After being told to expect the worst and say goodbye to their monastery in Southern California, a community of Benedictine monks received word that St. Andrew’s Abbey was spared any significant damage late last week. ...
Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland visited Southern Oregon Sept. 19-20 to meet some of the hundreds of people who lost homes earlier in the month to powerful wind-driven fires. In Sacred Heart Parish in Medford ...
HOUSTON (CNS) — When people see their homes destroyed by flood or other disaster that forces them into a shelter, they need someone to listen to them, said priests and deacons who serve on a ...
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 ...
While the foothills of Oregon's Cascade Mountains have been ablaze, creating red apocalyptic skies and leaving five small towns in ashes, most of the churches in the Archdiocese of Portland have not burned and many ...
The United States is going through a perfect storm — a coinciding of the coronavirus pandemic, racial tensions and social change, and the ongoing storm before the storm of November’s presidential election. But those events ...
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, ...
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has asked his fellow bishops to consider having their parishes take up a special collection to aid dioceses and parishes ...
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 ...
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 ...
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