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News – Page 6 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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March 30, 2026

Patriarch Barred from Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, by Kelsey Reinhardt

By Kelsey Reinhardt, Zeale - On the day Christians worldwide call Palm Sunday—the opening of the most sacred week of the liturgical year—Israeli national police stopped Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre... Let me be precise about what this means. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre stands on the ground of the Crucifixion, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is the most sacred sit ...
March 30, 2026

Holy Work: Michelangelo’s ‘Pietà’, by Brad Miner

By Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing - The greatest artist of the Renaissance is famous for something he may never have said: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” There are other versions of the quotation, as in the epigraph above, that are genuine, and they may seem to suggest that Michelangelo believed he merely liberated a form trapped in stone.
March 30, 2026

50,000 Troops Now Stationed in Middle East, by Sam Barron

By Sam Barron, Newsmax - More than 50,000 troops are stationed in the Middle East as the war in Iran heads into its second month... The number is 10,000 more troops than usual and comes after 2,500 Marines and 2,500 sailors arrived in the region, The New York Times reported... The Marines come from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit... The Pentagon also deployed 2,000 soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East... Officials said President Donald Trump is considering whether to launch a larger attack as he weighs options to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
March 30, 2026

Jean Louis Berlandier and the Pious Witness of America, by Russell M. Lawson

By Russell M. Lawson, Catholic Exchange - Jean-Louis Berlandier was a French Catholic who journeyed to America and lived in northern Mexico near the Texas border. From the 1820s to the early 1850s, he was the only great savant in the region: a physician, apothecary, botanist, meteorologist, ornithologist, and pious scientist, as his many manuscripts reveal. He served as a surgeon during the Mexican War. As a lay missionary, he worked tirelessly to heal the sick of the Rio Grande Valley.

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