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Former Southern Baptist to Become Next Head of Louisiana [Catholic] Diocese
Catholic News Live ^ | 9/21/16

Posted on 09/21/2016 4:50:56 PM PDT by marshmallow

Alexandria, La., Sep 21, 2016 / 11:46 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope Francis has appointed Bishop David Prescott Talley, currently auxiliary bishop of Atlanta and a former Baptist, to serve as the coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Alexandria.

As coadjutor, Bishop Talley possesses the right of succession as head of the Diocese of Alexandria upon the resignation of its current ordinary, Bishop Ronald Herzog. Bishop Herzog will celebrate his 75th birthday – 'mandatory retirement' age for bishops – on April 22, 2017.

Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta said Sept. 21 that Bishop Talley “is a servant minister of our Church, who is graced with extraordinary wisdom, patience, kindness and dedication.”

The bishop, he said, “developed these gifts as a priest and bishop here in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, where he always cared for our people as a true minister of mercy and kindness. Thus, he now begins this new appointment with exceptional credentials.”

Serving as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Atlanta since 2012, Bishop Talley, 66, was the first native-born Georgian to serve the Archdiocese of Atlanta as a bishop.

Born in Columbus, Georgia, Sept. 11, 1950, he was raised as a Southern Baptist, but left that ecclesial community as a teenager over the issue of racial segregation, he said. He then joined the Catholic Church when he was 24, after meeting Catholics and reading the writings of Thomas Merton while he was studying at Auburn University.

He was ordained a priest of the Atlanta archdiocese June 3, 1989, and earned a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University. He has served as pastor at three Atlanta area parishes, as the archdiocesan vocations director, as chancellor of the archdiocese, and as judicial vicar of the metropolitan tribunal. He was made a........

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1 posted on 09/21/2016 4:50:56 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow; Mark17

Just an inflammatory headline to inform the Catholics that they are promoting from within.


2 posted on 09/21/2016 5:14:38 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true ... and it pisses people off)
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To: knarf; metmom; boatbums; daniel1212

I believe we had the opposite experience.


3 posted on 09/21/2016 5:20:48 PM PDT by Mark17 (Calvary's love has never faltered. All it's wonder still remains. Souls still take eternal passage.)
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To: marshmallow
You know...we wonder if catholics post these articles to be informative or provocative?

There are lots of articles that could be posted that depict the roman catholic church in a much worse light than it currently is viewed.

Yet these are not posted to avoid the flame wars.

4 posted on 09/21/2016 5:20:59 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: marshmallow

He went to Auburn and gave up girls? Something wrong with that boy, and it wasn’t his love for integration.


5 posted on 09/21/2016 5:23:33 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: ealgeone
You know...we wonder if catholics post these articles to be informative or provocative?

Who is "we" are you some sort of collective? I find it better to always assume others have good intentions. My mother-in-law always assumes the worst, guess who's happier?

There are lots of articles that could be posted that depict the roman catholic church in a much worse light than it currently is viewed.

Yet these are not posted to avoid the flame wars.

Please see the entry under "rnmomof7", THAT'S why they're not posted. They used to be, constantly.

6 posted on 09/21/2016 5:39:13 PM PDT by Legatus (May the zot be with you)
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To: marshmallow

So what?

It doesn’t prove anything, certainly not that Catholicism is true or something.

All it shows is that someone traded one religion for another.

But without a personal relationship with Christ, it’s all just dust in the wind.


7 posted on 09/21/2016 5:39:20 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: marshmallow

I left Catholicism for a personal relationship with my Savior. Religion doesn’t do it.


8 posted on 09/21/2016 5:42:39 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Hillary is Satan's spiritual advisor.)
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To: Mark17

For sure.


9 posted on 09/21/2016 5:43:53 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

“Churchianity” is perfectly possible among any denomination’s communion, though the more kooky the things in the official doctrine, the more likely it is.

Telling us somebody is “Baptist” tells us nothing. The Westburros say that they are “Baptist.” The preacher at the Baptist church I currently worship at on Sundays, used to be a Catholic... so does this cancel it out?


