Joe Young spent last summer on a mission trip to Magadan, a city in the Russian Far East, where an American priest serves a parish on the site of a former Stalinist labor camp

Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., has announced the following appointments:

Vito Pellitteri has been named principal at St. John the Evangelist Catholic School in Valdosta.

Brother Nicholas Daniel Reynolds, O.P., a member of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), was ordained to the transitional diaconate July 7 at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Houston, Texas, by the Most Rev. David A.

The Southern Cross welcomes news stories and photos sent from parishes, missions, schools, communities and organizations in the Diocese of Savannah.

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