Southern Cross Articles

Maureen Grady Lewis
New principal appointed to Aquinas High School

By Meg Mirshak
Augusta
Maureen Grady Lewis was named the new principal of Aquinas High School April 27.

Lewis, a 1984 Aquinas graduate, will begin the position July 1. Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer and Sister Rose Mary Collins, superintendent of schools, made the public...
2012 Vocations Essay Contest Winners

The Vocations Essay contest,  sponsored by the Serra Club of Savannah and the Southern Cross, saw 175 entries from across the diocese this year. The question posed to 7th grade students throughout the Diocese of Savannah was, “Jesus called the 12 to leave their lives behind and follow...
Priest Assignments 2013
Close to 25% of priests in the Diocese of Savannah are being reassigned this June. This major shift in parish personnel was precipitated by the retirement of the rector of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. According to Bishop Hartmayer, “The retirement of the rector basically...
Tilting Windmills
Tilting At Windmills - A commentary on the life amendment

In Miguel de Cervantes’ masterpiece, “Don Quixote,” the title character famously attacks some windmills, which he mistakes for “ferocious giants”: “Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain.
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St. Peter’s Sixth Graders Learn and Live Faith with Wishing for Wells Fundraiser

A class project for the sixth grade at St. Peter the Apostle School, Savannah, will soon provide water for about 500 people in Tigray, Ethiopia.  In November, the class launched Wishing for Wells, a fundraiser with a goal of $10,000 on behalf of Charity: Water, “a non-profit...
Bishop Hartmayer delivering homily July 1, 2012
Catholics celebrate liberty at Mass in Forsyth Park, Savannah

More than 1,500 Catholics from all over south Georgia came together as church in Savannah’s Forsyth Park for a Mass celebrating religious liberty in the USA.

Many of those in attendance began their day early to find a nearby parking spot and place to sit. One couple, Randy Yon and...

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