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Memorial garden at St. Helena offers sacred space
August 4, 2017CLAYTON—The completed columbarium/memorial garden at St. Helena Church in Clayton was dedicated earlier this year on April 2. Bishop Luis R. Zarama presided at the Mass of dedication, concelebrated by the church’s pastor, Father Pedro Poloche. Following the Mass, a formal dedication and blessing of the columbarium and garden was conducted at the site. The […]
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Pastor’s life spent in rural, Hispanic N.C. communities
August 4, 2017ATLANTA—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 […]
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Priests gained helpful spiritual direction, humble guidance from future bishop
August 4, 2017ATLANTA—Samuel Beardslee would come into his spiritual director’s office at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary every few weeks. He had the weight of seminary pressures and future priestly life on his mind. The visits with then-Father Bernard “Ned” Shlesinger III would often begin with a small gesture, an offer of a hot cup of tea. Father […]
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At jubilee, Pope Francis urges Pentecostals, Catholic charismatics to ‘walk, work together’
August 4, 2017VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Holy Spirit continues to give Christians different gifts and to call them to share those gifts with each other in a community marked by forgiveness and “unity in diversity,” Pope Francis said on Pentecost. “In a way both creative and unexpected,” the pope said, the Holy Spirit “generates diversity, for in every […]
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Taste of Life to benefit housing program for HIV/AIDS patients
August 4, 2017ATLANTA—Taste of Life 2017 will benefit Living Room of Atlanta, a program working to ensure housing is available for people living with HIV/AIDS. A food and wine tasting event, Taste of Life will be Saturday, Aug. 19 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Westside Cultural Arts Center, 760 10th St., NW, Atlanta. According to […]
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New path to sainthood: Giving up one’s life in heroic service
August 3, 2017VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis has approved a fourth pathway to possible sainthood—giving one’s life in a heroic act of loving service to others. In a new apostolic letter, the pope approved new norms allowing for candidates to be considered for sainthood because of the heroic way they freely risked their lives and died prematurely because […]
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Bishop Shlesinger: Our lives must be founded on the person of Jesus
August 3, 2017ATLANTA—Ancient prayers filled the candlelit Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta for prayer on the eve of the ordination of Atlanta’s new auxiliary bishop. Scores of clergy, men and women religious, and family and close friends of Bishop Bernard E. “Ned” Shlesinger III gathered Tuesday, July 18, in the flower-filled stone Gothic cathedral on […]
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Creative Atlanta program training Spanish catechists garners national honor
August 3, 2017ATLANTA—The Archdiocese of Atlanta received the New Wineskins Award for its innovative Spanish certificate program in pastoral theology taking place in partnership with the University of Dallas. The award was given at the 81st National Conference for Catechetical Leadership, held in Dallas May 22-25. The online study program was created to form leaders and strengthen […]
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Raleigh priest ordained auxiliary bishop for Atlanta
August 3, 2017ATLANTA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory called the ordination of Bishop Bernard E. “Ned” Shlesinger III to the episcopate a “wonderfully happy day in the life of the Archdiocese of Atlanta.” Archbishop Gregory ordained the priest of the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, as an Atlanta auxiliary bishop during an afternoon Mass July 19 at the Cathedral […]
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Siblings support their youngest brother as he becomes Atlanta bishop
August 3, 2017ATLANTA—The siblings of Bishop Bernard E. “Ned” Shlesinger III describe him as a prayerful child and thoughtful brother. The youngest child of six, he was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. His father, Bernard E. “Bill” Shlesinger Jr., 93, is a military veteran, patent attorney and inventor. His mother, the late Rita […]