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The Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops has released the following pastoral statement, “Together, Pilgrims of Hope with Our Immigrant Community.”

When Deacon Louie Bauer of St. Margaret Mary Parish in Slidell was preparing to be ordained as a permanent deacon in 2006, he never expected the archdiocese to assign him to serve in a recovery facility for addicts and alcoholics, a place he said parents tell you to stay away from.

When Louisiana Right to Life executive director Ben Clapper learned abortion was the leading cause of death globally in 2024 – with an estimated 45 million unborn babies lost – he expressed deep sadness over the number, while also acknowledging that abortion rates have actually declined over the past few decades, stating that the figures were once even higher.

I pray that you are off to a very good start of the second semester and that you received a good mid-year report card.

As we face so many challenges as a city, may we draw on Sister Maeve’s compassionate, moral lens of “see, judge, act.”

Our young people have become the face of the right to life movement, and that’s been so impressive to me.

Father Robert Cooper, pastor of Mary Queen of Peace (MQP) Church in Mandeville, stood in a flood-ravaged building in Marshall, North Carolina, on a bone-chilling cold day in December, and that’s all he could think: “This reminds me so much of Katrina.”

Inside St. Louis Cathedral at the 11 a.m. Mass on Jan. 1 – the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God – Archbishop Gregory Aymond and 600 worshipers struggled to make sense of the death and carnage perpetrated by a man who drove a pickup truck into a dense crowd of early-morning New Year’s revelers just five blocks away on Bourbon Street.

Archbishop Gregory Aymond delivered the following homily at a Mass Jan. 1 at St. Louis Cathedral following the terrorist attack in the French Quarter.