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Contributors » Fran Salone-Pelletier

Fran Salone-Pelletier of Shallotte is married to Jean Pelletier, has four adult children and four grandchildren. She is a passionate writer on faith subjects, writing books and a regular column for the Brunswick Beacon. Recently, she wrote an autobiography of the life and work of Gary and Meredith Krupp, co-founders of Pave the Way Foundation in New York City.

Salone-Pelletier also enjoys directing or attending spiritual retreats and assisting in adult religious education in her parish.

“I believe my call is to serve the community, especially through the proclamation of God’s word,” she said. She calls herself “a roaming Catholic and non-retired retiree.” She also is involved in local ecumenical efforts as a chaplain at Brunswick/Novant Medical Center.

In 2011, she was the first Catholic to be awarded the Robert Trentham Homilist Award at the International Conference of Community Churches. And she was awarded the 2011 Governor’s Award for Volunteerism in North Carolina.

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COMMENTARY: Standing in St. Francis’ example, the new pope

| Mar 14, 2013

Fran Salone-Pelletier says Pope Francis is beginning by setting a high bar in the name he chose as the 266th pontiff. She says: "Francis of Assisi heard God's call to rebuild a church and took it literally and prophetically. He would build it, stone by stone, with patience and time. He would see that the edifice was not simply a place to pray but would be one where prayerful people would gather to celebrate God's creative goodness everywhere. Peace and goodness was his claim, his delight, his treasure and his goal. There is now another Francis. This one is pope. Is he telling the world that he intends to live into his chosen name? Is he proclaiming that his message and mission is to bring to the surface, the deeply buried peace and goodness that God intends for all to enjoy and live?"
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COMMENTARY: Riding the bus with religious sisters is an adventure

| Aug 30, 2012

Metaphorically, Catholic writer Fran Salone-Pelletier supports—"riding the bus"—with the American nuns currently being investigated by the Vatican.
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Of a sarcophagus and pageantry, an Easter memory

| Apr 3, 2012

I grew up in a pre-Vatican II Church, so my strongest memories are those of grammar school years. I was deeply affected by the doctrines, instructions, rules and regulations promulgated by the religious sisters who taught in the parochial schools I attended. We children were imbued with the solemnity and sanctity of Holy Week.
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