Friday, April 29, 20160422Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel’s installation as the seventh Bishop of Lafayette on April 15 marked a homecoming for the Louisiana native that buoyed and blessed the hundreds of clergy members, family and friends present at his Celebration of the Eucharist and Rite of Installation.
Wednesday, April 27, 20160204To ignore the suffering of another person is to ignore God, Pope Francis said. And going to church does not automatically make someone love their neighbor, the pope said April 27 as he reflected on the Gospel parable of the good Samaritan during his weekly general audience.
Monday, April 18, 20160264Construction crews are busily putting the final touches on Bishop Lynch High School's new west wing, which features a new main entrance, the largest courtyard on campus, five Technology-Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) labs, a new campus store, and a slew of administrative offices.
Friday, April 15, 20160544Between explaining her role as an electrical engineer at Intel Corporation and helping children with the hands-on projects available for them at her table, Amanda Noe occasionally looked up and scanned the St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic School gymnasium to try to find her daughter, Allison, among the crowd of people attending the...
Thursday, April 14, 20160547The priestly calling that Bishop Gregory Kelly answered with a ‘yes’ entered a new chapter with his Episcopal Ordination Mass at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe on Feb. 11.
Thursday, April 14, 20160480Douglas Wine will become the next principal of Bishop Dunne Catholic School effective July 1. Wine comes to Bishop Dunne with 26 years of teaching and administrative experience, most recently serving as principal at Moriarty High School in New Mexico.
Thursday, April 14, 20160234The name Ronald Knox is probably unknown to most American Catholics, and that is a great shame. Hailing from a prominent Anglican family of clerics in England, he was one of the most famous Catholic converts of the 20th century.
Friday, April 8, 20160247Pope Francis’ long anticipated Apostolic Exhortation on the family was released Friday morning calling for a new pastoral approach to the increasingly complex realities of families in today’s world, not focusing on the so called “nuclear family” but on the family as a wider network of many relationships.
Friday, April 8, 20160146The same mercy and patience that are essential for building a strong family must be shown to those whose families are in trouble or have broken up, Pope Francis said in his highly anticipated postsynodal apostolic exhortation. The document, "'Amoris Laetitia' (The Joy of Love), on Love in the Family," released April 8, contains no new...
Wednesday, March 30, 20160140What is the meaning of Easter? How would you explain it to someone? How do you explain it to yourself? One way to get at the meaning of Easter is to see its connection to Christmas. Both these feasts celebrate one beautiful reality: the child Jesus.
