News – Page 127 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

March 4, 2024

Texas Border: Biden Slurs Climate Skeptics, Trump Mourns Laken Riley’s Murder, by Craig Bannister

By Craig Bannister, CNSNews - Amidst Texas’ ongoing illegal immigration border crisis, Biden visited a part of the state secured by the very border wire the Biden Administration has ordered the Border Patrol to destroy... There, Biden invoked the specter of man-made climate change and hurled a slur (calling them Neanderthals) at its skeptics... Trump was with Abbott in Eagle Pass – in the heat of the action, where illegal immigrants are surging into the state.

March 4, 2024

Mother Cabrini’s Secret to Sainthood, by Michael J. Lichens

By Michael J. Lichens, Catholic Exchange - There’s a sort of paradox when discussing the secret to sanctity. Saints are so timeless and unique that we assume that there must be some hidden motivation that makes them radiate with love and holiness. However, when we learn about the saints’s lives and works, we quickly see that their path to sainthood is anything but hidden... God wants us all to be saints. He desires us to know Him and live with Him in loving friendship, taking that love to every person in our hurting world.

March 4, 2024

Beyond the Gridiron: Nick Saban’s Enduring Influence at the Alabama Catholic Center, by Jack Figge

By Jack Figge, EWTN News - When Fr. Tom Ackerman watched Univ. of Alabama football coach Nick Saban support 2009 Heisman winner Mark Ingram at the televised award ceremony in New York, he assumed that Coach Saban would not be at Sunday Mass the next morning. But much to his surprise, there was Coach Saban and his wife, Terry, sitting in their usual pew at St. Francis of Assisi parish... Saban has helped the school thrive in another area: Catholic evangelization. Saban, a devout Catholic and weekly Massgoer, and wife Terry have been a driving force behind the university’s Catholic ministry, Bama Catholic, and its affiliate parish, St. Francis of Assisi.

March 4, 2024

University of Florida Terminates All DEI Employees to Comply With Law Signed by DeSantis, by Stephen Kokx

By Stephen Kokx, LifeSiteNews - A memo released by the Univ. of Florida.. announced that it has terminated all of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) employees, in accordance with state law... The move comes after the Florida Board of Education announced in January that taxpayer dollars would no longer be allowed to fund DEI-related positions... “Higher education must return to its essential foundations of academic integrity and the pursuit of knowledge instead of being corrupted by destructive ideologies,” state education commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. said at the time.