Catholic Media Journal

As Thanksgiving Day approaches, my prayers and memories are especially directed toward the people we met in Mississippi and Louisiana and the challenges they – and people like them – face in the aftermath of the hurricanes. The Church and the people of the Gulf Coast need our prayers and support now and for months [...]

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Al Tompkins of The Poynter Institute, a professional school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists, writes a daily online column with story ideas for and from journalists. Today, the day before Thanksgiving, he shares from his heart about a recent volunteer trip he took to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and issues a call [...]

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“Are you ready for this?” That’s the question we were asked as we boarded the bus to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, perhaps the city’s hardest-hit area in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We were in the Lower Ninth Ward on the last day of our week in Mississippi and south Louisiana to witness first-hand [...]

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All of us on this week’s Catholic Media Tour to Mississippi and Louisiana truly appreciated the generosity of Shirley and Dick Henderson in Biloxi, MS, who opened their home and their lives to us throughout the tour. Shirley is editor of The Gulf Pine Catholic, the newspaper of the Diocese of Biloxi. Thank you both [...]

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Today we traveled to Louisiana and met with Archbishop Hughes of New Orleans and several other people from the Archdiocese of New Orleans – now working, as Archbishop Hughes out it, as an “Administration in Exile” in Baton Rouge. While his temporary office is in Baton Rouge, Archbishop Hughes spends about half of each week [...]

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