Jeanie Hannaman

By William Mahoney, Ph.D., Church Militant - The faithful gathered early in the morning at St. Leo the Great in Leonville for Mass in French on Sunday with their bishop, Lafayette's John Douglas Deshotel. Mass marked the beginning of the seventh annual Fête-Dieu du Teche, a 40-mile Eucharistic boat procession down the Bayou Teche — a 125-mile river flowing down south-central Louisiana... This year's Fête-Dieu occurred during the year of Saint Joseph and the year of the family, and so the Holy Family was honored with the inclusion of a statue of St. Joseph and a statue of the Virgin Mary, each hosted on its own boat.

By Thomas Williams, Ph.D., Breitbart - “Respecting the conscientious judgments and religious beliefs of these employees is an indispensable dimension of this,” it added, noting that mandatory vaccination policies need “appropriate accommodations for medical or religious reasons.”... Some people are legitimately cautious about being injected with a new vaccine that has no medical history or proven effectiveness, while others are morally wary of the various vaccines’ dubious ties to past abortions.

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - A growing number of prominent, and often dissident bishops in the U.S. have rejected allowing Catholics under their charge to obtain religious exemptions from the abortion-tainted COVID-19 injections, with Archbishop José Gomez and Cardinal Blase Cupich among those seeking to prevent Catholics from avoiding mandated vaccines... The USCCB president leads the way in denying freedom of conscience...