Caritas, the church's charitable agency, was responding to Hurricane Eta, which hit Nicaragua Nov. 3 and threatened to provoke devastating flooding and destruction as it moved through Central America. Hurricane Eta made landfall on the Mosquito ...
Hurricane Delta deluged much of Louisiana with rain -- as much as 15 inches reported in some areas -- with damage tallies and estimates yet to be completed in the days following the storm's Oct. ...
A Catholic archdiocese and two dioceses in three states are assessing damage from what's being referred to as catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Sally. The Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama, began preparing early and closed schools and ...
Days before Hurricane Laura devastated southwest Louisiana, Diana Vallette and her husband decided to pack up their four children and ride out the storm in Texas. She writes in an essay for Our Sunday Visitor ...
Nothing in seminary could have prepared Father Andrew DeRouen for his first three months as a priest. “A pandemic, now a hurricane,” said Father DeRouen, 27, a priest of the Diocese of Lake Charles, Louisiana, ...
Hurricane Laura destroyed six churches in the Diocese of Lake Charles, left a dozen others "highly compromised" and did heavy damage to chancery offices. The diocese, in a report posted on its website, said that only ...
After a hurricane made landfall with winds of 150 mph along the Texas-Louisiana border early on Aug. 27, bishops from the dioceses in its path found themselves the morning after assessing damages and checking in ...
Growing up in Louisiana, Bishop David L. Toups is no stranger to hurricanes. Yet he never expected that less than a week into his first assignment as bishop of the Diocese of Beaumont, Texas, he'd ...
Officials reported that at least 12 people had died as Tropical Storm Laura lashed Haiti and the Dominican Republic with strong winds and torrential rains, causing widespread flooding in low-lying communities. The dead included at least ...
As far as stories of endurance and faith go, it's hard to top the dedication of a group of young Catholics from the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas. Under threat of a hurricane in the middle of ...
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