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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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To: MHGinTN

None. Cthulhu will rise from the sea and displace all other contenders for rule, when he is ready.

I’m joking, but on the other hand, do we have a worldwide wave of madness, or what?


21 posted on 09/21/2016 6:21:08 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

This is the kind of spiritual loop in which people who have truly been born again will find themselves in sooner or later. Passing on the blessings of God to those who truly need it, and raising a witness to the glory of God.

I don’t know a thing about the specific congregational background he had been in before — but I’ve been in a few Protestant places that seem to have forgotten altogether why they are protesting. Dry and doctrinaire, without any spiritual nourishment in sight. One of the worst called itself, yes, Baptist.


22 posted on 09/21/2016 6:21:23 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: HiTech RedNeck
Passing on the blessings of God to those who truly need it, and raising a witness to the glory of God.

Oh, good summary! With varying details, we could say this about myriads of Christians, past and present.

Do I bless others, and glorify God, by caring for the handicapped, the elderly, the dying, children, the mentally ill ... or by writing, teaching, singing, composing, painting ... or by showing how the holy ones of God do accounting, engineering, farming, road-building, chemistry, or auto mechanics?

What a big old world it is, and how many opportunities its Creator gives us!

23 posted on 09/21/2016 6:27:36 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: marshmallow
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.

http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/can-you-trust-thomas-merton

Nevertheless, some of his ideas are dangerous. His later writings (see "Read with Caution," page 9) are more confusing than helpful, for they conflate and confuse Buddhist and Christian teachings. One example of that confusion is seen in a popular icon sold in many Christian and Buddhist stores that depicts him sitting in the lotus posture in Zen meditation. The night before his death, Merton told John Moffitt that,

"Zen and Christianity are the future."

This is precisely what the Holy Father has expressed grave concerns about.

It sure doesn't sound like Merton was the best mentor for the catholic.

You never confuse where Paul is on the issue of Christianity. Hopefully the new bishop has read some of Paul's writings.

24 posted on 09/21/2016 6:29:13 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Tax-chick

I think that story worked as well as it did because it was parallel to a religious account that we already know and understand.

Anyhow, when God rises up, the devil doesn’t just sit there and give Him golf applause. There’s a WAR on.


25 posted on 09/21/2016 6:29:20 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: Tax-chick

Maybe you think you are joking but it fits in with Bible prophecy that the anti-christ is empowered by Satan.

I think your tagline is dead on.

And we may dodge the bullet if Trump becomes president, but some day Bible prophecy will be fulfilled. It always is.

And some generation will be the one to see it and no one wants to be part of that generation.


26 posted on 09/21/2016 6:29:55 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ealgeone

Merton is a mixed bag, as is C. S. Lewis and many other influential (but not formally inspired) Christian authors.


27 posted on 09/21/2016 6:31:00 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: Tax-chick

There are myriads of ministry milieus. If we have Jesus in our soul, we will want to let the Lion of Judah out of his cage. Opportunities to explain will arise as prayed for and granted by the Lord.


28 posted on 09/21/2016 6:33:31 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: metmom

Well, we all undergo trials, some severe, some less so.

It seems a lot to me that when Jesus asked whether He would find faith in those days, He was hinting that the answer was no. This is going to be a worldful of unbelievers that will never look to God for help no matter how much the devil yanks them around. A hell on earth will result.


29 posted on 09/21/2016 6:36:04 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: HiTech RedNeck; metmom

I think Satan is much more of a familiar figure - a person of pure intellect and will, like all the angels - than the alien Ancient Ones of Lovecraft’s imagination. Satan knows God, and knows us, and even knows the Lord Jesus ... in a way, but wrongly. Cthulhu is more like an avalanche than like a fallen angel.

In My Opinion!

I do think that no election can avert what’s coming to a nation who kills unborn children, the handicapped, the elderly, and the ill as we do. I absolutely believe that Trump is better than Hillary by an order of magnitude, but compared to the toll of suffering and death from our current ideology ... well, if what we deserve hits in my lifetime, I’m resigned.


30 posted on 09/21/2016 6:36:41 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: HiTech RedNeck

Yep, what you said!


31 posted on 09/21/2016 6:38:05 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: ealgeone

I’ve seen some things that might, like it did Merton, cause one to wonder “outside the box.”

I’ve seen Hindus that seem closer to God than some avowed Christians I have met. Perhaps Merton did not mean that Zen of itself was salvational, but that it could be a milieu in which Christ could approach people anonymously, of course sooner or later to reveal Himself outright.

Missionaries have often reported stories of such revelations occurring to the peoples they have purposed to witness to, sometimes even foretelling the arrival of the missionaries themselves!

We can’t box up Christ inside a church building. He arranges to witness of Himself as He sees fit, and that isn’t necessarily how doctrinally correct Christians might formulate it.


32 posted on 09/21/2016 6:41:34 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: Tax-chick

Well, the election that will avert such ills won’t be a political election. It will be the acceptance of Christ by people that Christ already knew would accept Him, in an arrangement that is far too wonderful for mortals like me to understand.

When I see abortion, I see hard heartedness written in the blood of those who may not have done anything to deserve it (I say may not, because we do not know about the activity of the souls of fallen men with respect to conception — legally the baby is innocent, but spiritually it too has participated in the fall of man which has taken it into the sphere of sin).

Only Jesus will soften those hearts. All the threats of a miserable future that we could muster in this world, cannot of themselves do it. At best they can only set a stage for a separate revelation. I can say from experience and from coming within a hair of it myself, that people who go to hell want to be there, to be with the devil they adore. Nothing can solve that problem but a frankly salvational entity with a love that is staggering.


33 posted on 09/21/2016 6:50:45 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: HiTech RedNeck
Only Jesus will soften those hearts. All the threats of a miserable future that we could muster in this world, cannot of themselves do it.

I agree! (and now, good night!)

34 posted on 09/21/2016 6:53:56 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: knarf

What inflammatory headline ? Rather, it is a factual headline that denigrates no one.


35 posted on 09/21/2016 7:01:23 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981

This denomination taunted that one, and ad infinitum. And we wonder, where’s Christ in this mess. Well, wherever He is, He isn’t in the taunting!


36 posted on 09/21/2016 7:10:17 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: HiTech RedNeck
And we wonder, where’s Christ in this mess. Well, wherever He is, He isn’t in the taunting!

But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,


Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.


Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.


Acts, Catholic chapter seven, Protestant verse fifty five

John, Catholic chapter seventeen, Protestant verses twenty to twenty three,

Second Timothy, Catholic chapter, Protestant verses fourteen to nineteen

37 posted on 09/21/2016 7:41:25 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981; Mark17
He's 66 and left the SBC as a teenager because of racial mores within the SBC

The guy's a full fledged Catholic and HAS been for 40 some years.

The headline is inflammatory.

38 posted on 09/21/2016 7:47:17 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
The headline is inflammatory.

No, the headline is factual. He was raised in the SBC, left as a teen and, years later, decided to be Catholic.

39 posted on 09/21/2016 7:58:38 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Tax-chick

“In My Opinion!”

Not good enough, sorry. This is the internet.

“I do think that no election can avert what’s coming to a nation who kills unborn children, the handicapped, the elderly, and the ill as we do.”

Cthulhu was the first to speak out against killing the most innocent and helpless without also killing all the wicked and powerful. A Cthulhu presidency will ensure ALL will die writhing in madness and pain. The Elder Party has always been an equal opportunity destroyer.

Freegards


40 posted on 09/21/2016 8:00:33 PM PDT by Ransomed
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