The Diocese of Baton Rouge employed a three-tier approach during National Child Abuse Prevention Month, which took place in April.

Mary brings people looking for a fresh start to Christ, who provides healing, freedom and purpose in life. Following the Blessed Mother’s example, the Marian Servants unite themselves with Jesus as workers in the vineyard helping to save souls.

Ex-inmate Vows to Help Others

On April 22 Gov. John Bel Edwards presented new guidance concerning our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and these guidelines allow us the opportunity to begin opening our churches to full capacity again.  In considering these new guidelines, I want us to be aware that COVID is still spreading, even if at low and stable levels, and this should be a part of our consideration.  To pretend that the danger is completely over could sabotage all the efforts and progress we have made up to this point. Yet with this caution acknowledged, I want to offer for the first time since this pandemic began a more proactive process to bring us all back together in our churches again.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis' proclamation of the Year of St. Joseph and the diocese's 60th anniversary, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge will be celebrating “60 Years in the Year of St. Joseph” from May 1 (The feast of St. Joseph the Worker), to March 19, 2022 (The solemnity of St. Joseph, husband of Mary).

One of the lemons handed on by the COVID-19 pandemic is job loss. The family of Michael and Erin Franco sweetened that sour moment by utilizing it as an evangelization opportunity.

CNA) – Bishop Shelton Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism and a native of New Roads, and Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, released a statement April 20 after former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the 2020 murder of George Floyd.