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• Archbishop Hartmayer elected chairman of National Catholic Educational Association board

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
  Published June 7, 2024

  On Tuesday, June 4, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., was elected to a three-year term as chairman of the board of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA).

• Bill Shlesinger, father of Bishop Shlesinger, dies October 25 

  Published November 13, 2020

  Bernard Edward (Bill) Shlesinger Jr. of Mount Vernon, Virginia, the father of Bishop Shlesinger of Atlanta, died on Oct. 25. He was 96 years old.

• National Catholic Schools Week to feature ‘A Day of Giving’

  Published January 11, 2018

  ARLINGTON, Va.—Atlanta’s Catholic schools will participate in “Many Gifts, One Nation: A Day of Giving,” an online giving campaign coordinated by the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). A Day of Giving will begin Tuesday, Jan. 30, at 9 a.m. and run for 24 hours. The campaign is part of the celebration of National Catholic Schools […] Full Story

• Archbishop Gregory: ‘We are still becoming a nation that practices what it preaches’

  Published November 2, 2017

  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory was the featured speaker in a public lecture series sponsored by the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The lecture, on the topic of race, was given Oct. 23, and entitled, “Seeing with the Eyes of Christ.” The St. Anselm […] Full Story

• Mother, daughter killed in crash recalled for devotion to faith, family

  By KATIE SCOTT, Catholic News Service
  Published April 2, 2015

  ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS)—A mother and daughter from Virginia who perished in the French Alps plane crash were remembered by fellow Catholic parishioners as “wonderful people” who were active members of Sacred Heart Church in Manassas. Yvonne Selke and her daughter, Emily, were two of the three Americans killed in the March 24 crash of an […] Full Story

• A Plea For God’s Help Changed Her Life

  By HENRIETTA GOMES, Special To The Bulletin
  Published January 31, 2008

  Her parents are both elders at Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta and her sister recently entered the seminary to become a Protestant minister. So, for Tiffany Lambert, director of religious education at All Saints Catholic Parish in Manassas, Va., it “creates a funny situation,” she said with a mischievous grin. Service to the church, however, […] Full Story