Catholic Media Journal

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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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 wouldlike? He [...]

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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 steps [...]

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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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