Saturday, July 15, 2023073A priest in Melville, Louisiana, is stable and recovering following a July 13 attack with a machete at his church campus. The priest is at a hospital being treated for lacerations to his head and body.
Saturday, April 30, 20160196St. Augustine Catholic Church sits placidly at the heart, if not the precise center, of this south Louisiana town that counts among its blessings its badge as the hometown of the newly installed seventh Bishop of Lafayette, Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel. Bishop Deshotel, 64, recalls his hometown as the backdrop for an ordinary boyhood and a...
Friday, April 29, 20160261Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel’s installation as the seventh Bishop of Lafayette on April 15 marked a homecoming for the Louisiana native that buoyed and blessed the hundreds of clergy members, family and friends present at his Celebration of the Eucharist and Rite of Installation.
