A day after Hurricane Ida ripped through New Orleans, Dr. Ansel Augustine, writes that while there is much uncertainty — with power out across the city and much of Louisiana — recovering from a severe hurricane is nothing Louisianans haven’t experienced before.
After the winds from Hurricane Ida peeled off the roof of the seven-story apartment building in Metairie, Louisiana, Aug. 29, St. Francis Xavier Church -- across the street from the apartment building -- was transformed into an emergency shelter for 34 residents,
Pope Francis will be sending nearly a quarter of a million dollars to help people in Haiti, who are struggling in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake during a global pandemic.
The Vatican's Dicastery for Integral Human Development said in a communique released
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked bishops across the country to take up a voluntary collection to help Haiti recover from a recent pair of natural disasters.
Saying that Haitians are likely to experience continuing hardships from an
As a wave of wildfires devastated parts of Greece, a Catholic archbishop said different policies might be needed to help prevent recurrences.
"We must be much more sensitive and careful when it comes to ecology and preparedness -- we don't have many forests
In the wake of a deadly fire in a Baghdad hospital treating COVID-19 patients and more migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea, Pope Francis prayed for the victims of the disasters and their families.
After reciting the "Regina Coeli" prayer with visitors in
On April 9, the La Soufrière volcano erupted on the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, displacing 20,000 people, with some staying in government shelters on the southern part of the island and others traveling to other islands in
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Birmingham, Alabama, is working with at least 60 families whose homes sustained damage in a spring tornado.
Additional outreach is planned to dozens of Hispanic families living in areas south of Birmingham, said Sister Gabriela Ramirez, director
The Burton family from Lake Charles, Louisiana, were on the way home from a New Mexico skiing vacation when the worst winter storm in recent Texas history brought the state to a perpetual halt.
They kept track of the worst-hit regions and avoided
Despite curfews, lockdowns and COVID-19 travel restrictions, rebuilding of a Bahamas church destroyed in 2019's Hurricane Dorian is about to begin -- with a little help from U.S. Catholics.
The category 5 Hurricane Dorian made a prolonged landfall in the northern Bahamas Sept.