10 posted on 09/21/2016 5:48:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Old Yeller

Baptist as we often (not always) know it today is an offshoot of the Church of England, which of course is an offshoot of the Roman Catholic church. The Reformation itself is an offshoot of the Roman Catholic church. In lands where the Orthodox Church is the standard thing, there are various other offshoot Christian denominations we would probably view as odd.

In the end, Christ knows those who are His. And it’s the very thesis of the Protestant movement that it isn’t “doctrines” that got them that way, but a direct personal acceptance of the Lord.


11 posted on 09/21/2016 5:54:15 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mark17

Yes, we certainly did! I praise Almighty God for it.


12 posted on 09/21/2016 5:55:34 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: marshmallow

placemarker, just a placemarker.


13 posted on 09/21/2016 6:00:01 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
In the end, Christ knows those who are His. And it’s the very thesis of the Protestant movement that it isn’t “doctrines” that got them that way, but a direct personal acceptance of the Lord.

Hallelujah!

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.  My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.(John 10:27-30)

14 posted on 09/21/2016 6:02:54 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums

The ultimate thing we should praise Christ for is bringing us personally to Himself. It is the hallmark of God that this can happen in some very unlikely places. Jesus saved some people in the barrooms of His day.

I will stick my Christian neck out and aver that in general, modern Baptists have doctrine better nailed down than modern Catholics. However it’s easy to give this so much importance as to forget the central thesis of the Protestant movement, which was something that Martin Luther tried to get going among Catholics. Jesus is the center of it all, and when treated and addressed as such, He is all we need. The other things follow, even the accuracy of our understanding on earth.


15 posted on 09/21/2016 6:03:01 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Legatus
>>Yet these are not posted to avoid the flame wars.<,

Please see the entry under "rnmomof7", THAT'S why they're not posted. They used to be, constantly.

and catholicism can't take the exposure so the catholic runs to the RM to have the post pulled.

16 posted on 09/21/2016 6:08:13 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

I believe it yet best to take the “original Luther” approach and talk up Jesus. It’s easy to curse darkness; not nearly as easy to light candles, especially when we find ourselves soggy and hard to light!

If this fellow met Jesus in a Catholic church, that’s where Jesus chose to do it.

I met Jesus in a psychiatrist’s office, now let’s try to put that into our Freud-hating pipes and smoke it. But this doctor was wiser than Freud because he knew the Lord... and very quickly, so did I.

The doctor was a Methodist, but about two months later I heard the best advice of my life from a Catholic doctor, and the advice that has panned out the best in the end. Put your troubles on Jesus. Jesus is bigger than our denominational differences.


17 posted on 09/21/2016 6:13:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: marshmallow
As director of vocations, Bishop Talley, who speaks Spanish, helped the archdiocese to initiate a cross-cultural immersion program for seminarians to spend time living in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez so that they could learn Spanish and be more knowledgeable about the Hispanic culture and community.

He currently serves as chaplain to the disabilities ministry in Atlanta. Serving in this ministry has been key to his spiritual life: “all they do is ask the Lord for help. That simplicity and humility is where I think the Church should be – humble before God,” he told the Atlanta archdiocesan newspaper, the Georgia Bulletin.

I think both of these items (not excluding others) are excellent, and I wish Bishop Talley and the Diocese of Alexandria, LA, a fruitful collaboration in the service of God.

18 posted on 09/21/2016 6:14:01 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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To: Tax-chick

Which candidate do you see as Cthulhu? ... your tagline ...


19 posted on 09/21/2016 6:17:33 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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To: metmom
It doesn’t prove anything, certainly not that Catholicism is true or something.

That's true. It's simply a fact about the history of this particular Bishop. The real point of the article is Bishop Talley's assignment to a Diocese of his own, after being an assistant in Atlanta. The fact that he was once a Southern Baptist is just one aspect of his background.

If I were going to write a quick piece on him, I would have chosen to highlight his work with the handicapped, because he said himself that this was a key to his personal spirituality and ideas of ministry.

20 posted on 09/21/2016 6:19:30 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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