Bishop Michael G. Duca addressed more than 30 people who braved frigid temperatures and the threat of wintry weather Thursday night to attend the first of nine listening sessions responding to Pope Francis’ call to engage in a synodal process titled “Toward a Synodal Church” Communion, Participation, Mission.” The majority of those in attendance at St. Margaret Queen of Scotland Church in Albany commented on the synod’s three sections, and Bishop Duca offered his thoughts at the end of the gatherings. Photo by Richard Meek | The Catholic Commentator

Father Charlie Landry, pastor of St. Gabriel Church in St. Gabriel and Sacred Heart Chapel at Carville, is a humble servant, but well known by military personnel as he passes through the gates of the Louisiana National Guard’s Gillis W. Long Center in Carville.

A series of listening sessions in the Diocese of Baton Rouge responding to Pope Francis’ call to engage in a synodal process titled “Toward a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission,” is scheduled to launch Jan. 20 at St. Margaret Queen of Scotland Parish Hall in Albany. 

Kathleen Beckman LHS sees the ravages of evil on families as a member of the exorcist team of the Diocese of Orange County, California and administrator of its healing and deliverance ministry. 

Weather delays STM renovations

VATICAN CITY ‑ Pope Francis said on Jan. 5 that it is a civilizational loss when dogs and cats replace children in society, encouraging couples to “take the risk” to become parents.  “The other day, I was talking about the demographic winter that we have today … many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they have just one — but they have two dogs, two cats,” Pope Francis said at his general audience on Jan. 5.

On the property of Cletta “Ducky” O’Neal in Maringouin that was once a cornfield but through the years has been cultivated and features a delightful garden hosting a variety of flowers and ferns is a cabana in which O’Neal applies her paintbrush to turn rain barrels into a piece of art.

Through the joy in their eyes the appreciation in their hearts was evident for more than 40 intellectually challenged individuals who gathered for a very special Christmas celebration on Dec. 17 in Plaquemine.