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News – Page 99 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

December 11, 2025

Another Louisiana Bishop Offers Mass Dispensations for Illegal Aliens, by James Finn

By James Finn, Nola - The Archdiocese of New Orleans is allowing Catholics who are fearful of leaving their homes to miss Mass while U.S. Border Patrol agents fan out across the city in the second week of an immigration enforcement operation... Archbishop Gregory Aymond granted the dispensation for Catholics who are “rightfully afraid to participate in Mass” due to the sweeps... The dispensation will be valid “until the individual Catholic determines it is safe to attend Mass again or this dispensation is revoked or amended,” Aymond said in a letter Monday to New Orleans’ Catholic clergy.

December 11, 2025

Nostalgia and Advent, by Stephen P. White

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - The word “nostalgia” was coined in the seventeenth century by a Swiss physician named Johannes Hofer. The word was a Latinized combination of two Greek words: nostos, meaning “a return home” (think Odysseus), and algos, meaning “pain.” Hofer used his new word to describe a medical condition, one he noticed to be particularly common among Swiss mercenaries serving abroad, which might best be described as acute homesickness – homesickness so acute that it could sometimes be fatal.

December 11, 2025

Finding Freedom in a World of Chains, by Jeff Minick

By Jeff Minick, Intellectual Takeout 2024 - So ran the chorus to Aretha Franklin’s 1967 hit song “Chain of Fools.”... One hundred twenty years earlier, the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels proclaimed: “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!”... The chains of Franklin’s song and those of the Marxist slogan are linked by one word: fools... For over 175 years, believers have bought into Marxist visions of utopia. From the European revolutions of 1848 to the 2025 election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York, devotees of communism ...

December 11, 2025

How to Eradicate Envy, by Dr. Donald DeMarco

By Dr. Donald DeMarco, Catholic Exchange - Envy, according to the classical definition, is sadness at another’s good fortune. Envy, which is the second of the Deadly Sins, robs one of the joy he could share with another person’s gifts. God grants people His gifts to please the recipient, but also to be shared with others. We should rejoice when anyone displays God’s gifts... Our duty is two-fold: to nurture our own gifts and admire the gifts of others. Therefore, we should be more concerned about counting our own blessings rather that those conferred on others. Envy is a terrible intruder that places sadness where joy should abound.

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