August 2, 2019
There has been an informal suspension of federal executions for the past 16 years.
Attorney General William Barr further announced that they have scheduled the deaths of five men throughout December and January.
Racism in America: What Is Mine To Do?
The answers to What Is Mine to Do? lie in your story. Your personal, intimate story reveals what life has taught you about racism. Chart your narrative. Uncover beliefs, assumptions, and disappointed dreams. See where your story is pointing you today.

The Archdiocese has committed to sponsoring 24 individuals to attend this workshop, to be held September 6 and 7 at the Loudermilk Center in Downtown Atlanta. If you are interested in attending as part of this diocesan group, please email Kat - do not sign up individually.
August Policy Training
Join Street Grace to go beyond awareness and social media posts about human trafficking to affect real change. Learn how an idea becomes a law, apply what you learn to human trafficking law, and help pass legislation that will end human trafficking.
CRS Fall Retreat
Our fall retreat is for all committed Global Solidarity Ambassadors, those interested in joining the program, as well as anyone involved in CRS programming in the Archdiocese. Join us for prayer, small group discussion, and reflection.
Is your parish hosting a social action event or program? We would love to help you get the word out about it. Contact us with the details!
Where We've Been
Last Monday morning, Kat and Jayna attended the weekly Life, Dignity, and Justice staff meeting.

Kat left for Salt Lake City last Wednesday to attend the Social Action Summer Institute (SASI), held through Sunday, July 28. At the conference, Kat gave a presentation on how to build a diocesan or parish campaign to fight human trafficking.

Having received the Rice Bowl reports from both our diocesan Office of Finance and from CRS Headquarters, Jayna had a conference call on Wednesday morning with Michael Trujillo, our CRS Relationship Manager, to go over their plan to analyze this year's numbers.

On Wednesday, Kat met with our volunteer Nancy to discuss Nancy's progress on translating our human trafficking presentation into Spanish. Nancy will shortly begin working on scheduling presenters to give this presentation in parishes.

With SASI 2019 over, planning for SASI 2020 has already begun. Kat, recently appointed as Chair of the SASI 2020 Committee, had a conference call on Thursday morning to discuss plans for next year's event.

Later that day, Kat attended a lunch and meeting with members of the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta (FAMA).

Over the past two weeks, Jayna has been working on promotional materials and planning for the 2019 Green Mass. Click here to download the promotional toolkit. A memo, social media and website graphics, as well as print flyers and bulletin inserts are included.
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Social Action in the Parish
With 103 parishes and 1.2 million Catholics in the Archdiocese, we know there's a lot going on to keep track of. Let us worry about that for you!
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Community Collaboration
youthSpark works with at-risk youths to not only provide direct service for those abused and exploited, but to work to reduce child exploitation and sex trafficking rates in Georgia and across the country. Based here in Atlanta, our local Church collaborates with youthSpark in their life-saving and life-giving work.

In their summer newsletter, youthSpark highlighted some of the work being done with our parishes and organizations that we want to share with you:

  • St. Anthony of Padua in Atlanta's Historic West End provides warm and nutritious meals to the youth monthly. They also provide help to keep youthSpark's Dream Closet stocked with needed items, which are made available to children and families for free.
  • youthSpark was the recipient of a 2019 Catholic Foundation of North Georgia grant. The funds will be used to provide crisis intervention and other life-saving services through their Youth Services Center.