There seems to be good news coming this way from North Korea for the first time in quite a while. After much time of bickering back and forth between the communist dictatorship and our side of the world, there seems to be a possibility our two countries will be able to join together and become partners in a friendly world after all. […]
Before delivering the prayer that opened the regular session for the lower chamber on Monday, Rep. Patrick Connick, R-Marrero, joked that he was considering drawing inspiration from the words of St. Jude, the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes. […]
In St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, he says, “I want you to be free from anxieties” (I Cor. 7:32). Constant anxious concerns are characteristic of unredeemed existence. We often pray, “Deliver us Lord from every evil, and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety.” […]
Pope Francis put his two cents in about the war in Syria calling it “inhumane” and asked for an end to it. […]
When Gov. John Bel Edwards issued his executive budget proposal to lawmakers in January, the roughly $1 billion in cuts it contained was a warning more than anything else. […]
A cartoon in the newspaper has an elderly gentleman speaking to a young student. He looks down on him and says, “When I was your age, I had to walk two miles uphill to school in the snow while holding a hot potato. . . .” The kid interrupts and says, “I had to hide in a closet while a mass shooter killed my teacher and friends.” […]
The deteriorating Gulf Coast of Southeast Louisiana is getting worse by the day according to recent reports from some of the major news outlets in the country. […]
In what House Speaker Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, called a “new development,” members of the Black Caucus derailed Monday’s planned House votes when its membership demanded that a change in income tax brackets be included in any compromise that survives this ongoing special session. […]
St. James in his Letter says, “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill’, and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead” (James 2:14-17). […]
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