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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Just an inflammatory headline to inform the Catholics that they are promoting from within.
I believe we had the opposite experience.
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.
He went to Auburn and gave up girls? Something wrong with that boy, and it wasn’t his love for integration.
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.
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.
I left Catholicism for a personal relationship with my Savior. Religion doesn’t do it.
For sure.
“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?
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.
Yes, we certainly did! I praise Almighty God for it.
placemarker, just a placemarker.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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