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KENNESAW—Kelly Wood found herself starting a second career by overseeing a classroom of fourth graders, buzzing with excitement.

ATLANTA–In a March 10 decree, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., lifted the day of abstinence for Friday, March 19 as it is the Solemnity of St. Joseph. The decree follows.

ATLANTA—This year’s National Signing Day took place on Wednesday, Feb. 3.

ATLANTA—A Catholic panel examining how to respond to racism in the church said healing will take place once women and men burdened by it are listened to and placed in the center of the conversation.

QARAQOSH, Iraq (CNS)–Amid the rubble and bombed out remains of four churches destroyed by Islamic State militants, Pope Francis paid tribute to Iraqi Christians who endured persecution and even death.

ROSWELL—Sarinna Yoder, 55, a catechumen from St. Peter Chanel Church, is counting down the weeks until she is in full communion with the Catholic Church.

ATLANTA—Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., Archbishop of Atlanta, has released the following statement about House Bill 485, which would abolish the death penalty in Georgia.

ATLANTA–Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., Archbishop of Atlanta, has released the following statement about COVID-19 vaccines.

ATLANTA–The Archdiocese of Atlanta, including Georgia Catholics Against the Death Penalty (GCADP) and the Georgia Catholic Conference, are joining other advocacy groups to support a house bill to [...]

WASHINGTON– On March 2, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Doctrine, and Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of [...]

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.