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What I Have Seen and Heard (August 24, 2006)
August 24, 2006The personal exclusive interview has become a staple in our modern-day media. People like Larry King have made a very lucrative career out of interviewing famous or prominent people. Some televised interviews have actually been groundbreaking since they managed to present well-known people to the public in ways that were both personal and enlightening. In […]
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St. Peter Chanel To Hold 9/11 Mass
August 24, 2006A special memorial Mass will be celebrated on Monday, Sept. 11, at St. Peter Chanel Church, at 7 p.m., to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Msgr. Daniel O’Connor will be the guest homilist. All are welcome to join in this community remembrance. The church is located at 11330 Woodstock […] Full Story
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81-Year-Old Priest Happy He Can Serve Rebuilding Church
August 24, 2006A year ago, then 80-year-old Father Royce Mitchell walked in pitch-black darkness along I-610 for some three miles with thousands of others, carrying an overnight bag, praying and striving to support others while enduring a stifling sense of dread about the future. During the interstate exodus in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with everyone from […]
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Structures Have Washed Away, But Hope Remains
August 24, 2006Father Michael Tracey knows intimately that the emotional recovery process for Hurricane Katrina victims involves “the three Ts” of talking, tears and time. For him, it also includes writing. His creative tool for healing from the muddy Gulf water deluge that has affected his church, rectory, favorite books and life has been to record his […] Full Story
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Atlantans Live Their Faith By Rebuilding Ravaged Area
August 24, 2006When a tornado roared through his Dunwoody neighborhood in 1998, Dan Wilkens lost 24 trees in his yard. The support he received from friends and strangers in his efforts to put his home back together touched him and had a lasting effect on him. So when Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region last August, […]
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New Orleans Archdiocese Increases Outreach To Hispanic Laborers
August 24, 2006At 6:15 a.m. Hispanic men gather in clusters and sit curbside chatting and eating tacos con huevos y frijoles being sold from the back of a sedan. Honduran native Wilfredo Quevara steps aside to describe the problems that he and other day laborers face getting paid for their construction work to help rebuild New Orleans. […]
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Famed Marching Band Returns With ‘Sweet Relief’
August 24, 2006It’s a sweltering hot Louisiana day in late July. The sun is beating down upon the heads of the 70 or so teenage boys standing on the asphalt across the street from their school. Their faces are set in determination, though beads of sweat trace lines down their foreheads and cheeks. As their instructors yell […]
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As Waters Receded, God’s Lessons Began To Flow
August 24, 2006Tanya Taylor is no stranger to publicity. In her modest home just blocks from the beach, she leafs through a pile of magazines—Time, Newsweek, People—and local and national newspapers. There is a common denominator among the publications—each bears among its pages a photo of Taylor’s terrified family as they were rescued from the roof of […] Full Story
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Efforts To Rebuild Start With Helping Of Soul Food
August 24, 2006Joron Smith shields his eyes from the glare of the sun and looks out onto an empty lot. The lot will soon be the site of his first home and with it, the culmination of the hopes, dreams and dedication of a humble man and his family. “You’re looking at a person who basically came […]
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Life goes on for close-knit parish
August 24, 2006Nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina left its heavy footprint on New Orleans, residents are finding a new sense of normalcy. Some are rebuilding while others have found new homes. But through it all, they have turned to their faith and their parish families for support. At St. Maria Goretti Parish in the heavily damaged […]