Frank Mulcahy is the lobbyist for the Catholic Church in Georgia and executive director of the Georgia Catholic Conference. The agenda and priorities of the Georgia Catholic Conference are directly set by the Archbishop of Atlanta and the Bishop of Savannah. Mulcahy will speak at Sacred Heart Church in Warner Robins on Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 at 7pm on his role as lobbyist and on issues facing the Georgia legislatures today. At the conclusion of this year’s legislative session in... Read more

In seminary we were taught to take responsibility for our words, written and spoken. If someone wanted to accuse another seminarian of improper conduct or bring forward an issue to the seminary faculty, the accusation or observation could not be anonymous. If it was done anonymously, the seminary ignored it. Using that same principle, I ask all of you my readers to identify yourselves when you post a comment. I love discussion, the exchange of ideas, and debate, but I... Read more

The minds of kids are truly something amazing. Their pictures show us how their little minds see and process the world. A little girl drew the picture above of the two of us a few months ago while I was visiting the family home, I love how she drew my glasses and gave me a big cross with a heart on my shirt! Below is a picture by another little girl of me celebrating Mass. She drew it while I... Read more

I wrote this many months ago as a response to a written comment of someone who stated it was catering to Latino’s vice to celebrate Mass in Spanish at our parish. The person also stated that when he lived in various places in Europe, Mass was only celebrated in the language of that particular country, so celebrating Mass in Spanish here showed there was a disconnect. I never got a written or verbal reply from the person… so I don’t... Read more

This is the response by some priests and deacons of my county to an article that appeared in the local county newspaper, the Houston Home Journal. The column by Attorney James Rockefeller, “Catholic Betrayal of Trust” (Houston Home Journal, (6-29-11) is yet another distorted understanding of sexual abuse by clergy in the Catholic Church. There can be no dispute that the abuse happened, yet to state that “the Roman Catholic Church is perhaps the most infamous example” of betrayal of... Read more

This past Friday we celebrated the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the patronal feast of our parish. Some of you have been part of this parish for just a few months. Others perhaps for years, some for decades, others for entire lifetimes. No matter how long you’ve called Sacred Heart your home parish, we all answer in unison when asked where we go to Church, “I go to Sacred Heart.” We mention Sacred Heart in casual conversation: fireworks... Read more

This morning at about 7:20am a reporter from the Macon Telegraph asked me, “Father, why do religious groups take such an interest on illegal immigration?” We had just watched two buses leave the parking lot of New Hope International Church heading north to Atlanta to join thousands of men and women to protest the new Georgia immigration law. Almost all the people on board were my parishoners. Before their departure I said a few words and led them in a... Read more

Some months ago someone asked me, “of all the churches you’ve visited, which one is the most beautiful?” Ever since then I’ve been thinking about it, but it’s very difficult to pick just one. As I was looking through some old pictures today, I came across pictures of a church I visited in Munich, Germany, the Abbey of Saint Boniface. This church however does not stand out for its remarkable beauty, but rather for the shock is induces when one... Read more

I took this great picture on the feast of Saint Rose of Lima in the town Julio C. Tello, more commonly known as “El Puente de Lurin.” This is the parish close to where I grew up in Peru. The parish is named after a great Peruvian saint and ever year there is a procession to celebrate her feast. These guys got the best seats in town! Mass in the incomplete new church, the roof is still missing! It never... Read more

This is an ancient, 4th century, beautiful depiction of the Princes of the Apostles, Saints Peter and Paul, found at the Roman Church of Saint Costanza. They flank Jesus and seem to be listening to their master, learning from Him so that they in turn may teach the sheep. These two men died for Christ as martyrs in Rome during the persecution ordered by Emperor Nero in 64 AD. Peter was executed near the Vatican Hill and buried in a... Read more