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A First Draft - Jim Coyle

November 5th, 2005 · No Comments

“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 the [...]

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Thanks to Our Wonderful Hosts

November 5th, 2005 · No Comments

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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