Catholic Media Journal

One year ago today, March 14, 2007, I was in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans with 8 Franciscan University of Steubenville students. We were on a Spring Break “Media Mission” to the areas hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Although a year and a half had gone by and much recovery and rebuilding [...]

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Taking advantage of Spring Break here at Franciscan University of Steubenville, I’ve made several changes to Catholic Media Journal’s look and feel. The biggest change was switching to WordPress as the framework, using a theme by Chris Peterson. There’s still work to be done on the site, but since you’re reading this you know we’ve gone “live” [...]

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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 the [...]

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