By Joseph Pronechen, National Catholic Register - “We’re thanking God for the past 253 years for the mother church of the Acadians and for St. Landry Church in Opelousas,” Father Michael Champagne of the Community of Jesus Crucified, the organizer of the event, told the Register. “We’re going to be standing on that soil where the Gospel has been proclaimed for 253 years.”
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted […]