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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Day 3: Louisiana – Notes from Jim Coyle
November 2nd, 2005 · No Comments
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Day 2: Mississippi – Notes from Greg
November 1st, 2005 · No Comments
Our second day of tour was very similar to the first with words like incredible, unbelievable and inconceivable dominating all of our talks. My morning began by reading the Gulfport paper and this little snippet that I found there stuck with me all day. “Poor child”One little boy in D’Iberville School was asked what he [...]
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Getting the Real Picture
November 1st, 2005 · No Comments
As we drove through devastated areas and walked among the rubble of what had been homes and neighborhoods, we were reminded of the significant difference between seeing pictures and news footage of a disaster and the experience of actually being at the scene. Joyce commented on the stairs that went to nowhere. Some of the [...]
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Day 1: Mississippi – Notes from Joyce
October 31st, 2005 · No Comments
Today was definitely overwhelming. We picked up Greg LaFreniere from the Long Island Catholic at the airport and then headed west of Gulfport to the other side of the Bay of St. Louis. Along the way as we got closer to the devastated areas, the debris picked up. There were the stray bags and bottles [...]
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The Journey Begins
October 28th, 2005 · No Comments
This weekend several national and regional Catholic print, broadcast and online journalists will meet in Biloxi, Mississippi, to begin a week-long reporting trip to many of the areas devasted by hurricanes Katrina and Rita along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans. It’s been two months since hurricane Katrina hit land, and the needs of [...]