Also in this Issue

• Memorial garden at St. Helena offers sacred space

• Priests gained helpful spiritual direction, humble guidance from future bishop

• At jubilee, Pope Francis urges Pentecostals, Catholic charismatics to ‘walk, work together’

• Taste of Life to benefit housing program for HIV/AIDS patients

• New path to sainthood: Giving up one’s life in heroic service

• Bishop Shlesinger: Our lives must be founded on the person of Jesus

• Creative Atlanta program training Spanish catechists garners national honor

• Siblings support their youngest brother as he becomes Atlanta bishop

• Coat of arms of Bishop Shlesinger

• Unflappable nature gave him ROTC nickname as the ‘Happy Rat’

• Priests’ assembly reflects on need to heal ‘deep malady’ in American soul

• Archdiocesan newspaper, videographer earn 14 awards at annual media conference

• Changing church landscape requires mutual accompaniment, convocation hears

• Lisa Wheeler to speak at August Magnificat

• Magnificat chapter founders say step out in faith, receive God’s grace

• O’Connor’s Andalusia hosts open-mic evenings

• Atlanta’s new auxiliary bishop to be ordained July 19

• Founder of gang violence ministry to speak at St. Thomas Aquinas

• A year of state championships for Catholic schools

• Pinecrest’s Patota represents Georgia

Local News

• Atlanta

  An interview with ‘Bishop Ned’

  ATLANTA—The spacious office on the third floor of the Chancery is mostly empty, awaiting the belongings and activities of its new owner. In the time since his announcement May 18 as the new auxiliary bishop of Atlanta, Bishop Bernard E. “Ned” Shlesinger III has moved to Atlanta from Philadelphia, where he had served as the […] Full Story

• Raleigh

  Two thousand witness history at dedication of new Raleigh cathedral

  RALEIGH, N.C. (CNS)—The Diocese of Raleigh began the day with the smallest Catholic cathedral in the continental United States. But when the July 26 dedication of a new cathedral concluded, the diocese was home to one of the largest in the country. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge said of Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral, “(People) are […] Full Story | En Español

• Flowery Branch

  Nicaragua mission trips inspire three friends to become doctors

  FLOWERY BRANCH—Serving the poor in Nicaragua inspired three young women, all onetime parishioners of Prince of Peace Church, to choose careers in medicine. Rachel Johnson, Alex Olney and Anna Sulimirski Strasma all began volunteering as children with Amigos for Christ, a nonprofit organization that grew out of a youth group project at Prince of Peace […] Full Story | En Español

• Atlanta

  Pastor’s life spent in rural, Hispanic N.C. communities

  ATLANTA—After remarks in English at the press conference announcing his appointment as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Bishop Bernard E. “Ned” Shlesinger spoke to Hispanic Catholics by sharing a few words in Spanish. Bishop Shlesinger first studied Spanish as a student at Mount Vernon High School in Virginia. Once entering the seminary for […] Full Story | En Español

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