The annual Fête-Dieu du Teche in the Diocese of Lafayette is a "time for all of us to renew our faith," following the example of the first Acadians who were "led by their faith" when they came to Louisiana, said Lafayette Bishop
Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and a shortage of nurses and other health care workers to treat patients with COVID-19, a Catholic university in Baton Rouge has been graduating nursing students early and accelerating its respiratory therapy program for seniors.
Madison Hurst, a
The sacrifice of five Catholic priests who gave their lives ministering to people in Shreveport during the 1873 yellow fever epidemic is memorialized in stained glass at Holy Trinity Church in downtown.
Their stories have been regularly recounted across nearly 150 years of
Louisiana voters by a wide margin Nov. 3 passed a measure declaring there is no state constitutional right to abortion, while Colorado voters defeated a proposal to ban abortion beginning at 22 weeks of pregnancy.
Unofficial results show that the Louisiana measure, known
Hurricane Delta deluged much of Louisiana with rain -- as much as 15 inches reported in some areas -- with damage tallies and estimates yet to be completed in the days following the storm's Oct. 9 landfall.
In Lake Charles, one of the
In an act of solidarity with the 350 parishioners of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Pearl River, a visibly upset New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond celebrated Mass Oct. 10 for a second consecutive week for the parish and reconsecrated its
Countless numbers of Americans were already at risk of homelessness this year because of job losses related to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Natural disasters have further aggravated the precarious condition that many people find themselves in. Our Sunday Visitor interviewed the directors
A Catholic archdiocese and two dioceses in three states are assessing damage from what's being referred to as catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Sally.
The Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama, began preparing early and closed schools and offices as early as Sept. 14 in
Days before Hurricane Laura devastated southwest Louisiana, Diana Vallette and her husband decided to pack up their four children and ride out the storm in Texas. She writes in an essay for Our Sunday Visitor that they watched from afar as the
The United States is going through a perfect storm — a coinciding of the coronavirus pandemic, racial tensions and social change, and the ongoing storm before the storm of November’s presidential election. But those events that the media deem to be major