The Last 20 News Articles from the Homepage
- March 17, 2024ATLANTA—Sister Miriam Mendoza has joined the Archdiocese of Atlanta to work in the Hispanic and Latino Ministry and with the Office of Vocations.
- March 15, 2024ATLANTA—Students from St. Mary’s Academy, Fayetteville, led the way around the Georgia Capitol as hundreds turned out for the 2024 Georgia March for Life.
- March 13, 2024ATLANTA—In 1873, the city of Atlanta gifted a parcel of land in its city cemetery to the Hibernian Benevolent Society as a final resting place for its poorer members.
- March 11, 2024VATICAN CITY (CNS)–Pope Francis urged prideful people to recall one of Jesus’ moral commandments to “never judge.”
- March 9, 2024ATLANTA—Pope Francis’ ambassador to the United States, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, spent his two-day visit to Atlanta chatting with students and clergy, speaking at a Hispanic mission and offering encouragement for the ongoing Synod on Synodality.
- March 7, 2024ATLANTA—On March 7, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., wrote to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles to ask for clemency for death row inmate Willie James Pye.
- February 28, 2024VATICAN CITY (CNS)–Pope Francis paid a brief visit to Rome’s Gemelli Isola Hospital Feb. 28 for “diagnostic tests,” the Vatican press office said, without providing specifics.
- February 26, 2024(OSV News)–On May 18-19, groups of eight young adults will leave San Francisco; New Haven, Connecticut; San Juan, Texas; and Itasca State Park in Minnesota.
- February 24, 2024ATLANTA—Dioceses across the U.S. are holding additional listening sessions, following a request from the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, in preparation for the second session of the global Synod on Synodality this fall.
- February 22, 2024ATLANTA—Signing the Book of the Elect was a moment of transformation for Chantel Taylor. Putting pen to paper turned an intellectual exercise into a tangible commitment as a new believer in the Catholic Church.
- February 20, 2024ATLANTA—Lent began on Feb. 14 this year with the observance of Ash Wednesday and continues through Good Friday.
- February 18, 2024ROME (CNS)–In an age when even one’s most intimate thoughts and feelings can become fodder for social media, Lent is a time to cast aside appearances and to find God at work in the depths of the heart, Pope Francis said.
- February 16, 2024ATLANTA—Leighton Batiste, when a student at Morehouse College, faced skepticism and disapproval from classmates when he mentioned he was Catholic.
- February 14, 2024ATLANTA—Deacon Thang Vu baptized a grandchild, assisted at Mass and preached a sermon at Holy Vietnamese Martyrs Church all within 48 hours of his ordination to the diaconate.
- February 12, 2024ATLANTA—Lent begins on Feb. 14 this year with the observance of Ash Wednesday and continues through Good Friday.
- February 10, 2024During the Christmas season, we celebrate the birth of our Savior—a child not planned by Mary and Joseph—but welcomed and embraced by them in faith and love.
- February 8, 2024ATLANTA—Msgr. Henry Charles Gracz, longtime pastor of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, died Feb. 5, in Atlanta. He was 84 years old.
- February 7, 2024LIMERICK, Ireland—Father Francis David “Davy” McGuinness, senior priest of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, died Sunday, Feb. 4, in Limerick, Ireland. He was 81 years old and a priest for 47 years.
- February 4, 2024VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Lent is a time to free oneself from slavery and take action to free others suffering from the multiple forms of slavery that afflict the world, Pope Francis said.
- February 2, 2024Join us in prayer as we celebrate the ordination of our new permanent deacons for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Watch the live ordination on February 3 from Vimeo.