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Atlanta
Sister Miriam Mendoza brings guidance, light to Hispanic community
Sister Miriam Mendoza has joined the Archdiocese of Atlanta to work in the Hispanic and Latino Ministry and with the Office of Vocations. She is a native of Guadalajara, Mexico, and is a Franciscan Sister of Our Lady of Refuge.
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Atlanta
Advocates, students and officials gather in support of crisis pregnancy centers
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.
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Atlanta
Lenten events mark season of prayer
Parishes within the Archdiocese of Atlanta have shared their Lenten missions and fish fry dinners to be held during the 40-day liturgical season.
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Brookhaven
Nuncio shares pope’s vision of a listening church at Divine Mercy Mission
An expectant crowd gathered Feb. 19 at Divine Mercy Mission to hear the message of Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, on “The Vision of Pope Francis for a Synodal Church.” The Spanish-language program was organized by the Aquinas Center of Theology.
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Atlanta
Archbishop Hartmayer asks for clemency for death row inmate Willie Pye
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.
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Atlanta
Atlanta to have Synod on Synodality listening sessions
Dioceses in the U.S. are holding additional listening sessions as request by the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, in preparation for the second session of the global Synod on Synodality this fall. The Archdiocese of Atlanta will host five sessions between Feb. 25 and March 18.
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Atlanta
Companions in faith: Catholic converts assist new believers
This year, the Archdiocese of Atlanta welcomed some 2,500 people at the Rite of Election. Atlanta bishops greeted the assembled at four churches. Catholics who joined the church last year are serving as companions in faith, assisting others in the journey toward the church.
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Atlanta
College Knights embrace heritage and purpose
The Lyke House is home to a new Knights of St. Peter Claver council. It inaugurated its leaders from students attending the four historically Black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center, and Georgia State University. At the University of Georgia Catholic Center in Athens, another young Knights council entered its second year.