In Brief

Converging Roads healthcare conference coming this spring

CHARLOTTE — Medical professionals, students and interested laypeople are invited to the sixth annual Converging Roads healthcare ethics conference on Saturday, March 25, at St. Patrick Cathedral in Charlotte. Gain a comprehensive knowledge of practicing medicine under a Catholic ethos while earning up to 7 hours of CME/ CNE credits. Join national and local experts either in person or online to discuss topics rooted in the Hippocratic and Catholic ethical tradition. For more information or to register, go online to www.bit.ly/cr23-cnc.

Winston-Salem

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named to Redemptorists’ leadership

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Redemptorists of the Baltimore Province elected a new leadership team to serve during the 2023’26 term that includes Father John Olenick as provincial vicar. Father Olenick was born and raised in WinstonSalem and worked at the Winston-Salem Journal and then for R.J. Reynolds before entering the Redemptorist congregation in 1996. He was ordained a priest in 2003, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

The new members of the Ordinary Provincial Council will guide the missionary activities of the Baltimore province. The elected leadership team assumes leadership under the Redemptorist theme “Missionaries of Hope in the Footsteps of the Redeemer.”

The Redemptorists are a religious congregation of priests and brothers founded in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Liguori in Naples, Italy. More than 4,000 Redemptorists are currently working with the poor and most abandoned in nearly every part of the world. More than 150 Redemptorist priests, brothers, and students represent the Baltimore province in the United States. Redemptorist priests staff two parishes in the Diocese of Charlotte: St. James Church in Concord and St. Joseph Church in Kannapolis.

— Spencer K.M. Brown