fully comprehend or articulate.

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (OSV News)–Almost everyone familiar with the life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knows the value that the civil rights leader put on living a long life.

WASHINGTON (OSV News)–Tens of thousands of pro-life advocates descended upon the nation’s capital for the 50th March for Life Jan. 20–the first national march since the overturn of the U.S. [...]

ROSWELL—“God will provide,” is the episcopal motto of Atlanta’s newest auxiliary, Bishop John Nhan Tran, ordained Monday, Jan. 23 in a joyous afternoon Mass at St. Peter Chanel Church.

ATLANTA—Parishes across the Archdiocese of Atlanta held memorial Masses for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in early January after the death of the retired pontiff Dec. 31.

ATLANTA—With the civil rights movement anthem “We Shall Overcome,” the Archdiocese of Atlanta celebrated its annual Mass honoring native son, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The challenge of remembering and keeping established public holidays increases with every new addition to the calendar.

VATICAN CITY (CNS)–Pope Francis praised the late Australian Cardinal George Pell as a faithful servant of God and of the Catholic Church, who steadfastly followed the Lord even “in the hour of [...]

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (OSV News)–Almost everyone familiar with the life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knows the value that the civil rights leader put on living a long life.

ATLANTA—The first issue of The Georgia Bulletin was published on Jan. 4, 1963. With the arrival of 2023, we mark the archdiocesan newspaper’s 60th anniversary. 

VATICAN CITY (CNS)–Pope Benedict XVI “spread and testified to” the Gospel his entire life, Pope Francis told tens of thousands of people gathered Jan. 5 for his predecessor’s funeral Mass.

BROOKHAVEN—BROOKHAVEN—On the afternoon of the fourth Sunday of Advent, Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer, OFM Conv., dedicated the newest church in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the Divine Mercy Mission.