by Emma Fraley | Sep 7, 2021 | Opinion
The worst part of a major hurricane rarely ends when the rain stops and winds calm. Hurricane Ida bashed much of the southeast United States on Sunday evening, but the effects continue to linger. In New Orleans and southeastern Louisiana, over one million people were...
by Bruce Nolan | Jan 27, 2012 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Millie Campbell slipped the transmission into reverse and backed her blue Chevrolet away from her spotless brick home. “Oh God,” she said, “we thank you for the blood of Jesus.” Then the 76-year-old cranked the wheel straight,...
by Doug MacCash | Oct 3, 2011 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Minister Ray Cannata’s mission is almost complete. Four years ago he set out to eat at every restaurant in New Orleans. By mid-September, he’d already checked 719 eateries off his list and only had 10 meals to go before the ceremonial conclusion of...
by Bruce Nolan | Feb 3, 2011 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The Archdiocese of New Orleans on Tuesday (Feb. 1) unveiled a new online database containing records of baptisms, marriages and deaths in colonial New Orleans, including those of African slaves. The first batch of five registers to go online contains...
by Bruce Nolan and The Times-Picayune | Aug 31, 2010 | News
(RNS) With a light rain falling, hundreds of New Orleanians gathered at St. Louis Cathedral on Sunday (Aug. 29) afternoon to remember Hurricane Katrina in grief, gratitude and hope, in the words of New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond. A 45-minute ceremony in the...
